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TABLE OF CONTENTS POSITION AND INSTITUTIONAL PROFILE 3 THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS MISSION 3 ACADEMICS 4 THE CAMPUS AND THE REGION 7 THE POSITION OF VICE PROVOST 8 APPLICATION AND NOMINATION PROCESS 9 SEARCH PROSPECTUS: Vice Provost 2
POSITION AND INSTITUTIONAL PROFILE California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) success. The successful candidate will possess invites confidential inquiries, nominations, and a singular commitment to serving a largely first applications for the position of Vice Provost. The generation, historically underserved student body Vice Provost will provide key strategic academic and a demonstrated record of advancing inclusive leadership at a growing and vibrant institution excellence within an academic community. The committed to academic excellence and student search is open and international in its outreach. THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS MISSION Founded in 2002, California State University Channel A proud Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), 56% Islands (CSUCI) is the newest campus in the of the CSUCI students are Latinx, 25% are White, 23-campus California State University system, the 2% are African-American, 6% are Asian-American, largest four-year public university system in the U.S. and 4% are multiracial. Additionally, 54% of the The University is located in coastal Ventura County, current student body are Pell eligible and 62% between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. The mission are first-generation college students. Over half of of the CSU system includes preparing significant the undergraduates are transfers from community numbers of educated, responsible people to contribute colleges. Graduate and credential programs are to California’s economy, culture, and future. The designed to meet the needs of working adults. In original Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival short, the CSUCI student body reflects the residents buildings on the CSUCI campus were completed in of the region and of California. 1934 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The University itself represents a 40-year effort to CSUCI’s academic mission rests on four pillars: establish a four-year public university in the region to serve its residents and the state. • International—an internationalized curriculum, a diverse campus community, and study abroad opportunities • Integrative—commitment to interdisciplinary MISSION STATEMENT approaches in teaching, research and scholarly Placing students at the center of the educational activities experience, California State University Channel Islands provides undergraduate and graduate • Multicultural—embracing diverse perspectives, education that facilitates learning within promoting culturally relevant curriculum and and across disciplines through integrative advancing inclusive excellence approaches, emphasizes experiential and • Community engagement—with the intention service learning, and graduates students with of encouraging civically engaged citizens in multicultural and international perspectives. CSUCI’s service area on issues of import SEARCH PROSPECTUS: Vice Provost 3
ACADEMICS California State University Channel Islands currently for the University’s commitment to lifelong enrolls more than 7,000 undergraduate students, learning. Extended University serves individuals including nearly 250 graduate students. CSUCI throughout their career life cycles, especially offers 26 undergraduate majors, 7 graduate degrees, as working professionals and busy adults, with and a variety of certificate and teaching credential job skills training, career upgrades, professional programs. The Division of Academic Affairs includes certifications, and accelerated courses of study the following units: in accessible formats at convenient times and locations. The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, • Arts & Sciences includes undergraduate majors a hallmark program for mature learners, has and minors in 20 disciplines across the arts, enriched the intellectual life of the community humanities, sciences, and social sciences. since its inception in 2004. The interdisciplinary nature of Arts & Sciences • John Spoor Broome Library enhances the programs uniquely prepares students to make CSUCI mission of interdisciplinary, international, significant contributions in the 21st century. The multicultural, and service learning by planning School is dedicated to providing undergraduate and promoting the use of collections and services students research experiences and opportunities and supports student learning via its robust to engage in community service and experiential information literacy program. The Library actively learning. CSUCI offers a wide variety of excellent collaborates with students, faculty, and staff in programs and classes as well as a number of developing its range of services. exciting international learning experiences. • School of Education builds from the foundations CSUCI is poised to continue to grow in size and of the undergraduate Liberal Studies option in renown, while maintaining a student-focused learning Teaching & Learning, the undergraduate Early environment. CSUCI embeds its mission in faculty-led Childhood Studies program, and academic and directed Mission Centers: Center for Community majors in biology, English, mathematics, history, Engagement, Center for Integrative Studies, Center and social studies, and extends to the Masters for International