Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School
About the Role
The Office of the Provost seeks an experienced, collaborative, strategic and dynamic leader to ensure the viability, integrity, and quality of all graduate programs, and oversee policies and procedures governing graduate education.The VCU Graduate School is committed to creating an environment that promotes diversity, equity and inclusiveness among the university’s graduate programs, graduate faculty and graduate students. Master’s and doctoral degree programs at VCU encompass a broad array of disciplines from the arts to science, technology, engineering and mathematics to the social sciences. Graduate students and faculty from diverse cultural backgrounds with different experiences and perspectives working together are better equipped to solve complex regional, national and global challenges. Excellence in graduate education is clearly enhanced through a community that is inclusive and welcomes all people. The highly rated graduate programs at VCU are strengthened by the unwavering dedication of the graduate faculty and students to the values of diversity, equity and inclusiveness. VCU’s Graduate School is affiliated with four external councils at the state, regional and national levels.
The Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School provides visionary leadership to promote and foster excellence in all aspects of the University’s mission. This includes an unwavering commitment to identifying best practices for graduate education in working with various stakeholders to design programs with market demand that enhance student success and institutional vitality. This individual will promote a positive image and maintain effective relationships by representing the Provost in their absence at various meetings and communicating with University administrators, faculty, staff, and students. This position leads and directs all core functions of the Graduate School, including administrative operations, planning, policy, program development, marketing, and student admissions and student recruitment, as well as works collaboratively with the provost, other deans.
How to apply
VCU’s Executive Search Team is assisting Virginia Commonwealth University in this search. Application materials should be submitted to the VCU job portal located at the link below:
Contact & submissions
Confidential inquiries, nominations and application materials should be directed to Tanya-Lee Giscombe. Submission of application materials as PDF attachments is strongly encouraged. The search will be conducted with a commitment of confidentiality for candidates until finalists are selected.
We are the university for Virginia. We know that the unique backgrounds and life experiences of the VCU community are what drive the university forward. Together, we’re forging a future that is built by us. Here, artists and engineers, doctors and designers come together to reimagine the human experience and tackle the problems of tomorrow. It’s this mindset that makes us one of the top 20 most innovative public universities in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report.
VCU dates to 1838 with the formation of the Medical Department of Hampden-Sydney College, whose mission was to educate physicians in central Virginia and which was later renamed Medical College of Virginia. In 1968, Richmond Professional Institute merged with the Medical College of Virginia to become what is now known as Virginia Commonwealth University.
Located in downtown Richmond, the state capital of Virginia, VCU enrolls more than 28,000 students in more than 200 degree and certificate programs across its urban campuses: the downtown Monroe Park and MCV campuses in Richmond; the Rice Rivers Center in Charles City, Virginia; satellite locations in Fairfax, Virginia, and Abingdon, Virginia; and a campus in Doha, Qatar, for the School of the Arts.
One of the largest academic health centers in the nation with a 52-acre footprint one block from Capitol Square, VCU Health System also maintains over 2.5 million square feet of facilities in satellite locations surrounding the city, including research space at the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park. In addition to VCU Medical Center, the $3.2 billion health system includes Community Memorial Hospital, the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU, the Virginia Premier Health Plan (a 220,000-member non-profit Managed Care Organization), and the MCV Physicians (a faculty practice plan with more than 700 members and 770 residents and fellows).
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