The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Chair for Humanities/Dean
Job Description and Application Process The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Chair for Humanities/Dean will provide leadership for the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Humanities Center and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Scholars Academy at the Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus. Reporting to the campus president, the Chair for Humanities/Dean’s primary responsibility is to design, manage, implement, supervise and evaluate all components of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Humanities Center. Essential job duties will also include:
Mandel Humanities Center • In collaboration with the College’s president, recruiting, convening and utilizing a Mandel Center Advisory Committee of business, community and educational leaders
• Collaborating with faculty on curriculum development and deployment that uses technology-rich, inquiry-based learning that aligns with the mission of the College and the Mandel Center
• Creating and encouraging the dissemination of Mandel Center research in a variety of local, regional and international venues
• Leveraging Mandel Center resources with grant agencies and foundations
• Providing leadership and guidance for intensifying College-wide student engagement in humanities and public service
• Managing and maintaining the physical environments of the Mandel Center
• Hiring, empowering, and evaluating the Mandel Center staff
• Identifying prominent, national social science experts to serve as guest lecturers; participating in seminars and other learning activities
• Facilitating student and faculty educational research experiences • Enhancing the College-wide honors program
• Supporting the teaching and service of distinguished faculty members, including mentoring highly successful humanities faculty
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Scholars Academy • Creating and administering a series of significant educational events connecting key themes and research results in the Mandel Scholars Academy • Overseeing a recruitment plan to secure student internships and applications for the Scholars Academy • Collaborating with faculty, students and local communities (public, private, not-for-profit) to provide Mandel Scholars with a “living laboratory” to engage in social and civic research
• Creating and maintaining a Mandel Scholars mentoring program that maximizes students’ educational potential using Mandel Leadership Development Program graduates and Tri-C faculty • Recruiting and advising highpotential students including honors, international and veterans
Required Qualifications 1. Earned doctorate in a humanities discipline (e.g. literature, philosophy, history) or a humanities related field (e.g. social science)
2. Minimum of five years collegiate teaching experience 3. Established scholarship portfolio with a national or international expertise 4. Experience in collaborating with multi-disciplinary faculty 5. Minimum of five years administrative, management or supervisory experience in an academic program
6. Experience in implementing and evaluating academic programs 7. Successful grant-writing experience
Preferred Qualifications 1. Certificate or formal training in leadership 2. Ten or more years of collegiate teaching experience 3. Previous experience as a leader (dean / director) in an honors or academic center
4. Five or more years administrative, management, or supervisory experience in an academic program Please see the website https://careers.tri-c.edu/hr/postings/62079 for additional qualifications.
Required Application Material To be considered for the position, please prepare and forward a cover letter addressing the requirements of the position, as well as your qualifications. Attach a resume and a minimum of three references. The references should include the names of people you report to or have reported to in the past, location, phone number, and email addresses.
Benefits of Employment We offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including: • Medical and dental plans
• Wireless stipend
• Prescription drug coverage
• Remission of fees
• Standard life insurance • Short-term and long-term disability plans • Retirement plans • Flexible spending accounts • Paid time off (vacation, sick, personal, holiday, consulting)
The mission of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Humanities Center is to provide a unique environment for meeting the intellectual and academic needs of Mandel Scholars in a holistic manner and to broaden engagement in humanities scholarship. The Center shall be a “community of excellence� that facilitates comprehensive engagement with faculty in academic collaboration, fosters cross-disciplinary learning communities and provides research opportunities that enable students to become reflective practitioners. The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Chair for Humanities/Dean will bring together students and faculty College-wide and community members from a wide spectrum of fields to develop new educational experiences and programs that will transform the liberal arts learning environment and build future generations of informed and engaged citizens and community and national leaders.
Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C速) was the first established community college in Ohio and remains the state's largest. The College is second in Ohio and 61st in the nation in conferring associate degrees in all disciplines. Fully accredited, the College has been selected as an Achieving the Dream college and is a board member college of the League for Innovation in the Community College. Each year more than 55,000 credit and non-credit students take courses at our four traditional campuses, two Corporate College locations, 50+ off-campus sites and via television and the Internet. Offering more than 1,000 credit courses and more than 140 career and technical programs and liberal arts curricula, we are a highly respected academic institution.
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