Brooklyn College Associate Dean of the School of Business
School of Business
Brooklyn, NY
POSITION TITLE
ASSOCIATE DEAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
December, 2012
Prepared by:
Brian Bloomfield
Witt / Kieffer
Brooklyn College Associate Dean of the School of Business
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Opportunity ...... 1
Brooklyn College Background ...... 1 Brooklyn College Academic Reorganization ...... 3 The Faculty ...... 3 Brooklyn College Students ...... 3 The Strategic Plan ...... 4 Brooklyn College Finances ...... 5 President Karen L. Gould ...... 5 The Campus ...... 6 The Community ...... 6
The Role of the Associate Dean of The School of Business ...... 8 Strategic planning and accreditation ...... 8 Degree programs and faculty recruitment ...... 8 Curricula and programmatic development ...... 8 Enrollment management ...... 8
Requisite qualifications ...... 9
Procedures for Candidacy ...... 10
Appendix 1: Search Committee ...... 11
Brooklyn College Associate Dean of the School of Business
THE OPPORTUNITY
Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York, invites inquiries, nominations, and expressions of interest for the position of Associate Dean of the School of Business. Under the leadership of inaugural Dean Dr. Willie Hopkins, the Brooklyn College School of Business is preparing to become a fully AACSB-accredited business school that will lead in preparing young business and management professionals to meet the challenges of a complex global business environment.
Reporting directly to Dean Hopkins, the Associate Dean will collaborate with faculty and department chairs to prepare the school for its initial AACSB accreditation, assist with strategic planning processes, assess and revise curriculum and programs as needed, develop and implement an enrollment management plan, and complete other tasks as required. The Associate Dean may also be expected to perform some teaching duties.
The School of Business consists of three departments (i.e., Accounting, Economics, and Finance and Business Management) and is the third largest public business school in New York State. This is a particularly exciting period of remarkable evolution and growth for Brooklyn College, which recently created four new schools, each led by an inaugural dean responsible for articulating a vision and developing a strategy for the College’s continued expansion and success.
BROOKLYN COLLEGE BACKGROUND
Brooklyn College is a dynamic institution in the City University of New York system with a proud history of academic excellence in both undergraduate and graduate studies. Since its founding in 1930, the College has offered men and women, many of them immigrants or the children of immigrants, often the first in their families to go to college—a high-quality, affordable education leading to a productive career and a life rich in opportunities.
The College offers rigorous undergraduate and graduate programs in five schools: Business; Education; Humanities and Social Sciences; Natural and Behavioral Sciences; and Visual, Media and Performing Arts. A nationally recognized core curriculum, a commitment to experiential learning and engaged research, and growing opportunities for study abroad prepare our graduates to provide strong leadership for the 21st-century global economy.
Nationally recognized for academic excellence, Brooklyn College is considered one of the nation’s best value colleges by the Princeton Review, and it is one of only twenty colleges nationwide to receive an “A” from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. U.S. News & World Report ranks Brooklyn College among the best regional public universities in the Northeast, and Forbes includes it among the top colleges in the country based on “…educational outcomes, not reputations.”
The 16,500 students enrolled at Brooklyn College reflect the tremendous diversity and rich immigrant experience of New York City’s population. Their families come from 150 different countries, and they speak more than one hundred languages.
Over the past several years, Brooklyn College has made significant progress on many key measures of success. Graduation rates are on the rise, freshman-to-sophomore retention rates
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have increased significantly, and new students possess higher GPAs and SAT scores. The faculty continue to receive international recognition, garnering many prestigious grants and awards to advance their research and scholarship.
Several exciting initiatives are now underway to sustain and grow the college’s academic programs. Most notably, $18.7 million in funding has been secured to establish a Graduate School of Cinema at Steiner Studios. Poised to prepare the skilled workforce needed to fuel the state’s growing entertainment industry, it will be the nation’s only graduate school fully housed on a working film lot. It will also be a more affordable option for students from all economic backgrounds, with the cost of a degree less than one-half that of comparable programs nationwide. The college has also initiated a multi-year process to achieve accreditation for its new School of Business, which serves thousands of students pursuing degrees in accounting, economics, finance, management, and marketing. Once accreditation is earned, it will be the only AACSB-accredited institution in Brooklyn.
