No one wants an academic leader who’s been “promoted to the level of their incompetence”—not hiring committees, deans or university presidents, and certainly not the faculty and staff who work with ...

When I took on the role of director of the research office for medical students, I was faced with a challenge: How could we better support faculty mentors while improving the research opportunities ...

A policy for the evaluation of academic administrators at the University of Dayton should establish and communicate clear, consistent, and meaningful expectations for the review of academic ...

Once you become an academic administrator, one of the most valuable skills you should cultivate is the ability to repeat yourself and still sound fresh and sincere. Whether you’re a dean making a ...

Ushma Neill, the vice president of scientific education and training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), never expected to work in academic administration. “I have had an entirely ...

The Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program (BTAA-ALP) is a year-long extensive leadership development program that is designed to expand the leadership and managerial skills of faculty ...

The Institutional Effectiveness and Research Administration oversees the faculty and department head assessment of deans, department heads, and associate/assistant department heads evaluation (survey ...

Sitting in her office one day, a new dean came face-to-face with an angry professor, incensed that no one on the campus had received a pay raise for several consecutive years. Obviously that was not ...

If you are considering a career move into university management, gather insights from this collection on what promotion from faculty to higher education administration entails Switching from a faculty ...