East Carolina University® Leadership Profile

East Carolina University ® Leadership Profile

PROVOST AND SENIOR VICE CHANCELLOR FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS PROVOST and SENIOR VICE CHANCELLOR for ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Mission East Carolina University (ECU) seeks a proven leader to serve as the chief architect of the academic To be a national model for student enterprise in the role of Provost and Senior Vice success, public service, and regional Chancellor for Academic Affairs (SVCAA). An anchor transformation, East Carolina University: and economic driver of eastern North Carolina, • Uses innovative learning strategies and the University is committed to advancing the delivery methods to maximize access; region through educating its citizens, transforming health, conducting research, and meeting critical • Prepares students with the knowledge, skills, and needs of business and industry. ECU is committed values to succeed in a global, multicultural society; to a culture in which widely diverse members of • Develops tomorrow’s leaders to serve the University community are viewed as critical and inspire positive change; in the development of academic excellence. • Discovers new knowledge and innovations The Provost and SVCAA is the principal academic to support a thriving future for eastern officer of the Institution and second in overall North Carolina and beyond; authority. As a key member of the senior leadership • Transforms health care, promotes wellness, team, this individual will be an important advisor and and reduces health disparities; and confidant to the Chancellor and charged with the delivery of a contemporary and innovative academic • Improves quality of life through cultural vision for the Institution while fostering a diverse and enrichment, academics, the arts, inclusive living, learning, and working community. and athletics.

In close collaboration with Chancellor Philip Rogers, We accomplish our mission through education, whose tenure started in March 2021, the Provost will research, creative activities, and service while being develop initiatives that prioritize student success good stewards of the resources entrusted to us. and serve the needs of eastern North Carolina.

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | Introduction ABOUT ECU

History East Carolina University has grown from a small teacher-training school to a large research institution with a growing national and global influence.

1907–1921 ECTTS — East Carolina Teachers Training School

1922–1950 ECTC — East Carolina Teachers College

1951–1966 ECC — East Carolina College

1967–PRESENT ECU — East Carolina University

ECU is developing tomorrow’s leaders today by preparing students with 21st-century skills to meet present-day challenges and build a brighter future, transforming our region and beyond through our research, creative activity, innovation, and public service.

• ECU is a large, public doctoral university with a primarily residential undergraduate student body and a community engagement designation.

• ECU is home to a rich Division I athletics tradition and thriving fine arts programming that provide opportunities for student engagement and holistic development.

• ECU is the only UNC System university with a medical school, dental school, and engineering department at the same institution, the synergies of which provide a dynamic for biotechnology innovation and entrepreneurship.

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | Our Story Campus Facts • More than 7,000 faculty, staff, and graduate • The University’s 82 percent one-year retention assistants worked together to support ECU in 2020. rate is the highest in its peer group, and its 61 percent five-yeargraduation rate nearly tops • East Carolina University has a total ECU’s 12-institution IPEDS peer group. enrollment of 29,798 students, including 23,056 undergraduate students. • ECU consists of approximately 1,617 acres, with 396 of those on Main Campus and • 91 percent of ECU’s students hold in-state 214 on the Health Sciences Campus. residency, and the 9 percent who are out- of-state students hail from 47 states, the • 15 acres comprise eight dental medicine community District of Columbia, and 99 countries. service-learning centers; 129 acres comprise the North Recreation Complex; 650 acres comprise • 65 percent of ECU’s students identify as White, 16 the West Research Campus; 213 acres comprise percent identify as Black or African American, 7 the Coastal Studies Institute on the Outer Banks. percent identify as Hispanic, 3 percent identify as Asian, and all other groups collectively compose • 219 facilities are utilized in support the remaining 8 percent of the student body. of daily operations.

• The total for tuition, fees, and room and • 186 state-owned buildings and 33 board for in-state undergraduates living leased facilities (January 2020) on campus is approximately $17,500. • Total core expenses were in excess of • 79 percent of first-time full-time $920 million during FY2019, the most undergraduates receive financial aid. recent year data are available.

• U.S. News & World Report ranks ECU in the top 10 percent of institutions nationally in social mobility (2021).

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | Our Story Building the Future Recent and upcoming growth in physical space demonstrates the University’s commitment to student success and serving the region.

