SUNY Geneseo Dean of the School of Business Geneseo, New York The State University of New York College at Geneseo, one of the nation’s top public undergraduate colleges, seeks a Dean of its School of Business. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a student-centered business school at a critical juncture in its history. The School of Business will play a major role in the College’s efforts to increase outreach and development activities as it relies increasingly on private funding. The next Dean will build on momentum already established by the College to advance the School’s niche as a provider of a first-rate business education anchored in the liberal arts. With the School having successfully secured AACSB re-accreditation in 2012, the Dean will have an opportunity to develop an ambitious plan to significantly advance the standing of an institution with a reputation for preparing top-quality students for the workplace and graduate school. The Dean’s long-term strategy will address issues such as the development of a renewed and strengthened faculty, the management of high student demand for classes in the School, increased engagement with the business community and alumni, and development of resources in a time of dwindling state support. Geneseo seeks a dean who will be a strong internal advocate for the school and a partner with senior administration in outreach efforts to alumni, donors, and the business community. The Dean will be a presence on a campus that values close connections among students, faculty and administration. S/he will recruit and develop new faculty while leading a veteran faculty group that has a reputation for working well together and collaborating with faculty in other disciplines in the liberal arts tradition of Geneseo. The executive search firm Isaacson, Miller has been retained to assist Geneseo in this recruitment. All inquiries, nominations and applications should be directed to the search firm as indicated at the end of this document. SUNY GENESEO: HISTORY AND CONTEXT Founded in 1871 as a teacher training college, Geneseo has developed into the most selective undergraduate institution in the SUNY system and is nationally recognized as a center of excellence in undergraduate education. It is a public liberal arts college with selected professional and master's level programs that combines a rigorous curriculum, transformational learning experiences and a rich co-curricular life to create a learning-centered environment. The entire college community works together to develop socially responsible citizens with skills and values important to the pursuit of an enriched life and success in the world. A long-standing member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, Geneseo is widely recognized as one of top liberal arts colleges in the public sector. In 2012, U.S. News and World Report ranked Geneseo as the top “Up and Coming” and “Best Undergraduate Teaching” regional university in the North. Since 1998, the publication has rated the College first or second among public universities in the North every year. The New York Times calls Geneseo, “one of the nation’s most selective, highly regarded public colleges,” a “hidden gem” that is “increasingly seen as a first choice for high achievers.” In its 2012-13 college rankings, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance placed Geneseo first in the nation as a best- value college for out-of-state students and ninth for in-state students on its list of the nation’s top 100 public colleges. Geneseo is also listed in the Fiske Guide to Colleges as a “Best Buy” school, and is lauded for its academic programs, accessible professors and hometown atmosphere. Located in the Genesee Valley, 30 minutes south of Rochester and one hour east of Buffalo, the Town and Village of Geneseo are bordered by the Finger Lakes to the east and Letchworth State Park to the west, affording numerous recreational opportunities. Canada’s largest city – Toronto – is three hours to the northwest. The Geneseo Village Historic District, one of only 24 communities in the nation on the National Register of Historic Places, boasts numerous finely preserved, historic homes and buildings as well as a picturesque and thriving Main Street. The greater Rochester area offers many institutions of higher education and diverse cultural amenities. Students, faculty and staff both enjoy and contribute to the cultural vibrancy that characterizes the Town and Village of Geneseo and the region. SUNY Geneseo is the first choice for many applicants. The average combined math and critical reading SAT score for incoming freshmen in Fall 2012 was 1333, with the 25th to 75th percentiles being 1230 - 1360. Geneseo has an acceptance rate of below 45 percent and a six-year graduation rate of about 81 percent – among the highest in the nation for public institutions. Forty percent of Geneseo’s students study abroad before they graduate. The College’s 5,450 students are taught by 256 dedicated full-time faculty and around 100 talented adjuncts. Eighty- eight percent of courses are taught by full-time faculty, 90 percent of whom hold terminal degrees. Geneseo provides its students with an enriching liberal arts education and a breadth of programs within a small college setting. A rigorous and distinctive liberal arts education on a close-knit residential campus is the cornerstone of the Geneseo experience. The institution’s common core includes courses in western humanities, fine arts, social and natural sciences, foreign languages, non-western traditions, United States history, numeric and symbolic reasoning, and critical reading and writing. The College consists of 21 academic departments as well as two professional schools: the School of Business, and the Ella Cline Shear School of Education. The College offers a total of 48 undergraduate programs, six master’s programs, and 25 interdisciplinary minors. Faculty and staff have also developed a number of cooperative programs in several fields with other institutions, including 4-1 MBA programs. Geneseo is the only public undergraduate institution in New York with a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. A number of Geneseo’s curricular and co-curricular programs have received, and continue to receive, national recognition as best practices in higher education and as exemplars of integrating the academic and student life experience. Deep integration – of curriculum and co-curriculum, living and learning, liberal learning and professional experience – defines the learning experience of students at the College. The College is also actively integrated in the life of the communities of Geneseo and Rochester, supporting regional economic development and outreach efforts and leveraging the intelligence, compassion, and creativity of its students, faculty, and staff. Geneseo’s Student Ambassador Program is a prime example. An incubator and facilitator for student projects that are life- changing and transformational, it relies on grants from generous donors that allow students to pursue groundbreaking work in leadership, innovation, diversity, business, community engagement and scholarship. Housed within the newly established Center for Inquiry, Discovery and Development, the program is the first part of a proposed combination of facilities and resources for economic development: small business start-up and incubator support, team development laboratories, entrepreneurship programs, student-centered innovation grants, and research and performance spaces for musical arts and technologies. The Center will advance the goals of the Finger Lakes region economic development plan to accelerate job creation, expand the higher education sector, support inclusive high-end workforce development, and enhance the region’s quality of life. SUNY Geneseo’s faculty, staff, and administrators strive to sustain an environment where all students feel valued and are nurtured personally and intellectually. Undergraduates work side by side with faculty and staff mentors, assisting in ground-breaking research and taking advantage of the many opportunities this distinctive, student-centered college has to offer. For decades, Geneseo students have benefited both personally and professionally from the many ways that classroom learning is augmented by hands-on educational experience in the field and in the lab. More than 40 percent of Geneseo students attend graduate or professional school within a year of graduation. The efficacy of Geneseo’s educational model is evident in student surveys and the achievements of its graduates. In the National Survey of Student Engagement, Geneseo seniors are above the mean of the College’s Carnegie peers in student-faculty interaction and enriching educational experiences. According to the NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates, between 2000 and 2009 Geneseo was third in the nation among Masters institutions in the number of STEM doctorates awarded to alumni, and eighth in the nation across all disciplines. The College is accredited by the Middle States Association for Colleges and Schools. Carnegie classifies it as a Master’s S institution. Leadership President Christopher C. Dahl Christopher C. Dahl is President and Professor of English at the State University of New York at Geneseo. He was appointed to his current post in February 1996, having served as provost and interim president. Previously, he served as Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Millersville University of Pennsylvania and before that, as professor of English and chair of the Humanities Department at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. President Dahl will retire effective June 30, 2014, having served Geneseo during a period of unprecedented growth. He will begin a nine-month sabbatical on Oct. 1, 2013. Provost Carol Long will serve as interim president. A specialist in Victorian literature, Dahl holds a bachelor's degree in English from Harvard College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his master's and doctoral degrees, also in English, from Yale University. Active in his community, Dahl has joined Geneseo students on service trips and sings baritone as a member of the Geneseo Festival Chorus.