Guided by the college’s facilities master plan, planning and construction are underway on several capital projects. The college recently opened a new athletics field, which meets NCAA regulations for soccer and softball, paving the way for a new women’s soccer team. Construction of the new Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts is on track to conclude in 2014. Architectural design has been completed for the new Roosevelt Science Teaching Commons, which will provide state-of-the-art laboratories and classrooms for all of the sciences, and a sustainable green space for our entire campus community. The college is also planning to address the serious unmet facilities needs of our School of Business on adjacent property acquired by the Brooklyn College Foundation in 2011.
Over the past decade, the Brooklyn College faculty has experienced a renaissance, expanding and diversifying with the hiring of more than 250 new scholar-teachers who now make up 50 percent of the full-time teaching faculty. Its professors have received prestigious Fulbright, Guggenheim, and Woodrow Wilson fellowships and are the recipients of major sponsored research support from national funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Education and NASA. Ursula Oppens, world- renowned concert pianist and contemporary American music performer, joined the faculty in 2008. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Brooklyn College alumnus Paul Moses returned to the College in 2001 to teach in CUNY’s oldest journalism program. The faculty also includes Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and writer Edwin Burrows, Guggenheim Fellowship composer Tania León, Obie Award–winning playwright Mac Wellman, internationally recognized computer theorist Rohit Parikh, esteemed audiologist Shlomo Silman, leading expert in microalgae biotechnology Juergen Polle, and political scientist and author Corey Robin.
The tradition of academic excellence at Brooklyn College is reflected in the notable accomplishments of its graduates. More than three thousand alumni are listed in the series of Marquis Who’s Who directories; more than three hundred alumni are presidents, vice presidents, or chairpersons of the boards of major corporations. Many Brooklyn College graduates continue their studies at prestigious institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania, and they have one of the highest acceptance rates into medical schools among the CUNY senior colleges. The list of notable alumni includes novelist Irwin Shaw, ’34; radio pioneer Himan Brown, ’34; football coach Allie Sherman, ’43; Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Stanley Cohen, ’43; Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, ’46; film director Paul Mazursky, ’51; Brooklyn Academy of Music impresario Harvey Lichtenstein, ’51; novelist Paule Marshall, ’52; noted defense attorney and legal scholar Alan Dershowitz, ’59; former New Line Cinema CEO Michael Lynne, ’61; California Senator Barbara Boxer, ’62; author Frank McCourt, M.A., ’67; Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, ’70;
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CEO of Adobe Systems Incorporated Bruce Chizen, ’77; actor Jimmy Smits, ’80; novelist Gloria Naylor, ’81; poet and novelist, Sapphire, ’95; CNN anchor, Don Lemon, ’96; and SoHo Repertory Theater Director, Sara Benson, ’05.
Brooklyn College strives to be a student-centered campus with a highly regarded core curriculum that provides all undergraduates with a strong background in the liberal arts and sciences. A variety of advisement programs ensure that students are well advised and effectively mentored throughout their course of study. The First College Year program facilitates the transition to college with summer bridge programs and Learning Communities that strengthen bonds among new students and the faculty. International education programs offer study abroad opportunities around the world. Brooklyn College professors provide undergraduate and graduate students with a wide variety of research opportunities, service learning, and community-based learning initiatives.
Brooklyn College Academic Reorganization
After remarkable evolution and growth, Brooklyn College has become more complex and ambitious. Recognizing the need to enhance strategic decision making, promote academic visibility, and improve efficiencies, four new schools of business, humanities and social sciences, natural and behavioral sciences, and visual, media and performing arts, were created in summer 2011, joining the existing school of education, each led by a dean. With the faculty, they are shaping the future of a broad range of academic programs.
The Faculty
In the last decade, Brooklyn College has hired 250 new faculty members – as a result of expanded enrollment and in response to retirements of faculty members who were hired in the early 1970’s. These new faculty members have significantly changed the profile of the faculty both in areas of expertise and in diversity. Additional retirements due to the 2011 Early Retirement Incentive Program are resulting in new hires for 2012, 2013, and 2014. Brooklyn College faculty members have terminal degrees from many of the most distinguished institutions in the country.
The faculty of Brooklyn College is represented by the CUNY-wide Professional Staff Congress, its collective bargaining agent. The contractual faculty workload is 21 hours annually. Efforts to protect junior faculty as their research careers develop have resulted in a reduced workload of 24 hours, which must be taken in the first five years of appointment.
