SEARCH PROFILE Dean of the College of Music & Dramatic Arts CONTENTS Welcome Message 1 LSU Facts 2 Position and Overview 3 The Flagship Campus 6 LSU Values Diversity 8 The Setting—Baton Rouge 9 Application and Contact Information 10 SEARCH PROFILE Welcome Message A MESSAGE FROM THE INTERIM PROVOST Dear Candidate, Thank you for your interest in the dean of the College of Music & Dramatic Arts position at Louisiana State University (LSU). 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 19 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 2021, so please allow me to elaborate. While all of higher education has experienced challenges during the pandemic, LSU’s response has been inspiring. Our success is due, in large part, to our strategic priorities: recruiting, retention, online learning, research, building a diverse, equitable and inclusive campus, and philanthropic support. The next dean of the College of Music & Dramatic Arts will have the opportunity to capitalize on that success and relentless determination to succeed. We are looking for a candidate who understands it requires collaboration and commitment to realize bold and ambitious goals. Our fall 2020 freshman class set new records for enrollment, academic achievement, and diversity, and we expect that trajectory to continue in to fall 2021. Our achievement would have been amazing in a normal year, but in 2020, it was remarkable. In 2021, our students made LSU history by shattering previous records for national scholarships and fellowships, with one multi-disciplinary group of students who will help LSU be the first university in the world to put technology on the Moon. Our success is especially evident in the College of Music & Dramatic Arts, which is known for its artistic innovation, as well as its scholarly and creative activities. We know students choose LSU because of our academic reputation, and the next dean will be expected to continue that tradition of excellence in the College of Music & Dramatic Arts. We are a top-tier, land-, sea-, and space-grant, flagship institution with an R1 Carnegie designation for very high research activity. A football national championship trophy is lagniappe, as we like to say in Louisiana. 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. Faculty in the School of Music have been recognized for their amazing talent and continue to add leading artists to their ranks. Our rapidly growing School of Theatre is consistently ranked as one of the top programs in the nation, and it presents students with a unique learning opportunity through a partnership with Swine Place, our professional Equity theatre. Our students are regularly among those who earn 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 College of Music & Dramatic Arts. Activities promoting inclusion, equity, and diversity can easily be found in both the School of Music and School of Theatre, and the Department of Bands recently launched its Inclusive Repertoire Initiative. The College of Music & Dramatic Arts also receives generous support from the Baton Rouge community, as seen in the founding of the Turner-Fischer Center for Opera at LSU. In short, we are a powerhouse and are poised to reach new heights of excellence in the coming years, with the College of Music & Dramatic Arts 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 College of Music & Dramatic Arts. Sincerely, Dr. Matt Lee LSU Interim 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 VIDEO: PMAC Turns to Shreveport offers degrees at the undergraduate and graduate level and has an PPE Production 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. COLLABORATIVE LSU’s flagship campus, located in the state capital of Baton Rouge, is Louisiana’s INITIATIVES premier public institution. It is a land-, sea-, and space-grant institution enrolling Developing Personal Protective some 32,000 students studying in nearly 200 bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, Equipment and specialist programs. The flagship campus includes the Paul M. Hebert Law School of Theatre’s Jeremy Bernardoni, assistant Center and the state’s only School of Veterinary Medicine. There are more than professor of costume design, and John Eddy, 5,000 employees with a budget of more than $1 billion on the flagship campus. professional-in-residence and prop master, contributed Over the past 20 years, LSU has consistently produced finalists and winners to a collaborative effort on campus to produce PPE of the Rhodes, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall Scholarships. Several of LSU’s during the pandemic. Bernadoni developed patterns to programs are ranked top in the nation, including the Robert Reich School of achieve a better fit for the PPEs, while Eddy gathered Landscape Architecture in the College of Art & Design and the Internal Auditing equipment and supplies necessary for manufacturing. 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. VIDEO: LSU Discover LSU seeks a dynamic person to serve as Dean of the College of Music & Scholars | Monica Music Dramatic Arts 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 HIGH ACHIEVERS international recognition, an increasingly diverse student body, and larger Vocal Performance and more successful incoming classes. As LSU continues to distinguish itself Vocal performance student Monica Music chose in research and scholarship during this era of intense competition in higher LSU for the opportunity to perform on stage as an education, it becomes more important than ever to find the right leaders to undergraduate and to work one-on-one with top faculty. champion the university’s values and to nurture the manifestation of those At LSU, she developed a foundation of technical skills values within the individual colleges.