Changing the Organizational Structure of Nonacademic Departments for Institutional Effectiveness [electronic resource] / David Richardson.

At Virginia Highlands Community College (VHCC), institutional assessment activities were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the Academic and Instructional Support Services (AISS) division, a non-academic unit which includes the Library for archival/retrieval purposes, the Learning Lab for the tes...

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Main Author: Richardson, David
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Language:English
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