Business School Deans

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Business School Deans

• Careers, Roles and Responsibilities

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Lee Dahringer, Dean Loyola College -
MarylandFrederick Langrehr, Professor Valparaiso
University
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Thank You

• Dan LeClair, Director of Knowledge Services -
  AACSB
• Rick Peters, Director of Information Technology -
  AACSB

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Methodology

• Electronic survey accessed from web-site
• First notice sent 11/30/01
• Two reminders
• Cut off date 1/10/02
• Population survey
• N802
• n419
• Response rate 52

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Why Did You Become a Dean?

• Top two reasons 5Very Important
• Contribute to the institution 4.4
• Logical career progression 3.2

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Why Did You Become a Dean?

• Toss-up reasons 5Very Important
• Long term objective 3.1
• Prestige 2.9
• Greater salary 2.9

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Why Did You Become a Dean?

• Bottom three reasons 5Very Important
• Step to higher administrative goal 2.51
• Alternative to teaching 1.52
• Alternative to research 1.47

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What Do You Do?

• Short answer everything

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What Do You Do?Most Important Tasks

• 5Very Important
• Faculty and staff management 4.6
• Strategic planning 4.6
• Business relations 4.5
• Central administration management 4.2
• Faculty development 4.2
• Fundraising 4.0

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What Do You Do?Important Tasks

• 5Very Important
• Program development 3.9
• Student and alumni issues 3.8
• Personal contact with alumni 3.6
• Personal contact with students 3.6
• Media Relations 3.2

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What Are Your Pressing Issues?

• Its about the money 5Very Important
• Budget issues 4.5
• Faculty recruitment/retention 4.4
• Need to raise funds 4.1
• Help faculty development 4.1

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Secondary Pressures

• 5Very Important
• Faculty demands 4.0
• Technology - implement/maintain 3.8
• Accreditation issues 3.7
• Student recruitment 3.6
• Student enrollment management 3.6

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Who Is Putting Demands on You?

• Most demanding constituencies the sandwich
  effect
• 5 Very Important
• Faculty 4.2
• Central administration 4.1

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Other Demanding Publics

• 5Very Important
• Accrediting organizations 3.7
• Students 3.5
• Business community 3.4
• Advisory board 3.4

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Least Demanding Groups

• 5Very Important
• Alumni 3.1
• Recruiters 3.0
• Other academic units 2.6
• Parents 2.4

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What Did You Do to Be Successful?

• Most important things 5Very Important
• Consultation 4.5
• Working towards higher goals 4.4
• Discussion/reasoning 4.1
• Forming coalitions 3.9
• Helping others 3.8
• Friendship 3.6

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What Did You Do to Be Successful?

• Least important things 5Very Important
• Authority 3.3
• Reciprocity 3.2
• Penalties 2.0

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Whats It Take to Be a Dean?

• Good parenting skills
• Patience/persistence in pursuing objectives
• Communication skills
• Other combined seven categories

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• 26
• 30

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What Are Your Rewards?

• Its not the money!
• Lowest reward of 11 rewards
• 5Very Important
• Financial rewards 2.9

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What Are Your Rewards?

• 5Very Important
• Helping others succeed 4.3
• Facilitating strategic plan 4.1
• Power to accomplish mission 4.1
• Help develop faculty 4.1

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Where Do You Work?

• ACCSB Accredited n N
• Yes 60 48
• No 40 52
• Type of School
• Public 56 46
• Private 30 32
• International 14 22

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Where Do You Work?

• Size of University
• Less than 5,000 students 32
• 5,000 14.999 39
• 15,000 24,999 17
• 25,000 or more 12

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Where Do You Work?

• Degrees Offered
• n N
• Undergrad/Masters 58 55
• Undergrad/Master/Ph.D. 22 23
• Undergrad only 14 15
• Masters/Ph.D. 3 4
• Masters only 3 3

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Who Are You?

• You are 54 years old
• Youre male (88)
• Youre in your first deanship (68)
• Or your second (21)
• If you were a dean before your current position
  you were a dean for 4 years

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How Long Have You Been in Your Current Position?

• You have been in your current position 5 years
• Your predecessor was a dean at your school for
  6.3 years

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How Long Will You Be Dean?.

• You plan on being a dean at some school for 5
  more years.
• On average most of you plan on being a dean for
  about 10 years in total.
• 5 years in current position 5 more in this or
  another deanship.
• You plan to stop being a dean at 60. Does 59.5
  ring a bell?

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What Did You Do Before?

• An academic administrator
• Dean 16
• Interim dean 10
• Associate/Assistant dean 17
• Department chair 18
• Program director 6
• University administrator 4
• 71

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What Did You Do Before?

• Next groups were directly promoted
• Faculty member 17
• Business position 7
• Government position 3
• Other academic 2
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What Is Your Discipline?

• Academic Business Government
• Human Resource Management 14
• Economics 14
• Strategy 14
• Marketing 13
• Finance 11
• Accounting 10
• All others less than 5 each

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What Did Your Predecessor Do Following the Deans
Position?

• The good news
• Only 1.7 percent left because of health problems
  or death.

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What Did Your Predecessor Do Following the Deans
Position?

• Returned to faculty 37
• Dean at different school 23
• Central administration 16
• Retired 12
• Non Academic position 8
• Dont Know 3
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What Do You Plan to Do After Being Dean?

• Return to faculty 45
• Retirement 24
• Central administration 20
• Managerial - non-academic 5
• Other 6
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What Advice Do You Have for Future Deans?
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Advice Dont Take It!

• Dont listen to any advice.

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Advice Are You Sure?

• Dont.
• Think again.
• The best job is a tenured or chaired full
  professor.

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Advice Yes, Im Sure

• It can be fun to see individuals and
  institutions grow, make progress, and achieve
  under your leadership but progress is measured
  slowly and unevenly.

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Advice Change Agent

• A prospective dean must be a master of change
  management.
• Help create a vision . . . And dont be afraid
  of making a few people unhappy . . . Its
  inevitable when change occurs.

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Advice Gators Only?

• Make sure you have a thick skin.
• Develop a tough hide and have immense patience.
• If you are impatient and thin skinned, seek
  another occupation.

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Advice Remember Glaciers

• Patience.
• Be Patient.
• Be patient and be willing to work with others.
• Be patient and persevering.
• Have patience, an open mind, and communicate
  frequently

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Advice Leadership

• Lead, make decisions and be tenacious.
• Lead with great spirit and enthusiasm.
• Act decisively.

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Advice Manage Your Boss and Bosses?

• Maintain a good relationship with your Academic
  Vice President.
• Make sure you get along with the Provost.
• Be sure you have the support of the faculty.
• Create consensus among major faculty.

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Advice Go-For-It!

• Be optimistic and positive
• develop a strategic plan that fits the culture
  and reality
• create a team
• get lucky. (emphasis added)

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Advice Go-For-It!

• Love What You Do.
• Keep your sense of humor! Youll need it.
  

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Its a Great Job!
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Business School Deans

• Careers, Roles and Responsibilities