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About the Opportunity
Northeastern University seeks a leader of vision accomplishment creative and intellectual breadth and entrepreneurial capacity to serve as the next Dean of theCollege of Arts Media and Design(CAMD).
With its six academic schools and departments and multiple research centers and labs CAMD is a vibrant community of creators educators innovators and researchers dedicated to expanding human approach is to integrate human experience with cuttingedge advancements in technology data and emerging media to innovate creative industries inform and develop new kinds of scholarship art and practice and solve the challenges of the future.
Reporting to the universitys Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs the dean will play a leadership role in activating the colleges presence and engagement across Northeasterns global network of campuses. The dean will advance the distinctiveness reputation and impact of the college and the university and will be responsible for:
- Guiding the colleges academic direction and integrity
- Overseeing the recruitment and development of faculty and staff employees and supporting them in their work
- Continuing the colleges innovation in curriculum pedagogy and programs
- Generating resources to advance its mission
- Fostering a sense of belonging within and beyond the college
- Directing its fiscal and operational activities
CAMD leverages Northeasterns distinctive strengths attributes and energy. The universitys unique value proposition is grounded in several key tenets: an experiential education that prepares graduates to thrive in a technologydriven world; a global network of campuses and partners for students and faculty to leverage for learning and research; a deep investment in lifelong and experiential learning; pedagogical innovation; and a highly collaborative partnerfueled research enterprise focused on highimpact solutions.
Northeastern has experienced unprecedented growth over the last 20 years. Annual external research funding has increased dramatically fueled by its highly collaborative interdisciplinary institutes and centers and the hiring of more than 1000 tenured and tenuretrack faculty. Northeasterns experiential model with its signature coop program has expanded to include a vast array of realworld projects and experiences that attract top students at all stages of learning from around the world.
Over the past decade Northeastern has also established 13 campuses across North America and in the U.K. that offer myriad opportunities in undergraduate and graduate learning research and entrepreneurship. This network of campuses offers faculty and students an everincreasing set of opportunities to learn and discover in new contexts enriching education and maximizing their ability to make an impact.
College of Arts Media and Design
The CAMD community articulates a vision in which the fields of design communication media and the arts are crucial to culture society and human experience. We empower the next generation of students researchers and creative practitioners to create the future by sparking their innovation creativity curiosity and entrepreneurship.
The colleges six schools and departments architecture art design communication studies journalism music and theatre house a range of interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners with global perspectives and a shared commitment tofostering a vibrant and engaged academic community in which all members feel a sense of belonging.
In its education research creative and community impact CAMDs faculty aim to transform the academic and research landscape of our disciplines through interdisciplinary collaborations based on foundational pillars that evolve as we grow. Thefour pillarsare:
- Design for Experience
- Communication for the Future
- Creativity for Innovation
- Technology and New Media
CAMD by the Numbers
Undergraduate enrollment
- Fallstudents
- 1193 additional nonCAMD undergraduates pursuing combined majors with CAMD
- 13 increase in enrollment in the last 5 years
- 126 growth in CAMD combined major enrollment within the past 5 years
Undergraduate programs and majors
- 24 undergrad STEM programs
- 71 combined UG majors
- 78 increase in combined majors in the last 5 years
Undergraduate outcomes
- 96 of CAMD bachelors graduates are employed or in grad school within 1 year
Masters enrollment
- 8 STEM masters degrees
- Fallstudents
- 38 increase in enrollment in the last 5 years
PhD enrollment
- Fall 2021 2 students
- Fall 2022 18 students
- Fall 2023 34 students
- Fall 2024 54 students
Faculty and staff
- 44 increase in FT CAMD faculty from 156 in fall 2019 to 224 in fall 2024
- 77 increase in CAMD staff from 56 in 2019 to 99 in 2024
- 36 tenured/tenuretrack faculty appointments since AY 2021
Research
- $6.5M in external research funding earned by the college FY24
- 1000 increase in external research funding in the last 10 years
Succeeding Elizabeth Hudson who is stepping down after a decade of success building CAMDs faculty and establishing a respected set of academic and administrative leaders across the college the new dean has the opportunity to make a singular and lasting impact on a diverse range of creative fields and on the students who want to lead those fields. The new dean will be uniquely equipped to do this by advancing and building upon the distinctive tenets of a Northeastern education: experiential learning global opportunities and crossdisciplinary work across colleges and STEM disciplines (including computer science engineering and science).
