Walter H. Gmelch will be the Dean of the
School of Education at the University of San Francisco in August
2004. He is currently the Dean of the College of Education at Iowa
State University and directs the National Center for Academic
Leadership. Gmelch is one of the leading researchers in the study
of academic leaders in higher education, serving as editor of two
journals and on the editorial board of a half dozen other
journals. During the 1990s he directed two national studies of
1,600 university department chairs in the United States, one study
of 1,580 Australian department heads, another investigation of
1,000 community college chairs, and recently has completed an
international study of 2,000 academic deans in Australia and
America.
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