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Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs- Gies Undergraduate Affairs (142853)

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location
Champaign, IL

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Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs, Gies College of Business

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Primary Position Function/Summary

Responsible for providing leadership in the Gies Office of Undergraduate Affairs, supervising managers of areas that support Academic Affairs, and overseeing Gies Honors Programs. The position serves as a key advisor to the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs and is an important voice in promoting the culture and values of Gies OUA.

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Major Duties and Responsibilities

Advising and Registration

  • Collaborate with advising deans across campus on policy development and implementation
  • Oversee academic petitions, appeals, and administrative processes, including late appeals, probation, dismissals, and re-entry to the College
  • Conduct the Gies College meeting at new student registration; collaborate with campus partners for advisor training and new student registration needs
  • Approve requests and manage access to the Undergraduate Records application (aka Portal) for Gies staff; ensure FERPA training is complete and updated annually
  • Manage academic catalog approvals and revisions in partnership with the Office of the Registrar
  • Collaborate with department schedulers and department directors of administration on course planning, course access and restrictions, registration, academic policy, and other related matters
  • Lead Undergraduate Advising meetings with all Gies College of Business advisors, including the Department of Accountancy
  • Manage the relationship with the Accountancy advising team; work with BS/MAS Program Director to coordinate advising efforts across offices
  • Coordinate exchange student registration between Gies Study Abroad, the Office of the Registrar, and the Office of Undergraduate Affairs
  • Oversee the coordination and performance of the BUS 101, 201, 301 and 401 cohort courses.
  • Serve as primary contact for the academic integrity system (FAIR); review incoming allegations; support and assist Gies faculty, including the Academic Integrity standing committee; represent Gies at campus-level meetings
  • Implement strategic priorities supporting departmental curricular changes, accreditation, and other academic affairs
  • Conduct academic verifications for financial aid Department of Education reporting needs; collaborate with faculty to verify student attendance
  • Serve as Gies liaison to the Office of the Registrar and Office of the Provost
  • Oversee Deans Scroll application and selection processes
  • Advise Gies Scholars students, and assist advising James Scholar and other Gies students.

Honors Programs

  • Develop and articulate the strategic direction for Gies Honors Programs
  • Oversee development and implementation of James Scholar and Gies Scholar programming and community-building activities
  • Collaborate with Faculty Director to design and implement Gies Scholar and James Scholar leadership curricula; instruct Gies Scholar and James Scholar courses as mutually agreed with the Faculty Director and the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Affairs
  • Work closely with Gies Admissions team to recruit Gies Scholar program students; oversee Gies Scholar selection process
  • Chaperone Gies Scholar and James Scholar study abroad trips; collaborate with Gies Study Abroad to manage trip planning and implementation
  • Collaborate with Marketing and Communications to develop and produce Honors program recruitment materials, promotional items, and ongoing communications
  • Work closely with Faculty Director and Gies Advancement team to foster strong Gies Scholar alumni relationships, through both on-campus engagement and alumni-focused events (both College-wide and Gies Scholars specifically)

Supervision

  • Directly supervise the leaders for Honors, Academic Affairs, Records, Business Minor, and Student Success.
  • Manage hiring, training, and evaluation processes; direct work flow; indirectly oversee student worker and extra help staffing as needed.

Student Support

  • Work with Office of the Dean of Students, Title IX investigators, Office of Student Conflict Resolution, and other campus partners to support students in crisis
  • Refer students to campus resources; document incidents in online reporting system
  • Act as resource for College faculty and staff who encounter students in crisis; assist with referrals and support as needed
  • Contact faculty at the direction of ODOS to request accommodations or provide withdrawal notifications

Administrative

  • Serve on Undergraduate Faculty Council
  • Serve on OUA Leadership Team
  • Represent Gies on campus-level committees, such as A&A Deans and OMSA Student Success
  • Manage advising, records, and honors budgets, including student programming, student staffing, and training and professional development for staff

Records

  • Ensure implementation of curriculum changes in degree audit system (DARS) and compliance with academic requirements and policies; work with advising team to update communications and resources
  • Oversee all records operations, including maintaining student records in applicable systems, degree audit system updates, study abroad and transfer course articulations, NCAA eligibility verification, degree lists and degree certification, Bronze Tablet recipients, FAIR system monitoring, etc.

Position Requirements & Qualifiatations

Education

Required: Master’s degree required.

Experience

Required: Minimum of 5 years of experience in higher education administration with recent experience in leadership in a University setting. Strong interpersonal skills are required along with a capacity to lead others, a team-oriented attitude, professionalism, and a strong commitment to excellent student service.

Preferred: Strong preference for experience in interpreting and applying academic policies in an undergraduate setting.

Salary

Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Appointiment Status

This is a full-time (100%), benefits-eligible academic professional position appointed on a 12-month basis. The position is available as soon as possible after the closing date.

