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Recruiting Sexual Minorities And People With Disabilities To Be Dean, Joan W. Howarth

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As our day-to-day work lives make abundantly clear, a law faculty is a many-headed creature: an assortment of people with a variety of interests, strengths, foibles, personalities, and identities. Within the legal academy, a dominant consensus acknowledges that a strong faculty embodies diversity along multiple axes, including, for example, race, gender, religion, age, political ideology, research and teaching methodologies, and subject matter expertise.

The dean, however, stands alone, and stands above. Thus, issues of expectation, representation, comfort with and fear of difference operate quite differently when deans are selected, and when they do their jobs. The dean exercises authority over …

Reflections Of A Former Dean, Nancy B. Rapoport

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law school admininstration, higher education governance, dean, deaning

Decanal Haiku, Nancy B. Rapoport

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Musings on the life of a law school dean.

A Tribute To Dean James J. Alfini: Former Dean And Professor Of The Northern Illinois University College Of Law, Jean R. Sternlight, Jeffrey M. Shaman, Nina Appel, Leona S. Green, Daniel Reynolds

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This is a tribute to Dean James J. Alfini, as he begins his tenure as Dean of South Texas College of Law.

Of Cat-Herders, Conductors, Fearless Leaders, And Tour Guides, Nancy B. Rapoport

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This article discusses four distinct approaches to the role of the dean and the pros and cons of each approach.

Going From "Us" To "Them" In Sixty Seconds, Nancy B. Rapoport

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Observations by a professor who has decided to become an Associate Dean.