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AUTHOR
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TITLE
The Resource Handbook for Academic Deans.
INSTITUTION
American Conference of Academic Deans, Washington, DC.
ISBN
ISBN-0-9668985-0-8
PUB DATE
1999-00-00
NOTE
193p.
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DESCRIPTORS
*College Administration; College Curriculum; *Deans;
*Educational Finance; Higher Education; *Legal
Responsibility; Money Management; *Personnel Management;
Professional Development; School Publications
ABSTRACT
This book collects 42 papers on the role of the academic
dean. Papers are grouped into sections on what a dean is, becoming a dean,
curriculum, personnel, legal matters, finances, academic publications, and
"real life." The papers are: "The Ethics of Deaning" (Charles Masiello);
"Collegial.Relations" (Len Clark); "Access to the Dean" (George Allan);
"Management Techniques" (Martha Crunkleton); "So Now You Are a Dean: The
First 100 Days" (Douglas Steeples); "Evaluating Deans" (David Hoekema);
"Teaching and Research" (Virginia Coombs); "Relations with Other Deans" (Lisa
Rossbacher); "What To Read" (Samuel Hines); "Managing Stress" (Lloyd Chapin);
"Curriculum Evaluation: Department Reviews" (Peter Alexander); "Curriculum
Evaluation: Other Program Reviews" (Carol Lucey); "Revising the Curriculum"
(Kathleen Schatzberg); "The Politics of Change" (Charles Masiello); "Outcomes
Assessment" (Lloyd Chapin); "The Accreditation of Self-Study" (Walter Swap);
"Hiring New Faculty" (Linda Mantel); "Evaluating Probationary Faculty" (Linda
Mantel); "Evaluating and Compensating Tenured Faculty" (David Leary);
"Evaluating Department Chairs" (Elizabeth Scarborough); "Retirement
Arrangements for Faculty" (Elizabeth Scarborough); "Faculty Development"
(David Leary); "Faculty Loads, Special Compensation" (Philip Glotzbach);
"Incentive Programs" (Peter Facione); "Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity"
(Bari Watkins); "Dismissals, Non-Renewals, Terminations" (H. Dale Abadie);
"Harassment" (Lisa Rossbacher); "Physical Disabilities and Learning
Disabilities" (Kathleen Schatzberg); "Strategic Planning" (David Leary);
"Fund Accounting" (Douglas Steeples); "Special Budgets" (Gary Maris);
"Dealing with New Technology" (Carol Lucey); "Workload, Productivity, and
Cost/Benefits" (Myron Henry); "Fundraising and Entrepreneurship" (Peter
Facione); "Faculty Handbook as a Living Policy Document" (James Pence);
"College Catalogue" (Kathleen Schatzberg); "Responding to Criticism" (Len
Clark); "Transitional Leadership: The Temporary President" (Charles
Masiello); "Women Who Are Deans, Deans Who Are Women" (Linda Mantel);
"Academic Deaning Despite Difference" (James Pitts); "Servant-Leadership:
Deans at Church-Related Colleges" (James Pence); and "Helping Your Successor"
(George Allan).
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The Resource Handbook for
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Editor: George Allan
A project of the
Board of Directors of the American Conference of Academic Deans
Production Editors:
Eliza Jane Reilly, Executive Director, ACAD
Rachel Riedner. Program Manager, ACM)
Copy Editor: Susan Reiss
Designer: Dee Bogetti
The American Conference of Academic Deans would like to thank
Suzanne Hyers and Maria Helena Price, former Executive Officers of
ACAD, under whose leadership this project was initiated and developed.
