Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

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Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
The **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. invites applications and nominations for the next Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.
About the Position
The **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. (UNT) in Denton, Texas, the most comprehensive university within the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex - is seeking a Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
for a Carnegie-ranked Tier One university that is the institution of choice for more than 42,000 students. The chosen executive will advance the institution’s proud tradition of excellence in research, academics, student life, and community service.
The successful candidate for Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs will combine character, integrity, and trustworthiness of the highest order with an exceptional array of skills and abilities. The ideal candidate has vision, initiative, passion, and energy to improve students’ success and build UNT’s national reputation. Reporting directly to the President, the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs serves as the Chief Academic Officer and oversees the teaching, scholarly, and service activities related to the institution’s mission and provides executive leadership and vision for academic affairs, academic degree programs, and relevant support units. The successful candidate will represent the academic interests of the university in off-campus activities as designated by the President.
The Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs will be an effective academic leader with a strong personal record of teaching and research; will possess an earned doctorate or appropriate terminal degree in an academic discipline with qualifications meriting appointment at the rank of professor with tenure, significant progressive higher education experience that includes administrative experience in the area of academic leadership on behalf of a doctoral-research university, values diversity in the enhancement of learning; has a record of collaboration and shared governance, and proven managerial and communications skills; and is well-versed in academic issues and a demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Other Preferred Qualifications Include:
A proven champion and advocate of a university’s research mission, with effective skill sets to support the efforts of research units in sustaining and strengthening the university’s Carnegie Tier One status;
A track record of commitment to collaborative decision-making, with proven experience cultivating and facilitating an atmosphere in which faculty interact directly with administration in a shared decision-making environment that drives institutional innovation;
Career track of progressive, documentable accomplishments in increasingly complex leadership roles within an academic setting;
Proven skill in building a nimble and adaptive institutional and academic culture positioned to achieve the institution’s research and student goals;
A strong commitment to academic excellence and to fostering diversity in the faculty, staff, and students and a demonstrated ability to work with diverse constituencies;
A passion for ensuring student success and exceptional student experience, recognizing that all aspects of the university exist to facilitate learning and student development;
Ability to develop and inspire strategic relationships and teamwork with internal and external constituencies;
Ability to strengthen the overall effectiveness of academic, research, and scholarship initiatives across the university;
Proven expertise to support and enhance an institution’s existing student services programs and student success initiatives;
Experience creating programs that enhance the professional development of students and that adequately prepare graduates for transition to their careers — academically and professionally;
Expertise to develop and manage budgets and to facilitate an approach to fiscal management that is open and transparent;
A change agent with proven change management and change leadership skills, experience and success;
A strategic planner skilled in developing an executable plan and inspiring alignment and commitment to the plan among all units and departments;
Ability to develop relationships and build cross-functional communication to strengthen the overall delivery of academic excellence and efficacy across the institution;
Effective resource manager with the demonstrated ability to align resources with strategic objectives and performance measures and to make the most effective use of limited, critical resources to target areas of greatest importance to the university’s success;
The ability to exercise sound judgment, decisiveness, and to perform effectively in a leadership capacity;
Skilled collaborator on current strategic conversations, such as diversity opportunities within curricula, and faculty retention, wellness, and mental health.
About the University
A Carnegie-ranked Tier One institution,
the **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. is one of the nation’s largest public research universities with more than 42,000 students. It also is one of the fastest growing and increasingly influential research universities in one of the nation's fastest-growing regions. As a Hispanic-Serving and Minority-Serving institution, UNT’s dedication to diversity and inclusion earned the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award for the fourth straight year. Located only 35 miles north of both Dallas and Fort Worth, UNT has for more than 130 years served an increasingly diverse student body and economically booming region. Now, under the leadership of a President with an expansive, aggressive vision for the institution, the university stands poised to expand its national and global impact.
As one of the largest universities in Texas, UNT offers 113 bachelor's, 94 master's, and 37 doctoral degree programs through the G. Brint Ryan College of Business and the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences; Education; Engineering; Science; Information; Merchandising, Hospitality and Tourism; Music; Public Affairs and Community Service; Visual Arts and Design; the Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism, the Toulouse Graduate School; the Honors College and the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science.
UNT is a nationally recognized university continually listed as one of the “Best of the West” by
The Princeton Review
and “America’s Best Value Colleges” by
Forbes
magazine. Among its many accolades, UNT has 89 academic programs ranked in the Top 100 nationally and has an array of impressive and often unique offerings. UNT is currently investing in a number of new faculty positions and high impact hires while growing graduate education in a number of areas to support students and build UNT’s national brand.
Over the past several years, UNT has invested heavily in advancing the organization’s infrastructure
, including data systems, analytics, financial systems, effective dashboards across the enterprise, merit raises, facilities renovations, and capital projects. UNT has made significant strides in enrollment management, with substantial financial allocations for new scholarships and student support services. The university is proactive in retaining high performing, collaborative faculty with equity and other opportunities. It has more than 800 tenure/tenure-track faculty members. Additionally, in 2016 UNT went through its 10-year SACS-COC accreditation process and was reaccredited, allowing the incoming chief academic officer the freedom to focus on advancing initiatives that will most impact UNT’s current success and future legacy.
An abiding characteristic of the university is that UNT nurtures a strong sense of community and teamwork
. This has led to enhanced collaboration across campus and creates a campus community that is united by a shared purpose to provide students with the best research-informed educational experiences in Texas and beyond. In addition
UNT’s strategic international partnerships seek to facilitate the exchange of ideas and culture and allow for important research addressing global issues. UNT hosts visiting scholars and faculty from more than 50 countries, offers global learning and experience programs in more than 37 nations, and serves 4,400 international students representing 144 countries. UNT also continues to build on a longstanding
legacy of conservation and environmentalism
UNT possesses and values an increasing diversity among the individuals who make up its community
– this is one of the university’s greatest strengths. UNT has a history of maintaining an accepting atmosphere that welcomes individuals who endeavor to achieve their personal best. Members of the university community strive to value, support, and respect each other and the educational benefits of diversity.
After serving residents of Collin County and the surrounding areas through the Collin Higher Education Center (CHEC)
since Fall 2009, UNT expanded its services to students in the Frisco area in January 2016 with the opening of classrooms at Hall Park. And in May 2018, UNT and the City of Frisco announced a partnership
that will create a branch campus to serve a growing number of students long into the future. The UNT Frisco campus
currently under construction is expected to open Spring 2023 with 27 undergraduate and master’s level programs. Currently, students may take classes in 23 undergraduate and master’s level programs at Hall Park, Inspire Park and the Collin Higher Education Center
(CHEC), under the Provost’s purview.

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