ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS FOR THE OFFICE OF THE DEAN 27 CASE EXAMPLE: The Ohio State University, College of Arts & Sciences By David Manderscheid, Executive Dean and Vice Provost Founded in 1870 by the Ohio General Assembly as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, the institution received Land-Grant status under the Morrill Act in 1862. Renamed The Ohio State University in 1878, today the main OSU campus in Columbus is the third largest in the U.S. It is designated in the Carnegie Classifi- cation as a Research University - Highest Research Activity. OSU has 16 colleges and the College of Arts & Sciences is the largest. All told, the University offers over 200 bachelor’s degrees and has 97 master’s and 94 doctoral programs. The College of Arts & Sciences delivers over 50 percent of credit hours on campus. Organization of the College of Arts and Sciences (ASC) The College of Arts and Sciences at OSU consists of 38 academic departments and schools as well as more than 20 centers and institutes organized under three divisions. Over-900 tenured and tenure-track faculty members (plus over 300 FTE associated faculty) serve 16,000 undergraduate students and 3,000 graduate students. ASC offers over 80 majors and over 100 minors. In addition to serving students on the Columbus campus, ASC is the tenure home of over 50 faculty on four regional campuses (in Lima, Marion, Mansfield, and Newark) who teach in the Arts and Sciences on those campuses. Organization of the Dean’s Office As Executive Dean & Vice Provost, I lead the College of Arts and Sciences with the support of the vice dean for academic affairs. For many decades, the Arts and Sciences were divided among five colleges. The colleges were brought together in 2010 into a single A&S college. Some vestiges of the legacy colleges were retained, so today ASC is organized into three divisions (Arts & Humanities, Natural & Mathematical Sciences, and Social & Behavioral Sciences), each led by a divisional dean. In addition to them, direct reports to the executive dean include the vice dean, the chief administrative officer, and the heads of a small number of support offices. I provide collegewide leadership (heading the College’s strategic planning efforts, including setting priorities for the College); oversee academic affairs (making all P&T recommendations to the provost and approval of hiring department chairs and faculty); and approve all curriculum decisions. I represent the College on multiple university committees, along with the other 15 deans and in my position as one of four executive deans. I serve on additional university committees by my vice provost role. The size and nature of OSU, however, often has me focused outward, meeting with donors and alumni.