Salary: $308,000.00 - $322,500.00 Annually
Location : Main Campus - Orem
Job Type: Executives
Job Number:Division: VP Academic Affairs
Department: Academic Administration
Opening Date: 10/16/2026
Closing Date: Continuous
First Review Date: 11/09/2026
Required Documents Needed to Apply: Curriculum Vitae
Letter of Interest
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Summary of Responsibilities - Provide vision and strategic leadership for Academic Affairs while advancing UVU's mission, academic identity, and commitment to student success.
- Provide direct supervision of Academic Affairs leadership, including associate and deputy provosts, deans, and other direct reports.
- Use data-driven analysis to champion academic excellence, ensuring programs remain rigorous, relevant, innovative, and responsive while maintaining a culture of continuous improvement.
- Advance student success, retention, completion, and engaged and applied learning throughout UVU's integrated university and community college mission.
- Support faculty scholarship and creative work that enriches teaching, including industry engagement and applied research opportunities for students.
- Partner meaningfully with faculty and the Faculty Senate through shared governance to strengthen curriculum, academic standards, teaching, scholarship, and faculty success.
- Support and develop outstanding faculty through recruitment, retention, tenure, promotion, professional development, recognition, and opportunities for continued growth.
- Support campus strategic enrollment management (SEM) efforts to meet the educational need of our service region.
- Lead academic planning, program development and review, accreditation, assessment, and continuous improvement, using evidence and student outcomes to inform decision-making.
- Lead academic student success programs and initiatives, educational support services, and support and develop experiential and engaged learning experiences and encourage the use of high-impact practices for undergraduate and graduate students.
- Lead and strengthen academic partnerships with regional community and technical colleges and local K-12 districts, while fostering collaborative relationships with other Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) institutions and the system office to advance shared priorities, expand educational pathways, and support student success.
- Guide the academic enterprise through emerging opportunities and challenges associated with artificial intelligence and technology, including pedagogy, academic integrity, faculty development, and preparation of students for a rapidly evolving workforce.
- Foster a culture of teaching excellence, innovation, collaboration, and intellectual inquiry.
- Support and develop the Academic Affairs staff, who are essential to student success, through clear expectations, professional development, recognition, and opportunities for growth.
- Build institutional trust through transparent communication, active listening, open dialogue, visible leadership, and sustained engagement with faculty, staff, and students.
- Oversee academic resource allocation and stewardship to ensure alignment with university priorities including planning so that faculty and staff capacity, space, and budgets keep pace with enrollment changes.
- Partner with university leaders, Board of Trustees, and external stakeholders to advance UVU's mission and strategic goals.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, responsiveness, and exceptional service that makes UVU an accessible and effective partner for industry, alumni, donors, community organizations, and other stakeholders, creating meaningful opportunities for engagement and mutual success.
- Partner with campus leaders to sustain a safe, supportive learning environment and to lead academic continuity and recovery for students, faculty, and staff when crises occur.
- Represent the President and the university in internal and external settings as assigned.
Qualifications / Licenses / Certifications- An earned terminal degree from an accredited institution.
- Minimum of 5 years of senior academic leadership experience, such as dean, associate provost, or higher, in increasingly complex roles.
- Minimum of seven years full-time teaching experience at a four-year college or university.
Preferred Qualifications
- PhD.
- At least 7 years of senior academic leadership experience, such as dean, associate provost, or higher, in increasingly complex roles.
Knowledge / Skills / AbilitiesThe successful candidate should be available to start in January 2027 and will bring:
- Strong communication, relationship-building, and consensus-building skills.
- Demonstrated academic leadership and credibility in increasingly complex roles in higher education, including experience as a faculty member and academic administrator.
- A reputation for personal integrity and ethical leadership, shown through fairness, accountability, and consistency between words and actions.
- Strong understanding of faculty roles in teaching, scholarship, service, and tenure and promotion.
- A demonstrated commitment to student success, academic excellence, teaching excellence, and faculty achievement.
- A track record of building faculty-driven partnerships between higher education and industry resulting in aligned curricula. and innovative, experiential collaborations that enhance student success and meet workforce needs.
- Fostering industry connections that lead to student internships and faculty externships, financial support, placements of graduating students.
- An understanding of public higher education governance and the ability to work effectively with institutional and system-level stakeholders.
- An understanding of the rapidly evolving higher education landscape and a proven ability to lead systemic change, including artificial intelligence, technological change, changing student needs, workforce expectations, and the opportunities and challenges facing public higher education.
- The ability to balance innovation and responsiveness with academic rigor, faculty expertise, and the long-term quality and integrity of the academic enterprise.
- The ability to align strategy, budgets and other resources, and academic priorities while exercising responsible stewardship.
- In coordination with the President set academic strategy and thoughtfully guide organizational and institutional change.
- Demonstrated ability to build trust, listen actively, and communicate transparently to bring people together around a shared academic vision.
- A demonstrated record of listening to and acting upon student input and improving access and support to students from diverse backgrounds.
