CHANCELLOR
- Employer
- Washington State University
- Location
- Washington, United States
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Date posted
- Jul 6, 2017
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- Position Type
- Executive, Chancellors & Presidents, Other Executive
- Employment Type
- Full Time
CHANCELLOR
Richland, Washington
Washington State University (WSU), a distinguished and
comprehensive public research university, seeks an innovative and
experienced leader to serve as Chancellor of Washington State
University Tri-Cities (WSU Tri-Cities). WSU Tri-Cities is part of a
vibrant and thriving Tri-Cities community and has close ties to
local industry, community colleges, and key academic partners like
the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The Chancellor will lead
the Tri-Cities campus through a time of exciting academic and
physical growth, positioning the campus as an integral player in
WSU’s “Drive to 25”, a system-wide initiative to ensure the
University will be recognized as one of the nation’s top 25 public
research universities, preeminent in research and discovery,
teaching, and engagement by 2030.
More than 1,800 students attend WSU at the 201-acre Tri-Cities
campus, located along the banks of the Columbia River in Richland,
the heart of Washington’s wine country. WSU Tri-Cities offers 20
undergraduate and 30 graduate degrees in the arts and sciences,
business, education, engineering and computer science, nursing, and
viticulture and enology, with an emphasis on the STEM disciplines.
WSU Tri-Cities has one of the most diverse student bodies in the
state, with 34 percent of students identifying as underrepresented
minorities and is pursuing a Hispanic Serving Institution
designation.
In recent years, WSU Tri-Cities has experienced growth in its
physical campus, academic programming, and student body. In 2015,
the campus opened the Ste. Michelle Wine Estates WSU Wine Science
Center, a state-of-the-art facility that is one of the most
technologically advanced wine science centers in the world and
which has already begun attracting world-class researchers and
students. That same year, the Kadlec Regional Medical Center
pledged a landmark $18 million gift, the largest in WSU Tri-Cities
history, to create five new endowed nursing faculty positions. The
campus is also home to the Bioproducts, Sciences and Engineering
Laboratory, a 57,000-square-foot research and teaching laboratory
that is a result of a partnership between WSU and the Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory.
The successful Chancellor will be an experienced, visionary, and
collaborative academic leader, prepared to serve both as the chief
executive of WSU Tri-Cities as well as a critical leader in the WSU
system. The Chancellor will be a visible and vocal advocate for the
campus within WSU and across the state, partner across the system
and within the local community, and enhance the campus’s teaching,
research, student success, and community engagement activities. To
achieve these goals, the Chancellor will need to address the
following opportunities and challenges that are central to the
future success of WSU Tri-Cities:
• Engage stakeholders in the development of a shared vision for WSU
Tri-Cities;
• Facilitate growth of the WSU Tri-Cities academic enterprise within the WSU system;
• Cultivate, build, and expand partnerships with the Tri-Cities communities;
• Be a visible, engaged, and collaborative member of the WSU leadership team;
• Strategically and effectively manage WSU Tri-Cities resources; and
• Lead and inspire WSU Tri-Cities students, faculty, staff and
community members.
WSU Tri-Cities has retained Isaacson, Miller, a national executive
search firm, to assist in this search. Screening of complete
applications will begin immediately and continue until the
completion of the search process. For more details, including the
full position profile and to submit inquiries, nominations,
referrals, and applications, please see the Isaacson, Miller
website for the search: www.imsearch.com/6277.
Electronic submission of materials is required.
Julie Filizetti and Brett
Barbour
Isaacson,
Miller
1000 Sansome Street, Suite
300
San Francisco, CA
94111
Phone: 415.655.4900
Washington State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action educator and employer. Members of ethnic minorities, women, disabled veterans, veterans of the Vietnam-era, recently-separated veterans, and other protected veterans, persons of disability, and/or persons age 40 and over are encouraged to apply. WSU employs only U.S. citizens and lawfully authorized non-U.S. citizens. All new employees must show employment eligibility as required by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
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