Celebrating its first anniversary in January 2020, the Main Campus Student Center is the central gathering place for the student population, combining dining, Dowdy Student Stores, the Dr. Jesse R. Peel LGBTQ Center and Ledonia Wright Cultural Center, lounges, study rooms, and a Coming Soon gaming center. The 220,000-square-foot facility is LEED-certified and received the 2019 Award Construction is underway on the new $90 million, for Excellence in Structural Engineering from the four-story, 141,500-square-foot Life Sciences and Structural Engineers Association of North Carolina. Biotechnology Building and it is slated to open in fall 2021. Also designed to meet LEED standards, the 75,000-square-foot Health Sciences Campus Slated to open in early 2022, the Isley Innovation Student Center provides recreation and Hub will provide almost 15,000 square feet of space wellness space, dining options, and study and in which industries and students will collaborate on meeting rooms. The Health Sciences Campus product innovation and entrepreneurship. Student Center opened in 2017 and is one of the few stand-alone student centers on a health sciences/medical campus in the country.

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | Our Story Rural and Coastal Communication

Upholding the tenets of public service and regional • The Rural Education Institute facilitates positive transformation, ECU ensures that its students transformations in rural communities through participate in programs and services to improve the educational innovations designed to support the quality of life, health, education, and employment of whole child from early childhood through college. the people in rural and coastal communities. • The Crisp Small Business Resource Center in the • ECU serves nearly twice as many undergraduate Miller School of Entrepreneurship provides students students from rural communities as any other school and regional entrepreneurs with best practices and in the UNC System. Approximately 35 percent of proven knowledge required to start and sustain ECU’s undergraduates identify as first-generation enterprises in eastern North Carolina. college students. • The Brody School of Medicine’s Center for Health • Funded by a $2.79 million grant by the HRSA, the Disparities works to reduce disparities in obesity, College of Nursing’s Advanced Practice Registered diabetes, cancers, and cardiovascular disease Nurse Academic-Clinical Practice Collaborative trains among rural, ethnically minoritized, and low-income nursing students about the health care needs in populations across eastern North Carolina. areas of eastern North Carolina that have the • The Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, least access to care the College of Allied Health Sciences, and the and a high prevalence Brody School of Medicine are conducting cross- of farmers, fishers, disciplinary collaborative research that may have and loggers who face future therapeutic implications for people affected different occupational by Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, and heart attacks. hazards. • A group of faculty from across the sciences and • The eight dental engineering is working together to develop medicine community empirical evidence demonstrating how embedding service-learning team science within undergraduate research centers treat those in experiences supports the development of underserved areas knowledge, skills, and attitudes as transportable throughout the state. team competencies.

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | Our Story Through ECU’s Center for Telepsychiatry and e-Behavioral Health, experts are helping combat the shortage and maldistribution of psychiatrists. Through the use of secure, real-time interactive audio and video technology, these experts are able to connect with patients remotely.

The Coastal Studies Institute, located on North Carolina’s beautiful Outer Banks, is home to coastal economic development and research with an emphasis on finding innovative approaches for capturing ocean energy, sustainable designs for coastal communities, and marine ecology, maritime archeology, and tourism.

Advancement ECU has four affiliated foundations: the ECU Foundation Inc., the ECU Alumni Association Inc., the Medical & Health Sciences Foundation Inc., and the Pirate Club. These foundations focus on alumni relations, fundraising, and managing investments for the advancement of the University. Across the foundations and University, the endowment for ECU is about $230 million. The Provost will work with the existing foundations and any future organization of their efforts to shape and advance the academic enterprise of the University.

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | Our Story GREENVILLE, NC

Our Home Located close to ECU’s Main Campus, a vibrant and ever-growing uptown district is home to diverse The University is located in Greenville, NC, on land art, music, food, and festival offerings and features that is traditional Tuscarora territory and is widely an increasing number of unique, locally owned recognized as the thriving cultural, educational, businesses, galleries, shops, and restaurants. economic, and medical hub of eastern North Greenville is centrally located in eastern North Carolina. While retaining its regional charm and Carolina, a region whose coastal environment hospitality, Greenville has grown into the 10th- provides a backdrop for tourism, water sports, and largest city in the state and is now a flourishing, small wildlife viewing. The Outer Banks to the east can be metropolitan city of nearly 100,000 in the heart of reached within a few hours’ drive, and Raleigh to the Pitt County. west is a couple hours away.

