The Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee invites inquiries, nominations and applications for the position of dean. The Lubar School of Business is a major metropolitan business school with close to 100 faculty and staff, 760 graduate students, and 4,000 undergraduate students. Accredited by the AACSB for over 30 years, the Lubar School offers a complete range of management degree programs, including the BBA, MBA, Executive MBA, MS in Management, and Ph.D. programs, as well as joint degree programs and specialized certificate programs.
The new dean will be expected to address leadership opportunities including defining and achieving a vision for excellence that continues to build on the extraordinary recent gifts of $25 million, recruiting outstanding faculty, creating innovative new programs of the highest quality, building community both externally and internally to the School, and participating with the other deans in leadership of the University.
The ideal candidate will have the following professional qualifications: academic credentials and accomplishments appropriate to appointment at the rank of professor; a record of leadership and vision; administrative experience and accomplishments; involvement in programs of high quality; success in building faculty excellence; engagement in economic development activities; involvement in supporting diversity; successful fundraising; and successful experience working in a system of shared governance.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is one of two doctoral granting institutions in the University of Wisconsin System, serving 28,000 enrolled students. The University’s schools and colleges, offering extensive partnership opportunities, include: The Schools of Architecture and Urban Planning, Continuing Education, Education, Information Studies, Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business and The Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, the Colleges of Engineering and Applied Science, Health Sciences, Letters and Science, Nursing, and The Graduate School.
The Sheldon B. Lubar Dean will be the first holder of the newly endowed chair, supported by the Lubar gift. Compensation for this position is competitive. Offering excellent non-salary benefits, the University participates in the Wisconsin Retirement System.
Inquiries, nominations and applications are invited. Candidates should provide a cover letter describing their qualifications in the context of the issues described above, curriculum vitae, and the names and contact information for five references. Candidates will have full confidentiality until finalists are invited for campus interviews; references will not be contacted without candidate permission. For first consideration, materials should be received by February 29, 2008. Candidates are very strongly urged to review the full position profile at www.uwm.edu/Dept/Business/faculty/employment/ before preparing their materials.
Materials should be sent by email to UWMbusiness@wittkieffer.com. Items that cannot be sent electronically may be sent to the search consultants, Jean Dowdall, Ph.D. or Jane Courson, at Witt/Kieffer, 2015 Spring Road, Suite 510, Oak Brook IL 60523. The consultants can be reached by phone at (630) 575-6131.
UWM is an affirmative action, equal employment opportunity employer.
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