Associate Dean and Director, Stanford Summer Session
Overview
Stanford’s Summer Session is the fourth academic quarter of the University, and serves matriculated undergraduates and graduate students, as well as visiting graduate, undergraduate, and high school students. The Summer Session sponsors 160 courses from 35 departments, serving 2,000 students, and has gross revenues of approximately $13 million.
The Associate Dean and Director of Summer Session has primary responsibility for the overall leadership of Stanford Summer Session, and is specifically responsible for coordination of the academic curriculum, faculty recruitment, academic program development, financial and budget planning, directing core administrative services, and the recruitment and training of residential staff. The person in this position reports directly to the Dean of Continuing Studies and Summer Session, works with the Summer Session staff on a broad spectrum of issues, and supervises two assistant deans, an administrative director, a marketing manager, and a student services staff. The Associate Dean and Director must be a mature and confident educator with a confident grasp of the University’s academic and residential values; and possess strong analytical, academic, financial, conceptual, writing, and interpersonal skills.
Responsibilities
40%: Curriculum and Academic Program Planning
[20%:]
•Coordinate the overall planning for Summer Session courses in schools and departments. Review existing courses, encourage the development of new courses, and evaluate course proposals,
•Meet with department chairs and administrators to plan course offerings and recruit faculty, consult with the Dean to set financial parameters,
•Work with faculty to design, develop, and implement short-term academic initiatives, and recruit faculty to teach in them (current initiatives include a Human Rights program, and intensive studies in chemistry, physics, water sustainability, and global management),
[10%:]
•Work with assistant deans to initiate plans for new academic programs, meeting with faculty to design and implement them,
•Oversee the administration of the High School Summer College (500 students), undergraduate and graduate programs, and the Stanford Summer International Honors Program (100+ students),
[10%]
•Evaluate summer courses, institutes, residential programs, and extracurricular activities to ensure their quality. Establish short- and long- term goals to improve the summer program,
•Research academic summer programs, analyze statistics and report on national trends,
•Attend professional conferences and represent Stanford SS at annual meetings,
•Work with peer institutions to develop partnerships and joint programs,
•Travel domestically and internationally to establish institutional partnerships and to explore possible site locations in the development of field studies and travel programs.
20%:
Core Administrative Services
•Direct all Summer Session (SS) core administrative services, including an annual review of admission and financial aid procedures, curriculum, instructional staff, residential education (staffing and programs), extracurricular activities, housing, meals, and registration,
•Work closely with the Registrar’s Office, President and Provost’s Office, Housing and Dining, and Residential Education to develop Summer Session policies and procedures.
20%:
Financial and Budget Planning
•Develop and implement all aspects of financial and budgetary policy and procedure for Summer Session, including the management of the departmental revenue sharing process, the administration of the summer student financial aid program, and regulation of individual department budgets,
•Plan departmental instructional budgets in consultation with department chairs, faculty, and school financial officers, and approve the distribution of funds,
•Plan short-term initiative budgets, and approve distribution of funds,
•Work with the Director of Finance and Administration on long-range financial planning, projections, and analyses,
•Manage the preparation of statistical analyses to departments on previous enrollments, revenue, and cost factors.
10%:
Residential Education
•Oversee the recruitment and training of a residential staff of approximately 75 house directors, residential assistants, and mentors to staff undergraduate and high school residences,
•Work with program directors to ensure that the residential program is complementary to the academic mission of Summer Session.
10%:
Supervision and Leadership
•Coordinate and oversee the smooth operations of the Summer Session staff of eight,
•Supervise the Assistant Dean and Director of the High School Summer College, the Assistant Dean and Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Programs, the Administrative Director, the Marketing Manager, and the student services staff.
Qualifications
Advanced degree required, PhD desirable; 7-10 years of experience in higher education administration, teaching experience desirable; strong interpersonal, oral and written communication, and analytical skills; initiative and self-motivation to conceive and develop new programs; strategic planning experience and abilities; experience with university budgets and planning procedures; experience supervising staffs; residential education and student affairs experience preferred. We are looking for a mature and confident educator to lead Stanford Summer Session into the future.
