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President the Opportunity BISMARCK STATE COLLEGE WELCOMES APPLICATIONS AND NOMINATIONS FOR THE POSITION OF PRESIDENT THE OPPORTUNITY The State Board of Higher Education for the North The successful candidate will succeed retiring President Dakota University System and the Bismarck State Larry C. Skogen. Dr. Skogen became president of College (BSC) community invite applications for Bismarck State College on March 1, 2007. He is the the position of President. The State Board and college’s sixth leader over the course of its 80-year history. Chancellor have charged the search committee The next president will begin on, or before, July 1, 2020. to identify an energetic and engaging leader. This successful candidate will lead the institution as BSC expands its mission toward a polytechnic model while embracing and deepening the college’s proud and successful community college offerings which include technical degrees and transfer options. The president of Bismarck State College serves as the chief executive officer for the state’s third largest higher education institution, one of 11 within the North Dakota University System. The president reports to the chancellor and the Board of Higher Education. The president directly oversees the vice presidents of Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Finance & Operations, and College Advancement (who also serves as executive director of the BSC Foundation). The Chief Human Resources, Chief College Relations officers, the athletics director, and the executive assistant for the President’s Office also report directly to the President. 2 EXPECTATIONS The president will be asked to provide consistent, The successful candidate will be tuned into the changing balanced, thoughtful leadership, serving as the trusted landscape of both higher education and the needs and voice of BSC for the long-term. With innovation noted in expectations of the students it serves. The president will its mission, BSC’s president must be a creative thinker with be a strong advocate and a positive presence able to a proven ability to lead energetically into the future. The inspire the college community as it moves forward. The next president will have a strong grounding in academia successful individual will be able to make complex, data- and insight into economic drivers and the inherent driven decisions for the common good and communicate connections between the two. They will be an advocate the path to those decisions. She or he should be able for the college and community, and a transparent to manage diverse relationships, build consensus, and communicator able to connect to and motivate faculty, practice integrity. The president will be expected to build staff, alumni and the college’s partners at the local, partnerships and collaborate for the well-being of the national, and international level. college, the system, and the state of North Dakota. CHARACTERISTICS The successful candidate should possess most, if not all, of the following characteristics: RELATIONAL • Demonstrated commitment to student access, achievement, and retention • Understanding and appreciation for the values, trends and needs of 21st century students • An attitude of open, honest, mutual respect in discussion and action ORGANIZATIONAL • Ability to forge partnerships and connect with alumni, the community, and private sector • Support for a diverse approach to education • Ability to leverage the synergies found in post- including the need for multiple modalities of secondary education, secondary education, workforce instruction and all levels of government • Commitment to academic freedom • A demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity and • Demonstrated advocacy for students, faculty and staff inclusion through intentional partnerships among • Strong understanding of large, complex budgets and students, faculty, staff, and community fiscal responsibility • Value for strategic visioning, planning, and informed, data-based decision making leading to student COMMUNICATING AND LISTENING success • Ability to relate to students, campus, and community stakeholders MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS • Ability to motivate and invigorate staff, faculty and students around a purpose or vision • Progressively responsible administrative experience • Ability to use a process of active listening and fair • Master’s degree from a regionally accredited assessment to make decisions postsecondary institution • Willingness to take measured risks and engage in creative problem solving PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS • Connection and commitment to the culture, values, • Earned doctorate or terminal degree from a and attributes of the upper Midwest regionally accredited postsecondary institution • Understanding of the college’s impact on the cultural • Senior leadership experience in a higher education fabric of the community through activities such as setting, as well as teaching experience athletics, enrichment programming and the arts • Leadership experience in a community college offering baccalaureate degree options The successful candidate should be committed to working effectively in a statewide system of higher education (North Dakota University System) and with a statewide governing board (State Board of Higher Education). 3 THE COLLEGE Founded in 1939, Bismarck Junior College was a bold The college offers two-year degrees that seamlessly Depression-era experiment created in response to the transfer to four-year universities, technical training, community’s need for a local college. The first students BAS degrees and four-year degree options on campus started classes at Bismarck Junior College on Sept. 4, through partnerships with other North Dakota universities. 1939, on the third floor of Bismarck High School with 107 full- and part-time students and 12 instructors. By the In addition to the primary campus, BSC has two external late 1940s a new location became increasingly urgent as locations. The Bismarck State College-Mandan Campus enrollments soared with returning GIs. opened in 2007 and houses the Mechanical Maintenance Technology program. The Lineworker program has long In 1951 the ND Legislature granted the college 15 acres been located on the Old Red Trail in Mandan where an on the Capitol grounds for a campus site. BJC moved outdoor forest of poles provides hands-on practice for into its own building at 900 Boulevard Avenue in 1955. lineworker students. Additionally, BSC offers its nursing Within a few years, the college outgrew that space, and program at five rural locations. in 1959 Harold Schafer, a local entrepreneur and founder of the successful Gold Seal Company, offered BJC land Bismarck State College is the third largest institution in overlooking the Missouri River at the northwest edge of the North Dakota University System with nearly 4,000 Bismarck. Classes began on the new campus in the fall of college students, and 22,000 community members 1961 in a single building, Schafer Hall. involved in continuing education and training. BSC is an online education pioneer and many programs are offered Today, that former horse pasture is the site of a 107-acre fully online. campus that’s been transformed with the addition of more than 20 buildings, countless landscape projects, the MDU Resources Community Bowl, parking lots, BACKGROUND ON MISSION EXPANSION walking paths and more. With more than 480 students BSC’s current mission is as a comprehensive living on campus in six residence halls, attendance and community college. The college’s programming engagement in student clubs and organizations, athletic is grounded in transfer, technical, and workforce events, music and theater all create a vibrant extension of development and training programs, focused on the community. student success and workforce responsiveness. Over the past decade, BSC has successfully added two baccalaureate degrees, one in Energy Management and a second in Cybersecurity. The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education recently charged the college to expand its mission by offering more Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) degrees while at the same time maintaining its current transfer, technical and workforce training offerings. The college is pursuing its third BAS degree, an action that will trigger an expanded mission review by the Higher Learning Commission. A successful candidate will be able to promptly take the helm of this evolving effort and its many elements. 4 VISION & MISSION MISSION Bismarck State College, an innovative community college, offers high quality education, workforce training, and enrichment programs reaching local and global communities. VISION A national model for innovative education and workforce training. At BSC, we have the rare privilege of of our daily work. We are here to help There are two providing both of the educations founding students live better, be more successful father James Truslow Adams cited. The and find their way in the world. We are educations. One curriculum and human expertise of our here, together, for students. technical and transfer programs teach should teach how to our students how to make a living. They The following is BSC’s living, breathing learn how to live through their campus strategic plan for the next five years – make a living and the experiences, interaction with their and the guideline for our daily decisions classmates, professors and community, through 2023. The priorities and other how to live. exposure to the humanities, arts and life objectives will be static, but the goals on campus. BSC will succeed if we keep will be reviewed and revised
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