THE NEED FOR the present study of the functions I and qualifications of the academic dean of the Pres byterian Church-related colleges is apparent from a review of the literature in the field of educational administration. A review of the literature reveals the following: the lack of definitive studies relative to the functions and qualifications of administrative officers as a whole; the lack of recent definitive studies of the denominational liberal arts colleges; the absence of comprehensive studies of the functions and qualifications of the academic dean. The questionnaire technique was selected for this study following a careful review of the available sources in the area of questionnaire construction. The present study does not begin and end with this method but uses it, where it deems it appropriate, that is, in determining the current f uctions and qualifications of the academic dean. Other sources are used in ascertaining the causes of the p resent conditions, and still other techniques are used in evaluating the findings and suggesting improvements. After careful study the writer selected the ' YES NO' answer and the concise one-line question in or der to make the questionnaire as attractive as pos sible to the persons answering the questionnaire while at the same time allowing for the greatest pre cision of tabulation of results. In the present study three short questionnaires, in place of one long questionnaire, were constructed as follows: Questionnaire I, consisted of thirty ques tions, concerning the functions of academic dean, followed by a double column for checking yes or no to the right of the page. The president, the academic dean, and three representative fac ulty members from each college, were asked to answer each ques tion without conferring with the other members of the college. Questionnaire I, as also II and in were limited to one page. Questionnaire II, tobe answered by the president and the academic dean only, was constructed much like the first questionnaire. However, there was no duplication of questions in any of the three question naires. Questionnaire II, consisting of thirty-five questions, was divided into two parts. The first part consisted of eighteen questions relative to the funcI tions of the academic dean that it was not thought appropriate to include in Questionnaire I, since the faculty members would not be in a position to answer them. The second part of Questionnaire II related to qualifications of the academic dean consisted of sev enteen questions. Questionnaire III, of the same general format as the first two questionnaires, though much shorter, consisted of fifteen questions. This questionnaire was also divided into two sections, the first section, on functions, consisted of five general questions rel ative to the degree to which the respondents thought that the academic dean used democratic procedure. The remaining ten questions related to qualifications of the academic dean. Since some of the questions in Questionnaire III were personal, the dean was not asked to answer questionnaire III, the questionnaire being answered by the president of each college and three representative faculty members. As in Ques tionnaires I and II, the third questionnaire was an swered by checking yes or no. Eleven questionnaires, in one packet, were sent to each of the forty-one accredited Presbyte rian Church-related colleges. The reason for sending the questionnaires not only to the deans but to the pres idents and three representative faculty members was to make the results more objective, more valid, and more reliable. Table I consists of a listing of the questions as they appeared in Questionnaire I, followed by the percentage of yes and no answers from all the col leges participating, firstforthe deans, thenfor the colleges as a whole; that is, deans, presidents and representative faculty members.