Brooklyn College Students
Composed largely of traditional college-age students, the entering freshman class for fall 2012 numbered 1,148, while new transfers numbered 1,680. The number of entering graduate students was 1,072 in the fall 2012 semester. Total enrollment for the 2012-2013 academic year is more than 16,524.
College admissions criteria are increasingly selective, and high-achieving high school students apply in ever-larger numbers for admission to the William E. Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College as well as other college honors programs. Graduate students seek out the College for its highly regarded and competitive programs across the disciplines, with keen
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interest in the visual and performing arts, creative writing, education, psychology, and the sciences.
Brooklyn College students continue to receive broad recognition for their academic achievements. Recent award winners include Zajaja Tauqeer ’10, Rhodes Scholar; Neha Shark, ’10, Jonas Salk Award for medical studies; Rosemary Taveras ’10 and Anne Boatner, ’12, Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship, which provides internships and mentoring to promising undergraduates; Ana R. Rodriguez, ’08, New York City Urban Fellowship; Christopher Browne, ’09, and Amy Iturres-Alomia, ’09, Gilman Awards for study abroad; Mary Pennisi, ’08, and Rhiannon Varmette, ’06, Fulbright Awards; Terri Bennett, ’08, honorable mention from the National Science Foundation and Enhanced Chancellor’s Award for graduate study in earth and environmental science; and Will Aibinder, ’09, Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Scholarship and participant in a mission to Ghana led by Dr. Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, chief of the scoliosis service at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Student achievements continue to grow in number and prestige.
Brooklyn College students participate in more than 140 academic, special interest, and social clubs; three student newspapers; and a student-run radio station, BCR, located at 1090 AM. The College participates in NCAA Division III athletics and offers an exciting and energetic intramural sports program.
The Strategic Plan
The Brooklyn College community completed a strategic plan in May 2011 that articulates the mission, vision, values, core commitments, and goals of the college for the next five years. The 2011-2016 Strategic Plan states that the College will:
• provide an outstanding educational experience for our students;
• foster a dynamic, responsive, and inclusive academic community;
• capitalize on Brooklyn as a learning environment and a gateway to the world;
• promote the impact of Brooklyn College and its alumni; and
• improve institutional effectiveness and enhance campus infrastructure.
That plan provides many exciting opportunities and challenges as are evident in the plan’s core commitments:
• Recruit, retain, and support a committed, diverse, and qualified student body and equip them with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to become proud and successful Brooklyn College graduates and responsible citizens.
• Recruit, retain, and support a distinguished and diverse faculty as well as an expert, diverse staff who support and promote excellence in teaching, learning, scholarship, creative work, and service.
• Build and renovate a physical plant and infrastructure that support the academic community in the pursuit of the mission.
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• Strive for continuous improvement by aligning assessment and accountability with resource allocation.
• Designate existing fiscal resources strategically and in alignment with college priorities.
• Expand external funding resources to support student success, faculty excellence, program enhancements, and infrastructure.
• Develop distinctive, high quality programs and activities at Brooklyn College in concert with the CUNY Master Plan and the CUNY Performance Management Process.
Brooklyn College Finances
Brooklyn College projects an operating budget of approximately $129 million for academic year 2013-2014. As of September 2012, the Brooklyn College Foundation had more than $67.3 million under investment. Brooklyn College has maintained balanced operating budgets for the past several years.
The Brooklyn College Foundation supports Brooklyn College in its mission to provide affordable access to excellent higher education. The Foundation's programs include student scholarships, awards, and travel support, as well as funding for faculty research and endowed professorships. This year alone, the Foundation financed $1.6 million in scholarships, internships, travel awards, fellowships, and emergency grants to nearly 1,100 students; and nearly $350,000 for faculty professorships, travel awards, and research fellowships. In addition, the Foundation plays a key role in financing major capital construction projects on campus, such as the construction of the new Leonard and Claire Tow Performing Arts Center.
President Karen L. Gould
Karen L. Gould, an internationally known scholar in the field of French-Canadian literature, is the ninth president of Brooklyn College. Appointed in June 2009 by the City University of New York Board of Trustees, Gould is the first woman to serve as president of the College. In her first year, Gould began reshaping the College with such signature initiatives as the creation of a new vice presidential division of enrollment management, the plan for four new academic schools, the development of two new departments in accounting and in finance and business management, the creation of a new office of international education and global engagement to promote study abroad and global educational linkages, and the launching of a new institutional brand and marketing campaign. She has worked to elevate school spirit, promoted sustainability initiatives, provided increased support for academic technology initiatives, and expanded business, community, and cultural institution partnerships.
