| Clyde
H. Evans, Ph.D. |
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Dr. Evans provides career development consultation to individual faculty members and organizational consultation to academic leaders. He has expertise in addressing the institutional issues connected with faculty recruitment, retention, and advancement, including those specific for women and minority faculty. His diverse experiences allow him to incorporate perspectives from the level of professional and personal issues for individual faculty to the broader organizational issues for institutions.
Dr. Evans’ services include:
• Individual Career Development Consultation
Dr. Evans tailors each consultation to meet the unique needs of that faculty member, working within a specific organizational context. Content can range from promotion and tenure to administrative responsibilities, to short- and long-term strategy, to professional or personal transitions. Specific technical assessments of skills or traits can be provided, as needed. Consultations typically are conducted by telephone.
• Organizational Consultation to Address Faculty Development Issues
Dr. Evans consults with department chairs, deans, vice presidents, presidents, and chancellors to conceive, plan, implement, and evaluate concrete institutional strategies to address the many interrelated issues connected to faculty recruitment, retention, and advancement, including promotion and tenure criteria, career planning, mentoring, organizational climate and diversity, and alignment of faculty activities with institutional mission and priorities.
Dr. Evans is president of CE Consulting, based in Needham, Massachusetts. He is a member of the Academy for Academic Leadership, a collaborative of scholars, educational specialists, and consultants providing services that help academic leaders pursue educational excellence, the application of knowledge, the discovery of ideas, and the quest for lifelong learning. He is also Executive Director of the Institute for Health Protection, a private company that designs and executes educational programs for communities and/or health professionals that accelerate the dissemination of evidence-based clinical interventions for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment into everyday practice.
Dr. Evans was formerly vice president at the Association of Academic Health Centers. Before joining AAHC in 1998, Dr. Evans spent 13 years at Harvard Medical School as a member of the faculty, director of the Office for Academic Careers, and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs. He then spent one year as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, working for Senator Bill Frist on biomedical research, bioengineering, academic health centers, and cloning. In 1997, Dr. Evans was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), working on leadership issues with the Council of Deans.
As director of the Office for Academic Careers at Harvard, Dr. Evans provided individual career and personal consultation to junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows, interns, and residents. He also was responsible for identifying and addressing institutional impediments to career success and advancement for all faculty and fellows, with special attention to the barriers faced by women and minorities.
Dr. Evans has conducted numerous seminars on professional and executive development for AAMC (and other professional associations), including, its Women in Medicine early career professional development seminar since its inception in 1988, the mid-career seminar, the minority faculty professional development seminar, and the executive development seminars for chairs and associate deans and for new medical school deans. He has consulted with public and private schools and state departments of education. In particular, he has consulted with numerous academic health centers’ leaders (chairs, deans, vice presidents, etc.) on addressing faculty development issues from an organizational perspective.
He has served in a number of advisory capacities, including the Examination Committee of the Graduate Record Examination, grant review panels for the National Cancer Institute and the National Endowment for the Humanities, advisory panels for the National Institutes of Health, and an ad hoc committee on minority health issues for the governor of Massachusetts. His recent publications focus on faculty development and leadership issues in academic health centers.
His combination of experiences enable Dr. Evans to provide expertise in consultation and coaching for individual faculty members and for institutional leaders wishing to make their organizations more responsive to the multifaceted and changing demands of faculty development.
Prior to Harvard Medical School, Dr. Evans was a philosophy professor
at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, served on the summer faculty
at the Kennedy School of Government and as an adjunct professor at the
Graduate School of Education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
He is a graduate of the University of Detroit and received his doctorate
in physics and philosophy from Michigan State University.
Dr. Evans is a member of the Board of Trustees of the A. T. Still University of Health Sciences and Regis College in Weston, MA.