Vice Provost Graduate Education and Dean Graduate Division

Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate Division

Join to apply for the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate Division role at UC Irvine.

• Salary range: $300K-$350K
• Review timeline:
  January 26, 2025

• Open date:
  December 5, 2025
• Next review date:
  Wednesday, Jan 14, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
• Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
• Final date:
  Tuesday, Jun 30, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

The University of California, Irvine (“UC Irvine” or “UCI”) seeks a collaborative and forward‑looking academic leader to serve as Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate Division (Vice Provost and Graduate Dean). UCI is among the nation’s top public research universities and a member of the world‑renowned University of California system. As part of UCI’s strategic plan, “Bright Past, Brilliant Future,” the University has a goal of growing the strength of their nationally recognized graduate programs and helping more of them gain recognition among the best in the country.

As UCI considers how best to strengthen and sustain its graduate enterprise amid a changing higher education landscape, the Vice Provost and Graduate Dean will play a vital role in leading the development and implementation of a shared vision for graduate education across UCI, reinforcing its standing as an innovative and world‑class research university committed to academic excellence and student success.

Central to this vision is a strong commitment to graduate students and to ensuring that their perspectives help shape the future of graduate education at UCI.

UC Irvine serves approximately 30,000 undergraduate students, 5,800 graduate students on the general campus, and 2,100 graduate students in Health Sciences. Founded as an interdisciplinary campus, it boasts excellence across the physical, biological, and social sciences, engineering, arts, and humanities, and in its professional schools. The New York Times named UCI the top university for “doing the most for the American dream,” highlighting its commitment to access and student success, and in U.S. News & World Report’s Best National University 2025 rankings, UCI ranked ninth among all public universities and 33rd out of all universities.

A member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), UCI combines the strengths of a major research institution with the dynamism and agility of a younger campus that embraces innovation. In addition, its mission as a public and land grant institution plays a significant role in contributing to the advancement of local, state, national and global communities.

This is a rare and defining moment to join UCI and help shape the future of graduate education within both the campus and the broader University of California (UC) system. The next Vice Provost and Graduate Dean will have the opportunity to leverage UCI’s ambition and openness to innovation as part of the UC system’s broader commitment to advancing graduate education by piloting new ideas, stabilizing long‑term enrollment plans, strengthening collaboration across disciplines, and engaging in systemwide and national conversations about the future of graduate education.

While higher education is evolving in complex ways, UCI is ready to think creatively about how graduate education can evolve to meet this moment. As such, the Vice Provost and Graduate Dean will help UCI chart a clear path forward, guiding efforts to sustain academic rigor, enhancing the graduate student experience, and developing innovative models that respond to today’s realities.

As the campus’s central advocate for graduate education, the Vice Provost and Graduate Dean will partner closely with UCI’s Provost, deans, faculty, staff, and students to foster collaboration, align resources, strengthen its vibrant community of scholars, and champion the value of graduate education as crucial to the university’s mission and impact.

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