Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES Academic Leadership and Strategy

• Serve as the University’s senior academic strategist, providing leadership, direction, and coordination for all academic programs and academic support functions across VTSU campuses.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and direction for all VTSU academic programs, including establishing instructional delivery modalities (on-campus, online, hybrid), and scoping academic support services across VTSU campuses.
• Ensure consistency, rigor, and quality of academic standards, policies, and practices across the institution.
• Lead system-wide academic planning aligned with VTSU’s mission, VSCS priorities, state expectations, accreditation requirements, and regional workforce demands.
• Champion academic transformation initiatives that advance access, affordability, sustainability, and institutional effectiveness within a public higher education system.

• Serve as the chief academic leader of the faculty, collaborating with the President, academic administrators, and faculty leadership within the framework of collective bargaining agreements.
• Seek input from and works closely with human resources and the office of general counsel on labor and employee relations matters.
• Provide executive oversight of faculty recruitment, appointment, reappointment, evaluation, promotion, tenure, and professional development.
• Support and strengthen relationships with faculty governance bodies, ensuring transparent communication, mutual accountability, and meaningful shared governance practices.
• Foster a culture of trust, collaboration, and academic integrity across campuses and disciplines.

• Advance system-wide student success strategies, including advising models, retention and completion initiatives, transfer pathways, and experiential learning.
• Ensure curricula align with clearly defined learning outcomes, assessment practices, and licensure or certification requirements.
• Serve as the senior academic officer for the resolution of academic appeals and grievances, consistent with policy and due process.
• Promote inclusive and equitable academic practices.

• Serve as the principal officer and as liaison with regional accrediting body (New England Commission of Higher Education) and coordinate specialized/programmatic accreditations across campuses.
• Ensure compliance with VSCS policies and state and federal academic regulations.
• Oversee academic program review, institutional assessment, and continuous improvement processes.

• Establish and maintain a comprehensive institutional data governance framework that promotes data quality, consistency, transparency, security, compliance, and appropriate stewardship across all university operations.
• Collaborate with administrative and academic leaders to develop key performance indicators (KPIs), dashboards, and reporting structures that monitor progress toward institutional goals and support continuous improvement.
• Ensure the timely collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of institutional data to internal and external stakeholders, including governing boards, accrediting agencies, government entities, and higher education associations.
• Partner with information technology, enrollment management, finance, student affairs, and academic affairs leaders to strengthen enterprise data systems and advance data literacy throughout the institution.
• Champion the use of predictive analytics and assessment findings to improve student retention, completion, academic quality, operational effectiveness, and institutional sustainability.

• Lead academic budgeting and resource allocation in collaboration with the President, Chief Financial Officer, and VSCS system office.
• Balance academic priorities with fiscal constraints in a publicly funded, system-based environment.
• Supervise academic deans and collaborate with system-level academic leaders; evaluate performance and support leadership development.

• Represent VTSU in system-level…