Vice President of Instruction and Student Services

Vice President of Instruction and Student Services

The Vice President of Instruction and Student Services (VPISS) provides strategic, collaborative leadership for all instructional programs and student support services, including academic and workforce programs, professional credit, continuing education, community education, and grant-funded initiatives. The VPISS ensures that Luna offers the right mix of programs to meet student, employer, transfer, and community needs, while advancing academic quality, enrollment growth, student retention, and completion, workforce alignment, and integrated student success.

The VPISS fosters a culture of student-centered leadership, transparency, collaboration, evidence-based decision-making, and constructive change that moves the college forward in ways that honor Luna's mission, communities, and future direction.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provides strategic leadership for all instructional programs, including academic, workforce, professional credit, continuing education, and community education programs.
• Provides leadership for the development, evaluation, revitalization, and continuous improvement of academic and workforce programs, including professional credit, continuing education, and community education.
• Oversees budgets and allocates resources across all areas of responsibility to support mission alignment, student success, and long-term financial sustainability.
• Works collaboratively with academic directors, faculty, workforce staff, and student services leaders to ensure Luna offers the right mix of programs to meet the needs of students, employers, transfer institutions, and the communities served by the College.
• Collaborates with the Director of Assessment/Accreditation Liaison Officer to lead a regular, data-informed program review and program vitality process that evaluates enrollment, student outcomes, workforce demand, transfer pathways, costs, facilities, and long-term sustainability.
• Partners with the Director of Assessment/Accreditation Liaison Officer to advance institutional assessment, accreditation readiness, program review, and continuous improvement.
• Ensures that academic directors, faculty, workforce staff, and student services leaders actively participate in assessment, program review, accreditation-related documentation, and continuous improvement processes.
• Supports academic directors in strengthening curriculum, improving scheduling, developing new pathways, and advancing instructional quality and student success.
• Builds leadership capacity among academic directors and other direct reports by providing clear expectations, coaching, accountability, professional development, and support for collaborative problem-solving.
• Leads the integration of instruction and student support services to ensure holistic student success.
• Supervises the Associate Vice President of Student Services, who oversees recruitment, admissions, dual credit, financial aid, academic support services, and student life programs.
• Advances enrollment, retention, completion, and student success through collaboration across instructional and student services functions.
• Fosters a culture of transparency, collaboration, shared responsibility, and professional growth within instructional services and between instructional services, student services, and other areas of the College.
• Develops and sustains strategic partnerships with employers, school districts, transfer institutions, workforce agencies, community organizations, tribal partners, regional partners, and other stakeholders to strengthen educational and workforce opportunities.
• Oversees the Learning Resource Center/Library and Bookstore/Café operations.
• Uses data, institutional priorities, accreditation standards, budget realities, and community input to guide academic and student services decision-making.
• Ensures instruction and student services compliance with all internal and external policies and regulations.
• Ensures comprehensive student development and support while prioritizing the well-being, belonging, academic advancement, and long-term success of all students.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

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