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | Greenville, NC LEADERSHIP

Dr. Philip G. Rogers serves as the 12th Chancellor In his nearly seven years at ACE, he led the design, of East Carolina University. Formerly senior vice development, and implementation of ACE’s strategic president at the American Council on Education, plan, “Higher Education for the Nation’s Future,” Rogers began his duties as the University’s leader on including the launch of a national listening tour to March 15, 2021. engage with campuses and leaders to shape the multi-year strategy and to meet the needs of ACE’s The Chancellor’s vision for the University is framed member institutions. The plan centered on equity, around a belief in the key role that the institution innovation, and student success, and Rogers’ team plays in eastern North Carolina and commitment to collaborated with a wide array of national education its mission of student success, public service, and philanthropies to support its implementation. regional transformation. Prior to joining ACE in 2013, Rogers was Chief of While his North Carolina roots run deep, Rogers Staff at ECU, where he was responsible for external also has developed a robust national and global relations for the University, including government network during his time with the American Council relations, marketing and communications, public on Education (ACE), a nonprofit organization that service, and policy development. acts as a coordinating body for its membership of approximately 1,700 colleges and universities As a native North Carolinian, Rogers was raised across the nation. As senior vice president, Rogers in Greenville, and his family has a long history in helped institutions navigate complex challenges the state and with the University. He is the great- facing the global higher education landscape. He grandson of one of the early students of East was responsible for ACE’s academic, research, Carolina Teachers Training School. and innovation strategy, overseeing five separate divisions including advancement and fundraising, Rogers earned a doctoral degree in higher education attainment and academic innovation, education management with distinction from the global engagement and internationalization, University of Pennsylvania, a master’s degree in leadership and professional learning, and research. public administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a bachelor’s degree in communications from Wake Forest University.

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | Leadership THE FACULTY

With a total of 1,982 faculty members and a student- faculty ratio of 15:1, ECU is home to a vibrant and increasingly diverse group of national and international scholars. The make-up of the faculty highlights the value that the University places on tenure:

1,982Total faculty

Tenured/tenure-track1,016 faculty Tenured/tenure-track985 faculty (51% of all faculty) with a terminal degree (97% of tenured faculty)

Full-time641 fixed-term faculty Full-time426 fixed-term faculty (32% of all faculty) with a terminal degree (66% of fixed-term faculty)

Tenured/tenure-track27% faculty Full-time23% fixed-term faculty who identify as BIPOC who identify as BIPOC

The Faculty Senate is the legislative and advisory body representing the faculty. The Faculty Senate and its committees are the primary media for the essential joint effort of faculty and administration in the government of the University. The Provost is an ex-officio member with vote in the Faculty Senate and in all Faculty Senate Academic Committees.

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | The Faculty RESEARCH

ECU’s research expenditures of $52.7 million in 2019 As the economic engine of eastern North (the most recent year data are available), up from $39 Carolina, ECU is also at the forefront of creating million in 2018, make it one of the fastest-growing entrepreneurship programs and initiatives. An award universities. Of the many awards, one from the from the Golden LEAF Foundation funded RISE29, National Science Foundation supported a two-day a student entrepreneurship program focused on interdisciplinary conference that brought together strengthening regional businesses. The program researchers and community stakeholders from across received the Excellence in Co-Curricular Innovation the nation to ECU’s campus to discuss research into Award from the United States Association for Small hurricanes and their impacts on populated coastlines. Business and Entrepreneurship, and in so doing Another $1.49 million was awarded by the National received top honors in a very competitive field that Institutes of Health Small Business Technology included the country’s top-ranked entrepreneurship Transfer to an ECU startup medical device company, program by U.S. News & World Report. RFPi, for continued development of technology for noninvasive blood flow measurements in patients These achievements are but one facet of the during surgery. Additionally, a team in the College excellence of faculty research. A look at recent and of Education was awarded $9.7 million from the U.S. past recipients of the Research and Scholarship Department of Education to network school leaders Awards demonstrates the depth and breadth of across the country for identifying and implementing scholarly pursuits of the faculty in all colleges and best practices. disciplines — from award-winning literary magazines such as North Carolina Literary Review, to training dogs to search out Clostridioides difficile spores in clinical facilities, to compiling 15–30 second video clips of performances in living rooms, bedrooms, carports, and backyards into a sort of dance riff-off for a semester finale during the pandemic. Faculty at ECU are committed to the ultimate mission of any university: advancing knowledge through research and education.

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | Research Profiles of recent research success at ECU follow named to Oprah’s reading list as One of the Best below: Books by Women of Summer 2019. Published by Simon & Schuster, Wieland’s book has enjoyed wide BRODY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE acclaim and gained recognition from Publishers Doctors at ECU’s School of Medicine and Vidant Weekly, LitHub, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, the Medical Center were the first in North Carolina to News & Observer, and internationally by the BBC. perform a new radiation therapy procedure that is giving hope to patients with recurrent brain tumors. ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY The team’s GammaTile Therapy is a surgically As the Atlantic Coast prepares for its annual targeted radiation therapy in which a 3D-collagen hurricane season, an old wives’ tale passed down tile, embedded with radioactive Cesium-131 rods, is through generations warns that when major storms placed in the tumor cavity at the time of surgery. make landfall, it’s not just the storm surge you should worry about, but a surge in births. ECU associate professor Michelle Oyen and undergraduate researcher Mackenzie Wheeler’s research in Frontiers in Physiology’s special issue on the role of fetal membranes in pregnancy and birth explores this phenomenon. The pair used a model previously created by Oyen to develop a new mechanism that explains the potential correlation of premature births during weather-related events with large drops in barometric pressure.