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v PREFACE
55 Curriculum Evaluation: Other
Program Reviews
Carol A. Lucey, SUNY College of
1 WHAT A DEAN IS
Technology at Alfred
3 The Ethics of Deaning
57 Revising the Curriculum
Charles D. Masiello, Pace University
Kathleen Schatzberg, Cape Cod
7 Collegial Relations
Community College
Len Clark, Earlham College
61 The Politics of Change
10 Access to the Dean
Charles D. Masiello, Pace University
George Allan, Dickinson College
67 Outcomes Assessment
14 Management Techniques
jj
Lloyd W. Chapin, Eckerd College
Martha A. Crunkleton, Bates College
69 The Accreditation Self-Study
16 So Now You Are a Dean: The First
Walter C. Swap, Tufts University
100 Days
Douglas Steeples, Mercer University
73 PERSONNEL
75 Hiring New Faculty
23 BECOMING A DEAN
Linda H. Mantel, Willamette
25 Evaluating Deans
University
David Hoekerna, Calvin College
79 Evaluating Probationary Faculty
31 Teaching and Research
Linda H. Mantel, Willamette
Virginia Coombs, Oklahoma City
University
College
82 Evaluating and Compensating
o
34 Relations With Other Deans
Tenured Faculty
Lisa A. Rossbacher, Southern
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David E. Leary, University of
Polytechnic State University
O
Richmond
36 What To Read
86 Evaluating Department Chairs
Samuel M. Hines, Jr., College of
Elizabeth Scarborough, Indiana
Charleston
University, South Bend
41 Managing Stress
89 Retirement Arrangements for
Lloyd W. Chapin, Eckerd College
Faculty
Elizabeth Scarborough, Indiana
45 CURRICULUM
University, South Bend
47 Curriculum Evaluation:
92 Faculty Development
Department Reviews
David E. Leary, University of
Peter Alexander, St. Peter's College
Richmond
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95 Faculty Loads, Special
152 Fundraising and Entrepreneurship
Compensation
Peter A. Facione, Santa Clara
Philip Glotzbach, University of
University
Redlands
100 Incentive Programs
157 ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Peter A. Facione, Santa Clara
159 Faculty Handbook as a Living
University
Policy Document
James L. Pence, St. Olaf College
107 LEGAL MATTERS
164 College Catalogue
109 Affirmative Action/Equal
Kathleen Schatzberg, Cape Cod
Opportunity
Community College
Bari Watkins, Morningside College
113 Dismissals, Non-Renewals,
167 REAL LIFE
Terminations
169 Responding to Criticism
H. Dale Abadie, Croft Institute
Len Clark, Earlham College
for International Studies
171 Transitional Leadership:
University of Mississippi
The Temporary President
116 Harassment
Charles D. Masiello, Pace
Lisa A. Rossbacher, Southern
University
Polytechnic State University
175 Women Who Are Deans, Deans
118 Physical Disabilities and Learning
Who Are Women
ill
Disabilities
Linda H. Mantel, Willamette
Kathleen Schatzberg, Cape Cod
Resource
University
Community College
Handbook
177 Academic Deaning Despite
for
Difference
Academic
123 THE FINANCIAL SIDE
James P. Pitts, University of North
Deans
OF DEANING
Carolina at Asheville
125 Strategic Planning
180 Servant-Leadership: Deans at
David E. Leary, University of
Church-Related Colleges
Richmond
James L. Pence, St. Olaf College
132 Fund Accounting
186 Helping Your Successor
Douglas Steeples, Mercer College
George Allan, Dickinson College
138 Special Budgets
Gary L. Maris, Stetson University
List of Resources
143 Dealing with New Technology
Contributors
Carol A. Lucey, SUNY College of
Technology at Alfred
148 Workload, Productivity, and Cost/
Benefits
Myron S. Henry, University of
Southern Mississippi
PREFE
This Handbook, it says, is for Deans. The
the institution of higher education as your
term "dean" is old wine that comes these
"institution," but often as a "college" and
days in many new bottles. You are to take
sometimes as a "university." But whatever
it as a portmanteau word, a word, as
the name, whatever the locale: this Hand-
Humpty Dumpty explained to Alice,
book is for those who toil in the vineyards
capable of carrying a great number of
of academe as the administrators respon-
diverse meanings. In this case, it does
sible for overall management of the pro-
the work of a great diversity of titles for
cesses by which a faculty is recruited and
the senior academic officer of an institu-
developed and a cuniculum fashioned and
tion of higher education: Vice Chancellor
reformed as an instrument for the educa-
tion of students and the furtherance of
for Academic Affairs, Vice President for
Academic Affairs, Provost, Dean of the
knowledge.
