I just got an email inviting me to apply to be the Dean of the department I work in. I'd be pretty darn tempted if I were just a little older and not in school. It would guarantee me a job after next term, after all, and in that way it's a little like me peeing a circle around my continuing employment (especially for the summer).
On the other hand, I'm pretty sure nobody wants to hire somebody with a brand spanking new PhD that's been a dean. Hrm. Damn.
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2 comments:
I think it sorta depends on what your long term goals are. Do you want to be admin, or do you care more about teaching?
~Jessica
Well, this dean gets to teach too (he usually had a couple classes) and oversee curriculum development, and deal with students fairly often...
I think that being a good admin is HARD and that you have to be intimately concerned with teachers and what they do to be good at it. I wouldn't mind doing that some day.
However, I greatly fear that someday down the road that the following conversation would happen during an interview:
Search Committee from Other School (SCOS): So you wanna be an associate prof?
Me: Yep.
SCOS: And your last position was Dean of Computer Information Systems?
Me: Well yes, but I was going to school too.
SCOS (looking closer at CV): In English?
Me: Well I study teaching with technology... and we've been heavily involved in implementing WAC in our department since 2005...
SCOS: You were a dean, and you wanna be an associate prof?
Me: Is there a problem with that?
Thing is, I think there probably IS a problem with that, and I'm not prepared to make that sort of huge decision before December 21st. So I'm just not going to. No application for me. Maybe the new person will quit at some point, or they'll need somebody to be department chair for composition or graphic arts and THAT I'd do... this? This is just too big I think.
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