Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic Programs and Faculty Development

Position Information

The California State University, Office of the Chancellor, is seeking an Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic Programs and Faculty Development to provides leadership, analysis, strategies, and advice to support academic quality, effective teaching and learning, and equitable student outcomes across the 23-campus California State University system.

The incumbent also provides strategic and operational guidance and recommendations to the deputy vice chancellors, executive vice chancellor, chancellor, CSU Board of Trustees, and campus leaders, regarding academic, legislative, accreditation and management matters in the 23-campus CSU system.

The Associate Vice Chancellor also provides ongoing strategic consultation with campus provosts and serves as one primary point of contact for academic leaders across the CSU and with academic leaders at the University of California and California Community Colleges.

The incumbent fosters an environment of academic, teaching and learning innovation while ensuring compliance with systemwide academic policy, state and federal laws related to higher education and accreditor standards.

The leader advances the university system’s mission and is a highly effective internal and external ambassador for the CSU's commitments to access, affordability, equity, student success and academic excellence.

As needed, the Associate VC addresses urgent matters arising, poses strategic responses, and draft policy and institutional documents to be issued by university leaders.

The incumbent will also develop content and materials for the Board of Trustees agendas.

• The Associate Vice Chancellor ensures the continuity and consistency of CSU curricula and academic programs, institutional policies, academic practices, and professional development of current and future CSU faculty;
• represents the CSU to WSCUC, the California Legislature, Department of Finance, Legislative Analyst's Office, and Board of Registered Nursing and other workforce and community organizations;
• operationalizes aspects of new CSU degree authorities; is responsible for system-level coordination of industry-specific academic programs such as Nursing;

ensures system level coordination of assessment of student learning; and oversees the management of the CSU Institute for Teaching and Learning and systemwide faculty pipeline programs.

The incumbent provides senior management oversight of academic technology services and provides strategic thought leadership related to online education and the role of artificial intelligence in teaching and learning.

The incumbent provides advice to the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor, Academic and Student Affairs, campus presidents, provosts, and other leadership, and to the offices in Academic and Student Affairs and other Chancellor's Office divisions and offices.

Responsibilities

Under the general direction of the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academic and Student Affairs , the Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic Programs and Faculty Development will :

• Provide transformative leadership for Academic Programs, Innovation and Faculty Development.
• Serve as a senior liaison to the Academic Affairs Council (provosts), Student Affairs Council (vice presidents of Student Affairs), and Academic Senate CSU committees.
• Build momentum for an innovative mindset within the CSU and develop processes to implement innovative pedagogy.
• Act as the system spokesperson and expert for innovative pedagogy.
• Research and evaluate cutting-edge pedagogical tools and frameworks including learning analytics, immersive learning, collaborative learning and simulations to assess their value to the CSU mission and its student success agenda.
• Understand the value of personalized learning pathways and how to develop instruction and assessment that is responsive to students' prior knowledge and experiences.
• Support faculty in integrating innovative pedagogical tools and frameworks into faculty course design, instruction, research and co-curricular learning experiences of students.
• Support faculty in assessing the impact of innovative pedagogical tools and frameworks on student learning, instruction and research productivity.
• Strengthen faculty understanding of the critical relationship between pedagogy and academic support and how to integrate both within the learning environment.
• Provide executive vice chancellor and chancellor analytical support on a broad range of complex problematic issues, and resolve or make recommendations for resolution of issues.
• Write agenda items and prepare presentations for the CSU Board of Trustees meetings; present the information and answer questions from the governor, lieutenant governor, trustees, academic senators and the public.
• Supervise the development of all academic programs in the CSU to ensure their integrity and compliance with policies established by the campuses, the Board of Trustees, and the California Legislature.

Provide leadership on all matters of program planning and quality.

• Annually advise CSU Board of Trustees, chancellor, and executive vice chancellor on campus 10-year academic plans, including recommending the degree programs that merit trustee authorization for development into degree-implementation proposals.
• Analyze and recommend to the executive vice chancellor and chancellor the degree programs that should be approved on behalf of the CSU Board of Trustees.
• Oversee the process, review, and approval of all academic degree programs (self-support and state-support offerings) in the CSU, academic master plans, and program implementation proposals.
• Identify academic impediments to student success and degree completion, provide recommendations for policy changes regarding, among others, general education, baccalaureate degrees and CSU Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR).

Consult with appropriate systemwide constituents such as the Academic Senate CSU.

