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Are you Ready?
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Are you currently serving as a committee or department chair, Assistant or Associate Dean, or in an administrative role?
Our answer
Search committees will want to see clear evidence of your leadership ability. We can help tailor your application materials to highlight your success!
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Do you enjoy leadership work? Will you find administrative work satisfying?
Our answer
As a Dean, you'll be in more meetings and will need to delegate responsibilities to your leadership team. Ultimately this means you'll be spending less time in the classroom.
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Beyond your own academic discipline, do you have specific, engaging ideas about how you, as Dean, might improve the experience of faculty, staff, and students?
Our answer
If you're asking for a chance to lead, people will want to know where you intend to take them!
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Are you prepared to look beyond the needs of your individual college and actively participate in decision=-making that will impact the larger institution?
Our answer
As Dean, your Provost may call upon you and fellow deans to serve in leadership capacities that will advance the missions and vision of the broader institution.
If you're answer to each of these questions is "Yes!" then you're ready to be a Dean. The Dean Academy will help you prepare your application materials and have a polished and seamless interview process. We can help you cross the finish line!