Job Description

The Opportunity

The College of Arts & Sciences (COAS) at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide (ERAU-WW) invites applications for the position of Associate Dean for Student Success and Academics and tenured Full Professor. This is an on-site position with an office at Embry-Riddle Worldwide Headquarters in Daytona Beach, FL. The College seeks a dynamic, accomplished faculty administrator and nationally recognized academic leader who, under the oversight of the Dean, who is the College's chief academic officer, will be responsible for college curriculum quality management and continuous improvement, including assessment and evaluation, and all aspects of student success specific to the needs of traditional and non-traditional learners. 

While the Associate Dean for Student Success and Academics will be based at Worldwide headquarters in Daytona Beach, FL, COAS faculty are located across the country. Candidates will not only need to demonstrate an appropriate prior leadership record and experience in managing academic programs in a broad interdisciplinary setting serving a diverse audience but also be highly adept at geographically distributed academic operations and asynchronous online education as well as traditional face-to-face education.

Demonstrated Experience 

Successful candidates must demonstrate: 

• A history of effective leadership in academic administration, including experience with curriculum development, student success initiatives, and interdisciplinary collaboration
• Evidence of successful leadership beyond the departmental level, such as college-wide, university-wide, or multi-campus academic administrative experience
• Experience with strategic planning, accreditation, and assessment above the program level
• Experience in online education at the university level
• Ability to work collaboratively across academic and administrative units in a geographically distributed, diverse academic environment
• A national reputation for academic and administrative excellence and innovation
• Experience with undergraduate and graduate curriculum and teaching
• Experience with teaching traditional, nontraditional, military, and international students
• Academic expertise commensurate with University and College focus areas of study such as Human Factors, Risk & Resilience, Safety, Security, and/or STEM

Leadership Duties

Reporting to the Dean and a member of the Dean's Leadership Team, the Associate Dean for Student Success and Academics will have a distinguished record of recognized excellence and experience that will result in strong leadership for the following, within the framework of the College of Arts & Sciences Strategic Guidance 2023-25 and under the Dean's direction:

• Quality managing and continuously improving innovative, interdisciplinary curricula
• Overseeing the College's general education program chair
• Overseeing the course monitors
• Resolving curricular and academic program issues
• Coordinating all COAS academic, administrative assessment, and accreditation activity
• Leading the PATHWAYS to Student Success Program and its components, and overseeing other student success components as assigned by the Dean
• Implementing a student research assistant program in coordination with the college's Senior Research and Scholarship Mentor
• Collaborating with faculty and college leadership on innovative academic and student success programs
• Overseeing the College's process for general education course placement exam waivers
• Processing student academic integrity violations, grade appeals, grievances, and other student issues in collaboration with the Dean of Students Office, Advisors, and Department Chairs
• Working with Advising on the promotion of minors and courses as well as assisting faculty with handouts to promote new offerings
• Coordinating production and updating of printed and digital academic program information material
• Maintaining and adding newly admitted students to the COAS New Student Orientation course
• Composing a periodical student newsletter in collaboration with Advising
• Serving as academic liaison to the other ERAU-WW colleges
• Collaborating with the Dean to attract and engage internal and external stakeholders
• Representing the Dean at internal and external events
• Performing any other duties assigned by the Dean

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