Associate Dean for Graduate Programs & Professor (Tenured)

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Associate Dean for Graduate Programs & Professor (Tenured)

Mays Business School | Texas A&M University

The Associate Dean for Graduate Programs is the senior academic and administrative leader of Mays Business School’s in-person and online graduate portfolio, including the Full-Time MBA, Professional and Executive MBAs, Anthony Bahr Engineering MBA, Flex Online MBA and Master’s programs, graduate certificates, and future program launches. This individual will drive strategic innovation, scale high-impact learning models, strengthen industry connectivity, and ensure Mays continues advancing toward becoming the #1 public business school in the nation.

The Associate Dean will lead a large and diverse and growing portfolio in a graduate enterprise experiencing rapid national growth. Responsibilities include program strategy and oversight, curriculum excellence, student experience, placement and corporate engagement, faculty coordination, accreditation and assurance of learning, and revenue growth. This role requires a bold, visionary academic leader with national stature, a track record of innovation, and the operational discipline to advance excellence at scale.

Mays Business School Overview

Mays Business School is in the midst of the most transformative period in its history, propelled by sweeping academic, programmatic, and strategic renewal aligned with its mission of developing leaders of character who make a positive difference and its vision of building a better future through business. Over the past three years, Mays has experienced unprecedented momentum growing revenues from approximately $98M to $134M, expanding corporate partnerships, and launching innovative new programs, including the Flex Online portfolio, a suite of rapidly scaling graduate degrees designed for the future of work.

Graduate business education is now the fastest-growing enterprise within Mays. Master’s enrollment has nearly doubled since 2021, fueled by explosive demand for the Flex Online MBA and newly introduced online master’s programs that dramatically extend Mays’ reach to working professionals. The Flex MBA suite alone grew from 67 students in 2021 to nearly 1,000 in 2025. These programs, along with new AI-enhanced pedagogies, stackable credentials, industry-embedded learning, and experiential capstones, position Mays at the forefront of next-generation graduate education.

Mays’ Path to Preeminence strategy has already delivered measurable progress: new dual-degree MBA pathways; multi-city executive education expansion; national AI competitions; the new Engineering MBA; and the launch of Creative Destruction Lab–Texas. The school is also expanding its physical footprint, with the Wayne Roberts ’85 Building opening in 2025 and a new state-of-the-art graduate facility projected for 2029 designed to support large-scale, innovative, AI-enabled graduate learning.

Located in College Station, Texas, one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities and central to the booming Texas Triangle innovation corridor, Mays benefits from rapidly expanding partnerships with corporate accelerators, leading employers, and national research institutes. With strong leadership from Dean Nate Sharp, exceptional fundraising momentum, and a strategic plan focused on growth, excellence, and innovation, Mays is positioned to become one of the nation’s most globally connected and impactful public business school ecosystems.

The next Associate Dean for Graduate Programs will step into a moment of extraordinary opportunity leading a graduate enterprise of scale, strength, national visibility, and immense untapped potential. This leader will not simply steward programs; they will shape the future of a top public graduate business portfolio poised for preeminence.

Essential Duties / Tasks

Strategic Leadership, Growth, and Innovation

• Provide vision and leadership to elevate all graduate degree programs and align them with Mays’ Path to Preeminence.
• Reimagine the Full-Time MBA into a thriving, nationally visible flagship program strengthening selectivity, employer partnerships, student outcomes, and national rankings to position Mays among the very best public business schools in the United States.
• Grow enrollment, reputation, corporate partnerships, and program revenue through new offerings, new modalities, and new markets.
• Lead long-range planning for a new graduate building targeted for 2029, ensuring space, technology, faculty, and program design support next-generation, AI-enabled graduate education.
• Oversee program financial sustainability, forecasting, pricing strategy, and revenue management in partnership with the Senior Associate Dean and Dean of Mays Business School.
• Ensure Mays remains the national leader in online graduate business education with scalable, high-impact online and AI-driven learning that delivers superior student outcomes.

Academic Excellence, Student Experience, and Faculty Collaboration

• Ensure world-class learning outcomes across MBA and MS programs—curriculum quality, assessment, assurance of learning, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with departments to staff programs with high-impact classroom instructors, applied scholars, and industry practitioners while protecting research intensity and AACSB faculty qualification standards.
• Partner with career management, program staff, and corporate engagement leaders to dramatically reimagine how Mays approaches career services for graduate students and to ensure superior career outcomes and employer visibility.
• Champion innovations in AI-enhanced teaching, experiential learning, cross-disciplinary programs, consulting and capstone projects, and industry certification pathways.

External Relations and Corporate Partnerships

• Serve as a public-facing leader for graduate education—representing Mays nationally with employers, rankings organizations, peer schools, research institutes, foundations, and media.
• Build partnerships with employers in the Texas Triangle and beyond to support internships, applied projects, scholarships, recruiting pipelines, and global immersions.
• Expand international partnerships and dual-degree visibility to strengthen Mays’ global brand.

Leadership and Service to Mays Business School

• Serve on the Mays Senior Leadership Team and contribute to major college-level decisions, planning, accreditation, and strategic initiatives.
• Promote a culture of excellence, innovation, collaboration, inclusion, and academic integrity.
• Support fundraising, alumni engagement, and major donor relationships related to graduate programs.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience

• Earned doctorate in a business discipline (or closely related field).
• Tenured full professor (or immediately eligible) with a nationally recognized scholarly record and significant leadership experience in graduate business education at a top ranked public FTMBA program—program director, associate dean, vice dean, department head, or equivalent—preferably with a track record of overseeing a top ranked public FT-MBA program specifically in a college-town environment similar to Bryan/College Station.

Preferred Qualification

• Proven track record of academic innovation, career placement success for graduate students, program development, curriculum leadership, and measurable student-outcome improvement.
• Experience with accreditation, assurance of learning, faculty coordination, and academic operations.
• Strong corporate engagement experience and ability to represent the school to executive-level employers.
• National or global recognition in graduate business education, analytics, digital learning, entrepreneurship, leadership development, or related areas.
• Experience leading a successful, highly ranked full-time MBA program at a Top 10 public business school.
• Experience growing programs and revenue in competitive graduate markets, especially with full-time MBA.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strategic planning and execution
• Visionary program building and innovation
• Executive-level communication and stakeholder management
• Data-driven decision making, assessment, and continuous improvement
• Ability to lead faculty, staff, and large operational teams
• Commitment to student success, inclusion, and ethical leadership

Additional Information

• This position is security sensitive
• Requires compliance with state and federal laws/codes and Texas A&M University System policies
• All tasks must be performed safely and with integrity