Affairs, and Center for Multicultural of Arts in Education. The School’s programs Engagement. Other institutes reflecting partnerships contribute to the education profession by with the community, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a producing teachers and school administrators penchant for innovative learning environments include who believe that all students have the ability to the Henry L. “Hank” Lacayo Institute for Workforce & achieve high standards, who adapt their teaching Community Studies, the Institute for Global Economic to reach all students and who embrace the Research, and the Entrepreneurship & Small Business diversity of all students. These graduates are Institute. reflective about their teaching, their attitudes, and their ability to work in collaborative analytical CSUCI prides itself on a pattern of identifying teams. student and community needs, finding resources, and building programs to address those needs. Two • The Martin V. Smith School of Business and initiatives illustrating this pattern are outlined below: Economics has a liberal arts and interdisciplinary focus. It is built on the five Cs: critical thinking, • CSUCI continues to advance efforts to improve collaboration, communication, conduct, and student success, enhance timely graduation and competencies. Students learn the fundamental eliminate equity gaps in student performance. The principles of accounting, economics, finance, University’s success in this regard has resulted information systems, management, and marketing in a host of successful external grants and as applied in a variety of organizational settings. recognition. For instance, First Year Experience A distinguishing aspect of the Business and (FYE) integrates multiple high-impact practices: Economics programs is the requirement to take thematic critical thinking First Year Seminars courses developed in conjunction with disciplines taught in Learning Communities with writing- outside the traditional business curriculum. intensive English composition classes, supported • Extended University responds to important by embedded peer mentors who facilitate small needs in the community for continuing access to co-curricular Dolphin Interest Groups (DIGs) higher education and provides overall support aimed at facilitating the transition to university life. SEARCH PROSPECTUS: Vice Provost 4
ACADEMICS (CONT.) • Student research: Faculty have a strong record of engaging undergraduate students in primary research activities, marked by the success of CSUCI teams in the CSU Student Research Competition. In 2008, the first Student Research Symposium was celebrated, which grew into CSUCI’s annual SAGE Student Research Conference: the 13th annual conference was held in 2021. The conference typically features research presentations by as many as 450 students who are been guided by 50 faculty mentors. CSUCI is known for fostering research opportunities for undergraduate as well as graduate students. For instance, a unique partnership between the student achievement. CSUCI aims to graduate students National Park Service and the University is seen possessing an education of sufficient breadth and in the CSUCI Santa Rosa Island Research Station, depth to appreciate and interpret the natural, social, providing students, faculty, researchers, and the and aesthetic worlds, and to address the highly local community with resources and opportunities complex issues facing societies. to engage in natural and cultural resource-based research and education. DISTINCTIVE ASPECTS OF CSUCI CSUCI’s pattern of identifying need, securing As the youngest campus in the CSU system, CSUCI resources, and building programs is further exemplified has the unique responsibility of creatively fostering by the University’s embrace of CSUCI’s Hispanic the growth in campus facilities needed to meet the Serving Institution designation, first achieved in 2010. needs of the region. The University’s leadership has From 2010 to the present, the University has been embraced a model of public-private partnerships to awarded more than $29 million in federal grants for secure funding to invest in academic excellence, such Hispanic Serving Institutions. as the sale of the University Glen residential community to a global real estate investment company. Another reflection of the long-standing community desire for and STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING AND support of a public university is the engagement of the STUDENT ACTIVITIES civic, business, and non-profit community. University CSUCI is a student-centered university, committed to Advancement and others cultivate relationships with academic excellence, civic engagement, environmental those interested in supporting the University in a responsibility, and leadership. The student to faculty variety of ways, as demonstrated by the membership ratio is 22:1 with 164 Tenure Track faculty and 295 of individuals on the CSUCI Foundation Board. Some lecturers. With a singular commitment to student additional distinctions include the following. success, CSUCI strives for innovative practices and excellence within the disciplines and welcomes students as active partners in a distinctive education The University: experience. The faculty of CSUCI engage students • Attained the inaugural Seal of Excelencia in in an inquiry-based curriculum and are dedicated 2019, granted by the Washington, D.C.-based to educating civically engaged leaders for a global organization, Excelencia in Education, for society. CSUCI seeks students who enjoy a campus facilitating the success of Latinx students. environment where their voices and beliefs are • Recognized by Time’s MONEY Magazine in 2019 embraced, valued, and respected. Students are as the 4th Best College for Transfer Students in the educated to think critically, work in teams, and tackle nation and the 15th Most Transformative University problems in their community and the real world using in the nation (2020) based on post-graduate interdisciplinary approaches. Students are embedded success. in the classroom as peer mentors in a variety of contexts. They conduct meaningful discussion, • Ranked 20th in the nation for social mobility by research, and exploration, and work closely with CollegeNET for facilitating the economic mobility of expert lecturers and tenure-track faculty to facilitate its graduates (2020). SEARCH PROSPECTUS: Vice Provost 5
