Tenured: Professor​/Associate Professor & Associate Dean Research

Position: Tenured: Professor/Associate Professor & Associate Dean for Research
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Tenured:
Professor/Associate Professor & Associate Dean for Research

Nursing

Location

Bryan, TX

Open Date

9/1/2025

Position

164837

Description

The Texas A&M University College of Nursing seeks to fill a full-time tenured (Tenure Review Upon Hire) faculty position with an 11-month appointment and an anticipated start date of August 2026. Applicants will be considered for hte faculty titles of Associate Professor or Professor. The position will include an administrative appointment as Associate Dean for Research (ADR). We have engaged an executive search firm to conduct a national search for an energetic and innovative academic and executive leader to serve in this position.

The Associate Dean for Research will be responsible for the strategic planning and implementation of a comprehensive research program for the college, ensuring mission integration across the College of Nursing, Texas A&M Health, and Texas A&M University. The Associate Dean for Research is also responsible for increasing the research productivity across tenured/tenure track and clinical faculty, pre- and post-doctoral scholars, and is administratively responsible for managing the resources of the Office of Nursing Research.

The Associate Dean for Research must be eligible for a tenured appointment as associate professor, but preferably full professor and is expected to maintain an active externally funded research program as a principal investigator.

Texas A&M ranks 13th among US public institutions in total research expenditures ($1.278 B in 2023) and is designated as one of only 71 members of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), an association of leading public and private research universities in the United States and Canada. Texas A&M is one of only 24 institutions in the nation to hold the triple designation as a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant university.

The Texas A&M University Health Science Center is one of the fastest-growing academic health centers in the nation. The Health Science Center includes five academic colleges and numerous centers and institutes working together to improve health, transformative education, innovative research, and team-based health care delivery. The College of Nursing is one of five health professions colleges within the Health Science Center.

Its mission is to educate today's professional nurses and tomorrow's leaders who will transform health and health systems through innovative nursing research and its translation into practice. The College of Nursing is in the process of hiring five new tenured/tenure-track faculty to advance the college's research enterprise.

Who we are seeking:
We are looking for an Associate Dean for Research who subscribes to and supports our commitments to the mission, vision, and core values of the greater university, the Health Science Center, and the College of Nursing. The Associate Dean for Research holds a senior leadership role tasked with promoting and expanding the college's research initiatives. This position involves guiding and nurturing emerging nurse scientists, fostering collaborative relationships with researchers across the university and beyond, and enhancing the college's reputation for academic excellence and innovative research.

The Associate Dean for Research is a vital member of the executive leadership team, leading the Office of Nursing Research and facilitating programs of research and scholarly productivity among faculty and students. The Associate Dean for Research may also serve as the leader for a future PhD program that is in development. The successful applicant will bring an expert level of research and academic experience to the position.

The College of Nursing is building research strengths and capacity in health promotion and innovation, population health, forensics, and health care management.

The primary position description is administrative, with 50% effort dedicated to the administrative role and service. The remaining 50% effort is dedicated to research with some teaching responsibilities.

The College of Nursing offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Traditional, Second degree,…