How to Be a Dean

Academic deans are the middle managers of higher education: They juggle the agendas of top administrators and of professors and students. They craft visions for their schools and seek out the money to support those goals. They hire faculty members to fill classrooms and still, sometimes, carve out time for their own scholarship. They are the faces of their schools.

So what should you be thinking about if you want to become a dean? What do you need to know once you get the job? And what are some ways you can do it better?

We’ve created a booklet full of tips, trends, and ideas collected from news articles and first-person accounts we’ve published in recent years. Downloading the booklet is easy: Just fill out the form below to get it.

• To Change a Campus, Talk to the Dean

  More than ever before, deans are the ones top administrators rely on to push schools and colleges to evolve.