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Stephens College began in 1833 with a belief that women deserved access to the power of education . Nearly two centuries later, that work is unfinished. Too many people who want to create, care, build, question, and act with purpose still lack the access or education that would empower them to lead. Stephens exists to widen the frame of possibility. Through personalized, experiential education rooted in care, mentorship, and professional engagement, Stephens turns learning into action and action into lasting impact.

That conviction takes shape in our Women’s College, as well as our Conservatory for the Performing Arts and a portfolio of graduate programs, which accept all genders. It takes shape in Columbia, Missouri, a major college town whose professional, cultural, and civic life acts as an extension of the campus. And most importantly, it takes shape in our students, who find at Stephens a community that knows their name and talents, who feel empowered to speak up and take charge of their own education, and who, in turn, shape life on campus and in Columbia.

Stephens students graduate ready not just for what the world will ask of them, but ready to shape what comes next.

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About The Women’s College

The Women’s College is built on a simple conviction: students become leaders by doing consequential work early, mentored by accomplished faculty, staff, and alums who believe in them. Its undergraduate and graduate programs are organized into five academic pathways that unite degree programs around the careers and lives they unlock:

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• Healthcare & Life Sciences: Future nurses train in the campus Simulation Center and at Magnet-designated Boone Health;
  Women in STEM Research students conduct original research across all four years; future doctors and vets train in our popular Biology program; and graduate students in Physician Assistant Studies and Counseling prepare to care for their corners of the world.
• Education: Future teachers stand in front of a classroom at The Children’s School at Stephens College in their very first semester, because the best way to learn to teach is to teach.
• Equestrian & Animal Care: At the College’s renowned Equestrian Center and in the Center for Companion Animal Behavior, Equestrian and Animal Behavior students learn responsibility for lives other than their own, launching careers across the equine and animal behavior fields.
• Creative Arts & Design: Students in fashion, graphic design, creative writing, English, and content creation make work for real audiences: through the student-run agency Creative Ink, its award-winning magazine Stephens Life, and in the pages of Harbinger, the student-run literary journal that has published new voices for nearly a century.
• Business: Six concentrations, from Entrepreneurship to Hospitality Management, for students whose ambition is to build something.

A sixth pathway,
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, resides in our all-gender Conservatory for the Performing Arts.

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The undergraduate block schedule makes all of it possible, enabling students to engage in internships, partnerships, student-led enterprises, research, and study abroad programs during the academic year. Professional experience is woven throughout every degree rather than deferred to the end as a culmination.

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The next Dean of the Women’s College will assume leadership in a time buoyed by new momentum across the college: a new mission, a new strategic plan in development, and institutional alignment around the very things that make Stephens one of the most distinctive colleges in the nation.

About the Position

The Dean of the Women’s College serves as the chief academic officer of the…