Dean, School of Education

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Department:

Academic Affairs
Time Type:
Full time
FLSA Status:
Exempt

Job Description:

Summary:

American University (AU) seeks a strategic and innovative leader to serve as dean of the School of Education (SOE). Recently independent of the College of Arts and Sciences, SOE offers a wide range of programs aimed at empowering creative, passionate, and critical thinkers to be effective educators and leaders in a diverse and ever-changing world. The next dean will leverage SOE’s many assets-including its unique blend of scholarship and practice as well as its location in the nation’s capital-to further progress the unit into a leading education school.

The dean will be aided by a dedicated faculty and passionate staff as well as a record-setting gift endowing the School with resources to bolster its areas of distinction.

SOE is one of eight colleges and schools at AU, a private, student-centered, research university chartered by Congress and established in 1893. Today, AU employs more than 900 full-time faculty members and enrolls approximately 11,300 students from every US state, the District of Columbia, and 126 countries. The R1-level university offers a rich array of undergraduate and graduate programs, including bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in education through SOE.

As the chief executive of SOE, the dean reports to AU’s provost and is responsible for all program and unit activities within the School. The dean provides strategic, visionary, and programmatic leadership to faculty, students, and staff; leads administrative, fundraising, planning, and program-development efforts to build and sustain excellence in operations; and is the principal representative for the School at the AU leadership table and in the Washington DC community.

Bringing a deep respect for both the practice-based and scholarly aspects of education, the dean works cooperatively and closely with faculty, administrative staff, other deans, and AU leaders to advance SOE and the university and build on the School’s strong partnerships with formal and informal educational organizations.

Salary Range:

The salary range for this position is $250,000 to $300,000. The President and Board of Trustees reserve the final determination of the selected candidate’s actual pay, considering their experience and qualifications for the role.

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