UPC: 9781421428789 | Higher Ed Leadership Essentials: How to Be a Dean (Paperback)

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And finally readers who are simply curious about what deans do will find pointed analysis about what works and what doesn t. The essential guide to the hardest job in higher ed. A deanship in higher education is an exciting but complex job combining technical administration and academic leadership. On one hand the dean is an institutional leader standing up for the faculty staff and students. On the other the dean is a middle manager managing personnel curriculum and budgets and trying to live up to the expectations of the governing board president and provost. But what is it really like to be a dean? In How to Be a Dean George Justice illuminates both of these leadership roles which interact and even conflict with each other while deans do their best to help faculty members and students. Providing tested advice Justice takes readers from the job search through the daily work of the dean and ultimately to the larger questions of leadership excellence and integrity the role provokes. He also explores the roles of different deanships in the broader context of academic leadership. Based on the author s experience as a dean at two large research universities How to Be a Dean is clear engaging and opinionated. Current deans will use this book to reflect on the work they do in productive ways. Faculty members considering administrative work will find in this book some idea about the day-to-day work required of their institutional leaders. And finally readers who are simply curious about what deans do will find pointed analysis about what works and what doesn t.