Associate Dean of Tseng College (ExL: Grad, Int'l & Midcareer Edu)

 

CSUN's Commitment to You:

CSUN is committed to achieving excellence through teaching, scholarship, learning and inclusion. Our values include a respect for all people, building partnerships with the community and the encouragement of innovation, experimentation and creativity. CSUN strives to cultivate a community in which a diverse population can learn and work in an atmosphere of civility and respect. CSUN is especially interested in candidates who make contributions to equity and inclusion in the pursuit of excellence for all members of the university community.

 

The University:

One of the largest universities in the country, California State University, Northridge (CSUN) is an urban, comprehensive university that delivers award-winning undergraduate and graduate programs to nearly 40,000 students annually and counts nearly 400,000 alumni who fuel the region’s economy. Since its founding in 1958, CSUN has made a significant and long-term economic impact on California, generating nearly $1.9 billion in economic impact and more than 12,000 jobs each year. CSUN is a designated Minority-Serving and Hispanic-Serving Institution, nationally recognized for success in serving a diverse student body. The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities named CSUN an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University, the Wall Street Journal ranked CSUN third in the nation for the university’s diverse learning environment, and CSUN is the nation’s seventh-ranked school on CollegeNet’s 2021 Social Mobility Index.

 

About the College:

CSUN’s Tseng College provides advanced professional education to undergraduate, graduate, international and midcareer students. With more than $32 million in revenue and nearly 25,189 registrations in 2022-2023, the College is a leading provider of professional degrees, certificates and custom-designed programs. Known for its premier support services, the College employs an administrative staff of more than 65 people, leading to high graduation rates – 76-96 percent for most programs in 2022-2023, with some, like the Bachelor of Science (Accelerated) Nursing Program (ABSN) with a 96 percent and the Social Work (MSW), achieving an on-time graduation rate of 93 percent in 2022-2023.

 

The College is nationally recognized for providing programs with formats, delivery modes and locations that address the needs and constraints facing working professionals and their organizations. It works closely with businesses, communities, agencies and international partners to design and deliver programs that meet unique organizational needs and goals. To learn more about Tseng College go to https://go.csun.edu/aboutCSUN .

 

About the Position:

The Associate Dean (AD) at California State University Northridge’s (CSUN), Tseng College (the College) working in collaboration with the dean has primary academic oversight responsibility for the College.  The AD is responsible for ensuring that the College works in keeping with all CSUN academic standards and practice, and the standards of excellence for each of the disciplines and fields in which the College offers educational opportunities.

 

As a leader in the College, the AD is also expected to work in keeping with CSUN’s Leadership Principles (https://www.csun.edu/leadership-principles) and the College’s statement of Mission, Purpose and Values (https://tsengcollege.csun.edu/aboutus/deansoffice/missionandgoals).

 

The College is an agile and innovative component of CSUN and the larger world of higher education at the state, national, and international levels.  In that light, the AD is expected to have an ongoing and current broad understanding of the changing world of higher education, the changing world of professional practice for those preparing at the university level, and emerging models for the novel ways the forefront of higher education is responding to shifts in what is most needed from higher education by students and communities. The AD must  be able to envision how the College and CSUN can and should be using its self-support capacities to expand the breadth of what it does for those it serves.  What the College does and offers today will shift and change in the years ahead and the AD must be an active part of that evolution.

 

The College is self-supporting (much like a private university) and, in turn, the AD must have the ability to both understand what makes a given academic program both excellent and distinctive in the larger higher education space and to be able to work with faculty groups to craft programs that are indeed acade