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- Duke University
- Location
- Durham, North Carolina
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- Specialized Institutions
Job Details
Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences seeks a Dean with intellectual and academic vision, a collegial and transparent leadership style, and a passion for educational excellence, innovation, and improvement. In addition to scholarly distinction and appropriate administrative experience, the successful candidate will be an enterprising and collaborative leader, committed to shaping Duke’s approach to arts and sciences education. In addition to leading the College, the Dean will join a collaborative University senior leadership team, working effectively with the Provost, academic Deans, and other key University leaders to support and enhance Duke’s educational mission.
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences is the heart of Duke University, second in faculty size and total budget only to Duke's School of Medicine. The College embraces the enduring philosophy of teaching and learning that provides students with a broad base of knowledge and strong values and ethics. The College enhances the liberal arts tradition with robust opportunities to participate in independent research as well as civic and global engagement. The Dean, who reports to Provost Sally Kornbluth, plays a large role in Duke’s overall educational mission and will have the extraordinary opportunity to steer existing priorities and establish new programs and goals. The leadership at Duke is collaborative, interdisciplinary and mission-focused, and the Dean will work alongside executive leaders, Deans, faculty committees, and center and institute directors to foster improvements and innovations in teaching and research.
Candidates with diverse backgrounds will be considered, although ideal candidates will have demonstrated experience and success in many of the following areas:
- Track record of success as a decisive and energetic administrator or faculty leader, preferably with management and financial oversight experience in a large, complex academic organization.
- Ability to listen effectively and communicate transparently across a broad range of stakeholders and constituents.
- A deep and unwavering commitment to advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion.
- Experience as an effective fundraiser, securing resources from a variety of sources.
- A passion for undergraduate education, a deep commitment to student success, a broad understanding of student life and intercollegiate athletics, and an appreciation for how co-curricular activities enhance the University as a whole.
- An outstanding record of scholarly achievement and teaching excellence requisite for an appointment as a tenured full professor.
Duke University has retained Spencer Stuart to assist in this recruitment. To nominate an individual, express personal interest in the position, or communicate comments, questions, or suggestions to the search committee, please feel free to use the confidential search mailbox DukeDeanAS@SpencerStuart.com.
A complete position description will be sent on request or can be found at https://provost.duke.edu/about/executive-searches.
Organization
History
Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.
As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.
Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.
Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.
Mission Statement
"James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'
“To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.
“By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”
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