To Apply

For full consideration, all applicants must create a candidate profile at https://jobs.illinois.edu and upload a cover letter, resume and contact information for three professional references by March 22, 2021 Applicants may be interviewed before the closing date; however, no hiring decision will be made until after that date. All requested information must be submitted for your application to be considered. For further information regarding application procedures, email tethomp@illinois.edu.

The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer. As a qualifying federal contractor, the University of Illinois System uses E-Verify to verify employment eligibility. The University of Illinois System requires candidates selected for hire to disclose any documented finding of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment and to authorize inquiries to current and former employers regarding findings of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment. For more information, visit Policy on Consideration of Sexual Misconduct in Prior Employment.

College Name or Administrative Unit:Gies College of Business Category:5-Education and Student Services Title:Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs- Gies Undergraduate Affairs (142853) Open Date:03/01/2021 Close Date:03/22/2021 Organization Name:Gies Undergraduate Affairs

Organization

Since its founding in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has earned a reputation as a world-class leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.

Faculty

A talented and highly respected faculty is the University's most significant resource. Many are recognized for exceptional scholarship with memberships in such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering. 

Our faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and the Fields Medal in Mathematics.The success of our faculty is matched by that of our alumni: 11 are Nobel laureates and another 18 have won Pulitzer Prizes.

Academic Resources

Academic resources on campus are among the finest in the world. The University Library is one of the largest public university collections in the world with 11 million volumes in its 37 unit libraries. Annually, 53,000,000 people visit its online catalog. Students have access to thousands of computer terminals in classrooms, residence halls, and campus libraries for use in classroom instruction, study, and research.

Research

Students and scholars find the University an ideal place to conduct research. The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a model for interdisciplinary research, where eighteen research groups from sixteen University departments work within and across three broadly defined themes: biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures. The University is also home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Undergraduate Education

The University has a fundamental commitment to undergraduate education. Nearly 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled in nine undergraduate divisions, which together offer some 4,000 courses in more than 150 fields of study.

Undergraduate admission is highly selective. In the 2001 freshman class, students in the middle 50% had ACT scores between 25 and 30 and ranked between the 83rd and 96th percentiles of their high school graduating classes.

The University enrolls over 9,000 graduate and professional students in more than 100 disciplines. It is among the top five universities in number of earned doctorates awarded annually in the United States.

Also integral to the University's mission is a commitment to public engagement. Each year about 65,000 Illinois residents participate in scores of conferences, institutes, courses, and workshops presented statewide. Research and class projects take students and professors off campus to share expertise and technical support with Illinois farmers, manufacturing firms, and businesses. In a typical year, student volunteers log more than 60,000 volunteer hours.

The Arts

A major center for the arts, the campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The University also supports two major museums: the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; and the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture. 

Other major facilities include the multipurpose Assembly Hall (16,500 seats); Memorial Stadium (70,000 seats), site of Big Ten Conference football games; and the Intramural-Physical Education Building, one of the largest recreational facilities of its kind on a university campus.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Illinois is about how we value difference to make a difference. http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/

As evidence of the University’s commitment to enhance the working, living, and learning environment for faculty, staff, and students, the University will encourage a standard of conduct and behavior that is consistent with the values of inclusivity. In an environment of inclusivity, there is no place for acts of hatred, intolerance, insensitivity, bigotry, threats of violence, harassment or discrimination.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Through education, engagement, and excellence, each voice creates the Inclusive Illinois Experience.

How can we appreciate difference to make a difference?

Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. We value it because we know that we have so much to learn from each other in our living, learning, and working environment.

Illinois is the place where we recognize the power of possibility and where great potential is realized. Inclusive Illinois is the vision of that place: a vision made real by leadership and commitment.

Illinois is the place where consensus is forged by discourse and where everyone’s contributions are recognized: significant contributions that elevate us because they are informed and enhanced by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, physical ability, religion, class, and national origin. We are enriched by these perspectives, and we are united by the very discourse that brings these views together.

It is a process. It is transformative. And we celebrate the remarkable changes we set in motion here … taking an important step … crossing boundaries … starting with our own.

It all starts with each of us: with our willingness to embark on the journey in the search for answers, and with our openness and acceptance of the answers we find. Illinois is the place where it all comes together.

Learn more about how Inclusive Illinois promotes diversity here.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

The commitment of the University to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity requires that decisions involving students and employees be based on individual merit and be free from invidious discrimination in all its forms, whether or not specifically prohibited by law. Among the forms of invidious discrimination prohibited by the University policy but not law is discrimination, including harassment, on the basis of sexual orientation. Complaints of invidious discrimination in violation of University policy are to be resolved within existing University procedures. The policy of the University of Illinois is to comply with all federal and state nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action laws, orders, and regulations. The University will not engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, unfavorable discharge from the military, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era. This nondiscrimination policy applies to admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs and activities

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