Thursday, 7 November 2019

professors - What is the point of being the head of the department?



What is the point of being the head of the department ?



I'm an undergraduate Physics & Mathematics student and I want to stay in academia, do research and also teach. I'm assuming professors also want this. Hence,




  • Why do they become the head of the department and deal with lots of administrative stuff?





  • Isn't that boring for a person who presumably wants to work on his/her field rather than deal with lots of nonsense?




Note: I want to restrict this question to departments in STEM fields only.




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