Dean of the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies

The University of Massachusetts Boston invites applications and nominations for dean of its newly-established John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies. The dean serves as the school's chief academic officer and reports to the provost/vice chancellor for academic affairs. UMass Boston is a Carnegie classified Intensive Research University located in one of the most diverse and intellectually rich cities of the United States. It is a public university with some 800 full-time faculty, over 150 academic programs, and more than 13,000 culturally diverse students working toward baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degrees.

The McCormack Graduate School is composed of academic graduate programs, which enroll nearly 200 students, as well as research institutes and centers. Its mission of graduate education and policy research is supported by doctoral programs in public policy and gerontology, masters programs in public affairs (including a track in International Relations) and gerontology (including a track in Management of Aging Services), and graduate certificate programs in policy-related areas. Its educational goal is to prepare professionals for positions of leadership within government and academia, as well as within nonprofit and private sectors. The applied orientation of the school's programs will provide students with the theoretical and practical tools to achieve positions in policy research, analysis, and implementation.

The central challenges of the first permanent dean will be to articulate a rich and clear vision of the McCormack Graduate School, contribute to and implement the school's existing programs and operations, strengthen and enrich the academic programs so that they can consistently prepare competent and responsive professionals, increase the number and the quality of externally funded grants for research and training, strengthen the school's relationship to other academic programs, centers, and institutes on campus, and promote the school at local, state, regional, national, and international levels.

The successful candidate will preferably be able to demonstrate abilities and commitments to:

• work collaboratively with faculty and staff within and outside the School
• promote and support teaching excellence at the graduate level
• lead in an increasingly diverse cultural, social, and ethnic community
• support and elicit faculty development in research and training
• support applied research and other forms of public service
• serve as an articulate and dynamic spokesperson, within and outside the University, for policy studies
• promote and nurture a general environment of academic excellence, cultural diversity, and equal opportunity

The successful candidate will also have an earned doctorate or other terminal degree, a sufficiently distinguished record of scholarship and teaching that would make him or her eligible for tenure and appointment as a senior professor, and significant experience in policy studies and the development of academic programs. The salary for this position is competitive, commensurate with experience and qualifications. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Please send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and names, addresses, and telephone numbers of four references to:

Chair, Dean of the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies Search Committee
Office of the Provost
University of Massachusetts Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125-3393

UMass Boston is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity, Title IX employer and strongly encourages women, members of all ethnic groups, and people with disabilities to apply.