Center director should be tenured faculty member. Needs strong leadership, resources, links to administrators. Members must include tenured, highly-respected faculty Advantages Connected to central budget, decisions. Power to influence. Director has special expertise in the field, gets training in the field.
Faculty have a clear and visible place to contact.
Easy to gain trust of faculty. Disadvantages May be suspect by faculty. Lack of confidentiality for faculty. May not have time to read the literature or be proactive. My be mistrusted or viewed as irrelevant by faculty.