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 ...

Unlike in most professions, retirement is not the clear finish line for a career in academic administration. Higher ed often sends its ex-leaders back to work on the faculty. To outsiders, that ...

A thoughtful, complete, and well designed introduction to the world of academic administration. Entirely worth the investment of time and financial resources. Professor of History, Chair of the ...

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

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 identification, recruitment, and retention of highly qualified and talented Deans and Department Chairs/School Directors for all academic fields is a primary goal of the University of Texas at San ...

This policy supports The University of Texas System (UT System) Regents’ Rules and Regulations 31101 Evaluation of Administrators, which states that faculty members at institutions in the UT System ...

In a previous article, we discussed why you might want to consider a career in academic administration. Yet we also recognize that many grad students, postdocs and junior faculty members know ...

Hannibal-LaGrange University (HLGU) is pleased to announce the appointment of Christopher Graham as the new vice president for academic administration and dean of the faculty pro tem. Graham joins ...

The Academic Affairs Division of Miami University seeks a principled and effective approach to planning and utilizing physical spaces, including classrooms, laboratories, offices, and other ...