Associate Dean and Director, Stanford Summer Session
Stanford’s Summer Session is the fourth academic quarter of the University, and serves matriculated undergraduates and graduate students, as well as visiting graduate, undergraduate, and high school students. The Summer Session sponsors 160 courses from 35 departments, serving 2,000 students, and has gross revenues of approximately $13 million.
The Associate Dean and Director of Summer Session has primary responsibility for the overall leadership of Stanford Summer Session, and is specifically responsible for coordination of the academic curriculum, faculty recruitment, academic program development, financial and budget planning, directing core administrative services, and the recruitment and training of residential staff. The person in this position reports directly to the Dean of Continuing Studies and Summer Session, works with the Summer Session staff on a broad spectrum of issues, and supervises two assistant deans, an administrative director, a marketing manager, and a student services staff. The Associate Dean and Director must be a mature and confident educator with a confident grasp of the University’s academic and residential values; and possess strong analytical, academic, financial, conceptual, writing, and interpersonal skills.
Responsibilities
40%: Curriculum and Academic Program Planning
[20%:]
•Coordinate the overall planning for Summer Session courses in schools and departments. Review existing courses, encourage the development of new courses, and evaluate course proposals,
•Meet with department chairs and administrators to plan course offerings and recruit faculty, consult with the Dean to set financial parameters,
•Work with faculty to design, develop, and implement short-term academic initiatives, and recruit faculty to teach in them (current initiatives include a Human Rights program, and intensive studies in chemistry, physics, water sustainability, and global management),
[10%:]
•Work with assistant deans to initiate plans for new academic programs, meeting with faculty to design and implement them,
•Oversee the administration of the High School Summer College (500 students), undergraduate and graduate programs, and the Stanford Summer International Honors Program (100+ students),
[10%]
•Evaluate summer courses, institutes, residential programs, and extracurricular activities to ensure their quality. Establish short- and long- term goals to improve the summer program,
•Research academic summer programs, analyze statistics and report on national trends,
•Attend professional conferences and represent Stanford SS at annual meetings,
•Work with peer institutions to develop partnerships and joint programs,
•Travel domestically and internationally to establish institutional partnerships and to explore possible site locations in the development of field studies and travel programs.
20%:
Core Administrative Services
•Direct all Summer Session (SS) core administrative services, including an annual review of admission and financial aid procedures, curriculum, instructional staff, residential education (staffing and programs), extracurricular activities, housing, meals, and registration,
•Work closely with the Registrar’s Office, President and Provost’s Office, Housing and Dining, and Residential Education to develop Summer Session policies and procedures.
20%:
Financial and Budget Planning
•Develop and implement all aspects of financial and budgetary policy and procedure for Summer Session, including the management of the departmental revenue sharing process, the administration of the summer student financial aid program, and regulation of individual department budgets,
•Plan departmental instructional budgets in consultation with department chairs, faculty, and school financial officers, and approve the distribution of funds,
•Plan short-term initiative budgets, and approve distribution of funds,
•Work with the Director of Finance and Administration on long-range financial planning, projections, and analyses,
•Manage the preparation of statistical analyses to departments on previous enrollments, revenue, and cost factors.
10%:
Residential Education
•Oversee the recruitment and training of a residential staff of approximately 75 house directors, residential assistants, and mentors to staff undergraduate and high school residences,
•Work with program directors to ensure that the residential program is complementary to the academic mission of Summer Session.
10%:
Supervision and Leadership
•Coordinate and oversee the smooth operations of the Summer Session staff of eight,
•Supervise the Assistant Dean and Director of the High School Summer College, the Assistant Dean and Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Programs, the Administrative Director, the Marketing Manager, and the student services staff.
Qualifications
Advanced degree required, PhD desirable; 7-10 years of experience in higher education administration, teaching experience desirable; strong interpersonal, oral and written communication, and analytical skills; initiative and self-motivation to conceive and develop new programs; strategic planning experience and abilities; experience with university budgets and planning procedures; experience supervising staffs; residential education and student affairs experience preferred. We are looking for a mature and confident educator to lead Stanford Summer Session into the future.
Associate Dean and Director, Stanford Summer Session
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