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President

Employer
Coe College
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

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President

Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa invites nominations for and expressions of interest in the College’s presidency.  

The next president of Coe will leverage the college’s outstanding navigation to date of COVID-19 challenges, its positive financial and enrollment markers and its compelling mission to ensure the future academic and financial success of the institution and the development of its people. Demonstrating a deep commitment to residential liberal arts education, the next president will uphold Coe’s values and dedication to its students. The ideal candidate will have exceptional leadership and management skills, a record of transformative impact and change management, a demonstrated and ongoing commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, and experience securing and increasing financial resources.

Coe College seeks a student-centered president who is deeply attracted to its unique makeup as a small, residential, urban campus in the Midwest. The college’s mission and distinctive qualities should resonate with candidates who have a deep understanding of, and experience with, the opportunities and challenges facing higher education particularly at private, residential, liberal arts institutions and the ability to anticipate continued changes in the higher education landscape. Though the search committee is eager to consider candidates with a variety of preparations for the presidency, candidates possessing a terminal degree will be preferred. More detailed information may be found in the search profile available at www.storbecksearch.com/active-searches.

The Presidential Search Committee will evaluate the applicant pool during the summer of 2021. Although applications will be welcomed until the time a new president is selected, candidates should submit materials as soon as possible and no later than July 23, 2021.

Applications should include a letter of candidacy that responds to the agenda for leadership and the desired attributes for the next president and a complete résumé or vita.

Please send all nominations, inquiries, expressions of interest and application materials in confidence and electronically to:

Ms. Julie E. Tea, Managing Director

Ms. Beth McCarthy, Senior Associate

Storbeck Search

CoeCollegePresident@storbecksearch.com

Coe is committed to fostering a multicultural environment and encourages applications from individuals who will help fulfill that goal. We value the input of multiple viewpoints and diverse perspectives and aim to create an academic community that is rich with cultural, social and intellectual diversity. Coe College is an equal opportunity employer.

Organization

 

Coe College is a national, residential liberal arts college offering a broad array of programs in the arts, sciences and professions. The campus encompasses nearly 70 acres in the heart of Iowa’s second largest city, Cedar Rapids, and is adjacent to the MedQuarter Regional Medical District. 

A member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM), Coe enrolls 1,400 students and has approximately 415 full- and part-time employees. This includes nearly 90 full-time faculty members and 180 full-time staff members. The nine largest incoming classes in the college’s history have all come in the last nine years, with the most recent class totalling 436 students from 27 states and six countries.

The college offers over 60 areas of study with a 4-4-1 academic calendar including an optional May Term. Nearly all students live on campus all four years, and 90% of students are involved in one or more co-curricular activities. 

Producing 32 Fulbright Scholars in the last eight years, Coe has been named a top producer of U.S. Fulbright students when compared nationally with all colleges and universities. The college provides a highly personalized approach to education with an average class size of 16 students and a student faculty ratio of 11:1. Coe is ranked among the top 20% of all colleges and universities (according to U.S. News & World Report), and hosts a Phi Beta Kappa chapter.

Coe’s nearly 70-acre campus includes 40 buildings and serves as an urban field station creating opportunities for students and faculty to research and study interaction of the city with the campus environment. An extension of campus includes Coe’s Wilderness Field Station, which is situated on 120 acres of land in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota. 

Recent capital improvement projects exceeding $40 million in investments include the renovation and expansion of Coe’s athletic facilities, renovation of Hickok Hall, an addition to and renovation of Peterson Hall of Science and renovation of Stewart Memorial Library to create the Learning Commons. 

For the past decade, nearly 100% of Coe graduates have been employed, in grad school, or engaging in public service within nine months of graduation. Our location in Cedar Rapids means students have access to an extensive network of employment, internship, research and networking opportunities. That’s why The Princeton Review ranks Coe as the #10 best private college in the nation for internships and the #20 best private college in the nation for alumni network.

Our C3: Creativity, Careers, Community center is dedicated to working one-on-one with students to help them identify and land internship placements that match their unique interests and goals. Research opportunities have taken students to laboratories in the United Kingdom, Germany, China, and many other locations around the world. Students can participate in one of over 40 off-campus study programs in Washington, DC; New York City; and dozens of foreign countries.

 

 

 

 

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Telephone
3193998000
Location
1220 1st Ave NE
Cedar Rapids
IA
52402
US

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