Creating a Strong Chair-Dean Partnership: What Chairs Can Do from Their End (Part 1)

In viewing the organizational structure of our colleges and universities, there is a common hierarchy of faculty, chairs, deans, and higher administration that includes a president or campus leader and may include a provost or the equivalent. Much has been written about the interaction of chairs with their faculty. Inherent in the study of the work that chairs do is the partnership they must forge with their deans.