DENTAL MEDICINE ECU’s School of Dental Medicine has received a $3.1 million grant to enhance resident training in the care of patients with special needs across the SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES state. The award from A unique grant celebrates ECU’s commitment to the Health Resources using interprofessional collaboration to address and Services emerging and challenging trends in health Administration, one care, including opioid use and substance abuse of the largest in prevention and treatment. An interdisciplinary team the dental school’s of researchers was awarded an $890,000 Graduate history, will focus on Psychology Education Program Grant from the improving dental Health Resource and Services Administration to care for pediatric support training for doctoral-level psychologists and elderly patients to provide integrated, interdisciplinary behavioral as well as those health as well as prevention and treatment services with mobility issues for opioid use disorder and other substance use and other complex disorders. health problems and those with mental, ART, COMMUNICATION, AND CULTURE emotional, and behavioral challenges. The five-year What happened to the 20th-century poet Elizabeth project addresses three specific goals — assessing Bishop during three life-changing weeks she spent and treating the needs of vulnerable populations, in Paris amid the imminent threat of World War II? expanding pediatric dentistry training to a rural The answer to this question is what Liza Wieland, location, and developing tools and training for distinguished professor of English at ECU, visualizes population health management. in her newest novel, Paris, 7 A.M. The book was

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | Research ACADEMICS

College and Schools Centers and Institutes ECU has 12 colleges and schools — 10 of which grant ECU’s centers, institutes, college and department degrees — plus a unique unit that consolidates the centers, research service centers, and field sites University’s groundbreaking coastal research and strengthen and enrich the University’s missions of education activities. research, service, and instruction. ECU has eight units that have a primary mission of research and six • Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences with a primary mission of service that transcend the • College of Allied Health Sciences traditional boundaries of academic departments, • College of Business bringing experts together across disciplines • College of Education to address complex issues and partner with • College of Engineering and Technology government and industry leaders. • College of Fine Arts and Communication • College of Health and Human Performance • Center for Applied Psychophysiology • College of Nursing • Center for Health Disparities • Honors College • Center for Natural Hazards Research • Graduate School • Center for STEM Education • School of Dental Medicine • Center for Sustainable Energy and • Brody School of Medicine Environmental Engineering • Integrated Coastal Programs • Center for Telepsychiatry and e-Behavioral Health • Coastal Studies Institute • Crisp Small Business Resource Center • East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute • East Carolina Heart Institute at ECU • North Carolina Agromedicine Institute • Pediatric Healthy Weight Research and Treatment Center • Rural Education Institute • Small Business Institute

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | A cademics College and Field Sites

Department Centers ECU’s research field sites allow faculty, staff, • School of Dental Medicine Community and students to work outside of the traditional Service-Learning Centers laboratory setting. Field sites are intended to bring • Center for Geographic Information Science research to the community and region, extending • Center for Healthcare Management Systems the University’s research efforts from Greenville to • Center for Innovation in Technology and the rest of the state. ECU’s field sites enhance both Engineering Outreach academic-driven and community-based research, • Center for Survey Research giving researchers the opportunity to partner with • Water Resources Center community members to solve the region’s toughest health, economic and educational disparities. Research Service Centers • ECU GlasStation • Animal Care and Husbandry • Sylvan Heights Bird Park • Brody School of Medicine Cellular Analysis/ Imaging Core • Brody School of Medicine Flow Cytometry Core Facility • Brody School of Medicine Mass Spectrometry Center • Coastal Studies Institute Marine Services • Diving and Water Safety Vessel Center • East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute Clinical and CS Services • East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute Structural Biology Core • Elemental Analysis Service Center (ICP-MS) • Environmental Research Lab • Geonomics Core Facility • Human Performance Lab Translational Research Core Services

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | A cademics Accreditation Academic Support