ACADEMICS (CONT.) • Ranked 19th for “Best Bang for the Buck – West” • Despite the COVID pandemic and limitations for by Washington Monthly, which measures factors in-person interactions, students contributed over such as cost of tuition, graduation rates for first- 13,000 virtual hours to the community through time, full-time students and puts special emphasis research and other service during 2020–2021, on social mobility (2020). representing an economic benefit of more than • Ranked 20th among Top Public Schools in the $347,616 to the community. West by U.S. News & World Report (2021). Inclusive Excellence • Nursing Program ranked 11th best in the state by CSUCI is deeply committed to academic excellence RegisteredNursing.Org (2020). and providing access to a higher education • Ranked 9th safest campus in the country by experience grounded in inclusive excellence. CollegeStats.org. As an academic community, CSUCI recognizes • Recognized as a Tree Campus USA for a ninth the transformative power of higher education on year in a row in 2021. the communities it serves and unambiguously denounces racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, • Created three “Z-Majors,” which are majors Islamophobic, and hateful ideologies that diminish that use quality, free, and readily available humanity and liberty for all. CSUCI is committed to educational resources, thus eliminating the making the structural changes required to dismantle costs of textbooks associated with their majors. racism and enact anti-racist policies and structures CSUCI is the first in the CSU system to develop that serve its academic community. undergraduate “Z-Majors.” • Re-accredited in 2015 by the Western The President’s Advisory Council on Inclusive Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Excellence provides a permanent space for through 2024. conversation with and guidance for the President on matters of equity and justice. Its charge is to advance a culture of excellence, assisting the Faculty and students: President in building social justice leadership • Collaborative faculty-student research projects capacity throughout the university and ensuring consistently win awards at both the state and that campus dialogue and decisions at every level national levels. are rooted in the core values of equity, justice, and • Students regularly realize the top awards at the inclusivity. CSU Media Arts Festival. In Summer and Fall 2020, a number of commitments • Faculty have been recognized with national to action and recommendations toward realizing awards for college-level teaching, authorship, racial justice at CSU Channel Islands were made by and service to their disciplines. the President and the President’s Advisory Council • Faculty are active in grant-writing: representative on Inclusive Excellence (PACIE). Development of the funding agencies include U.S. Department Inclusive Excellence Action Plan (IEAP) Framework of Education, National Science Foundation, in January 2021 sought to bring focus of this plethora National Institutes of Health, National Park of racial- and social-justice oriented intentions, Service, National Oceanographic and recommendations, and commitments into focus. Atmospheric Administration, Department of Justice, Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Noyce, etc. • Students have won Goldwater Awards, REU placements, admission to prestigious graduate programs, and employment with desirable companies. SEARCH PROSPECTUS: Vice Provost 6
THE CAMPUS AND THE REGION CSUCI’s campus sits on the eastern edge of the Glen, houses over 100 juniors, seniors, and graduate Oxnard Plain, nestled in the western hills of the Santa students in studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom Monica Mountains, a vibrant area at the interface of apartments, and is home to the University bookstore urban, agricultural, and coastal California. and various eateries. The main campus is a unique historical site with Click here for a virtual tour of campus. many original Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival-style buildings. When classes began in 2002, CSUCI’s location provides a plethora of educational the campus was a 634-acre facility, with one- to and recreational opportunities. From the main two-story buildings organized around two primary campus in Camarillo, a 90-minute travel by car or quads. Today, the University encompasses more train to the south brings one to the dynamic global than 1,200 acres of academic space and is poised city of Los Angeles, with its world-class museums, for significant capital growth in the years ahead. restaurants, performing arts offerings, and diverse In 2019, the University launched a series of major communities. Santa Barbara lies less