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I've been on several short-lists and campus interviews  for journalism dean openings, but never chosen to lead.  Usually the internal candidate is hired and sometimes someone younger or a better fit for unspoken diversity criteria.  It's enough to make me give up, after 12 campus visits in 9 years, but something must qualify me for all those phone/face-to-face interviews.  So I came up with the idea of being a virtual dean.  Some of my advice is free and some will likely require a paid subscription.  I have disabled the comments feature, but you can e-mail me with your questions and concerns.

My CV is available for inspection at http://fergusond.people.cofc.edu/vita.htm -- in case you're wondering what qualifies me to offer advice to colleges/schools of journalism, communication, or broadcasting.  You get what you pay for, so don't judge my free advice too harshly.  Your continued reading is optional but important to me, so I will pretend to be your real dean.  Just e-mail me your predicaments, concerns, hiring dilemmas, curricular crises, and personnel issues.  I really do have all the answers, somewhere, all based on 25 years of management experience.