No longer mere middle managers, they are increasingly ambassadors, visionaries in chief, and practitioners of the Big Ask.
"query - is they money they are bringing in worth the amount now spent on other administrators who do the work the dean used to do? What kind of oversight are these sub-administrators getting? With more powerful and high-profile deans, what checks can the campus leadership have on them? What about the costs to morale and college culture of an absentee leader? What about misalignment between the goals and values of an ambassadorial dean versus the actual mission of the college: education, research, public service?
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