Berry College invites applications and nominations for Dean of the Charter School of Education and Human Sciences . The dean will lead a distinctive multidisciplinary school at an important moment of growth, strengthening established undergraduate and graduate programs, prioritizing engaged student learning, supporting faculty excellence, and helping advance Berry's new strategic plan . As a member of the college's academic leadership team, the dean will shape both the future of the Charter…
School and contribute to the broader academic direction of the college.
The Charter School brings together disciplines devoted to education, health, and behavioral sciences, including the departments of Kinesiology, Psychological Science, Teacher Education, the Division of Nursing (BSN), and the Physician Associate program. The school will launch a master's degree in Athletic Training in 2028. Majors in psychology, exercise science, nursing, and combined education majors have some of the highest enrollments on campus, with growing programs in sport leadership and strategy and minors in applied behavior analysis, family studies, psychology, strength and conditioning, and teaching English as a foreign language. The M.Ed. and Ed.S. programs in teacher education have grown in recent years in partnership with local and regional school systems. The PA program is on track to reach maximum enrollment of the incoming cohort in Fall 2027. The Charter School includes Berry College Elementary and Middle School, a K-8 laboratory school on campus, and two early learning centers, the Child Development Center and the South Rome Early Learning Center.
The Charter School boasts a well-established record of community engagement, including internships, certifications, Academic Community Engagement (ACE) courses, and flourishing partnerships with the medical community and other community-based institutions. Students are involved on campus in research and work opportunities that support their academic interests.
The dean serves as the chief academic, administrative, and budgetary officer of the Charter School and reports directly to the provost. The dean serves on the Council of School Deans and collaborates with academic affairs leaders.
Leadership Priorities
- Advance the college's strategic plan and mission of educating the head, heart, and hands.
- Develop a compelling shared vision for the Charter School.
- Support faculty excellence in teaching, scholarship, professional practice, and mentorship.
- Nurture clinical, educational, community, and philanthropic partnerships.
- Discern how to collaboratively and transparently make decisions.
- Successfully recruit, develop, and retain faculty and staff.
Core Responsibilities
- Supervise all Charter faculty, department chairs, directors, coordinators, and administrative staff.
- Recommend hiring, reappointment, promotion and tenure, and other personnel actions.
- Participate in Charter School accreditations, in support of department chairs and directors (ARC-PA, CCNE, Georgia Board of Nursing, Georgia Professional Standards Commission, and CAATE, for the upcoming program in Athletic Training).
- Assist students and faculty with requests, exceptions, complaints, and the resolution of grievances.
- Recommend a budget to the provost and oversee the allocation of school funds.
- Teach one to two courses per academic year, to be worked out in consultation with the provost.
Requirements:
- Earned a doctorate from an accredited institution in one of the Charter School disciplines.
- A record of teaching, scholarship, and professional accomplishment sufficient for appointment as a tenured full professor in a Charter School department.
- Significant and progressively responsible academic administrative experience, such as dean, associate dean, director, or department chair, for example.
- Significant experience with program-level or institutional accreditation.
- Experience leading in a multidisciplinary academic environment.
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Organization
For more than a century, Berry College has emphasized the importance of a comprehensive and balanced education that unites a challenging academic program with opportunities for meaningful work experience, spiritual and moral growth, and significant service to others. This commitment to providing a firsthand educational experience – expressed as “Head, Heart and Hands” by college founder Martha Berry – remains just as relevant today as it was when the institution was founded in 1902.
Nationally recognized for both quality and value, Berry is an independent, coeducational college of approximately 2,100 students that offers exceptional undergraduate degree programs in the sciences, humanities, arts and social sciences, as well as undergraduate and master’s level opportunities in business and teacher education. Students are encouraged to enrich their academic studies through participation in one of the nation’s premier on-campus work experience program, and more than 90 percent take advantage of this unique opportunity to gain valuable real-world experience prior to graduation.
INSTITUTIONAL MISSION
Berry College is a comprehensive liberal-arts college with Christian values. The college furthers our students' intellectual, moral, and spiritual growth; proffers lessons that are gained from worthwhile work done well; and challenges them to devote their learning to community and civic betterment. Berry emphasizes an educational program committed to high academic standards, values based on Christian principles, practical work experience and community service in a distinctive environment of natural beauty. It is Berry's goal to make an excellent private liberal-arts education accessible to talented students from a wide range of social and economic backgrounds.
LOCATION
Berry College is located next to Rome on U.S. 27 in northwest Georgia, 72 miles northwest of Atlanta and 75 miles south of Chattanooga.
ENVIRONMENT
Berry offers an unusually beautiful environment for learning on its 27,000-acre campus, one of the world's largest. Fields, forests, lakes and mountains provide scenic beauty in a protected natural setting.
HISTORY
Berry was founded in 1902 by Martha Berry (1865-1942) as a school for enterprising rural boys when few public schools existed in Georgia. A girls' school was added in 1909. Berry became one of the nation's most successful educational experiments, combining academic study, student work and interdenominational Christian religious emphasis. Berry has an excellent record of sound growth. A junior college was established in 1926 and a four-year college in 1930; graduate programs were added in 1972.
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