The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will have fewer deans starting next month, saving the college money and making things more efficient, according to the college/s dean, Paul D/Anieri.
The college will downsize from six associate deans to five.
Under the new structure, each department or center in the college will be assigned an associate dean, D/Anieri wrote in an e-mail.
As a result, each department or center will report to its associate dean as opposed to the current structure, in which faculty from all 40 units in the college report directly to D/Anieri.
"[I]t/s simply not possible for me to have the depth of knowledge about each unit or to respond as quickly as will be possible in the new model," D/Anieri wrote in the e-mail.
He wrote that the college may spend some of its savings from the restructuring on hiring more staff.
"One goal of the reorganization is [to] ensure that associate deans are not doing tasks that could be done more effectively and less expensively by professional staff," he wrote.
Three of the new associate dean positions are new hires, with one current associate dean remaining in place and one former associate dean returning to the position.
CLAS is currently UF/s largest college, boasting 700 faculty members.
