{"id":517,"date":"2014-02-11T21:05:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T02:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=517"},"modified":"2014-02-11T21:06:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T02:06:01","slug":"service-as-a-change-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2014\/02\/11\/service-as-a-change-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Service as a Change Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today an\u00a0<em>Inside Higher Education<\/em> report caught my eye: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/quicktakes\/2014\/02\/11\/wayne-state-defends-dean-who-sparked-professor-resignation\" target=\"_blank\">Wayne State Defends Dean Who Sparked Professor Resignation.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0The article discusses how some Wayne State U. faculty members are resisting the dean&#8217;s institutional change efforts, even though that is what he was hired to do. I&#8217;m definitely interested in these types of stories, as I&#8217;m in the same boat as a founding dean who was hired to establish a new college out of existing components with a number of long-serving faculty members. The Wayne State U. provost noted,\u00a0&#8220;a great deal of what we see going on here is that some older, more established faculty frankly don&#8217;t want to see change.&#8221; That has not been the case so far here at UW-Parkside, as I&#8217;ve had great working relationships with department heads and faculty members in the establishment of new policies and procedures. We are beginning to tackle a university-wide budget shortfall that might necessitate really tough decisions, however, so I hope that we are able to keep working together productively. Please send us good vibes!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today an\u00a0Inside Higher Education report caught my eye: &#8220;Wayne State Defends Dean Who Sparked Professor Resignation.&#8221;\u00a0The article discusses how some Wayne State U. faculty members are resisting the dean&#8217;s institutional change efforts, even though that is what he was hired to do. I&#8217;m definitely interested in these types of stories, as I&#8217;m in the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22221],"tags":[22222],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organizational-leadership","tag-academic-administration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}