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...runs a satirical ad for a law-school deanship, concocted by New York University Law Professor Stephen Gillers, who, like many another legal scholar, had no interest in the recently vacant dean's spot at his university. Over the past four years, 125 of the 174 law schools accredited by the American Bar Association, including Chicago, Georgetown and Harvard, have had to search for new deans. Once the capstone of a legal career, the post is now a revolving door, says James P. White, consultant on legal education to the A.B.A. "Twenty years ago, it was not uncommon...
Still, the position retains enough prestige so that many scholars are willing to make the sacrifice -- for a limited period. Georgetown's outgoing dean, Robert Pitofsky, has found his five years in office "very gratifying," but looks forward to resuming full-time teaching of antitrust law next year. "A deanship takes you away from scholarship," he says. "These jobs are best done on a one-term basis...
...whose predominant qualification is administration," observes American University's Anderson. Tom Read, the new dean of the University of California's Hastings College of the Law, exemplifies the trend. Read enjoys "the hurly-burly of the dean's office," so much so that his new post is his fourth deanship. "A law-school dean is in some ways more like a football coach than an academician," he says. "You pull the team together, win as many battles as you can and move...
After Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 announced in April that he would resign from the deanship after next year, his colleagues at the Law School and around the nation praised him for his handling of a faculty plagued by deep ideological differences...
Eugene Rivers, an undergraduate on leave from the College, plans to publish his allegations of discrimination at Harvard in an upcomming book, "How Harvard Rules." The account maintains that Epps' race cost him a fair shot at the College's top deanship and that similar institutional prejudice prevented Senior Admissions Officer David L. Evans from serious consideration as Director of Admissions when that job opened up last summer. Rivers claims that despite 16 years as dean of students, Epps was not even interviewed for the job by Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence. The lack of Blacks...