Dean Honors College

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Salt Lake City, UT, US

5 days ago Requisition

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Dean of the Honors College

Salt Lake City, Utah

About Westminster University

Westminster University is a private, independent, and comprehensive university in Salt Lake City, Utah. For more than 150 years, Westminster has combined academic excellence with a strong sense of community and purpose. Located at the base of the Wasatch Mountains, the university offers the energy of a growing metropolitan area alongside world-class outdoor recreation just minutes from campus.

Our campus is collaborative, student-centered, and grounded in academic integrity. Faculty and staff work closely with students to foster critical thinking, career readiness, and meaningful engagement beyond the classroom. Employees are supported in their professional growth and encouraged to bring forward ideas that strengthen the university.

Westminster is committed to creating a workplace where people thrive – offering flexibility, generous time off, and a culture that values balance, inclusion, and innovation.

Position Summary

As the Honors College at Westminster University celebrates its tenth anniversary, we invite applications for the position of Dean of the Honors College. Reporting to the Provost, the Dean will provide strategic, academic, and administrative leadership for the Honors College, championing a rigorous, interdisciplinary, and student-centered honors experience. The Dean will work closely with faculty, staff, students, and university leadership to enhance the Honors College's curriculum, build on its recruitment momentum, and deepen its community values.

The Dean will also ensure honors education remains central to Westminster's academic identity.

This is an opportunity for an experienced academic leader to build on past successes in recruitment and program innovation. The Honors Program at Westminster began in 1986 and built a reputation for providing challenging, interdisciplinary seminars focused on primary texts and engaged, interactive learning. The program added conversation-based pedagogy to its core identity; in 2016 it became a stand-alone academic unit that offered upwards of two dozen unique seminars each year, all team-taught by faculty members representing different disciplines.

This year is our largest cohort to date, testament to the magnetism of the program and the recruitment efforts of a dedicated team within the Honors College.

The Honors College has also been a campus leader in advancement work over the past three decades. Under the direction of the Dean, students, faculty, staff and alumni work together each year to raise funds for research scholarships, summer internships, global travel, paraprofessional training, and co-curricular programming for students. The Honors College has a $6M+ endowment, including nearly $1M in endowed Honors scholarships.

Last year, these efforts amounted to a record $1M raised to support the Honors College and our key values: conversation across difference, curiosity and connection, and interdisciplinary inquiry. The Dean will help

shape the future of honors education at a university that prizes innovation, mentorship, and student success.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide visionary leadership for the Honors College, setting strategic priorities in alignment with the university's mission and academic goals
• Guide curriculum development, ensuring honors coursework is rigorous, interdisciplinary, and responsive to student and faculty needs
• Recruit, mentor, and support honors faculty and staff, fostering a…