How to dean

Being the Dean – a manifesto reflected and revised In this post I will reflect about the time of being the dean of the faculty of sustainability. After some thinking and recent events I wrote down 10 rules in the very beginning that I consider relevant to me. You might wonder now, why you should read them? Are you a dean? Do you consider becoming a dean? Even if not, the following might be of relevance for you, maybe not to learn something I learned, but to learn something about the academic system, and your part in it. I can say I learned some lessons. The guidelines I defined early on a written in bold. The revisiting of the guidelines six months into the deanship is written in plain text. The revisiting of these texts 2 months after my six year term as a dean are written in italics.