The essential academic dean : a practical guide to college leadership / Jeffrey L. Buller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buller, Jeffrey L.

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deans (Education).

Universities and colleges--Administration.

Universities and colleges.

Physical Description:

vii, 431 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2007]

Summary:

The role of an academic dean is extremely complex, involving budgeting, and community, relations, personnel decisions, managing a large enterprise, mastering numerous details, fundraising, and guiding a school or college toward a compelling vision for the future. But no academic dean can quickly master all of the intricacies involved in this challenging position. For instance, how do you build support for a shared vision of your unit's future? How do you interact effectively with all of the different internal and external constituencies that a dean must serve? How do you set, supervise, and implement a budget? How do you handle the volume of documents the cross your desk? How do you fire someone, ask a chair to step down, respond to a reporter on the telephone, and settle disputes the intellectual property rights? How do you know when it's time to consider leaving your current position for another opportunity?

The Essential Academic Dean is about the "how" of academic leadership. Based on a series of workshops given by the author on college administration and management, each topic deals concisely with the most important information deans need at their fingertips when faced with a particular challenge or opportunity. Written both as a comprehensive guide to the academic deanship and as a ready reference to be consulted when needed, this book emphasizes proven solutions over untested theories and stresses what deans need to know now in order to be most successful as academic leaders.

Contents:

Part I The Dean's Role

1 The View from the Middle 1

2 Preparing for the Dean's Role 8

3 What Kind of Dean Are You? 16

4 Creating a Vision for the College 24

5 Building a Shared Vision for the College 31

6 Launching Initiatives 37

7 Leading Reform 44

8 A Scenario Analysis on the Dean's Role 50

Part II The Dean's Constituents

9 Students 57

10 Parents 63

11 Faculty 70

12 Challenging Employees 78

13 Department Chairs 86

14 Staff 94

15 Other Deans 103

16 Upper Administrators 109

17 Friends of the College 116

18 Donors and Potential Donors 121

19 Boards, Trustees, and Legislators 129

20 A Scenario Analysis on the Dean's Constituents 136

Part III The Dean's Staff

21 Searching for and Building a Strong Administrative Team 144

22 Interviewing a Candidate 152

23 Closing the Deal 160

24 A Scenario Analysis on the Dean's Staff 167

Part IV The Dean's Budget

25 Setting Budgetary Priorities 174

26 Supervising a Budget 182

27 Implementing Budget Cuts 189

28 A Scenario Analysis on the Dean's Budget 195

Part V The Dean's Documents

29 Budget Proposals 202

30 Faculty Evaluations 208

31 Chair Evaluations 216

32 Position Requests and Descriptions 224

33 Program Reviews 232

34 Policies and Procedures 239

35 A Scenario Analysis on the Dean's Documents 244

Part VI The Dean's Leadership

36 Leadership When Meeting One on One 252

37 Leadership When Chairing Committees 258

38 Leadership from the Middle 265

39 Leadership in Development and Increasing Revenue 272

40 A Scenario Analysis on the Dean's Leadership 280

Part VII The Dean's Challenges

41 Terminating a Faculty Member 287

42 Replacing a Chair 296

43 Responding to Emergencies 303

44 Dealing with the Media 308

45 Intellectual Property Disputes 315

46 Addressing Differences with Other Administrators 322

47 A Scenario Analysis on the Dean's Challenges 329

Part VIII The Dean's Unique Opportunities

48 The Honors College 336

49 The Professional School 344

50 The Graduate School 352

51 Consortia, Centers, and Institutes 360

52 The Unionized Environment 368

53 Promoting Diversity 374

54 The Dean as Chief Academic Officer 381

55 A Scenario Analysis on the Dean's Unique Opportunities 388

Part IX The Dean's Next Step

56 Knowing When It's Time to Go 394

57 Changing Institutions 401

58 Returning to the Faculty 407

59 Planning for a Higher Administrative Role 414

60 A Scenario Analysis on the Dean's Next Step 421

Epilogue: A Checklist for the Essential Academic Dean 429.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780470180860

0470180862

OCLC:

154699512

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