Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) seeks an innovative and visionary academic leader to serve as founding Executive Associate Dean (EAD) to lead the new Institute for Engaged Learning (IEL). The Institute aspires to become a national model for scaling and scaffolding high-impact practices across the curriculum at an urban research university.
For more about the IEL: https://iu.box.com/s/nm4fwme6tw29oxrs4xmg2od0cs2hznhj
Set to launch in fall 2018, the IEL will be the catalyst for experiential, applied, and integrative learning experiences that are a hallmark of an IUPUI education. The IEL will also be a coordinating mechanism to integrate the newly approved institutional learning outcomes, the IUPUI+, into the undergraduate curriculum. As a member of the Division of Undergraduate Education and reporting to the Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education, the founding EAD will be a collaborative leader who can foster relationships among a highly motivated group of faculty and staff committed to student success and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
IUPUI is Indiana’s urban public research university located in Indianapolis and is committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity. Candidates must be sensitive to the needs of and demonstrate experience working in an academic community that is diverse with regard to gender, race, color, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation or identity, ability status, protected veteran status, and religion. Indiana University is an equal opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and a provider of ADAservices.
The IEL will capitalize on IUPUI’s already widespread efforts related to delivering high-impact practices and engaged learning experiences and build upon the current strengths and expertise of faculty and staff in the Center for Service and Learning, Center for Research and Learning, Office of International Affairs, and across the campus in a broad array of engaged learning experiences. The EAD will be expected to implement programming that increases student access to and institutional structures for high-impact practices to ensure that engaged learning promotes equitable educational outcomes for all students.
Basic Qualifications include:
- An earned doctorate
- Qualifications sufficient for an appointment as an Associate Professor with tenure at one of the IUPUI schools
- The candidate must show commitment to and demonstrated experience successfully using a variety of high-impact practices in higher education; engagement with the national conversation around high-impact practices.
Review of applications will begin June 6, 2018 and continue until the position is filled.