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Invites Applications and Nominations for the Doctor of Business Administration Program Director AND Assistant/Associate Professor of Graduate Studies Located in Knoxville, Tennessee DBA Program Director and Assistant/Associate Professor, Graduate Studies • Promote effective working relationships among faculty, staff, and students. • Participate on University committees and provide committee service. • Comply with the policies and procedures of the University, including those in the Faculty/Staff Policy Manual. • Complete reports necessary for the advancement of the University’s programs. • Maintain proper security for all university files and information and follow privacy procedures at all times. • Serve on dissertation committees as a member and/or dissertation chairperson. Lincoln Memorial University, a comprehensive private university in eastern • Assist in the recruitment of students Tennessee, seeks an experienced academic administrator with proven to the DBA program and other Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) leadership skills to serve as the School of Business programs. Program Director at its Knoxville-Cedar Bluff site. The DBA Program Director will hold the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor of Graduate Studies. • Provide enrollment, assessment, and retention reports to the Dean of Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. the School of Business as directed Review of applications is underway. by the Chair of Graduate Programs and Dean of the School of Business. THE OPPORTUNITY understanding of business theory and • Serve as mentor to graduate Lincoln Memorial University is a values- application in today’s market. Students students. based learning community dedicated have 12 hours of dissertation credit to providing educational experiences to earn working with their dissertation • Develop and edit a dissertation in the liberal arts and professional committee. handbook and guide. studies. LMU’s School of Business • Assemble and appoint appropriate provides an entrepreneurial-based Classes are held at the LMU Knoxville qualified and credentialed members education that prepares students for Cedar Bluff site as well as online. to dissertation committees. success in the ever-changing dynamics The DBA Program Director and of today’s global marketplace. • Teach on-ground and online Assistant/Associate Professor of undergraduate and/or graduate Graduate Studies (DBA Program The LMU Doctor of Business courses based on course needs Director) position is an excellent Administration program follows a hybrid whether graduate or undergraduate opportunity to lead a doctoral business format with traditional evening and programs. online classes. The program is intended program. The DBA Program Director for upwardly mobile professionals and reports to the Graduate Chairperson. • Provide academic advisement of recent MBA graduates with exceptional Offices are housed at the LMU’s Cedar students and conduct office and academic backgrounds. Bluff site in Knoxville. conference hours. Duties and Responsibilities • Ensure School compliance with Foundation classes are from the four the standards of the Southern main components of the LMU MBA core • Promote the mission of Lincoln Association of Colleges and Schools and are waived if the DBA candidate Memorial University to all faculty, (SACS) and the Accrediting Council has completed an MBA degree. staff, and students, and to the for Business Schools and Programs This core will provide the basis for community at large. (ACBSP). www.lmunet.edu Page 2 DBA Program Director and Assistant/Associate Professor, Graduate Studies • Complete required institutional and program accreditation reports and other reports necessary for the operation and advancement of the University. • Supervise the development, implementation, evaluation, and preparation of annual reports of the Strategic Plan as related to the Graduate Department and academic programs within the School. • Fulfill the University’s scholarship expectation through research, publication, grant development, and creative achievement. LMU in Cedar Bluff • Assess, assist, and guide face-to- face full-time and adjunct graduate • Participate in community and public as demonstrated effective practical faculty under the direction of the service opportunities. or graduate teaching and dissertation Graduate Chair and Dean of the committee experience at a regionally School of Business. QUALIFICATIONS accredited institution. Preferred Qualifications • Participate in annual faculty Candidate must have a Ph.D. in evaluations. Business Administration, Doctor • Evidence of effective graduate • Engage in professional development. of Management (D.MGT.), Doctor teaching and scholarly activity of Business Administration (DBA), • Attend Department, School, and • Demonstrated success in chairing or other equivalent degree. The University faculty meetings and student dissertations Program Director will have leadership commencement activities. experience in higher education, as well Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities LMU MISSION AND PURPOSE Lincoln Memorial University is a rapidly and continuously expanding comprehensive values-based learning communication technology, must have community dedicated to providing an appreciable depth of learning in a quality educational experiences at field of knowledge, must appreciate and the undergraduate, graduate, and understand the various ways by which professional levels. The University we come to know ourselves and the strives to give students a foundation world around us, and must be able to for a more productive life by upholding exercise informed judgments. the principles of Abraham Lincoln’s life: a dedication to individual liberty, The University believes that one of responsibility, and improvement; a the major cornerstones of meaningful respect for citizenship; recognition of existence is service to humanity. By the intrinsic value of high moral and making educational, service, and ethical standards; and a belief in a research opportunities available to personal God. students, Lincoln Memorial University seeks to improve life for the students While primarily committed to teaching, it serves. While serving students from the University supports research and throughout the state, nation, and many service. The University’s curriculum other countries, the University retains a and commitment to quality instruction at commitment to enrich the lives of people every level are based on the beliefs that and communities in the Appalachian graduates must be able to communicate region. clearly and effectively in an era of www.lmunet.edu Page 3 DBA Program Director and Assistant/Associate Professor, Graduate Studies • Effective communication skills • Demonstrated knowledge and mastery of subject content • Demonstrate the ability to use discipline-related computer programs and software for instruction • Demonstrated knowledge of student advising • Research, publication, creative achievement, and grant development capability • Effective management skills THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Driven by both a deep respect for the free enterprise system and the commitment of service to humanity as exemplified by the life of Abraham is committed to increasing the visibility • Master of Science in Business Lincoln, LMU’s School of Business of LMU through rigorous, innovative, Analytics provides students with the educational and student-centered undergraduate • Doctor of Business Administration and research opportunities needed and graduate programs that reach to prepare for a career in business, students both on-campus and through DBA concentrations in: industry, and government. Through distance learning modes. • Sport Management rigorous coursework and extensive • Management research opportunities, students All School of Business programs are All School of Business programs are graduate ready to contribute to any regionally accredited through SACSCOC. regionally accredited through SACSCOC. business, start their own, or continue The School of Business offers two The School of Business has not yet their education in a graduate program. undergraduate degrees and three graduate degree: sought accreditation through ACBSP for its Sport Management concentration The mission of the School of Business • Bachelor of Business Administration nor its MSBA or DBA program. is to prepare leaders who are able to with BBA concentrations in: meet and exceed the challenges of • Accounting The primary philosophy in all of LMU’s today’s integrated world economy, and business programs is critical thinking, who can balance ethics and social • Finance decision making, and leadership. To responsibility with the creation of • Management emphasize these skills, the curriculum profits and wealth for the betterment • Marketing includes case studies, research, group of society. The School seeks to attract • Sport Management exercises, and discussion of current students with high leadership potential events. The curriculum is delivered who want to engage in an academically • Business Education by academically qualified faculty, rigorous and continually improving • Bachelor of Arts in Business many of whom also have professional business education that builds upon experience in business. This enables the knowledge of foundational business The School of Business offers a minor the business faculty to focus on the concepts. in Information Systems. application of a student’s education to Accredited by the Accreditation Council • Master of Business Administration