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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES


Key administrative responsibilities (and thus administrative units) in academic institutions include:
  • Supervision of academic affairs such as hiring, promotion, Tenure , and evaluation (with faculty input where appropriate);

  • Maintenance of official records (typically supervised by a Registrar );

  • Library and archive management (by Librarian s and Archivist s);

  • Maintenance and construction of campus buildings (the ''physical plant'');

  • Maintenance of the campus grounds;

  • Safety and security of people and property on the campus (often organized as an office of Public Safety or Campus Police );

  • Supervision and support of campus Computer s and Network ( Information Technology ).

  • Fundraising from private individuals and foundations ("development" or "advancement")

  • Research administration (including grants and contract administration, and institutional compliance with federal and state regulations)

  • Public affairs (including relations with the media, the community, and local, state, and federal governments)

  • Admissions



UNITED STATES


Academic administrations are structured in various ways at different institutions and in different countries.


Presidents and chancellors


In the United States a college or university is typically supervised by a President or Chancellor who reports regularly to a Board Of Trustees made up of individuals from outside the institution and serves as Chief Executive Officer . Most large colleges and universities now utilize an administrative structure with a tier of vice presidents, among whom the Provost (or Vice President for Academic Affairs) serves as the chief academic officer.


Dean


Deans supervise various and more specific aspects of the institution, and report directly to the president or a vice president. The division of responsibility among deans varies widely among institutions; some are chiefly responsible for clusters of academic fields (such as the Humanities or Natural Sciences ) or whole academic units (such as a Graduate School or College ), while others are responsible for non-academic but campus-wide concerns such as Minority affairs. In some cases a Provost supervises the institution's entire academic staff, occupying a position generally superior to any dean. Below deans in the administrative hierarchy are heads of individual academic departments and of individual administrative departments from groundskeeping to libraries to registrars of records. These heads (commonly styled "chairs") then supervise the staff of their individual departments.