Willett said that their experience as joint academic dean over the past two years had significantly stregthened their collaboration and that they would carry the lessons of that collaboration into their new position.
“The last two years reinforced how much I value being in this with somebody else,” Willet said. He noted that one benefit of the arrangement is that since the two must always collaborate on decisions, snap decisions are avoided.
While Willett said that he believes the arrangement as joint administrators works very well in their particular case, he believes that it is not a structure that can be arbitrarily introduced to any school or any pair of administrators.
Willett said he believes their situation only works because of longevity of their collaboration.
“We kind of resolved all our issues 15 years ago,” said Willett.
While the arrangement may be highly unusual, members of the schools’ faculty were unsurprised by the selection.
“They were the obvious choice,” said GSE Professor of Higher Education Richard Chait.
Chait said that he believed that while such an arrangement was a good fit in the specific situation, he did not believe it really had any broader significance for the field of higher education and would not be the start of a great tend.
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