Dean, The Dominic A. and Helen M. Bitonte College of Health and Human Services
The Role of the Dean
The dean of the Dominic A. and Helen M. Bitonte College of Health and Human Services reports directly to the provost and collaborates with the other deans and academic and support areas to create an environment that fosters high quality teaching and learning, scholarship, and community engagement and embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion. The dean provides leadership for all academic activities of the college and is expected to:
- Lead with integrity, transparency with a commitment to shared governance.
- Collaboratively implement the strategies and tactics that support the Plan for Strategic Actions to Take Charge of Our Future assuring the annually proposed and allocated budget aligns resources with agreed upon priorities.
- Enable the professional development and advancement of faculty teaching, scholarship and creative activity, and service.
- Create an environment of respect for faculty excellence in a collective-bargaining environment.
- Use data to inform decision-making that is principle-based, consultative, and engages shared governance and shared responsibility.
- Stimulate increased focus on student success including persistence, progress, completion, and placement of students.
- Foster an environment that enhances and values academic excellence including high-quality instruction, research and creative activity, service and experiential learning initiatives.
- Develop strategies that emphasize and enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Support the implementation of technology-enabled student success strategies and structures including enhanced relational student advising.
- Facilitate mutually beneficial relationships in the community that contribute to student educational experiences, faculty scholarly and creative activities, and outcomes with identified and quantified impact and influence.
- Collaborate with the academic leadership team, to develop and forward the Division of Academic affairs strategic agenda.
- Oversee the assessment of academic programs as well as the accreditation processes associated with college programs.
- Position and market the College through interaction with local, regional, and national professional groups.
Personal Qualifications and Qualities
An earned doctoral degree is required. A successful record of academic teaching, research, and service with credentials appropriate for rank of professor and tenure in an academic department are requisite. A progression of responsibilities in various academic leadership roles is expected.
The selected individual will have extensive experience providing innovative leadership for academic planning; program development, implementation, and evaluation; and management of financial and human resources.
Through the expression of interest and other interactions, the preferred candidate will demonstrate the following:
- Personal integrity, intellectual curiosity, compassion, resilience, and energy.
- Leadership style emphasizing openness, consultation, transparency, communication, and collaboration.
- Evidence of enhancing academic excellence and student success.
- Commitment to building an academic community that demonstrates the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Commitment to scholarship, including the scholarship of teaching and learning, creative activity, and public and professional service.
- Knowledge of emerging technologies and the opportunities associated with online learning, credentialing/badging, prior learning assessment, and post-graduation continuing education.
- Demonstrated involvement with successful academic program accreditation.
- Experience in faculty and staff personnel issues including knowledge of or preferably experience with collective bargaining.
- Commitment to working collaboratively across colleges.
- Understanding of current challenges and emerging issues in higher education, including student access, student persistence and placement, curriculum development and revision, and information technology.
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Procedure for Candidacy
Interested individuals are encouraged to submit an expression of interest, curriculum vitae, and the names with contact information of five individuals who have agreed to provide a confidential reference. References will not be contacted without the applicant's knowledge.
Efforts will be taken to maintain confidentiality, but all materials are subject to Ohio’s public record law.
Individuals are encouraged to submit materials by March 8, 2020 for full consideration. It is anticipated video conference interviews will occur in mid-March to early-April with finalists interviewing on campus in late-April and early-May. It is anticipated the selected individual will start the position July 1, 2020.
For confidential inquiries or to make a nomination, please contact Amy Cossentino, PhD, dean, honors college at 330-941-4741 or alcossentino@ysu.edu.
Youngstown State University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, disability, age, religion or veteran/military status in its programs and activities.