摘要：Some faculty and staff members be
lieve that deans have more fun, even
though most of them will quickly say
that they would never take the job. They
see all the myriad of tasks and issues
that must be dealt with. Of those of us
who do take the position of dean, there
are at least three paths, ¡°inside¡± faculty
who are asked to move up, now called
¡°accidental¡± deans, and those who
plan the steps from faculty through
chair, possibly MBA director and/or
associate dean to the head office,
whether internal or externally. The third
route is from corporate to academe.
Many academics take bets on how long
those deans will last in the unfamiliar
world of academic governance. Some
deans progress to provost and president,
but most of us enjoy the confines
of our familiar worlds of our discipline,
here, business.