than an hour to capital construction projects including the expansion the north. CSUCI itself is located 10 minutes from the of academic, research, performing arts, conference, Pacific Coast to the southwest, as well as the nearby event and student housing space. downtown for the city of Camarillo to the north of the campus. The University is set on rich agricultural University Glen, an adjacent housing community on land surrounded by lemon groves and strawberry the east side of campus, offers apartments, town and raspberry fields. Nearby features include biotech homes and single-family residences available for and other technology-oriented companies, a thriving rental or purchase. Many University administrators, arts scene, two military bases, a working port, two faculty and staff make the University Glen their home. harbors, extensive agriculture, shopping outlets, and The University Glen Town Center, also located in the world-class coastal, mountain, and beach recreation. SEARCH PROSPECTUS: Vice Provost 7
THE POSITION OF VICE PROVOST The Vice Provost leads Division-wide initiatives unavailable to attend committee meetings, councils, advancing student success, retention, and and formal/informal management meetings. The graduation, while coordinating undergraduate and Vice Provost works closely with a variety of campus graduate academic programs, curriculum, data constituents, especially the Academic Deans, analytics, and sponsored programs. The Vice Provost Extended University, and the Division of Student Affairs. is primarily responsible for implementing strategies that improve the quality of academic programs, make QUALIFICATIONS measurable progress on graduation and retention Possession of a terminal degree in an academic goals, and leverage institutional resources to advance field, and a record of professional achievement as mission critical initiatives pertaining to student a scholar and a teacher sufficient to be appointed outcomes, enrollment growth, and reputation. with tenure at the rank of Professor are required. The ideal candidate will have a minimum four years of The Vice Provost will be a collaborative and administrative experience and is expected to have communicative community builder who is responsible a demonstrable record of achievement pertaining to for the leadership and oversight of: the Associate diversity, equity, and inclusion. Additional preferred Vice Provost for High Impact Practices and qualifications include: administrative experience within Experiential Education, the Associate Vice Provost for a collective bargaining environment, ability to interact Academic Programs and Continuous Improvement, effectively with external constituents, knowledge and the Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Studies understanding of contemporary issues in the public and Research, and the Assistant Vice President for higher education sector, and excellent oral and written Student Success and Equity Initiatives. The Vice communication skills. Provost also works closely with the Academic Deans, AVPs and Program Chairs and provides advice A background check (including a criminal records regarding long term campus and academic planning. check) must be completed satisfactorily before any Core to the mission of California State University candidate can be offered a position with the CSU. Channel Islands, is the commitment to diversity, equity, Failure to satisfactorily complete the background and inclusion. The Vice Provost will be expected to check may affect the application status of applicants or bring an equity lens to all decisions and initiatives, continued employment of current CSU employees who while providing leadership that reduces equity gaps for apply for the position. an increasingly diverse student body. The Vice Provost oversees and carries to completion projects assigned The person holding this position is considered a by the Provost. ‘mandated reporter’ under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and is required to comply The Vice Provost reports to the Provost and serves as with the requirements set forth in CSU Executive a member of the Provost’s leadership team and the Order 1083 Revised July 21, 2017 as a condition of Academic Senate. The Vice Provost is the Division of employment. Academic Affairs Chief Executive when the Provost is SEARCH PROSPECTUS: Vice Provost 8
APPLICATIONS AND NOMINATIONS PROCESS The University is being assisted by Academic Search. California State University Channel Islands is an Applications should consist of a substantive cover Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. letter, a curriculum vitae, and a list of five professional references with full contact information. No references We consider qualified applicants for employment will be contacted without the explicit permission of the without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, candidate. Applications, nominations, and expressions ancestry, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender of interest can be submitted electronically, and in expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, confidence, to: medical condition, disability, marital status or protected veteran status. CSUCIViceProvost@academicsearch.org. The position is open until filled, but only applications received by September 14, 2021, can be assured full consideration. Confidential discussions about this opportunity may be arranged by contacting consultants Ann Die Hasselmo and Chris Butler. SEARCH PROSPECTUS: Vice Provost 9
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