Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Academic administration

Index Academic administration

Academic administration is a branch of university or college employees responsible for the maintenance and supervision of the institution and separate from the faculty or academics, although some personnel may have joint responsibilities. [1]

34 relations: Academic department, Academic tenure, Academy, Aeon (digital magazine), Association for Tertiary Education Management, Association of University Administrators, Board of directors, Campus police, Chancellor (education), Chief executive officer, College, Commonwealth of Nations, Computer, CounterPunch, Dean (education), Faculty (academic staff), Graduate school, Head teacher, Humanities, Information technology, Jacobin (magazine), Lawrence S. Wittner, Local area network, Minority group, Natural science, Primary education, Principal (academia), Provost (education), Public security, Rector (academia), Registrar (education), Tertiary education, United States, University.

Academic department

An academic department is a division of a university or school faculty devoted to a particular academic discipline.

New!!: Academic administration and Academic department · See more »

Academic tenure

A tenured appointment is an indefinite academic appointment that can be terminated only for cause or under extraordinary circumstances, such as financial exigency or program discontinuation.

New!!: Academic administration and Academic tenure · See more »

Academy

An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, higher learning, research, or honorary membership.

New!!: Academic administration and Academy · See more »

Aeon (digital magazine)

Aeon is a digital magazine of ideas, philosophy and culture.

New!!: Academic administration and Aeon (digital magazine) · See more »

Association for Tertiary Education Management

The Association for Tertiary Education Management Inc. (ATEM Inc) is a professional body in Australasia for tertiary education administrators and managers.

New!!: Academic administration and Association for Tertiary Education Management · See more »

Association of University Administrators

The Association of University Administrators (AUA) is the professional body for higher education administrators and managers in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.

New!!: Academic administration and Association of University Administrators · See more »

Board of directors

A board of directors is a recognized group of people who jointly oversee the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit business, nonprofit organization, or a government agency.

New!!: Academic administration and Board of directors · See more »

Campus police

Campus police or university police in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada are often sworn police officers employed by a college or university to protect the campus and surrounding areas and the people who live, work, and visit it.

New!!: Academic administration and Campus police · See more »

Chancellor (education)

A chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system.

New!!: Academic administration and Chancellor (education) · See more »

Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.

New!!: Academic administration and Chief executive officer · See more »

College

A college (Latin: collegium) is an educational institution or a constituent part of one.

New!!: Academic administration and College · See more »

Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.

New!!: Academic administration and Commonwealth of Nations · See more »

Computer

A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.

New!!: Academic administration and Computer · See more »

CounterPunch

CounterPunch is a magazine published six times per year in the United States that covers politics in a manner its editors describe as "muckraking with a radical attitude".

New!!: Academic administration and CounterPunch · See more »

Dean (education)

In academic administrations such as colleges or universities, a dean is the person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both.

New!!: Academic administration and Dean (education) · See more »

Faculty (academic staff)

Faculty (in North American usage) or academics (in British, Australia, and New Zealand usage) are the academic staff of a university: professors of various ranks, lecturers, and/or researchers.

New!!: Academic administration and Faculty (academic staff) · See more »

Graduate school

A graduate school (sometimes shortened as grad school) is a school that awards advanced academic degrees (i.e. master's and doctoral degrees) with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate (bachelor's) degree with a high grade point average.

New!!: Academic administration and Graduate school · See more »

Head teacher

The head teacher,See American and British English spelling differences headmaster, headmistress, head, chancellor, principal or school director (sometimes another title is used) is the teacher with the greatest responsibility for the management of a school, college, or, in the case of the United States and India, an independent school.

New!!: Academic administration and Head teacher · See more »

Humanities

Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture.

New!!: Academic administration and Humanities · See more »

Information technology

Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to store, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data, or information, often in the context of a business or other enterprise.

New!!: Academic administration and Information technology · See more »

Jacobin (magazine)

Jacobin is a left-wing quarterly magazine based in New York offering socialist and anti-capitalist perspectives on politics, economics and culture from the American left.

New!!: Academic administration and Jacobin (magazine) · See more »

Lawrence S. Wittner

Lawrence S. Wittner (born May 5, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American historian who has written extensively on peace movements, foreign policy, and economic inequality.

New!!: Academic administration and Lawrence S. Wittner · See more »

Local area network

A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building.

New!!: Academic administration and Local area network · See more »

Minority group

A minority group refers to a category of people differentiated from the social majority, those who hold on to major positions of social power in a society.

New!!: Academic administration and Minority group · See more »

Natural science

Natural science is a branch of science concerned with the description, prediction, and understanding of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation.

New!!: Academic administration and Natural science · See more »

Primary education

Primary education and elementary education is typically the first stage of formal education, coming after preschool and before secondary education (The first two grades of primary school, Grades 1 and 2, are also part of early childhood education).

New!!: Academic administration and Primary education · See more »

Principal (academia)

The principal is the chief executive and the chief academic officer of a university or college in certain parts of the Commonwealth.

New!!: Academic administration and Principal (academia) · See more »

Provost (education)

A provost is the senior academic administrator at many institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada, the equivalent of a pro-vice-chancellor at some institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland, or a Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at most Australian universities.

New!!: Academic administration and Provost (education) · See more »

Public security

Public security is the function of governments which ensures the protection of citizens, persons in their territory, organizations, and institutions against threats to their well-being – and to the prosperity of their communities.

New!!: Academic administration and Public security · See more »

Rector (academia)

A rector ("ruler", from meaning "ruler") is a senior official in an educational institution, and can refer to an official in either a university or a secondary school.

New!!: Academic administration and Rector (academia) · See more »

Registrar (education)

A registrar is an official in an academic institution (consisting of a college, university, or secondary school) who handles student records.

New!!: Academic administration and Registrar (education) · See more »

Tertiary education

Tertiary education, also referred to as third stage, third level, and postsecondary education, is the educational level following the completion of a school providing a secondary education.

New!!: Academic administration and Tertiary education · See more »

United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

New!!: Academic administration and United States · See more »

University

A university (universitas, "a whole") is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in various academic disciplines.

New!!: Academic administration and University · See more »

Redirects here:

Academic Administration, Academic administrator, Academic administrators, College administration, College administrator, Education administration, Education administrator, Educational Administration, Educational administration, Educational administrator, University Administrator, University administration, University administrator.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_administration

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »