Registration Deadline Registration forms must be received by February 22, 2001. The faculty is the heart and mind of any university.
Academic deans play a crucial role at virtually every step in a faculty career.
Together with others, deans engage in long-term institutional strategic planning, allocate and prioritize faculty positions, oversee faculty searches, negotiate with candidates and finalize contracts, oversee programs of mentoring and faculty development, encourage and support grant writing, play central roles in processes of faculty review, promotion, and tenuring, and work with senior faculty as they near the ends of their careers. Workshops have been chosen for their relevance to the ongoing work of a dean, and workshop leaders have been selected for their experience and ability to stretch our thinking. Topics to be covered track the dean's role through the cycle of a faculty career. All sessions will be conducted as workshops. Below are some of the questions that will be addressed in each.