{"id":26177,"date":"2018-08-20T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=26177"},"modified":"2018-08-20T10:37:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T15:37:56","slug":"upcoming-book-by-apsus-chandler-examines-life-as-a-new-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2018\/08\/20\/upcoming-book-by-apsus-chandler-examines-life-as-a-new-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming book by APSU\u2019s Chandler examines life as a new dean"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austin Peay State University<\/h2>\n

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Austin Peay State University’s Dr. Prentice Chandler considers the 2017-2018 academic year to be his rookie season.<\/p>\n

The former University of Cincinnati professor arrived at APSU last summer to lead the Eriksson College of Education.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Preston Chandler took over APSU’s Eriksson College of Education just at the school was pursuing Austin Peay State University’s first doctoral degree.<\/p><\/div>\n

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It was his first job as a dean, overseeing a college with 25 faculty members and more than 600 students. On top of all that, his new colleagues were working tirelessly to create Austin Peay\u2019s first doctoral degree \u2013 an Ed.D. in educational leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, there are things we did well, and there were mistakes I made,\u201d Chandler said. \u201cPart of the educational research says that when people become deans, they learn through trial and error, but we should want to train people to be deans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last fall, while sitting with his son at a bonfire, Chandler kept thinking about this problem. He decided to spend the rest of the year getting up at 4:00am to jot down what he learned during his \u201crookie season.\u201d Those musings form the basis of Chandler\u2019s new book, \u201cReflections of a Rookie Dean: Lessons from the First Year,\u201d which will be published later this fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe literature in educational leadership tells us people become chairs and deans because they\u2019re good at being a professor, but the skill set of being a good professor and a good dean are not the same,\u201d he said. \u201cI wrote this in the hopes that other brand new deans would read it and take to heart some of what I learned this first year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chandler, drawing from his days as a coach, teacher, professor and administrator, organized the book around four main themes \u2013 people first, change is the only constant, process is everything, and gratitude \u2013 which are illustrated through his first-person account as a new dean.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring my year as dean, it was immediately clear that this job is about people,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWorking with people. Taking care of people. Supporting people. Teaching and learning from people. Succeeding and failing with people. We don\u2019t do this job disconnected and separated from other human beings. We do it together. Never forget that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chandler previously published two academic books, \u201cDoing Race in Social Studies\u201d and \u201cRace Lessons: Using Inquiry to Teach About Race in Social Studies.\u201d His new book will be available in late October at Amazon.com and www.infoagepub.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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