No one wants an academic leader who’s been “promoted to the level of their incompetence”—not hiring committees, deans or university presidents, and certainly not the faculty and staff who work with ...

Unlike in most professions, retirement is not the clear finish line for a career in academic administration. Higher ed often sends its ex-leaders back to work on the faculty. To outsiders, that ...

A few years ago at a leadership workshop, I gave a talk on “good things about being an academic administrator.” The audience was largely made up of faculty members considering the leadership path.

The Institutional Effectiveness and Research Administration oversees the faculty and department head assessment of deans, department heads, and associate/assistant department heads evaluation (survey ...

Postdoctoral positions are temporary roles after a terminal degree like a Ph.D. or M.D. that typically emphasize scholarship and further training and professional development. As such, postdoctoral ...

The Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program (BTAA-ALP) is a year-long extensive leadership development program that is designed to expand the leadership and managerial skills of faculty ...

Earlier this month, I informed the faculty that we are convening a Task Force on Academic Administrative Structure, to review the role of the provost and the position’s responsibilities, and to ...

The identification, recruitment, and retention of highly qualified and talented Deans and Department Chairs/School Directors for all academic fields is a primary goal of the University of Texas at San ...

If you are considering a career move into university management, gather insights from this collection on what promotion from faculty to higher education administration entails Switching from a faculty ...

This policy supports The University of Texas System (UT System) Regents’ Rules and Regulations 31101 Evaluation of Administrators, which states that faculty members at institutions in the UT System ...

As a longtime academic staff member at Johns Hopkins University, I read Matthew Crenson’s comments on administrative bloat with disdain (“Why is college so expensive? One answer: ‘administrative bloat ...