• Respond to emerging issues related to general education, Associate Degrees for Transfer and the community college quantitative reasoning changes.
• Oversee all doctoral program development, policy, standards, procedures and strategic plans in the CSU. Revises policies, executive orders, Title 5 regulations, Education Code, and coded memoranda, as needed.
• Oversee management of faculty pipeline programs including the California Pre-Doctoral Program, Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program or successor programs.
• Oversee innovative, equity-centered faculty development, including management of the CSU Institute for Teaching and Learning.
• Senior management oversight of academic technology services, initiatives, and budget, including library services, online education, academic software support, learning management systems, affordable learning solutions and web presence.
• Provide strategic leadership for academic technology services to advance the institutional mission and set department goals at the macro-level.
• Lead systemwide efforts in infusing information technology into teaching and learning processes and services.
• Oversight of implementation of legislative processes that result in curricular and academic program changes (e.g., AB 1460, AB 927, AB 928).
• Maintain protocols when communicating with the governor, legislators, personnel from the Department of Finance and Legislative Analyst's Office, State Auditor, school district supervisors, presidents, provosts, deans, faculty and faculty senates, university foundation members, donors and personnel from the University of California Office of the President and California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office.
• Engage in interviews with journalists, maintaining integrity while delivering strategic messaging and providing the information necessary to advance the appropriate narrative.
• Serve as a liaison to the Office of Advocacy and State Relations on education-related legislation that impacts the CSU.
• Ensure the implementation of Trustee policy on the review of existing academic programs and prepare board of trustees' annual reports and agenda items;

and deliver presentations to the board of trustees.

• Provide guidance to campuses on academic policy matters and questions regarding curriculum development, implementation, and maintenance.
• Provide system-level coordination of policy, legislation, admission and transfer issues related to health degree programs (including nursing and physical therapy).
• Provide training for campus academic affairs personnel, regarding degree program development, policy, and procedures.
• Implement trustee policy on general education, and implement, on behalf of the board, legislative provisions relative to general education.
• Work with the Academic Senate as the liaison on the Academic Affairs Committee.
• Consult with UC Office of the President on matters related to general education transfer policy, degree programs, and development of joint doctoral programs and serve on the CSU-UC Joint Graduate Board.
• Serve as CSU liaison officer to Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Senior College and University Commission.
• Oversee analyses of state and federal legislation relating to academic programs, including analysis of the impact on the CSU.
• Oversee the staffing and duties of Trustees' Subcommittee on Honorary Degrees and honorary degrees process.
• Oversee the review and approval of campus-drafted academic calendars.
• Represent CSU, as appropriate on statewide advisory boards and committees.
• Supervise and manage staff as assigned.
• Prepare reports and deliver presentations as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

This position requires :

• Earned doctorate from an accredited university.
• Ten years of administrative leadership in academic affairs (provost / vice president for Academic Affairs, associate or assistant vice president, dean or other high-level administrative leadership role in a complex educational organization).
• Demonstrated experience in interacting effectively with members of the academic community from diverse backgrounds.
• Demonstrated record of ability to communicate effectively both orally in and writing.
• Demonstrated experience in successful negotiation resulting in consensus among disparate internal and external groups with differing views.
• Demonstrated familiarity with the dynamics of academic-decision making.
• Ability to synthesize information effectively and quickly.
• Ability to formulate, analyze, and advocate for effective policy.
• Ability to represent the system regarding complex and important issues.
• Ability to multitask and work easily with ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• Ability to assimilate information quickly, arrive at conclusions and accurately represent a position.
• Advanced knowledge of the organizational environment of higher education and large research universities to understand organizational priorities, issues, motivations and constraints.
• Demonstrated expertise with instructional design methodologies, pedagogical issues and best practices for classroom, online and hybrid learning.
• Extensive knowledge of university-level curriculum (undergraduate and graduate), course articulation, and the higher education environment.
• Advanced knowledge of the legal constraints and opportunities for higher education in the State of California and through Federal programs and regulations.
• Sophisticated leadership abilities to establish department goals, and motivate and influence others to achieve.
• Advanced knowledge of organizational processes, protocols and procedures.
• Excellent ability to establish mission and goals at the macro-level; to lead subordinate management to develop goals in alignment with mission.
• Excellent consulting, relationship building, and strategic thinking skills.
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality and to advise campus leadership on highly sensitive issues.
• Ability to determine the most salient issues in a discussion of academic programs and policies and to imagine and evaluate alternative courses of action.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to address with sensitivity different audiences within and outside of the CSU.
• Understanding of the dynamics of a public multi-campus university system.
• Skill in working in and with academic governance in a complex multi-campus system.
• Ability to develop and convey CSU positions on academic planning issues.
• Ability to negotiate CSU positions with internal and external constituencies.
• Ability to deal with highly sensitive and controversial issues.
• Ability to work harmoniously and effectively with a wide variety of individuals and constituent groups.
• Ability to attend to details, manage multiple responsibilities, organize and prioritize, work collaboratively, tolerate ambiguity, and exhibit integrity in the furtherance of the university mission.
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