ECU is accredited by the Southern Association of for Students Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges We remain committed to a central tenet — that the (SACSCOC) to award baccalaureate, master’s, and success of our students is the ultimate measure of doctoral degrees. ECU offers a broad range of our university. Support is provided through a variety traditional and interdisciplinary majors to meet the of campus offices and centers including: needs of a diverse student body. • The Pirate Academic Success Center offers free Online Learning tutoring, study groups, academic skills coaching, peer academic success coaching, community A state leader in online learning even before the tutoring, and learning communities. pandemic, ECU offers more than 120 degree and • The Academic Advising Collaborative guides, certificate programs at both the undergraduate and serves, and supports students by partnering with graduate levels that are approved for online delivery academic departments and support services. in business, health care, education, technology, and other areas. • The University Writing Center offers the opportunity to share works-in-progress and talk about writing Partnerships with with consultants who are committed to cultivating learning experiences that support all stages of the Community Colleges writing process. Pirate™ Promise is ECU’s partnership with 38 • The mission of the Center for Counseling and community colleges giving students guaranteed Student Development is to enhance personal admission to ECU and waiving application fees when growth through developmental, preventative, and participating in the program and meeting certain therapeutic programming designed to facilitate skill criteria. These students receive academic advising development, improve functioning, and increase and have access to extensive resources to guide understanding of self and others. them through the transfer process. The opportunity to enhance the quality of existing community college • The Speech Communication Center offers one-on- partnerships and grow partnerships with additional one consultations and group workshops to help community colleges is a clear mechanism for serving students research, write, organize, and deliver an ECU’s mission in multiple ways. effective speech or presentation, work effectively in a group, excel in a job interview, or simply learn to speak in a more professional manner.

• Career Services supports and empowers students in their career development to succeed as professionals in a global community.

• The STEPP (Supporting Transition and Education through Planning and Partnerships) program provides access and comprehensive support throughout the university experience to students with learning disabilities.

• Through the Office of Student Affairs, theLedonia Wright Cultural Center, the Dr. Jesse R. Peel LGBTQ Center, and the Women and Gender Office provide additional support to ECU’s students. 15

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | A cademics Degree Inventory

Highest Enrollment Programs

Top Undergraduate Majors — 2020 Nursing Management Biology Marketing Psychology Communication Elementary Education Public Health Studies Exercise Physiology Criminal Justice 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 HighestHighest Enrollment Enrollment Programs Programs Number of Students Enrolled

Top Undergraduate Majors — 2020 Top Graduate Programs — 2020 Nursing Business Administration Management Nursing (MSN plus DNP) Biology Medicine Marketing Library Science Psychology Dental Medicine Communication Social Work Elementary Education 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 Public Health Studies Number of Students Enrolled Exercise Physiology Criminal Justice 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 Number of Students Enrolled

Top Graduate Programs — 2020 Business Administration 16 Nursing (MSN plus DNP) ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | A cademics Medicine Library Science Dental Medicine Social Work 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 Number of Students Enrolled Nearly + % + ECU 800students had curricular or increase in the number of $300,000 20 in scholarship funding provided through co-curricular experiences abroad students going on faculty-led generous donations from ECU benefactors in 2018–19, about a 9% programs from summer 2018 over the last 3 years increase over the previous year to summer 2019

Named a Top University for International Received 2016 Senator Paul Simon Award Students by U.S. News & World Report for Campus Internationalization for our for the second straight year Global Academic Initiatives program

Global Opportunities

ECU is committed to providing students with the opportunity to become more familiar with the social, political, cultural, and economic issues of importance in our increasingly globalized society. This commitment has been demonstrated by successful initiatives to welcome a growing number of international students and a significant expansion of faculty-led study abroad programs. We work to support international students academically, socially, and professionally, and to emphasize the benefits of studying abroad to our home-based students. The University is facilitating and expanding internationally focused programming on campus and around the world with options like these:

• Multidisciplinary studies major with a concentration in international studies

• Undergraduate certificate in global understanding

• International management certificate

• International teaching certificate

• Master’s in international studies

• Pirates Abroad, ECU’s suite of summer, semester and academic year study abroad programs

• ECU Tuscany, ECU’s year-round study abroad program in Certaldo Alto, Italy

• Undergraduate and graduate programs in several foreign languages and literatures 17

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | A cademics Culture of Innovation

• The only named school of entrepreneurship in North Carolina, the Miller School of Entrepreneurship serves as a regional hub partnering with key strategic partners to offer co-curricular programs that help serve as a catalyst for regional transformation. It was recognized as a Princeton Review Top 50 Undergraduate Program in 2020 and 2021.

• The Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge is a business pitch competition that now awards $100,000 in cash and prizes to students.

• ECU’s student entrepreneurship program, RISE29, was honored by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship with its award for Excellence in Co-Curricular Innovation. (January 2020) • ECU’s Eastern Region Pharma Center (ERPC) will soon be a pharmaceutical manufacturing training • The East Carolina Research and Innovation Campus center that educates students and pharmaceutical was conceived to connect the talents of university employees on advanced manufacturing techniques researchers with partners in industry, government, in the growing pharmaceutical industry in eastern military, and business to discover innovations that North Carolina. ERPC recently received a $1.9 million boost rural and coastal prosperity. grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. • Funded by the National Science Foundation, Innovation Corps@ECU (I-Corps) embraces the formation of ideas, innovation, and commercialization of inventions. ECU is one of only two schools in the state with this five-year funding.

