Dean, School of Business, Hospitality and Public Services

Dean, School of Business, Hospitality and Public Services

Position Overview:

The Dean is the senior academic leader for the College of Southern Nevada’s School of Business, Hospitality and Public Services, overseeing the following departments:
Accounting & Finance, Business Administration, Criminal Justice, and Hospitality Management.

The role includes leading approximately 200 faculty and staff across CSN’s multi‑campus environment, ensuring academic excellence, workforce alignment, fiscal stewardship, and compliance with accreditation and collective bargaining requirements. The Dean supports roughly 9,000 students enrolled in programs offered by the School.

Position will remain open until filled;
Final date to receive applications:
April 22, 2026.

• Provide visionary leadership in curriculum development, program review, and strategic planning for accounting, business, hospitality and culinary, as well as criminal justice disciplines.
• Provide executive oversight of Russell’s Restaurant as a community‑facing instructional enterprise, ensuring operational excellence, fiscal responsibility, student learning integration, and positive public engagement.
• Support and coordinate institutional leadership responsibilities related to the Southern Nevada Regional Police Academy in partnership with regional law‑enforcement agencies.
• Ensure alignment of programs with workforce needs, regional economic priorities, and transfer articulation agreements.
• Ensure annual assessment of student learning outcomes and curricular review occurs at the course, program and institutional learning outcome levels.
• Strengthen partnerships with industry leaders, hospitality enterprises, chambers of commerce, economic development agencies, public sector organizations, and public safety agencies.
• Manage budgetary planning and fiscal operations, including state funds, self‑support revenue (where applicable), grants, and philanthropic contributions.
• Support grant development, workforce training contracts, and industry‑sponsored initiatives.
• Oversee School personnel recommendations to include but not limited to faculty hiring, evaluation, tenure review, professional development, grievance review, discipline, and collective bargaining compliance.
• Ensure high‑quality delivery of in‑person, hybrid, online, accelerated, and alternative instructional modalities.
• Lead development and execution of the School’s Academic Master Plan in alignment with CSN’s Strategic Plans.

• Master’s Degree from a regionally accredited institution in any program field that is offered within the School of Business, Hospitality, and Public Services and/or consistent with the duties and responsibilities of the position, such as Higher Education Leadership, Educational Leadership, Business Administration, Public Administration or Policy.
• Six years of full‑time experience at a higher education institution, including at least two years of full‑time teaching experience at the post‑secondary education level in a discipline currently offered at CSN within the School of Business, Hospitality and Public Services.
• Three years of experience in an academic leadership and/or supervisory role in higher education.

• Doctorate Degree from a regionally accredited institution.
• Experience working in a multi‑site community college.
• Experience with the development, evaluation and expansion of programs and degrees that meet workforce and industry needs and/or lead to seamless transfer.
• Experience with the development, evaluation and expansion of distance education and/or alternative modes of instruction delivery.
• Experience with grant writing and management of grant funds.
• Experience promoting diversity, multiculturalism, equity, inclusion, belonging and internationalism in a community college environment in support of the college’s mission, goals and strategies.
• Experience in student learning outcomes assessment and data‑informed program review and assessment, including budget management.
• Experience successfully collaborating with stakeholders in creating a positive work and learning environment in support of the college’s mission,…