Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 3280 Hospital Drive, NW, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4Z6.
Can Vet J. 2020 Nov;61(11):1187-1196.
Deans use passion, integrative thinking, communication skills, charisma, and other leadership skills to build collaborations to advance academic innovation, promote societal awareness of veterinary medicine, and enhance diversity and inclusion. This study analyzed the educational and experiential backgrounds as well as the ethnicity and gender of veterinary medical college deans in the United States and Canada. Data were collected on the deans using public sources from 1966 when the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges was started, until 2018. It was found that the advent of specialty colleges led to more visibility of clinical credentials of deans; about 17% of the deans were pathologists, and few deans came from basic science disciplines. The data show that an overwhelming majority of deans have been Caucasian male and very few were racialized/non-Caucasian academics. There are growing numbers of women veterinarians becoming deans. These data may provide some insights on how to assemble leadership training programs to create a more diverse pool of academic veterinary leaders so that more women and ethnic minorities can aspire to become deans.
院长们运用激情、综合思维、沟通技巧、魅力和其他领导能力，建立合作关系，推动学术创新，提高社会对兽医医学的认识，并促进多样性和包容性。本研究分析了美国和加拿大兽医医学院院长的教育和经验背景，以及他们的族裔和性别。从 1966 年美国兽医医学协会成立开始，通过公共资源收集了院长的数据，直到 2018 年。研究发现，专业学院的出现使院长的临床资历更加引人注目；大约 17%的院长是病理学家，很少有院长来自基础科学学科。数据显示，绝大多数院长都是白种男性，少数族裔的非白种男性学术人员。越来越多的女兽医成为院长。这些数据可能为如何组建领导力培训计划提供一些启示，以创建一个更加多样化的学术兽医领导群体，使更多的女性和少数族裔能够渴望成为院长。