• Greenville SEED@ECU is a partnership among the city of Greenville, ECU, and the Greenville- Pitt County Chamber of Commerce. Flexible collaborative space and support are provided to qualified entrepreneurs and start-up companies.

• ECU’s NSF Advance program grant, THRIVE@ECU seeks to reduce bias and improve gender equity for faculty in STEM fields.

• ECU is one of only 44 universities in the nation to hold the Carnegie Foundation’s Classification for Community Engagement and the designation of Innovation and Economic Prosperity (IEP) University by the Association of Public Land-grant Universities.

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | A cademics Health Sciences

As North Carolina’s top producer of health care SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE professionals, ECU’s robust Health Sciences Campus • The 2019 William J. Gies Award for innovation prepares leaders in the medical, dental, nursing, was awarded to the School of Dental Medicine for and allied health sciences fields. These colleges its breakthrough approach to providing practical and schools build on their individual programs experience for future dentists through rural service- by engaging in unique interprofessional and learning centers across North Carolina. interdisciplinary collaboration that brings out the best in students and helps bring equity in health care • The 2017 Gov. James E. Holshouser Jr. Award for to the state. Across the division, 12 programs rank in Excellence in Public Service was awarded to Gregory the top 50 according to U.S. News & World Report. Chadwick, DDS, MS, and dean of the School of Total Student Body Enrolled in Dental Medicine, for efforts to improve the quality of Total Student Body Enrolled in life for North Carolina’s citizens. STEM/HealthSTEM/Health Care Care BRODY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE • No. 1 in North Carolina and No. 2 in the United States for the percentage of graduates in the last decade who chose careers in family medicine

• Top 10% of U.S. medical schools for graduating physicians who practice in the state, practice primary care and practice in rural and underserved areas

• In June 2021, Chancellor Rogers announced the 9UNDERGRADUATE,515 2,GRADUATE638 intent toward full clinical integration of the Brody School of Medicine with Vidant Health, a 1447-bed COLLEGE OF NURSING health system, and the creation of a distinctive health • A top producer of new nurses among North system brand — ECU Health or similar branding Carolina’s four-year educational institutions — to serve the 1.4 million residents of eastern North Carolina. As part of executing the vision for • Top 20 in the U.S. for online master’s programs in a clinically integrated and rebranded academic nursing and Top 10 in several specialties as ranked health system, the Chancellor appointed Dr. Michael by U.S. News & World Report Waldrum, chief executive officer of Vidant Health, as the Dean of the Brody School of Medicine. He will COLLEGE OF ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES report directly to the Chancellor. Also appointed was • North Carolina’s first and most comprehensive Dr. Jason Higginson to the new position of Executive allied health sciences college and the state’s Dean of the medical school. largest university provider of allied health science professionals

• Most professional program alumni achieve a first- time perfect or near-perfect pass rate on national certification examinations with programs having a perfect to near-perfect initial alumni employment.

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | A cademics THE ROLE OF THE PROVOST AND SENIOR VICE CHANCELLOR FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Campus Commitments The Provost is a direct report to the Chancellor and Position Priorities and leader of the Academic Council composed A common vision and close working relationship of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Economic with the Chancellor, who holds a strong commitment Development and Engagement and the Vice to teamwork, will invigorate the work of the Provost Chancellor for Health Sciences. This individual will and bring increased vitality to the University be the lead voice of ECU’s academic enterprise community. A team orientation is embraced across and will partner with the Chancellor to set the tone ECU and results in a collegial dynamic among for effective and healthy shared governance at the senior leaders and faculty leaders even as ideas are University. The Provost is the senior institutional vigorously debated. The Provost will also be integral leader responsible for the academic and scholarly to promoting and supporting open communication, strategy and a key thought partner to the shared governance, and an intentional commitment Chancellor, ensuring the University remains mission- to Chancellor Rogers’ vision for modern approaches aligned, future-focused, and innovation-driven. for delivering on ECU’s mission. Collaboration with campus leaders and deans to deliver contemporary programs to a diverse and Opportunities and challenges for the next Provost wide audience through varied methods will be are the following: critical to success in the role. Direct reports to the Provost include 9 campus deans, the Associate Vice MAXIMIZE STUDENT SUCCESS Chancellor and Chief Academic Success Officer, Academic Library Services, Institutional Planning The success of our students is the ultimate measure Assessment and Research, the Office for Equity of our university. We will support excellence, expand and Diversity, the Associate Vice Chancellor of opportunity, and celebrate achievement. Administration, and the Vice Provost. The Provost will oversee a budget of approximately $181 million The Provost must be attuned to the barriers that for academic operations and personnel. In addition, impede access to and completion of an ECU the Provost will represent ECU academics and will education and inspire a culture where innovation is coordinate academic initiatives with the University of a priority. They will work to ensure ease of access North Carolina System Office. and the necessary financial and academic support of a diverse student body, reducing and removing

