For a conference description click here . 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 end of their careers. This working conference will enable academic administrators to share two days with a national group of colleagues in thoughtful conversation about the business of deaning. Workshops will be chosen for their relevance to the ongoing work of a dean, and workshop leaders will be selected for their experience and ability to stretch our thinking. Topics to be covered will track the dean's role through the cycle of a faculty career. Registration and program information will be posted in September here .