UT Dean John Silber is Fired Looking like the announcement of a national calamity, this headline appeared in oversized font on the front page of the Austin American-Statesman on July 25, 1970. Just forty-four-years-old, Silber had served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin for less […]
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The Dean as Educator: His Doing and Undoing
Dr. Silber also served as President and Chancellor (1971-2002), Boston University Address delivered on January 12, 1971, in Cincinnati, Ohio, for the General Session of the American Conference of Academic Deans. ACAD is deeply grateful to Dr. Silber’s family for their kind permission to republish their father’s speech in its entirety. When asked to speak […]
Historical Remarks on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the American Conference of Academic Deans
Delivered at the Fifty-ninth Annual Meeting, January 15, 1993, Seattle, Washington We celebrate this evening the coming into being, the growth and vitality of the American Conference of Academic Deans (ACAD). Creationists affirm that the Conference was created complete at the Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City on the afternoon of January 10, 1945, and that […]
The Role of the Dean of the College
Editor’s note: From the early 1950s to the early 1960s, ACAD published its own journal entitled Proceedings of the American Conference of Academic Deans. The following essay was originally published in those Proceedings, 1964 (pp. 9-16) and reprinted in The Academic Deanship in American Colleges and Universities, Arthur J. Dibden, editor (Southern Illinois University Press, […]