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | Role of the Provost/Sr Vice Chancellor barriers that hinder goal attainment. They will seek to enhance student success initiatives, increase retention and graduation rates, and be an active participant in national conversations focused on access, affordability, programmatic innovation, and technology in higher education. They will engage the faculty, deans, and University leadership in dialogue to ensure that programs remain competitive and relevant, maintain a broad reach, and utilize a variety of curriculum delivery modes to ensure the greatest access and potential success of participants. A student-centric approach that prioritizes initiatives leading to student success and serves the needs of eastern North Carolina will be central to success in leverage. The ECU community takes pride in serving the role. eastern North Carolina, something that the new Provost should be ready to embrace, extend, and ECU must be on the front lines of developing and enhance. The Provost will affirm and strengthen the educating the next generation of learners who will public’s trust in the University and ensure that the lead the region, state, country, and world, while institution supports the region. In the same vein, the also adapting to a shifting market and serving Provost will articulate a clear sense of the academic adult learners and post-traditional students more vision and priorities for the University, as well as strategically and effectively. Emerging digital the pathways to achieving these priorities. They will technologies and innovative tools are not just work to foster collaborative conversations, integrate expected but required to facilitate effective learning curricula, assess opportunities, build new programs, experiences for current and future students. ECU and establish strategic partnerships that align with must develop new and innovative strategies to meet the academic vision of the University and the needs students where they are using predictive analytics, of its unique setting in eastern North Carolina. ECU’s digital tools, high-flex classrooms, and other student first leader, Robert Wright, envisioned an education success mechanisms to deliver on the ECU promise equal to the very best institutions of higher learning, of a high-quality education. The Provost will use data while also lifting the quality of life for the entire to inform academic strategies, and in doing so, will region where students leave afire with enthusiasm generate higher-quality discussion and decisions as for East Carolina. The Provost will ensure that this a result. commitment to serve the region remains at the center of an ECU education. SERVE THE PUBLIC LEAD REGIONAL TRANSFORMATION Service is at the heart of this university. We will inspire the next generation of leaders to carry this We embrace the challenges and resources of eastern spirit of service into their professional lives. We will North Carolina. We recognize that transformative demonstrate this commitment to service to benefit leadership requires us to engage globally. Through communities in rural North Carolina and beyond. partnerships and discovery, we will be a force for rural progress and growth to achieve global impact. ECU’s motto is Servire, meaning To Serve, and the Provost lives this commitment in their work each day. ECU’s role in the educational, cultural, and economic The Provost will join a community of faculty and staff communities of eastern North Carolina breeds who are proud to work in service of ECU’s distinct possibilities for creative thinking and contribution. mission. The consistency of commitment across The Provost will encourage the use of knowledge faculty and staff, its genuineness, and the lengths to created by the University to contribute to solving which faculty and staff go to live the mission in their the biggest challenges in the region such as work are remarkable assets for the next Provost to health issues, coastal community resiliency, rural

ECU LEADERSHIP PROFILE | Role of the Provost/Sr Vice Chancellor development, advanced manufacturing, and ENGAGE FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENTS assisting the military. A critical component of the role IN ACADEMIC PLANNING AND DELIVERY is to partner with business and community leaders AS WELL AS ENSURE THE APPROPRIATE to identify workforce needs and develop programs RESOURCES FOR THESE INITIATIVES to fill those gaps. As the academic architect of the University, the Provost will work with faculty, staff, The University has the talent and resources to achieve and the community to provide dynamic educational any goal it identifies, but not all aspirations can be experiences to prepare students to lead in a funded simultaneously. multicultural society and engage the region with Faculty, staff, and students possess unique and inclusive social and economic opportunities. insightful perspectives about how roles, policies, and practices could most benefit the institutional ADVANCE THE UNIVERSITY’S EFFORTS TO community. These ideas must be discussed actively ESTABLISH A CULTURE OF DIVERSITY AND and openly for the best possible directions to be INCLUSION pursued. The rationale for academic choices must be We are all ECU Pirates, and we can only be our best clearly communicated. Understanding the different when we live our ideals as a shared community of roles that faculty, staff, and students have in the learners. academic enterprise and the distinct responsibilities of the faculty is essential for effectively implementing The Provost, in collaboration with other University academic priorities. The next Provost will have leaders, will play a central role in continuing the the ultimate responsibility for ensuring that the University’s efforts to diversify the student body, appropriate resources are dedicated and effectively faculty, and staff, and in actively developing a culture stewarded to assure the success of these academic in which widely diverse members of the University priorities. community are not only welcomed, but viewed as critical in the development of academic excellence. FULFILLING THE VISION OF THE UNIVERSITY It is essential that the Provost possess the skills, passion, and experience to advance these efforts. Higher education and society as a whole are changing at an increasing rate. Adaptive leadership is needed more than ever, and ECU is poised to lead in North Carolina and beyond.

