An academic administration is a branch of university or college employees responsible for the maintenance and supervision of the institution and separate from the research and teaching faculty. Such an administration exists at almost all academic institutions, though a few are run exclusively by employees who are also involved in academic or scholarly work.
An academic administrator is member of an academic institution's administrative staff; many administrators are former academics with advanced degrees who no longer teach or research actively.
Academic administrations are structured in various ways at different institutions and in different countries. In the United States a college or university is typically supervised by a president who reports regularly to a Board of Trustees made up of individuals from outside the institution. Deans supervise various more specific aspects of the institution and report to the president. The division of responsibility among deans varies widely between institutions; some are chiefly responsible for clusters of academic fields (such as the humanities or natural sciences) or whole academic units (such as a graduate school or college), while others are responsible for non-academic but campus-wide concerns such as minority affairs. In some cases a provost supervises the institution's entire academic staff, occupying a position generally superior to any dean. Below deans in the administrative hierarchy are heads of individual academic departments and of individual administrative departments from groundskeeping to libraries to registrars of records. These heads then supervise the staff of their individual departments.
Key responsibilities (and thus departments) in many institutions' administrations include:
Supervision of academic affairs, tenure and hiring decisions (deans and provost);
Maintenance of official records (typically supervised by a registrar);
Since PresidencyCollege was the first college to be affiliated to the University, it became an institution preparing candidates for the BA examination.
The college soon expanded its campus and the present edifice was officially opened by the Lieutenant Governor on 31 March 1874 in the presence of the Viceroy.
New dimensions were added to the college with the reorganisation of the Library in 1908 and the introduction of a college union in 1914.
Examples are St John's College at the University of Sydney and Emmanuel College at the University of Queensland.
It is also used by tertiary institutions as either part of their names, such as Shue Yan College; to refer to a constituent part of the university, such as the colleges in the collegiate Chinese University of Hong Kong; or to a residence hall of a university, such as St.
The term "college" in Singapore is generally only used for pre-university educational institutions called "Junior Colleges", which provide the final two years of secondary education (equivalent to sixth form in English terms or grades 11-12 in the American system).
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