The Roles and Challenges of Deans

Abstract

This paper examines the relationships between academic deans' roles, conflict, and ambiguity, and postulates that the same roles in which they engage today are regarded as challenges in the future which will not abate unless conflict and ambiguity are lessened. The authors discuss the implications of these issues and recommend strategies recommended for easing the burden of the deanship from personal, administrative, and positional perspectives.