ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND MSN-EIP

Full Time

***This is a College of Nursing internal search for those eligible for appointment as an Associate Clinical Professor, Clinical Professor, or Tenured Associate or full Professor.***

The Associate Dean for BSN and Graduate Entry Programs has administrative leadership, oversight, and coordination, including responsibilities for the day-to-day academic operations of those programs in the College of Nursing. The Associate Dean for Undergraduate and MSN-EIP works with the executive team, academic support staff, and Felton Student Success Center staff to ensure the quality and the vitality of the programs.

Major Responsibilities:

Provides leadership and administrative direction for the BSN and graduate entry (MSN-EIP) programs

Program Quality

• Ensures overall integrity/quality in the delivery of BSN and graduate entry academic programming within the College of Nursing and secures appropriate resources to meet those needs.





• Monitors national, regional, and local trends in nursing, health care and nursing education to assure competitiveness in nursing education programs offered at the College. 





• Leads change in academic programming based on principles of continuous improvement and knowledge of national and state academic standards and mandates. 





• Participates in strategic planning for the College’s academic mission in collaboration with collegiate faculty, staff, the executive leadership team, and the Dean.





• Leads the College of Nursing efforts with regard to public relations related to academic programs.





• Facilitates faculty shared governance among academic program leaders to assure ongoing improvement and maintenance of high-quality academic programs.





• Provides leadership in implementing the College of Nursing Evaluation Plan for BSN and graduate entry programs through a continuous quality improvement process; monitors evaluation and program outcomes measures/benchmarks in collaboration with academic support staff, and Felton Student Success Center staff; reports outcome data on a regular basis to the College/University and prepares reports of outcome data for accreditation reviews/reports.





• Co-leads, with the Associate Dean for Graduate Practice Programs, on preparing the CON self-study and processes related to accreditation and reaccreditation.





• Confirm appropriate accreditation standards are met and communicate with all relevant organizations and accreditation agencies (e.g. American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), Iowa State Board of Nursing).

Faculty Recruitment and Retention

• Leads and/or collaborates with the Executive Associate Dean and Division Heads to recruit, hire, mentor, and retain faculty consistent with the strategic needs of the College.

Student Success

• Collaborates with the Felton Student Success Center staff in the development of recruitment materials, student orientation, advising, disciplinary actions, student grievances, undergraduate student government programming, student academic progression, records/reports and graduations/commencements.





• Provides leadership and advisory guidance to the program directors and Nursing Clinical Education Center (NCEC), faculty and forums/councils regarding curriculum and policies for admission and academic progression.





• Provides leadership to optimize a holistic admission process for BSN and MSN-EIP student body.





• Oversees currency of student handbooks.





• Works with academic support staff to forecast course offerings, course scheduling, and final exam scheduling.





• Collaborates with appropriate faculty, clinical placement coordinator, undergraduate/RN and MSN-EIP program directors to identify and evaluate clinical placement sites for students.





• Develop long-term strategies to deliver academic program services and competencies that keep pace with technology/practice trends.





• Contribute to the annual evaluation of academic support staff, and Felton Student Success Center staff, as needed.





• Functionally supervises the director undergraduate and MSN-EIP programs.





• Directly supervises the director of the NCEC.





• Works with College’s Strategic Communication Director to maintain currency of undergraduate and MSN-EIP websites, virtual platforms, and digital products.

Promotes Teaching Excellence in Undergraduate and MSN-EIP

• Integrate faculty teaching preferences, expertise, and available effort allocation to create faculty’s teaching assignments.

• Develops and implements programming for faculty to develop expertise in teaching.

• Collaborates with the Division Heads in providing input on faculty annual reviews.





• Promotes innovation and inquiry in nursing education, and identifies strategic partners for innovation in BSN and graduate entry education.





• Collaborates with faculty, Office of Nursing Research and Scholarship, Center for Advancement, and executive team members in the preparation of program grant applications & scholarships development to support BSN and graduate entry nursing education programs in the College.

Represents the College of Nursing BSN and Graduate Entry Programs within the University and to external Constituents

• Represents the College of Nursing Undergraduate and MSN-EIP programs within the university and external constituents, including recruiting events and presentations/publications.





• Identifies strategic community, state, national and international professional partnership opportunities.





• Provides leadership in collaboration with University of Iowa Health Care (UIHC) to create strategic direction to facilitate excellence in the use of simulation for both education and practice.

• Serves as liaison between the College of Nursing and the University on issues of academic policy and programming.

• Represents the College to the broader community, including regulatory and accreditation bodies, on issues related to BSN and graduate entry nursing education; represents the College of Nursing at state, regional, national, international professional meetings, and legislative activities related to nursing education.





• Provides information regarding the Undergraduate and MSN-EIP programs to outside constituents including, state, regional and national accrediting bodies as well as cooperating colleges in Iowa.





• Provides leadership to collaborate with other disciplines in order to advance interprofessional education.





• Collaborates with university admissions and undergraduate advising center.

Participates in Budgeting Processes and Manages Funding for Undergraduate and MSN-EIP Programs

• Collaborates with the Dean and CON budget officer to create yearly budgets for the Undergraduate and MSN-EIP programs.





• Effectively guides the utilization of resources and directs the budgets that support the Undergraduate and MSN-EIP academic programming of the College.

• Facilitates judicious utilization of resources for advancing excellence in clinical education, in collaboration with academic program leaders and the leaders of the NCEC.

Applications materials include a letter describing relevant experiences and interests; current curriculum vitae; and contact information for three references (contacted only with permission). For complete details and to apply, visit Requisition #76031 at IOWA Faculty View email address on us.fitly.work.

Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any misconduct history or pending research misconduct investigation, including but not limited to sexual misconduct in prior employment, and provide a related release and will be subject to a criminal background and credential check.

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• Earned doctorate in nursing or a doctorate in a related field with a graduate degree in nursing from an accredited school of nursing.

• Demonstrated experience in curriculum and/or program development and evaluation, knowledge of professional accreditation standards.





• Record of teaching excellence, innovation and creativity in baccalaureate and/or graduate entry nursing education.





• Record of scholarly achievement.





• Current, or eligible and complete, licensure as a Registered Nurse and Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner in the State of Iowa upon appointment





• Professional experience working effectively with individuals from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. 





• Minimum of two years of academic administrative experience

Curriculum Vitae
Name and Contact Information of References
Letter of Interest

Number of References: 3

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