The impossible dream: doing deanship with pessimistic optimism

Title: The impossible dream: doing deanship with pessimistic optimism
Creator: Gore, Jennifer M.
Relation: Inside the Role of Dean: International Perspectives on Leading in Higher Education p. 160-175
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2015
Description: She sits at the dean's desk on Day One wondering, momentarily, what to do. The desk is familiar, at least from the other side, as she has moved into the role from within her own institution. But in those first moments of stillness she thinks, "OK, I'm Head of School. Now what do i do?" A few weeks earlier in a short handover meeting with her predecessor, she is given a list of staff leave entitlements (a document she rarely uses during her six-year term) and advised to "stay out of the newspapers". She is assured that the dean's assistant, who is continuing in the role, will be able to guide her through the many documents she needs to sign. Beyond that she cannot formulate any question about doing the job, despite her background.
Subject: Head of School; education; University of Newcastle, (NSW); deanship
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1340341
Identifier: uon:28453
Identifier: ISBN:9781138828629
Language: eng

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