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SEARCH PROFILE Dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication CONTENTS Welcome Message 1 LSU Facts 2 Position and Overview 3 The Flagship Campus 6 The Setting—Baton Rouge 8 Application and Contact Information 9 SEARCH PROFILE Welcome Message A MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND PROVOST Dear Candidate, Thank you for your interest in the position of the dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication. I would like to take some time to share why you should consider this position in the next step of your career and why you should call LSU home. I have worked at LSU for 30 years, and I have never been more optimistic about our future than I am now. You may wonder how that is even possible in year 2020, so please allow me to elaborate. While all of higher education has been challenged this year, LSU’s response has been inspiring. Our success is due, in large part, to our strategic priorities: recruiting, retention, online learning, research, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus. The next dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication will have the opportunity to capitalize on that success and relentless determination to succeed. I am looking for a candidate who understands it requires collaboration and commitment to realize bold and ambitious goals. Our freshman class set new records for enrollment, academic achievement, and diversity. This would have been an amazing achievement in a normal year, but in 2020, it was remarkable. Our success is especially evident in the Manship School of Mass Communication, which is known for its academic rigor and scholarly achievements. We know students choose to go to LSU because of our academic reputation, and the next dean will be expected to continue that tradition of excellence in the Manship School. We are a top-tier, land-, sea-, and space-grant, flagship institution with an R1 Carnegie designation for very highresearch activity. LSU is vital to Louisiana, touching the lives of every citizen in the state. During the 2017 fiscal year, LSU was responsible for a $5.1 billion economic impact to the state, which is effectively $1,097 per Louisiana citizen. Our presence emanates throughout each of our 64 parishes, but our influence does not stop there. We are nationally and internationally renowned, with several top-ranked programs and faculty contributing to Nobel Prize-winning research. The Manship School ranks among the strongest collegiate communications programs in the country, with its robust emphasis on media and public affairs. Our faculty have been honored for theirexcellence in teaching and work every day to study society’s most pressing issues, including the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on oursociety , industries, and methods of communication. Our students consistently take home some of the nation’s most prestigious honors, and our alumni are known around the world for their talent and expertise. LSU is committed to diversity, and that commitment is especially evident in the Manship School. They created the first and onlyChair in Race, Media and Cultural Literacy, and 60 percent of their faculty have conducted research on topics related to diversity. In short, we are a powerhouse poised to reach new heights of excellence in the coming years, with Manship leading the way. If you believe you are the right leader to help further LSU’s standing as a premier university in the nation, we welcome your application for the position of dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication. Sincerely, Stacia L. Haynie LSU Executive Vice President and Provost 1 Louisiana State University Search Profile SEARCH PROFILE LSU Facts To view LSU’s organizational chart, please visit: QUICK FACTS lsu.edu/administration/orgchart. STRATEGIC PLAN 2025 LSU has an obligation to serve Louisiana through discovery, diversity, engagement, and learning, which in turn serves a broader national and global purpose. As the state’s flagship research university, LSU has developed a strategic plan to solve global challenges acute to Louisiana through cutting-edge research, while graduating future leaders equipped with the ability, skills, and desire to make positive contributions to the world. The Strategic Plan lays out LSU’s values: Collaborative, Creative, Culturally Adept, Globally Engaged, Innovative, Transformative. To learn more about the plan, please visit lsu.edu/strategicplan. Campuses • LSU, the flagship campus • LSU Agricultural Center • Pennington Biomedical Research Center • LSU Alexandria • LSU Eunice • LSU Shreveport • LSU Health New Orleans • LSU Health Shreveport VIDEO: LSU in the Workforce LSU is Louisiana’s most In the past decade, LSU has graduated nearly 100,000 students from important economic asset. all of its campuses statewide. These graduates are the talented people who lead Louisiana’s workforce. Learn more at: youtu.be/sY9SW0dBf5Y. LSU researchers across Louisiana are working on developing a wide range of innovations to improve quality of life by studying issues such as disease management, advanced medical treatments, obesity, coastal