Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Employer: Boise State University
Location: Boise, Idaho

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Employment Type: Full Time
Institution Type: Four-Year Institution

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Boise State University seeks a strategic, forward-looking academic leader to serve as its next Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. Reporting directly to the President, the Provost serves as the university's Chief Academic Officer and plays a central role in shaping and advancing Boise State's academic, research, and student success priorities.

As Idaho's largest public university, Boise State serves more than 28,500 students and offers a broad portfolio of undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs. Over the past several years, the institution has experienced record enrollment growth, significant increases in student retention and graduation rates, and substantial expansion in research productivity and doctoral education.

A metropolitan research university deeply connected to the economic and workforce needs of Idaho, Boise State has emerged as a national model for integrating student success, innovation, community engagement, and applied research, while positioning itself for Carnegie R1 research university classification.

At a time of significant change across higher education and within the university, Boise State seeks a provost who can build trust, foster collaboration, and strengthen relationships across the university community. The successful candidate will demonstrate a commitment to transparent communication, shared governance, and thoughtful leadership that balances innovation with institutional stability.

Boise State has experienced significant growth in research activity, doctoral education, enrollment, and national visibility, establishing itself as one of the nation's rising public universities. The next Provost will help shape the institution's next chapter, building on this momentum to advance student success, expand scholarly impact, strengthen academic quality, and foster innovation across the university.

Working closely with the President, deans, faculty, and university leadership, the Provost will guide the continued evolution of Boise State as a premier student-success driven, public research university. This includes advancing innovation in teaching and learning; strengthening alignment among academic programs, workforce needs, research and creative activity, and community impact; stewarding resources in support of academic priorities and long-term sustainability; and articulating the value of a Boise State education for students, families, and the state of Idaho.

Boise State seeks an accomplished academic leader with an earned doctorate or terminal degree, a record of scholarly achievement meriting appointment as a full professor, and significant senior leadership experience. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong commitment to shared governance, academic excellence, research growth, faculty engagement, and student success, along with the strategic vision, operational expertise, and collaborative leadership necessary to guide a complex public university through a period of continued growth and opportunity.

All applications, nominations, and inquiries are invited. Applications should include, as two separate documents, a CV and a letter of interest addressing the themes in the leadership profile.

WittKieffer is assisting Boise State University in this search. For fullest consideration, candidate materials should be received by October 12, 2026.

Application materials should be submitted using WittKieffer's candidate portal.

Nominations and inquiries can be directed to: Zachary A. Smith, Ph.D., Lauren Bruce-Stets, and Tyler Workman at BoiseStateProvost@wittkieffer.com.

Boise State University is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants for employment as provided for by federal, state, and local law. The university does not discriminate in employment opportunities or actions on the basis of any status or class protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. The University endeavors to recruit, hire, train, and promote the most qualified employees in all job titles. All other personnel actions are administered without regard to protected class under federal, state, or local law. 

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Working at Boise State University

Boise State University has been named one of the most innovative national universities in the country by U.S. News and World Report. Our university is designated a doctoral research institution with “high research activity” by the Carnegie Classification of Institution of Higher Education. We are home to more than 25,000 students from every state and more than 60 foreign countries.

Points of Pride:

Boise State University’s College of Education is among the top 30 public universities on the U.S. News and World Report 2020 best graduate schools list. The college has climbed in rankings every year for the last six years and offers two doctoral programs, two educational specialist degrees, 14 master’s degrees and 13 graduate certificate programs training Idaho’s future teachers and educational leaders.

Boise State’s College of Business and Economics ranked 127 out of 220 national institutions for its part-time MBA program, jumping more than 40 rankings from its previous year’s ranking of 168.

Boise State University’s College of Engineering has been recognized for its dedication to promoting diversity and awarded the Bronze Award for the 2019 ASEE Diversity Recognition Program by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The

Bronze Award is the highest level that was conferred during 2019 and distinguishes colleges who are among the nation’s leaders in inclusive excellence.

Boise State University School of the Arts will offer two new degrees in creative writing — a bachelor of arts and bachelor of fine arts — as well as a bachelor of fine arts in narrative arts beginning in fall 2018. Students at Boise State also now will be able to minor in creative writing.

Boise State students can choose from more than 200 areas of study in seven academic colleges – including the nation’s only master’s degree in raptor biology.

We’ve become Idaho’s largest graduate school through record-setting growth. A recent study showed that Boise State is one of just three universities in the nation that have ranked in the top 5 percent of graduate school growth in both of the past two decades.

Expenditures for research projects at Boise State University reached an all-time high of more than $41 million in fiscal year 2018 – an 18 percent increase over the previous year and impressive 64 percent increase since fiscal year 2014, according to data tracked by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Higher Education Research and Development survey.

About Our Community:

Boise State, Idaho’s largest public university, drove $667.2 million of the state’s economy in fiscal year 2015 and created 6,987 jobs across the state. Our campus is located in one of the fastest growing high-tech cities in the nation and home to several corporate headquarters, state and federal offices, medical centers and media outlets. The city has garnered national recognition from U.S. News & World Report, Forbes and Inc. for being a great place to live, work and study, and has been dubbed one of the hottest cities for entrepreneurs. With stats like these, it’s easy to see why more than 46,000 graduates have chosen to live in the Treasure Valley after earning their degree from Boise State.

See Diversity Profile here.