Provost

Calvin University is seeking a new Provost to begin for the 2021-2022 academic year. The Provost is a vital part of Calvin’s executive leadership team and is the Chief Academic Officer of the university, championing its mission, vision, core values, and guiding principles. With a leadership role second to the President, the Provost will be responsible for leading a team of dedicated professionals in the planning, development, implementation, assessment, and improvement of academic programs and policies. The Provost will work closely with the President and assume his duties and responsibilities when he is unable to do so. The Provost will serve as a primary spokesperson and advocate for the excellence and distinctiveness of Calvin’s educational experience, both within the university and to constituencies beyond the campus.

The Provost will work collaboratively with a highly engaged faculty that strongly values active involvement in the governance process. S/he will lead in carrying forward a strong tradition of Reformed Christian educational practices and scholarship within a rapidly changing local, national, and international educational landscape and a campus community of growing diversity. S/he will lead the university in finding innovative ways to sustain the vibrancy of liberal arts education within a comprehensive range of university programs and a wider context of shifting student and cultural priorities. S/he will play a key role in advancing vision and building for future faithfulness amid financial challenges and rapid cultural and technological change, and will concretely address issues of sustainability in ways that are both strategic and sensitive. S/he will work to strengthen mutually supportive relationships between various university divisions and be responsible for:

• A robust liberal arts core curriculum, the Hekman Library, all academic departments and programs, and several centers and institutes focused on strategic areas of research and scholarship;

• The ongoing implementation of new schools and structures that will support Calvin’s 2019 change to university status in order to fulfill the University’s 2025 Strategic Plan and support the University’s Vision 2030 priorities;

• Student success both in and out of the classroom through academic advising, the center for student success (tutoring and coaching), the Access program, services for students with disabilities, and off-campus programs;

• Community engagement, which involves identifying strategic opportunities, facilitating collaboration between Calvin and the community, challenging academic departments, and encouraging faculty to use their teaching and research in focused ways in order to serve a larger community;

• Fundraising efforts through grants and foundation relations to help members of the Calvin community secure external funding from foundations, corporations, government agencies, and individuals;

• Advancing the priorities of diversity, equity and inclusion in ways beyond compositional diversity alone.

 

For more details about this position and the qualifications required, please review the full opportunity profile here: https://calvin.edu/offices-services/president/leadership/provost/