Vice President of Academic Affairs

Overview

Applicants are encouraged to review the VPAA Prospectus linked here Profile for comprehensive details on the position, institutional context, leadership expectations, and application requirements.

The Vice President for Academic Affairs (VPAA) serves as the University's chief academic leader, responsible for ensuring a high-quality faculty, a current and mission-aligned curriculum, strong student enrollment, and the overall academic excellence of Christian Brothers University graduates. Reporting directly to the President, the VPAA provides strategic leadership across all instructional areas and key academic support functions, including the registrar, advising, honors, institutional research and effectiveness, and graduate and online programs.

Acting as the President's principal advisor on academic strategy and policy, the VPAA collaborates closely with senior leadership and represents the University's academic mission to internal and external stakeholders. This role builds institutional capacity by being strategically minded, outcomes-focused, and process-oriented, while supervising and evaluating academic leaders and fostering a transparent, collaborative culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

• Earned terminal degree from an accredited institution
• Demonstrated senior leadership experience in academic affairs (e.g., dean, associate provost, provost/VPAA, or comparable leadership scope)
• Successful experience with academic planning, program development, curriculum oversight, and assessment of student learning outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to lead through collaboration, build trust, strengthen shared governance, and communicate effectively across stakeholder groups
• Commitment to advancing the Lasallian mission of Christian Brothers University and its Catholic/Lasallian educational tradition.

Christian Brothers University is a Catholic university in the student-centered tradition of the De La Salle Christian Brothers. CBU fosters academic excellence in a range of programs to prepare students from all faiths and backgrounds for careers and lives informed by the Lasallian values of faith, service, and community.

Christian Brothers University offers a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, flexible spending, retirement pension plan, 403(b), and both undergraduate and graduate tuition waiver plans. CBU also offers tuition waivers for dependents of employees and participates in the Tuition Exchange Program, a reciprocal scholarship exchange program for family members of full-time faculty and staff.

Christian Brothers University offers equal employment opportunity to all applicants for employment, regardless of sex, age, race, color, religion, sexual orientation, national and ethnic origin or disability.