Job Title:
| Associate Dean |
Job ID: | 1105 |
Full or Part Time: | Full Time |
Center: | Long Island Center |
Unit/Program/Office | Long Island Center |
Location: | Old Westbury |
Description: | At Empire State College Associate Deans enhance administrative support for each of our academic centers across New York State. This position provides leadership for academic quality and faculty development, as well as oversight of academic and student services. The associate dean reports to the center dean and participates in college-wide planning through quarterly college-wide meetings, committees and task forces led by the Associate Provost. The position requires effective collaboration with the dean, center faculty and staff and college-wide offices.
The Long Island Center, with units in Old Westbury, Hauppauge and Riverhead, serves 1,400 students annually. The Center provides innovative approaches to learning, supports student success, and maintains links to the diverse urban environment of which it is a part. Sixty full and part-time faculty, professional employees and support staff work with students from diverse cultural backgrounds. Students complete individually designed degrees in liberal arts and professional fields. Empire State College faculty mentors guide students in their overall academic program, including the design of the degree; therefore the faculty role includes individualized advisement from entry through graduation. Center faculty also supports the college’s graduate programs, international programs and other initiatives. Professional employee roles include supporting individualized degree planning through academic review, student services, academic skills, recruitment and outreach, and administrative support.
Empire State College was founded in 1971 as a comprehensive, public college within the State University of New York. A recognized leader in offering innovative degree programs for motivated adults, the college enrolls 18,000 students annually in associate, bachelor’s and master’s programs at 35 locations across New York State and online. The college is committed to building a culturally diverse faculty and multicultural learning environments. Faculty members work with students in one-on-one, seminar, residency-based, blended and online learning modes at the graduate and undergraduate levels; the mix varies by setting. Central to the faculty role is helping adults from diverse cultural backgrounds design and carry out individually designed degrees. The college is a pioneer in mentoring adult learners, prior learning assessment and online learning. A highly distributed organization, Empire State College makes extensive use of technologies for communication, teaching and learning, and administrative purposes. |
Minimum Qualifications: | An earned doctorate; faculty experience; demonstrated capacity for leadership on teaching, academic quality, curricular diversity and cultural sensitivity; demonstrated capacity to supervise high-level professional staff and personnel, academic and student service functions; and excellent written, oral and interpersonal communication skills. Demonstrated capacity to lead learning design and faculty development in online, blended or hybrid learning. |
Preferred Qualifications: | Preference will be given to candidates who have academic administrative experience and an interest in a career in academic administration. Experience with adult learners, multiple pedagogies, and prior learning assessment preferred. Experience leading innovative teaching and learning initiatives is preferred. |
Special Information (e.g., travel required, evening hours, etc.): | This is a management/confidential position in which employees serve at the pleasure of the president. Occasional intrastate travel to the College’s coordinating center in Saratoga Springs, NY, and other College locations. Occasional evening and weekend obligations. |
Rank/Salary: | Mid-high $80,000 |
Applications due by: | Review of resumes begins 11/20/2009 |
Anticipated start date: | |
Empire State College, an AA/EEO/IRCA/ADA employer, is committed to excellence through diversity. |