7The best-selling Handbook for Language Program Administrators has been completely revised and updated. It remains an invaluable resource for all practicing and prospective language program administrators (LPAs) by emphasizing the many roles that they must assume as leaders, decision makers, promoters, and managers while also exploring the crucial knowledge and skills that make a successful LPA. Each chapter presents an accurate picture of the challenges faced by LPAs in different contexts, and offers administrators problem-solving suggestions as well as practical, tried and tested strategies and guidelines. This Second Edition includes chapters written by new and continuing authors while many of the topics covered in the first edition have been broadened in the scope of their discussions and updated to reflect contemporary administrative issues.