Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs

Position: Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs - Middlesex Community College

Location: Lowell, MA Category: Full-time Staff Posted On: Mon Dec 15 2025

Job Description

Title: Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs

Unit: Non-Unit Professional (NUP)

Department: Academic Affairs

Reports to: President of Middlesex Community College

Date: December 15, 2025

General Summary

The Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs serves as the College's Chief Academic Officer, responsible for ensuring the quality, integrity, and strategic direction of all academic programs. Consistent with MCC's Strategic Plan, this leader advances a mission-centered academic portfolio that is equitable, innovative, workforce-responsive, and deeply aligned with the educational and economic needs of the communities the College serves.

This position provides oversight for K-16 partnerships, dual enrollment, career-integrated learning, apprenticeships, learn-and-earn pathways, and academic integration of artificial intelligence, all of which have become essential components of the College's academic strategy. The Provost also leads the Grants Office, ensuring that externally funded initiatives advance academic quality, workforce alignment, and student success.

Duties and Responsibilities
1. Academic Leadership & Strategic Direction

• Provide vision and leadership for a comprehensive academic affairs division aligned with the College's strategic directions.
• Guide academic planning that responds to the learning needs of the College's increasingly diverse student body, including efforts associated with the College's emerging HSI and AANAPISI status
• Lead the creation and implementation of the Academic Master Plan, ensuring that academic programs remain rigorous, equitable, and responsive to evolving student and workforce needs.
• Use assessment and institutional research data, consistent with NECHE standards, to inform continuous academic improvement and educational effectiveness.
• Administer collective bargaining agreements within Academic Affairs, ensuring compliance, constructive union partnerships, and equitable implementation of contractual rights and workload provisions.
• Advise the President on matters related to Academic Affairs.

2. Workforce-Responsive Program Development

• Expand and strengthen apprenticeships, internships, co-ops, and learn-and-earn models that connect students to career opportunities while enrolled.
• Oversee academic pathways aligned with regional economic needs and emerging labor-market trends to support economic mobility.
• Collaborate with Workforce Development to ensure alignment between noncredit programs, credit-bearing pathways, and employer-driven competencies.

3. Career-Integrated Learning

• Provide executive oversight of the Office of Career-Integrated Learning, ensuring that academic programs embed applied, hands‑on, experiential learning opportunities such as internships, clinicals, service‑learning, and industry projects.
• Support faculty and departments in building curriculum‑to‑career connections.

4. K-16 Partnerships and Dual Enrollment

• Lead the development, maintenance, and academic oversight of Early College, concurrent enrollment, dual enrollment, articulation agreements, and aligned transfer pathways.
• Ensure coordinated mentoring, advising, and academic support for dual enrollment students, to ensure consistent college-level preparedness and belonging.
• Collaborate with school district leaders and university partners to develop seamless pathways from high school through transfer.

5. Academic Innovation & AI Integration

• Lead the College's academic strategy for artificial intelligence integration, including:
  • Faculty and staff professional learning,
  • Ethical use frameworks,
  • AI‑informed curriculum redesign,
  • Policies governing student use of AI in academic work,
  • Exploration of AI‑enabled instructional tools.
• Support the development of AI‑related academic programs, microcredentials, and workforce‑aligned AI literacy outcomes.
• Facilitate strategic partnerships related to AI integration.

6. Curriculum, Assessment & Accreditation

• Ensure curricular quality through program review, learning outcomes assessment, and alignment with NECHE standards for academic quality and effectiveness.
• Oversee…