Provost​/Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Success

LSCO is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including and as it pertains to pregnancy and wages), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, protected veteran status, and/or retaliation.

This is an executive administrative position in a leadership role reporting to the college president, responsible for the overall planning, operation, student learning, and assessment of the college's academic affairs and student success departments. The provost/vice president of academic affairs and student success provides strategic leadership for the areas of curriculum, faculty development, distance learning, career and workforce education, and continuing education courses offered on LSCO campuses.

This position is expected to work collaboratively on academic success initiatives to advance the pursuit of academic excellence that best supports student success, retention, and completion.

• Provide executive leadership and supervision for academic affairs and student success within the college.
• Supervise the development and successful completion of strategic and operational plans for academic affairs and student success.
• Evaluate academic affairs and student success staff, programs, services, and activities to ensure all areas within the college are efficient and effective in meeting processes and procedures, while achieving college, TSUS, and statewide goals and objectives.
• Remain abreast of statewide rules and regulations governing academic affairs and student success for 2‑year/community colleges and communicate updates to the executive team and appropriate academic personnel.
• Review, analyze, and report college‑level data related to student success, program enrollment, persistence, and graduation at least once a semester.
• Monitor program viability using enrollment, completion, cost, and employment outcomes and report findings annually at the data summit.
• Resolve daily operational and long‑term issues involving academic grievances as well as academic policies, procedures, and student success services.
• Provide leadership to ensure institutional efficiency, effectiveness, and achievement of the college’s program enrollment, retention, and completion goals.
• Assist and collaborate with the president and the college’s senior level executive team in prioritizing initiatives in accordance with the college’s master plan, vision, and mission as well as accrediting bodies.
• Coordinate the campus‑wide academic planning process including the evaluation and development of processes, timelines, and procedures impacting all academic affairs and student success operations.
• Provide oversight for curriculum and program development, program review, and academic policies.
• Provide oversight for schedules of classes, catalogs, external reports, and college publications related to academic affairs and student success.
• Conduct, monitor, and review faculty and staff evaluations, development, mentoring, disciplinary and discharge actions, and promotions.
• Work closely with human resources on academic and student success personnel and policy matters.
• Provide oversight for the academic calendar, articulation and transfer agreements, class scheduling, catalog revisions, academic program handbook revisions, etc.
• Maintain positive relationships with area high schools, regional councils, institutions of higher education, Texas Education Agency, Texas Workforce Commission, and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
• Ensure that SACSCOC accreditation and standards are met, and the college remains in compliance.
• Serve on ad hoc committees as well as projects of the Texas State University System office.
• Monitor all external agency policies, rules, and standards impacting all areas of the academic affairs and student success division and ensure college compliance.
• Develop, coordinate, and oversee budgets for a multitude of college departments within the academic affairs and student success division.
• Explore best practices in higher education, grant opportunities, and provides recommendations of…