Before coming to the College, Gould served as the provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), one of the largest and most diverse of 23 public institutions in the CSU system with eight academic colleges, comprising 31,000 undergraduates and 7,000 graduate students, including 1,400 international students.
Gould is the author or co-editor of six books and more than 50 articles and essays on contemporary Quebec literature, francophone women writers, and the modern French novel. She has been honored with the Canadian Governor General’s International Award for Canadian
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Studies in 2003 and the Donner Medal in Canadian Studies in 2005 for her work in Canadian studies. Gould is the former editor of the interdisciplinary journal Québec Studies and has received numerous grants and fellowships for her research from the Fulbright Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Association of University Women, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Canadian Government, and others. Active in the profession, she has served as president of the International Council for Canadian Studies, president of the American Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, and as executive board member for the national Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences. She is a member of the Women’s Forum of New York City, the Presidents Circle of the National Council for Research on Women, and the Higher Education Working Group on Global Issues, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. She serves on the boards of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and the CUNY Research Foundation.
Gould received a B.A., cum laude, from Occidental College in 1970, a diploma from the Sorbonne, and a Ph.D. in romance languages from the University of Oregon in 1975.
The Campus
The Brooklyn College campus, ranked among the most beautiful in the country by the Princeton Review, is a thriving academic hub in the heart of Brooklyn. The College’s 26 acre campus features two classic quadrangles surrounded by stately Georgian architecture. The College’s 14 buildings include a new state-of-the-art student services and physical education/athletic facility, an expanded and technologically advanced library, multiple performance spaces, a television center, and a student-run radio station.
A major capital construction and renovation program is currently in progress at Brooklyn College. Over the past fifteen years, New York State has allocated more than $500 million in capital funds to the College. The creation of a new performing arts center is underway, a new athletics field is nearing completion, and a new science complex is currently in design with a well-known architectural firm.
In partnership with the College, a local developer recently opened the first collegiate residence hall in fall 2010. Situated two blocks from the campus, the residence hall is enhancing recruitment and student life opportunities for the College.
The Community
Home to over 2.7 million people, the Borough of Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City. Heralded for its diversity and thriving arts and cultural amenities, Brooklyn is home to some of the most diverse neighborhoods in New York City. It also contains some of New York’s most treasured and historic sites, including Coney Island, the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, and Green-Wood Cemetery. Brooklyn’s well-known architecture is evidenced not only by the famed Brooklyn Bridge, but also by the beautiful brownstone communities in historic Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Brooklyn is known as the borough of churches, among which may be found the oldest Mosque and Dutch Reform Church in the state, as well as Henry Ward Beecher’s Plymouth Church, which served as a final stop on the Underground Railroad.
Starting in the early 1990s, Brooklyn experienced an economic and cultural renaissance, when theaters, art galleries, and restaurants revitalized downtown Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Carroll Gardens, and Greenpoint. With the renovation of its waterfront area, DUMBO, the neighborhood
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between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, became noted for its trend-setting apartments and art spaces. In recent months, a ribbon of green parks has begun to transform the old docks and piers along the East River into beautiful sites for concerts and recreational events. The Brooklyn Navy Yard is the new home of Steiner Studios and an increasing number of green industries and businesses.
Additional community information is available at http://www.visitbrooklyn.org and at http://www.nyc.gov.
Brooklyn College is located in the Flatbush/Midwood community, a residential neighborhood. Flatbush includes the planned communities of Prospect Park South, Beverly Square West, Beverly Square East, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Ditmas Park, and Fiske Terrace. Bordering Flatbush on the north is the community of Crown Heights. On the east, within the old town of Flatbush, is East Flatbush, and on the west are Kensington and Parkville (formerly Greenfield). Midwood lies to the south, roughly halfway between Prospect Park and Coney Island.
The Flatbush/Midwood area is well served by public transportation. Four major subway lines, including two express lines, have a number of stops within the community, and service to Manhattan can take as little as half an hour.
For a complete list of public transportation available, please refer to New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s web site: http://www.mta.info.
More information on Brooklyn College may be found at its web site: http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu.
