Ast/Asc Dean for Undergraduate STEM Education
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Job Details
Work type: Faculty/Academic Staff
Major Administrative Unit / College: Asc Provost For Undergraduate Education
Department: Asc Provost For Undergraduate Education 10043771
Sub Area: FAS- Fac./Acad Staff
Salary: Salary Commensurate with Experience
Location: East Lansing
Categories: Education/Training, Student Services/Student Affairs, Academic Management, Full Time (90-100%), Non-Union
Working/Functional Title
Ast/Asc Dean for Undergraduate STEM Education
Position SummaryThe Assistant/Associate Dean for Undergraduate STEM Education will lead a network of instructors and Discipline Based Education Research (DBER) researchers who teach STEM courses and/or are involved in STEM educational research across MSU colleges. They will help create, nurture, and maintain a vibrant research community to advance teaching excellence and develop new, innovative, and effective college-level STEM education pedagogies. The Assistant/Associate Dean for Undergraduate STEM Education will lead curricular reform for undergraduate student success by optimizing pedagogical design to improve student learning outcomes, increase persistence and graduation rates, and close opportunity gaps.
The Assistant/Associate Dean for Undergraduate STEM Education reports to the Associate Provost of Undergraduate Education and Dean of Undergraduate Studies (APUE) and is a member of the APUE leadership team. Along with the APUE’s leadership team, this position will help lead MSU’s undergraduate student success initiatives by operationalizing MSU’s stated belief that every student it admits has the capacity to learn, thrive, and graduate. The position will also work closely with the assistant and associate deans in APUE who lead the strategic and curricular student success initiatives at MSU, with STEM college leaders who are responsible for STEM curriculum and instruction, and with colleagues in the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology. The Assistant/Associate Dean for Undergraduate STEM Education is an academic position that serves at the pleasure of the Dean and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, who is designated by the Board of Trustees as “…the principal academic officer of the University…”
The primary role of the Assistant/Associate Dean for Undergraduate STEM Education is to coordinate undergraduate STEM curriculum and planning to:
This position will also advise and assist the Office of Planning and Budgets, which is responsible for budget and planning, institutional research, and facilities planning and space management, to develop principles and strategies to align and maximize utilization of STEM teaching and learning resources with curricular reforms and student success initiatives.
Equal Employment Opportunity StatementAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.
Required DegreeMasters -STEM, Higher Education, or related field
Desired DegreeDoctorate -STEM, Higher Education, or related field
Minimum RequirementsApplication materials need to include:
- DEI statement
- C.V.
- Cover letter describing the candidate’s vision for undergraduate STEM education at MSU and how this position fits into the candidate’s professional trajectory.
General questions can be addressed to Jeff Grabill at grabill@msu.edu.
Review of Applications Begins On02/26/2021
Websiteundergrad.msu.edu
Department StatementThe Office of the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education and Dean of Undergraduate Studies cultivates a vibrant, multi-disciplinary community that is diverse along many dimensions, including race and ethnicity; gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity and expression; ability status; and creed or ideology.
MSU StatementMichigan State University has been advancing the common good with uncommon will for more than 160 years. One of the top research universities in the world, MSU pushes the boundaries of discovery and forges enduring partnerships to solve the most pressing global challenges while providing life-changing opportunities to a diverse and inclusive academic community through more than 200 programs of study in 17 degree-granting colleges.
Advertised: Feb 17, 2021 Eastern Standard Time
Applications close: Jul 18, 2021 Eastern Daylight Time
Organization
Working at Michigan State University
Spartans work every day to advance the common good in uncommon ways.
Together, we tackle some of the world’s toughest problems to find solutions that make life better—from alternative energy to better food safety to breakthrough medical and environmental applications achieved through rare isotope research.
We teach. We explore and we discover. We collaborate and lead. We innovate, inspire, and empower. We achieve our potential and create circumstances that help our students and others achieve theirs.
We're good at it, and we've been at it for more than 150 years.
The nation’s pioneer land-grant university, MSU began as a bold experiment that democratized higher education and helped bring science and innovation into everyday life. The revolutionary concept became a model for the nation.
Today, MSU is one of the top research universities in the world—on one of the biggest, greenest campuses in the nation. Home to nationally ranked and recognized academic, residential college, and service-learning programs, we’re a diverse community of dedicated students and scholars, athletes and artists, scientists and leaders.
In ways both practical and profound, we work to create a stronger, more sustainable, and more hopeful future for all.
Top Distinctions
U.S. News & World Report ranks MSU
- 29th among the nation’s public universities
- First in the nation for 19 years for graduate programs in elementary and secondary education
- First in the nation for graduate programs in nuclear physics and industrial and organizational psychology
- First in the nation for undergraduate program in supply chain
Recognized for 11 consecutive years as one of the top 100 universities in the world by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in its annual Academic Ranking of World Universities
Ranks 46th among public universities for in-state students in Kiplinger’s 2013 edition of Best Values in Public Colleges
Silver rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s STARS program, which measures and encourages sustainability in education and research; operations; and planning, administration, and engagement
Member of the prestigious 62-member Association of American Universities
Only university in the country with on-campus medical schools graduating allopathic (MD) and osteopathic (DO) physicians, and veterinarians (DVMs)
Among the largest single-campus residence hall system in the country with 27 halls in five neighborhoods and two apartment villages.
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