In this commentary, drawing from reviews of research on literacy teacher preparation, the authors discuss points of leverage in preparation of literacy educators for deans and associate deans. Categories that leaders might attend to include: mediated field experiences, faculty development, and external reputation.

Due to privatization of higher education in India, there has been an emergence of sub-standard schools throughout the country. The higher education system in teaching institutes lacks incentives to perform; there is no reward for the meritorious and no way to ease out the non-performers. The quality of teaching and research cannot be evaluated…

A friend and fellow academic recently told the author that her dean, who directs a professional school at a state university, spends most of his time at conferences hanging out with professors from his institution, as well as with their graduate students and his co-authors on research papers. She said, and the author agreed, that such habits…

In individual essays, two American Council on Education Fellows present their views and observations on interaction between department chairs and deans. (PD)

Sums up the roles and virtues of the ideal dean under the term "educational statesmanship." (PD)

Examines qualities of an ideal dean with respect to academic/professional standing and relationships with college faculty, department heads, students, deans, vice presidents, and the president. (PD)

Examines two areas of accountability associated with the role of ideal dean: planning, which includes developing a strong internal database, and leadership. (PD)

In addition to being a good manager with a vision of the future, the department chair must be able to solve departmental problems without the dean's help; provide concise, accurate data to support all requests and recommendations; and create an intellectual atmosphere in which teaching and scholarship can thrive. (PD)

Examines a dean's power in the following areas: rule-making, budgets, requests, leadership, discretionary funding, scheduling, staffing, curriculum development, and coordinating resources. (PD)

Recommends the Administrative Q'Sort for defining administrative roles and functions and eliminating conflicts within organizations. Uses the technique to describe the position of dean of community services at a community college via a listing of 60 job responsibilities grouped into nine priority categories. Discusses how the technique can be…

Asserting that law schools have entered an era when increasingly the law dean is a "rainmaker"--public envoy, professional fund raiser, and alumni booster. Considers implications for universities, colleges, faculties, students, and the deans themselves. (EV)

In studies of leadership in college and university administration, the role of women administrators, particularly deans of women, has been largely overlooked. By retracing the roles of women deans and their work, including research, a new appreciation for women in higher education in the first half of the twentieth century can be gained. (MSE)

The article identifies three commonalities between the dean and department chair (e.g., both must create and reinforce an appropriate organizational identity) and offers five strategies for collaboration related to the areas of professional development, communication, motivation, budget, and evaluation. (MLW)

Management theories tend to simplify the complex needs, desires, motives, and abilities of teachers who are also counselors, researchers, planners, and parliamentarians. The task of the academic administrator is to seek coherence of goals and a commitment to student development by focusing disparate visions toward common ends. (MLW)

Presents the first of two articles examining Alfred North Whitehead's notion of the rhythm of the university, discussing the rhythm of teaching and learning, the importance of academic freedom to an imaginative faculty, and the relationship between Whitehead's own pedagogy and his considerable administrative practice. The paper's purpose is to…