Additional information about New York City and its five boroughs, including Brooklyn, is available at: http://www.iloveny.com/Cities-And-Towns/new-york-city.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatbush,_Brooklyn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwood http://www.essortment.com/all/newyorkcitybo_rvdk.htm
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THE ROLE OF THE ASSOCIATE DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
This is an exceptional opportunity for an individual with the drive, skill, integrity and experience to bring energetic leadership to an institution on the move and to play a meaningful role in shaping the future of Brooklyn College and its new School of Business. Reporting to the School’s inaugural Dean, Dr. Willie Hopkins, the Associate Dean will collaborate with department chairs, faculty and staff to prepare the school for its initial AACSB accreditation. She or he will oversee and be responsible for the following areas, initiatives and programs.
Strategic planning and accreditation
A chief objective of the new Associate Dean will be to assist in strategic planning processes and to prepare The Brooklyn College School of Business for its AACSB accreditation. The Associate Dean will ensure that the school is able to address each requirement and step of the AACSB accreditation process, from eligibility and self-evaluation to the peer-review site visit and final approval.
Degree programs and faculty recruitment To fulfill many of the criteria and standards for the AACSB accreditation, the Associate Dean will need to ensure that the appropriate degree programs are in place as well as the faculty to lead them. The Associate Dean will be expected to work with the Dean and department chairs to recruit exceptional faculty to conduct research, teach and serve in the various programmatic disciplines of the school.
Curricula and programmatic development
To satisfy the AACSB accreditation curriculum standards, the Associate Dean will be expected to work with the Dean, department chairs to develop the appropriate course syllabi and academic programs for all business courses.
Enrollment management
The Associate Dean will work with the Dean, department chairs and the Provost’s office to develop and implement an enrollment management plan for the School of Business and its integration with the broader College. In an effort to increase a diverse student body and expand enrollment, the Associate Dean will help create strategies and tactics to meet institutional goals and objectives.
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REQUISITE QUALIFICATIONS
Brooklyn College seeks an innovative and knowledgeable academic leader who will uphold and model the School of Business’s values and work with faculty, staff and students to promote a positive and collaborative climate across the School and campus. The ideal candidate will be an intellectual leader and educator with a distinguished record of scholarship in her/his field and hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent) degree in a business discipline from an AACSB accredited business school. Appointment to this position will be at the rank of associate or full professor, and tenure can be granted upon appointment, depending on qualifications and experience. The successful candidate will possess the following qualifications and set of experiences:
• A strong and consistent record of research and scholarship in peer-reviewed business journals and a history of excellent teaching.
• Demonstrated successful academic leadership, administrative experience and budgetary management skills.
• A proven ability to develop organizational strategies, set priorities and goals, and lead institutional change that results in the successful achievement of strategic goals.
• A commitment to exemplary teaching, education, training, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Experience and/or strong familiarity with AACSB accreditation processes, standards and curriculum development.
• Experience with exceptional faculty recruitment, promotion and retainment efforts.
• Highly-developed organizational skills with the ability to collect and organize data, and to create and expedite reports.
• Effective communication and conflict management skills.
• Ability to build teams and work collaboratively with various constituencies and individuals across the School of Business and Brooklyn College.
• Ability to identify responsibilities, prioritize them, and establish working plans to accomplish them, rather than merely responding to events which dictate priorities.
• Ability to handle multiple, critical tasks simultaneously and to re-prioritize on a continuous basis.
• Demonstrated ability to work in and promote a diverse environment.
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PROCEDURES FOR CANDIDACY
Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York, invites inquiries, nominations, and expressions of interest for the position of Associate Dean of the School of Business. The appointment for this position begins ideally on or before August 1, 2013. Brooklyn College has retained the executive search services of Witt/Kieffer and consultant Brian Bloomfield (630-575- 6198) to assist in this recruitment, which will continue until the position is filled. Nominations, inquiries and candidate materials (e.g. resume/CV and cover letter or biographical summary) can be sent in confidence via email to Witt/Kieffer at [email protected]. Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat files are preferred.
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, and it seeks candidates who are committed to the highest standards of scholarship and professional activities and to the development of a campus climate that supports equality and diversity.
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APPENDIX 1: SEARCH COMMITTEE
Stephanie Walker, Committee Chair & Library Administrator
Paul Goldberg, Associate Professor, Economics
Chun Wang, Assistant Professor, Economics
Veronica Manlow, Assistant Professor, Finance & Business Management
Mitchell Langbert, Associate Professor, Finance & Business Management & Deputy Chair
Irene LaClaustra, Executive Assistant, Dean of School of Business
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