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Resource Handbook for Academic Deans

ACAD Resource Handbook Now Available
The Resource Handbook for Academic Deans is now available for sale. This newly revised edition, written “by Deans for Deans”, is an excellent resource on any bookshelf. Chapters include information on becoming a Dean and personnel issues as well as budgets and finance—a wide array of information on issues affecting academic administrators in the field whether you are new to “deaning” or have been at it for awhile. We are very excited to have this latest edition to offer you and your colleagues.

Copies can be purchased at $25 for ACAD members and $30 for non-members.

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Essays and Addresses

"Truth and Friendship: Reflections on a Paradox of Academic Community"
Philip A. Glotzbach, President, Skidmore College and former Chair, ACAD Board of Directors
Closing Plenary at "Intellectual Leadership in the Liberal Arts," co-sponsored by ACAD and PBK, October 25, 2003 in Charleston, SC

"The Peril and the Promise: American Higher Education and the Goals of Global Development"
Dr. Mamphela Ramphele, Managing Director, The World Bank Group
Keynote Address delivered at the 2003 ACAD Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on January 24, 2003

"Vocational Leadership"
James L. Pence, Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, Pacific Lutheran University and Past Chair, ACAD Board of Directors
Remarks delivered on October 14, 2001 in Washington, DC at the concluding plenary titled "Cultivating Faculty Leadership" at "Mission and Governance: Integrating a Shared Vision," the governance conference co-sponsored by ACAD, AAUP and the Howard University Faculty Senate

Other Resources

Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL)
Project Kaleidoscope is one of the leading advocates in this country for
building and sustaining strong undergraduate programs in the fields of
science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Project
Kaleidoscope (PKAL) focuses on building learning environments that attract
and sustain undergraduate students to the study of STEM fields and motivate
them to consider careers in related fields. PKAL works to equip teams of
faculty and administrators for leadership in reform at the local level, so
that students and science are better served, as well as to encourage broad
understanding of how strong undergraduate STEM programs serve the national
interest. PKAL programs and publications spotlight successful efforts on
campuses across the country in addressing current challenges facing higher
education leaders, recognizing that these challenges are also opportunities
to shape the future.