Editors note: This is the fourth in a five-part series about the evaluations of regional campus deans. The final part of this series is also in this issue.
Depending on whom you ask, Dean MaryAnn Janosik of the Lancaster campus does or does not meet expectations.
According to the yearly dean evaluation of Janosik, faculty members and the coordinating council said she meets most or all expectations. The staff and administrators, however, find her performance to be unsatisfactory in all but one area.
I don't know why there was such a division
Janosik said. I think people see the role of the dean differently so no two opinions are the same. I try to find the middle ground to improve on.
Faculty members found Janosik to meet expectations in all areas except interpersonal relationships.
The dean demonstrates and encourages professional behaviors one respondent wrote. She supports improvement to our campus and its operations.
The surveys are anonymous and respondents are encouraged to provide written comments about the dean's performance.
Janosik, however, was met with low scores and criticism from both staff and administrators, who voted her performance as ineffective in all areas except affirmative action.
Amid the written responses were concerns about Janosik's management style and flexible work schedule.
Another respondent wrote, Her management style is intimidation and micromanagement in order to keep a hostile environment in which staff are afraid to ask questions or present problems or speak about employee rights.
Several staff members included details of an impromptu meeting with the dean, conducted last December. At the meeting, Janosik told the staff there would be no discussion, no questions would be answered and if individuals were dissatisfied with the information, they could take their marbles and leave.
I try to be fair
Janosik said. I think I am pretty even-tempered and I am not given to yelling. So I don't know where a lot of this comes from.
Many individuals made comments about the dean rarely being available. Some speculated this was because she arrives after 9 a.m. and is usually gone by 3 p.m.
While Janosik said, it might be true that she keeps those hours, she added that what people do not understand is that I often have early morning meetings
as well as evening
This isn't a job that you can put definite hours on, she added.
During Janosik's tenure
a new $2 million front entrance and a $40
000 welcome desk were completed and staffed. The campus also is in the process of renovating parking lots and storm sewers.
Enrollment figures continue to grow each year by two to four percent
Jenny LaRue
spokeswoman
said.
The faculty's dean evaluation results were reported in March and serve as only a small portion of the evaluation.
Kathy Krendl
executive vice president and provost at Ohio University
