The Roles and Responsibilities of Graduate Education Deans: Mapping Current and Future Job Challenges

Abstract

Graduate education is changing, driven by social issues, expectations, and technology. Leaders of graduate education play important roles in understanding these changes. The purpose for conducting the study was to profile the professional setting of the graduate dean, exploring the roles, responsibilities, and challenges of the position. Using a research-team developed instrument, graduate education leaders were surveyed. Descriptive findings of the study included the nomenclature of titles who held full time appointments and had an academic background in the liberal arts. The roles and responsibilities of these respondents were reported as a group and separated by research and comprehensive universities.

Structure and Functional Responsibilities of Graduate Schools: An Organizational Analysis

“…Historically graduate schools or divisions had several key responsibilities that defined their purpose and demonstrated their value to the institution (Murry & Miller, 2021). Typically, these included the complex record keeping of graduate student information and ultimately processing some form of audit to clear a student for a degree.…”