The next Provost must be highly knowledgeable about national trends in academic affairs and higher education overall, including the escalating challenges and scrutiny public universities face. The individual brings an authentic appreciation of what makes ECU extraordinary and a keen interest in leading the University to an even more accomplished future while embracing its core mission of education and access.

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The ideal candidate will be a bold leader and • A strong awareness of health science academic academic innovator. They will have strong programs and related clinical environments and interpersonal and communication skills and a deep their important connection to the ECU mission and understanding of and commitment to the mission community it serves; of ECU and the eastern North Carolina region. A terminal degree within a department or program • A dedication to shared governance and transparency; at ECU and a deep appreciation of the institution’s • Keen listening skills and exceptional communication student-centric culture will be required. In addition, skills with a diversity of groups and stakeholders the individual must have significant administrative within and beyond the ECU community; experience appropriate to the size and complexity of ECU with an understanding of both a traditional • An ability to understand and clearly and persuasively academic portfolio and a health sciences enterprise. promote a public research university that has a deep commitment to engagement and service in eastern The ideal candidate will be an experienced leader North Carolina and beyond; with a track record of success in a contemporary academic environment. • Experience and comfort using data from multiple sources to inform strategy, policy, and practice, To provide necessary and effective leadership for including evaluating and implementing the use of ECU, the new Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for new technologies for educational delivery; Academic Affairs will embody the mission of ECU • A record of engaging with student-centered and have many of the following attributes: approaches to academic affairs, and a demonstrated predisposition to partner with student affairs; • A collaborative approach to leadership, coupled with the ability to exercise authority, prioritize, and make • A strong track record of successful personnel strategic decisions; management, including experience mentoring talented faculty, staff, administrators, and students to • Emotional intelligence, a positive outlook, and perform at their best; humility; superb intellect and curiosity, flexibility, high energy, and self-confidence to enable • Deep knowledge of the interrelationships between successful navigation and management of a complex recruitment strategies, enrollment, tuition revenue, institution in a time of sociocultural changes; and programmatic costs;

• A demonstrated commitment to inclusive • An understanding of the existing higher education excellence and social justice, and a track record that landscape and the ways in which current choices demonstrates the ability to ensure a welcoming and create both future opportunities and constraints; nurturing environment for a diverse community of faculty, staff, and students; • The ability to confidently, accurately, and positively promote ECU’s successes among internal and • An innovation mindset with a strong entrepreneurial external audiences while unhesitatingly raising spirit and the dynamic work ethic necessary to take awareness of the many and deep ways that the full advantage of opportunities to advance the University promotes economic, social, civic, and institution as they emerge; personal thriving;

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C.S. 20-1262 Procedure for Candidacy

• A demonstrated track record of working The review of credentials will begin immediately and collaboratively and with integrity, seeking will continue until the position is filled. Candidates partnerships and maximizing resources; should provide a curriculum vita and letter of application. Requests for information and all written • Experience with a variety of students including first- nominations and applications should be directed to: generation and adult and post–traditional learners;

• The ability to set high standards for faculty and willingness to communicate those standards with exceptional clarity;

• A record of support for excellence in teaching, Jim Sirianni, Managing Director innovation, professional development, and scholarly Beth McCarthy, Senior Associate and creative activity; [email protected]

• An appreciation of the role of the UNC System in coordinating and overseeing the state of North Carolina’s public universities; and,

• Exceptional budgetary and financial management skills, including awareness of the near-term interdependencies and long-term implications of financial decisions in a large, complex organization with an academic health center as well as the ability to generate resources, including through development efforts.

East Carolina University is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and seeks to create an environment that fosters the recruitment and retention of a more diverse student body, faculty, staff and administration. We encourage qualified applicants from women, minorities, veterans, individuals with a disability, and historically underrepresented groups. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race/ethnicity, color, genetic information, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, political affiliation, or veteran status. 24

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