| LaGuardia Community College, located in Long Island City, Queens, educates more than 50,000 New Yorkers annually through degree, certificate and continuing education programs. Our guiding principle, “Dare To Do More”, reflects our belief in the transformative power of education—not just for individuals, but for our community and our country—creating pathways for achievement and safeguarding the middle class. LaGuardia is a national voice on behalf of community colleges, where half of all US college students study. Part of the City University of New York (CUNY), the College reflects the legacy of our namesake, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, the former NYC mayor beloved for his championing the underserved. Since our doors opened in 1971, our programs regularly become national models for pushing boundaries to give people of all backgrounds access to a high quality, affordable college education. We invite you to join us in imagining what our students, our community and our country can become. Visit www.laguardia.edu to learn more. Reporting to the Provost and Senior
Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Dean for Institutional Effectiveness
is charged with providing innovative and professional leadership to
facilitating college planning, decision making, operational effectiveness, and
policy formation through the collection, analysis, and presentation of
institutional and environmental data. The Dean will play a key role in the
college's strategic planning process, a centerpiece of which is the application
of institutional research. The Dean will utilize analytical tools;
respond to internal and external requests for information; track institutional
performance against a wide range of benchmarks; conduct analyses to support
college planning, enrollment management, program review, and assessment; and
synthesize and communicate findings. The Dean will oversee the Office of
Institutional Research and will be responsible for the following:
• Oversees and implements the college’s strategic planning process.
• Designs and maintains the college’s Institutional Effectiveness Plan that
will unify assessment college-wide, enabling the college to assess its
effectiveness in fulfilling its mission.
• Designs and oversees the college’s administrative and educational support
units plan.
• Provides leadership in establishing a comprehensive, institution-wide program
of self-assessment involving program review and outcomes assessment; integrates
program review and outcomes assessment into institutional planning efforts and
into reaccreditation processes and reports.
• Provides evaluation oversight of college’s academic success programs.
• Conducts research and policy analyses relevant to institutional planning,
policy, and decision-making needs across all divisions of the college.
• Communicates relevant, timely, accurate, and actionable institutional data to
administrators and the college community.
• Prepares digital, written and oral presentations to communicate research
findings to the college community and relevant external constituencies.
• Monitors extent to which research findings are accessed and used by college
constituents so as to ensure broad dissemination and promote data-driven
decision making.
• Works collaboratively with senior management on issues of assessment, including
general institutional effectiveness and measures of student success and
learning.
• Works collaboratively with senior communication staff to create on-going,
media-savvy communication of relevant research findings.
• Assists the institution by providing leadership in identifying and
understanding emerging internal and external issues and significant
environmental changes, constituting both opportunities and challenges to the
college.
• Creates an annual institutional research plan to collect, analyze and
communicate selected and relevant elements of student success for credit and
non-credit students.
• Maintains compliance of policies and reporting requirements of external
agencies, such as the U.S. Department of Education, Middle States Commission on
Higher Education and other accreditation bodies.
• Provides data and analyses in response to specific requests and needs of
college offices and departments.
• Maintains an easily accessible data source for information necessary for
grant proposals, summary reports to external funders, and support for faculty
scholarship.
• Provides leadership in the development and maintenance of accessible data and
information which can be used college-wide.
• Provides data and analyses to support the development of college policies and
procedures; may serve on college planning and policy-making committees.
• Administers and analyzes numerous annual nationally-ranked assessment
instruments.
• Prepares annual institutional profile.
• Participates in institutional research professional organizations and keeps
abreast of national, state and local educational issues.
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned. |
| This
position is in CUNY's Executive Compensation Plan. All executive
positions require a minimum of a Bachelor's degree and eight years' related
experience.
The successful candidate will demonstrate significant familiarity and
accomplishment with strategic planning, including plan implementation and
evaluation of programs that effectively promote student retention and success.
The Dean will have knowledge that includes methodologies of evaluation,
assessment, survey research, statistics, and data analysis. Expertise with
assessment tools and techniques, survey research methods, statistical and
database management software packages, and the dynamics of strategic planning
and accreditation is required.
Proven understanding of innovative techniques of data management and analysis
across a complex organization and success bringing innovative pilot projects to
scale are crucial. Additionally, strong organizational, analytical, and
communication skills and the ability to work with complex computer information
systems are essential. |
| BENEFITS CUNY's benefits contribute significantly to total compensation, supporting health and wellness, financial well-being, and professional development. We offer a range of health plans, competitive retirement/pension benefits and savings plans, tuition waivers for CUNY graduate study and generous paid time off. Our staff also benefits from the extensive academic, arts, and athletic programs on our campuses and the opportunity to participate in a lively, diverse academic community in one of the greatest cities in the world. |