The leadership, management, and academic concerns of deans and provosts are addressed in this casebook based on 25 original case studies on issues related to finance, personnel, organizational structure, curriculum, and academic freedom and standards. Two or more practical options for action accompany each presentation of a challenging problem. Topics covered include: (1) roles and relationships (academic deans and provosts; personal requirements; key constituencies, such as the professoriate, department chairperson, president, boards, systems, and legislators; and organization of the case study chapters); (2) the academic players: provost, dean, department chairs, and faculty (departmental responsibility, replacing the dean, censure votes, athletic directors and provosts, and continuing education); (3) maintaining balance in the academic enterprise (preserving an essential department, experiential education and academic standards, interdisciplinarity, physical education major, accepting outsiders); (4) redirecting difficult people (unauthorized job offers, alcoholic deans, student complaints, protesters, and faculty intimacy); (5) dealing with change (merit pay, faculty entrepreneurship, picket lines, program duplication and state action, technology); (6) meeting the special challenge (Puerto Rican studies on tenure and community sensitivity, accreditation, research and public service, secretarial problems, departmental conflicts); and (7) the work goes on (administration, management, leadership, sources of help and sources of trouble, coalitions, and goal divergence and the future). (LB)