Longest-Serving Law School Dean to Resign
posted by Dave Hoffman
My boss, Temple Dean Robert Reinstein, announced yesterday that he would step down at the end of the academic year. Bob has led Temple to great success over his 19-year tenure – a record made more even more remarkable when considering that the average tenure of a law school dean is four years.* Along the way, he has built Temple’s international presence, increased the quality of its student body by leaps and bounds, grown its endowment from $4 to $57 million, authored some terrific constitutional scholarship, and, best of all from my perspective, mediated and created a collegial faculty.
On the theory that it is all-too-easy to fail as a law school dean, I thought I’d open up a thread for folks to comment on specific techniques they (or, more likely, their deans) have used when they are successful. What kind of personalities make the best managers of academics? The best fundraisers?
*One reads this statistic everywhere. That said, I imagine that it, like life-span estimates generally, is a potentially misleading statistic, in that Deans that survive the first one to three years probably have a fair chance of surviving in the role for an extended period of time.
September 6, 2007 at 10:28 am
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