CULTIVATING LEADERSHIP: ADMINISTRATIVE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES FOR ACADEMIC DEANS IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.
Contributors: Oklahoma State University.
Published: 1989
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Education, Higher.; Education, Administration.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: Scope of study. The purpose of this study was to investigate strategies which academic deans have experienced in their administrative development. Three hundred deans of nursing, business, and arts and sciences from 100 higher education institutions were surveyed with a mailed questionnaire. The study investigated informal and formal administrative development activities experienced within and external to the employing institution; career pathways were analyzed for patterns.

Findings and conclusions. A large majority of deans reported that there was no program or responsibility assigned for development of academic administrators at their institutions. As a result, development activities which prepared deans for their positions were primarily informal activities such as on-the-job training. Formal activities external to the employing institution were seen as valuable by the few who had participated in them. The findings support the position that higher education institutions fail to view administrative development as an institutional task. Regarding career patterns, the deans arrived at their current positions via multiple pathways although faculty experience was a dominant entry position. Career pathways for male and female deans showed statistical differences in relation to marital status, children, dean type and academic rank.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-09, Section: A, page: 2804.

Thesis (ED.D.)--OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, 1989.

School code: 0664.