Urbana Campus Seeks New Provost
July, 2005
Nominations and applications are invited for the position of Provost
and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.
The Provost, who reports to the Chancellor, is the chief academic
officer of the Urbana-Champaign campus, and serves as chief executive
in the absence of the Chancellor. The Provost is responsible for
coordinating academic policy as well as managing the budget for
the entire campus.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a comprehensive,
major public university. As a land-grant institution, it provides
undergraduate and graduate education, conducts research, and provides
extension, continuing education, and other public service activities.
Resources include an outstanding library and research and educational
facilities and centers.
The campus community includes approximately
29,000 undergraduates, 10,000 graduate and professional students;
2,000 faculty, 3,000 academic professionals, and 4,500 staff members.
Instructional units include Colleges of Agricultural, Consumer and
Environmental Sciences; Applied Life Studies; Business; Communications;
Education; Engineering; Fine and Applied Arts; Law; Liberal Arts
and Sciences; Veterinary Medicine; Graduate School of Library and
Information Science; and School of Social Work; and Institutes of
Aviation and of Labor and Industrial Relations.
For the position of Provost the University seeks a scholar of academic
distinction who will take initiative and provide leadership. The
Provost should have a distinguished record of teaching and scholarly
or research accomplishments; a strong commitment to the academic
and social values appropriate to the University missions of teaching,
research, and public engagement, and the ability to articulate these
values in a variety of settings; a demonstrated capacity for sound
judgment and effectiveness in academic matters and other functions
relative to higher education; the determination and ability to foster
and sustain an environment that attracts and retains faculty and
staff of the highest caliber and encourages superior teaching, scholarship
and creativity; a demonstrated success in managing a large and complex
budget; and, more generally, the qualities needed to help lead and
advance the University in the pursuit of academic excellence.
The University of Illinois is committed to equal opportunity policies
and practices and to the principles and goals of affirmative action,
and seeks an individual who has demonstrated a commitment to these
principles. The University strongly encourages nominations of, as
well as applications from, women and minorities.
Salary open. Starting date negotiable. To be assured of full consideration,
nominations (including complete address of the nominee) and applications
(including resume) should be submitted by September 1, 2005. The
search will continue until the position is filled. Nominations or
letters of application should be submitted to:
Dean Robert Easter, Chair
Provost Search Committee
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Attention: Associate Chancellor Kathleen Pecknold
Swanlund Administration Building
601 East John Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Telephone: (217) 333-4238 or 333-6394
FAX: (217) 244-4121
email: chancellor@uiuc.edu
URL: www.oc.uiuc.edu/oc/provost
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is an Affirmative
Action, Equal Opportunity employer.
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