protection, hurricane preparedness, energy, natural resource management, and agriculture. To learn more about how LSU research works for the state of Louisiana, visit lsu.edu/researchworks. LSU’s economic impact on Louisiana totals $5.1 billion. The impact equates to $1,097 per Louisiana citizen and a return of $13.25 for every dollar of state investment. For more on LSU’s impact, visit lsu.edu/budget/economic-impact.php. 2 Louisiana State University Search Profile SEARCH PROFILE Position and Overview OVERVIEW OF LSU LSU comprises eight campuses stretching across Louisiana and includes more than 50,000 students and research expenditures amounting to $360 million. Within LSU are two health sciences centers offering various levels of degrees in medicine, dentistry, allied health, nursing, public health, and graduate studies. The LSU Agricultural Center encompasses both extension responsibilities and agricultural research. The Pennington Biomedical Research Center is a premier research institute specializing in chronic disease, diabetes, and obesity. LSU Shreveport offers degrees at the undergraduate and graduate level and has an emerging online presence. LSU Alexandria is a four-year institution serving the central region of the state. LSU Eunice is a junior college offering degrees and certificates in health, business, and liberal arts. LSU’s flagship campus, located in the state capital of Baton Rouge, is Louisiana’s premier public institution. It is a land-, sea-, and space-grant institution enrolling DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS some 32,000 students studying in nearly 200 bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, Communication and Culture and specialist programs. The flagship campus includes the Paul M. Hebert Law Manship’s Dr. Tina M. Harris empowers students with Center and the state’s only School of Veterinary Medicine. There are more than the communication and critical thinking skills necessary 5,000 employees with a budget of more than $1 billion on the flagship campus. for becoming global citizens. As an internationally renowned scholar, Harris received the 2020 Francine Over the past 20 years, LSU has consistently produced finalists and winners Meritt Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Lives of the Rhodes, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall Scholarships. Several of LSU’s of Women in Communication. programs are ranked top in the nation, including the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture in the College of Art & Design and the Internal Auditing program in the E. J. Ourso College of Business, which is internationally known as one of the top such programs in the world. LSU faculty and students contributed to the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics with the discovery of gravitational waves, which were predicted by Einstein but not previously recorded. And Forbes recently recognized LSU among the top 20 universities in the country that dominate in both academics and athletics. In short, a lot is happening across all of the campuses, and it is an exciting time to be at LSU. From preserving the state’s coastline and protecting its $2.4 billion seafood industry to finding improved treatments for cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, researchers at LSU are contributing to breakthroughs that impact the everyday lives of the people of Louisiana, the nation, and the world. LSU seeks a dynamic person to serve as Dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication who can lead the continued effort of positioning LSU as one of the nation’s top public research universities. In recent years, LSU has worked tirelessly to bring in top faculty members who have achieved national and international recognition, an increasingly diverse student body, and larger HIGH ACHIEVERS and more successful incoming classes. As LSU continues to distinguish itself Truman Scholars in research and scholarship during this era of intense competition in higher Manship School junior Sarah Procopio was among 62 education, it becomes more important than ever to find the right leaders to students nationally selected as 2020 Truman Scholars. champion the university’s values and to nurture the manifestation of those Procopio created the Louisiana Youth Platform, or LAYP, values within the individual colleges. a group which creates a policy platform of priorities for young adults and presents itself to public officials. 3 Louisiana State University Search Profile SEARCH PROFILE Position and Overview (continued) OVERVIEW OF THE MANSHIP SCHOOL OF MASS COMMUNICATION The Manship School offers undergraduate education in journalism, public relations, digital advertising, and political communication as well as the only graduate program in the U.S. in media and public affairs. The school oversees the innovative Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs, the Media Diversity Forum, three state of-the-art research labs, and student media. With a combined endowment of $34 million, the school currently has a total of 33 full-time faculty and 15 full-time staff positions, along with over 1,000 undergraduate majors and 65 master’s and PhD students.