You are invited to participate in a series of open forums with our final candidates for School of Engineering Founding Director. Each candidate will provide an overview of their experience, interests, and vision to guide the school followed by a question-and-answer period. All open forums will be held both in person. Candidate curriculum vitae to this site two days before each candidate visit. The CV and a survey link to provide candidate feedback will be available for at least 48 hours after each candidate's visit.
Campus Wide Open Forum Dates:
Candidate 1: (Curriculum Vitae) (Feedback Survey)
Candidate 2: (Curriculum Vitae) (Feedback Survey)
Candidate 3: (Curriculum Vitae) (Feedback Survey)
The University of Missouri–St. Louis (UMSL) invites nominations and applications for the position of Founding Director of the UMSL School of Engineering. Reporting to the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, the Director has broad authority and responsibility for oversight of all aspects of the academic endeavors of the School of Engineering.
The Founding Director, as the Chief Academic and Administrative Officer of the new School of Engineering at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, is a leader who helps guide innovation, learning, community engagement, research and the university’s strategic mission. Academically, the director is responsible for leading the school’s faculty hiring and promotion decisions across all ranks, amplifying its collective research and scholarly productivity, and cultivating a culture of curricular innovation that leads to world-class student outcomes. Administratively, the director oversees strategic planning, budget management, and fundraising and promotes community-engaged scholarship, outreach, and partnerships to ensure that the school’s operations are inclusive, effective, efficient and impactful. The director takes proactive actions to maintain ABET accreditation of its engineering programs. The director provides the overall vision and leadership to guide and expand the school to be the premier public School of Engineering in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
The Director is also responsible for ensuring equity and excellence in research, discovery and creative activity; educational programs; and service that emanates from the school while fostering a culture within the school to achieve the university’s mission of Transforming Lives. The Director exemplifies, supports, acknowledges, and commemorates the individual traits and behaviors that foster a sense of variety, fairness, togetherness and acceptance among every member of the School.
The successful candidate will promote student achievement, enriching the lives of students including non-traditional, international and first-generation college students. The director will drive enrollment, retention, and academic programs and research/scholarship, while amplifying the school’s engagement with the broader community.
By capitalizing on the university's urban essence, the director will chart a course for growth within the ever-evolving higher education landscape and will be pivotal in advancing the school’s alignment with UMSL's mission and objectives.
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