Webinar: Passing it On: Up, Down, and Sideways: A Dean’s-eye View of Working with Leadership and Peers
"Passing It On" is a professional development webinar series created by long-time members of ASIS&T to share their hard-earned insights with mid-to-late career professionals. Moderated by ASIS&T Board President, Ian Ruthven, each session dives into topics that matter most at the mid to later stage of the career journey—whether it’s how to lead an iSchool, salary and condition negotiations, or even how to plan a case for promotion.
As part of the "Passing it On" series, Dean Eric T. Meyer of the UC Berkeley School of Information will share insights based on his eight years as a dean at two large research-intensive universities on how to work with campus leadership such as provosts and presidents/chancellors and with peers on campus including other deans and vice/associate provosts/chancellors/presidents. Dean Meyer has worked directly with 5 provosts, 3 chancellors/presidents, and over 70 deans. In this session, he will share some of his practical observations and insights, and then answer audience questions.
Presenter
Eric T. Meyer is Dean of the School of Information at Berkeley, which he joined in 2024. His research looks at the changing nature of knowledge creation in science, medicine, social science, arts, and humanities as technology is embedded in everyday practices, as described in his 2015 book with co-author Ralph Schroeder “Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities.” His research has included both qualitative and quantitative work with blockchain developers, marine biologists, genetics researchers, physicists, digital humanities scholars, social scientists using big data, medical doctors, theatre artists, librarians, and organizations involved in computational approaches to research. Dr. Meyer was previously Dean of the School of Information at UT Austin (2018-2024) and Professor of Social Informatics at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (2007-2018).
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