Founding Dean of the College of Connected Computing Nashville, Tennessee
Vanderbilt University, globally renowned for its transformative education and research, seeks an innovative leader and accomplished scholar to serve as the inaugural dean of a new College of Connected Computing, the university's first new college since 1981. The inaugural dean will be afforded the unique opportunity to establish an interdisciplinary and cross-cutting college in an ambitious academic community focused on excellence, innovation, and bold ideas.
The new College of Connected Computing will collaborate with all of Vanderbilt's schools and colleges to advance breakthrough discoveries and strengthen computing education through a "computing for all" approach. Students will have the opportunity to learn and practice a fundamental set of core computing, analytics, data science, and AI competencies relevant to their disciplines.
The founding dean will establish a college that aims to safeguard Vanderbilt's robust reputation for academic excellence and capacity for world-changing innovation. The dean will advance a vision for connected computing at Vanderbilt and position the college as a hub of university collaboration and innovation through active listening and communication, managerial sophistication, financial acumen, interpersonal and political skills, effective fundraising, and commitment to inclusion and shared governance.
A search committee has been formed and will be supported in this recruitment by Isaacson, Miller, the national search firm. Confidential inquiries, applications, and nominations may be sent in confidence to:
Application Link Vanderbilt University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply.
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