18 ORGANIZING ACADEMIC COLLEGES: A GUIDE FOR DEANS attuned to issues and engagements throughout the entire College. This positive aspect of this model helps me promote CAS endeavors and steer the College, and it helps me in determining future directions and planning. It keeps me engaged with the students and faculty from all disciplines. The challenge of this model, as one can imagine, is that I am pulled in many different directions and it is sometimes taxing to stay on top of it all. Department chairs can make many decisions independent of me, however. The workload involved in supervising 75 direct reports—not to mention univer- sity and student activities in the evenings—often seems untenable. The executive cabinet has offered and even encouraged me to hire an associate dean, but I have chosen instead to use my additional resources for badly needed new faculty hires. MODEL III: VPAA and Dean of the College This model was the predominate model for traditional private liberal arts colleges, with the chief academic offer serving as the Dean of Faculty (or Dean of the College). All academic functions (library, advising) and support functions (IT, facilities) might come under the dean’s purview, with the VPAA/Dean reporting directly to the president. This model is seen less frequently now as many traditional liberal arts colleges have created a provost’s position to handle the increasingly complex requirements of running a college and they have added professional schools with their own deans or directors. CASE EXAMPLE: Marymount Manhattan College From David Podell, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty Marymount Manhattan College (MMC) is a small liberal arts college serving about 1,800 students. It was originally an urban offshoot of Marymount College in Tarry- town, New York, which closed. Founded as a Catholic women’s college by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, it has been independent and co-educational for several decades. MMC resides on Manhattan’s Upper East Side occupying three buildings. Its Carnegie classification is Bachelor’s Colleges - Arts & Sciences institution. Organization of Arts &Sciences In addition to the VPAA and Dean of the Faculty position, there is an associate dean, an assistant dean, and two administrative assistants. The Division of Academic Affairs oversees all of MMC’s academic programs and the resources designed to support the achievement of our academic goals and mission. Thus, all academic departments and divisions report to the Division of Academic Affairs. The College is organized into five academic divisions (some of which contain individual departments, each of which has a chair): • Business • Fine and Performing Arts (Art, Dance, and Theatre Arts) • Communication and Media Arts