Dean William Howe
Faculty development is part of the mission of the Dean of Academic Affairs at UWest, Dr. William Howe. Dean Howe took on this position on October 1, 2010. He is a graduate of Stanford University with a Ph.D. in Education (Administration and Policy Analysis). Most recently, Dean Howe was the Dean of the Graduate and Professional School at Bethune-Cookman University, a historically black college in Florida. He has also served as dean for academic divisions at California International Business University in San Diego, Calif. He was an instructor in the School of Business Management at Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, New Jersey; and he was the director of the Leadership-Engagement-Activism-Development (LEAD) Center at UC San Diego.
Dean Howe has a long history of editing and reviewing academic publications, including his current position as Associate Editor for the International Leadership Journal. His current scholarship project is a history of leadership studies with a focus on the emergence and evolution of the field of leadership studies and on how an understanding of that history can contribute to future knowledge. He is also researching the future of leadership studies with a focus on emerging ideas from the hard sciences. An award-winning scholar, Dean Howe has also served in leadership and academic positions, both in the United States and Europe, during his nearly 40 year career.
The site is maintained on a day to day basis by Dean Howe’s student-worker, Monica Sanford. Monica is a second year graduate student in the Master of Divinity (Buddhist Chaplaincy) program and active in student government on campus. Information Technology support is provided by Patrick Gonzaga in the IT Department.
If you have questions, content suggestions, would like to submit or write an article for the site, or are having trouble using the site, please contact Monica via email or drop by AD125. Faculty are highly encourage to contribute original content for the Faculty Development Website.