College, Dean of the Faculty. Moreover,
In 1992 members of the Board of Directors
this Handbook may well be of help to
of the American Conference of Academic
those who are academic officers but not
Deans (ACAD) decided it would be useful
the senior academic officer. This would
if there were a handbook that could help
include associate or assistant deans who
new deans adjust to the challenges and
report to deans, deans who report to
terrors of their new position. The men
provosts, provosts who report to vice-
and women who fmd themselves holding
presidents, and many another idiosyn-
appointments to major positions in aca-
cratic expression of the organizational
demic administration are rarely aware of
structure of an academic administration.
what their responsibilities involve. They
Deans in all these senses serve at insti-
may have thought they knew. But what
tutions with a great variety of ways by
from the outside, from the vantage point
which to identify their genus: Academy,
of a faculty member or a junior admin-
Community College, Junior College, Four-
istrative position, may have seemed in-
Year College, Technical College, Compre-
telligible often turns out to be quite
hensive College, College of a University,
different when experienced from the
University, University System. The usual
inside. The responsibilities sketched in
way in this Handbook has been to refer to
7
a job description and the procedures
myself as chair, undertook to draft a set
detailed in task booklets and tickler files
of topics that the Board would then assign
are complicated, and the sheer volume of
to various deans around the country
them can seem overwhelming. Far more
based on their interest or expertise in a
daunting, however, is the interpersonal
given area. Deans are busy people, how-
character of most of these responsibilities,
ever, and finding ones who would agree to
calling for sensitivity, discretion, political
take on a writing assignment, much less
acumen, moral insight, and prudential
securing their drafts in timely fashion,
judgment.
proved to be very much like the proverbial
difficulties involved in changing a curricu-
The ACAD Board thought it would be
lum. Eventually, however, the graveyard
helpful to put down on paper some of the
was moved and the cats herded across the
words of advice experienced deans think
road, and the results are now before you.
their less experienced new colleagues
Along the way, the pool of authors shrunk
would appreciate. This Resource Hand-
to be only slightly wider than the members
book is the result. The Board agreed that
of the Board.
the handbook should be practical. There
are plenty of other venues for providing
An idea only accomplished in a few in-
interpretive frameworks, historical per-
stances was to post drafts of the various
spectives, psychological analyses, and
discussions to the internet news group
Vi
hortatory expectorations regarding
for academic deans which is run by ACAD.
cleanliness. And there are hundreds of
It was hoped that the wide variety of per-
Resource
Handbook
monographs filled with the detailed tech-
spectives afforded by these colleagues
for
nicalities of particular policies, programs,
would reap a bountiful harvest of further
Academic
procedures, and pedagogical products. The
Deans
comments and critiques; some of these
Resource Handbook aims at the middle
contributions could then be added to the
range: more general than the nitty-gritty,
author's original discussion. Unfortunately
more specific than the theoretical. It is
harried deans don't spontaneously put
hoped that it will be something that new
responses to e-mail requests for commen-
deans consult first when confronted with
tary at the top of their daily agendas, es-
an issue they fmd perplexing. The Hand-
pecially if the questions are complex and
book is thus a bit like Dr. Spock, providing
ask for more than the comparatively easy
reassurances, indicating some preliminar-
"at my institution we..." kind of response.
ies to be considered, suggesting where to
Nonetheless, the Handbook has managed
acquire additional information.
to include a few of these exchanges. They
symbolize the way in which a Dean's
The original idea had been that the Hand-
Handbook should be a work in progress,
book might be written by one person, or
a text always in need of glosses, commen-
maybe a troika of authors. But it was
taries, and addenda. You are encouraged
clear that no extant dean had either the
to share your reactions with members of
wisdom or the time to pull this off. In
the ACAD Board or with the Washington
June 1994, a committee composed of
D.C. office. It is hoped that such ex-
David Jordan (Austin College), Bari
changes about the Handbook will soon
Watkins (Morningside College), and
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educational leadership and service. One
require a Revised Edition, and in that
exquisite evidence of this loyalty is their
edition that you will have become one of
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willingness to fmd the time to prepare
the voices in its ongoing conversation
their contributions to this Handbook, for
about the basic practicalities of academic
they have done so without fmancial remu-
administration,
neration and without much expectation
0
Two lists are provided at the conclusion of
of anyone caringexcept new deans,
this book. The first list contains the names
unknown to them, who will someday read
of the Chairs of the ACAD Board over the
what they have said, and maybe be helped
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years from the inception of the Handbook
by it. The deans appearing in these two
idea to its publication. They have had the
lists are identified by the institution with
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interesting responsibility of being a cat
which they were associated at the time of
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herders' herder, patiently but persistently
their contribution to this project.
moving this project forward. The other list
George Allan
is of the authors of the 42 topics that corn-
Handbook Editor
prise this Handbook. If academic deans
April 1998
are in any sense a community it is by vir-
<c,
tue of their common loyalty to ideals of
What
A Dean Is
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