"Dean of College of Education"

Job Details

The Dean provides academic and administrative leadership for faculty, staff, and students while stewarding resources strategically and responsibly. The Dean will foster faculty and staff professional growth, strengthen accreditation processes, and ensure the College’s continued role as a state and regional leader in educator preparation. The Dean provides academic and administrative leadership for faculty, staff, and students, offering vision and direction while stewarding resources responsibly. The Dean will expand student success strategies that enhance retention, graduation, and career placement, while fostering faculty and staff professional development.

The successful candidate will be a collaborative visionary who is prepared to lead teacher preparation into an exciting and rapidly-changing future, understands & supports impactful teaching practices, advocates for educational values, builds strong networks with P–12 schools and communities, and cultivates trust, collaboration, and shared governance. The Dean must embody the transformative role of education at all levels, preparing the next generation of educators, leaders, citizens, and lifelong learners. As the public face of the College, the Dean will communicate its strengths and accomplishments to internal and external audiences, facilitate partnerships across local, state, and national communities.

• Provide visionary, collaborative leadership that honors the College’s history and builds upon ongoing successes and internal strengths.
• Champion shared governance and inclusive decision-making.
• Lead strategic planning, budgeting, and personnel/resource management.
• Expand student success initiatives focused on recruitment, retention, and graduation.
• Forge strong partnerships with urban, rural, and tribal schools, as well as community colleges and state agencies.
• Support faculty scholarship, creative activity, and grant-seeking efforts.
• Ensure successful accreditation and program review processes, including CAEP and State of Montana requirements.
• Recruit, evaluate, and retain faculty and staff
• Provide strategic oversight of all academic programs, ensuring that they incorporate best practices while also keeping an eye on healthy enrollment numbers
• Advocate for the College and the education profession at state and national levels.
• Build donor, alumni, and community support through effective fundraising.

Company

Montana State University Billings is a comprehensive public four-year higher education institution located in Montana's largest population center, whose faculty is actively engaged in teaching, research, creative endeavors and public service. MSU Billings is unique in that it is one of a select few higher education institutions that also boasts an embedded two-year community college.

The University opened in 1927 and was initially called Eastern Montana State Normal School at Billings and was established to prepare teachers for elementary schools in eastern Montana. MSU Billings has grown, with the city of Billings and Yellowstone County, into the major urban comprehensive higher education center of south central and eastern Montana. The University campus consists of four colleges: the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business, the College of Education and the College of Allied Health Professions. Seven miles west of the University campus sits City College at MSU Billings, which serves the comprehensive two-year mission of the university.