Chief Academic Officer — Campus Leadership & Strategy

Role Overview

The Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs is the chief academic officer for the campus and is responsible directly to the Campus Chancellor with indirect reporting to the Sr. Vice President/Provost and Sr. Vice President Workforce Alignment for the development, administration, supervision, and evaluation of the campus academic programs. The Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs will provide leadership and supervision for all campus academic schools, K-12 academic programming and other areas which may include the learning resource center, instructional technology, library services, testing services and serve as chief advisor to the Chancellor in the formation of policies affecting all academic programs.

As the chief academic officer for the campus, this position has direct responsibility for the development, coordination, staffing, evaluation, continuous quality improvement, and workforce alignment of academic programs, as well as research, academic/campus planning, and budgeting within the context of the College's mission and purposes. The position is responsible for the overall student academic experience on the campus.

The Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs will be a member of the Chancellor’s cabinet with the purpose of providing leadership that aligns with the College’s core values and implements strategies in order to meet the needs of a diverse community and student body on campus. This position promotes collaboration, integrity, community engagement, innovation, inclusivity, and excellence, and is accountable to perform statewide responsibilities to maintain consistent statewide curricula, policies, and practices.

This position will work closely with campus leadership and Systems Office leadership to establish strategies coordinated with statewide efforts in key areas of focus (recruitment, enrollment, retention, completion, and student success).

• Provides vision, leadership, coaching and direction to all academic employees for the delivery and/or revision of quality academic programs.

• Plans, organizes, and administers the academic programs and services in concert with the mission, purposes, resources, and facilities of the campus.

• Coordinates and supervises the preparation of the schedule of classes and the assignment of qualified faculty for all academic offerings.

• Assembles and maintains up-to-date documents pertaining to academic services programs.

• Collaborates with Workforce Alignment to meet the community skill gap needs through training and academic programming.

• Collaborates with campus and systems level leadership, fosters relationships with K-12, workforce and other community partners.

• Provides leadership in the recruitment, development, supervision, and evaluation of faculty and academic staff.

• Collaborates with Student Success, Enrollment Services and Marketing teams to ensure optimal student recruitment, enrollment, advising, retention, and completion and provides leadership to ensure that faculty collaborate in the same way.

• Ensures compliance with college policies, procedures and requirements established by law, regulation, board policies, and administrative decisions.

• Provides leadership and direction for accreditation self-studies, on-site visits, and maintains accreditation of programs with external agencies.

• Supervises the preparation and submission of required federal and state reports relating to the academic programs.

• Supports campus efforts for dual credit, transfer and articulation of programs with area secondary schools, colleges, and universities.

• Develops requests for new academic programs and services aligned with the Workforce Alignment Quadrant Analysis and guidance from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.

• Oversees program review process and submits reports as required.

• Collaborates with all campus departments to meet the needs of the campus and College in the execution of the College mission and vision.

• Serves on local and statewide committees associated with job functions, and represents the College as needed.

• Participates in all Campus Academic Officers Council meetings.

• Assists with development of new transfer agreements and…