Assistant Dean for Graduate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Graduate College (148646)
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- Champaign, IL
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Assistant Dean for Graduate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Graduate College
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is accepting applications for an Assistant Dean for Graduate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Graduate College. In collaboration and partnership with university initiatives, the Assistant Dean for Graduate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion develops and guides strategic initiatives in the Graduate College to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in graduate education. This position oversees the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Unit and is responsible for the development, implementation, and oversight of programs and services to support students from groups historically underrepresented in graduate study from recruitment through graduation.
The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic vision, leadership, and overall administration for the Graduate College Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion unit activities.
- Conceptualize and oversee a comprehensive suite of services and programs to support students at every stage, including recruitment, application, orientation, and graduate study.
- Implement strategies for the mentoring and support of prospective and current graduate students.
- Oversee the assessment process and report on key metrics to guide ongoing efforts.
- Supervise and train staff.
- Develop and oversee budgets for the unit.
- In collaboration with Graduate College leadership, coordinate the development and implementation of strategic priorities for diversity, equity, and inclusion in graduate education.
- Develop action plans to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion into all initiatives and activities of the Graduate College.
- Chair the Graduate College Diversity Council to broadly advance diversity, equity, and inclusion work within graduate education.
- Serve as a member of the Graduate College Cabinet, advising the Dean broadly on matters related to graduate education.
- Advise and work with the Dean and other senior staff in formulating and implementing Graduate College strategic plans.
- Participate in Graduate College projects that support the mission of the college and the university.
- Serve as a Graduate College spokesperson, campus resource, and liaison to the local and national graduate education community.
- Represent the Graduate College on campus, local, national, and ad hoc committees.
- Establish, cultivate, and maintain effective relationships with a variety of constituents including Illinois graduate program administrators and faculty, college and university faculty and administrators, Illinois alumni, and other relevant communities to aid in enhancing efforts toward increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Collaborate and work closely with the Big Ten Academic Alliance and other graduate education administrators at member institutions on outreach and diversity initiatives.
Required education, experience, and qualifications:
- Master's degree.
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in higher education with a significant focus on advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Administrative experience including supervising professional staff, developing and implementing programs, and overseeing budgets.
- Experience with graduate education administration at a programmatic or central campus level.
- Experience in student advising, programming, and support.
Preferred education, experience, and qualifications:
- Doctoral or terminal degree.
Successful candidates will have:
- Knowledge of trends and promising practices in diversity and inclusion.
- Ability to develop strong and effective relationships with students, faculty, staff, administrators, and external partners.
- Demonstrated effectiveness in fostering successful partnerships with campus stakeholders that result in positive change.
- Thorough understanding of the structure and culture of higher education, particularly at a large research university.
- Demonstrated leadership skills to effectively engage stakeholders to advance strategic goals.
- Ability to work effectively with diverse groups of people in a team-oriented environment.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Application:
Salary is commensurate with experience and the start date will be as soon as possible after the close of the search. This is a full-time (100%), benefits-eligible academic professional position appointed on a 12-month basis.
Candidates must complete an online application at http://jobs.illinois.edu and upload a cover letter, resume, and names and contact information for three professional references. For full consideration, completed applications should be submitted by August 31, 2021. Initial screening of applications will begin immediately, and interviews may be conducted prior to the close of the search. However, no hiring decision will be made until after the close of the search. For further information about this position, please contact Jennifer Steiling at steiling@illinois.edu.
University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer. Convictions are not a bar to employment. The University of Illinois System requires candidates selected for hire to disclose any documented findings 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. As a qualifying federal contractor, the University of Illinois System uses E-Verify to verify employment eligibility.
College Name or Administrative Unit:Office of the Provost Category:2-Administrative Title:Assistant Dean for Graduate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Graduate College (148646) Open Date:07/21/2021 Close Date:08/31/2021 Organization Name:Graduate Admin
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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