The Role
Building on the decadeplus of work that has created CAMD as it is today the new dean has the opportunity to extend its reach and engagement more fully across Northeasterns network of campuses in the U.S. Canada and Europe. In leading the college forward the Dean of CAMD will embrace a core set of responsibilities and expectations; these include:
- Aligning the colleges goals research faculty hiring and programming to support the universitys Academic Plan
- Championing the colleges role in the education research and service missions of the university and advocating for the resources and recognition that are commensurate with that role
- Working with the colleges leadership and other academic deans to enhance existing academic programs; introduce innovative scalable and crosscutting new programs; and develop processes for review of existing programs
- With support from university advancement staff participating in the cultivation and stewardship of donors to increase college resources
- Strengthening and expanding CAMDs engagement with alumni parents donors and other external partners to support the colleges programs growth and initiatives
- Balancing the role the college plays in Northeasterns drive to innovate and its headline initiatives with attention to effective academic and administrative operations faculty recruitment and development and student support
- Expanding the colleges presence in Northeasterns global university system within which Northeasterns comprehensive campuses in Oakland California; London and soon Northeasterns New York City location following a merger with Marymount Manhattan College present immediate and compelling opportunities relevant to the fields CAMD represents
- Advancing the colleges and the universitys efforts in promoting belonging and fostering an inclusive culture within CAMD
- Strengthening the colleges role as the center of and convener for its disciplines at the university and leveraging that role to promote and integrate arts mediadesign and creative practices sensibilities and technologies across the university for example by fostering further growth in innovative combinedmajor and interdisciplinary degree programs that bridge Northeasterns other schools and colleges
- Increasing the creative research and scholarly activity with the college including in its established highly regarded communityengaged programs
- Continuing the development of the deans office to provide efficient support for the colleges departments schools faculty students and unitlevel staff
- Supporting the development of CAMDs department chairs and school directors to provide sustained empathetic and visionary leadership
- Aligning the structure and resources of the college to meet current and future student program and research demands
Embracing the rapidly evolving opportunityset that Northeastern creates and contributing to its uniquely entrepreneurial culture the dean will in all endeavors provide responsible ethical empathetic and empowering leadership to this diverse and dynamic academic community.
Qualifications
Northeastern University seeks a dean who possesses unquestioned integrity and exemplary interpersonal and communication skills a leader with the ability to inspire and align constituents and to leverage the colleges and the universitys strengths. The dean will be a tireless and resourceful champion for the college and for the fields of arts media and design as well as a committed teacherscholar and/or practitioner who values and supports faculty development and appreciates the full range of methods of inquiry forms of research and approaches to pedagogy represented in the college.
The ideal candidate will be a passionate advocate for the virtues of education research and practice in media design and the arts in the twentyfirst century who can imagine their reinvention in the dynamic transdisciplinary entrepreneurial and globalizing environment of a university committed to innovation and impact. They will be deeply supportive of faculty research and creativity and will promote collaboration across boundaries. This candidate will understand how to position CAMD to contribute to and derive value from Northeasterns mission: to solve the worlds hardest problems and to prepare students for lives of accomplishment. And crucially they will have the strategic capacity collaboration and communication skills and ability to execute initiatives necessary to succeed in Northeasterns fluid fastpaced innovative and resultsdriven environment.
Candidates must possess a demonstrated commitment to initiatives that promote a sense of belonging and must show strong evidence of visionary leadership innovative and entrepreneurial action administrative and fundraising acumen and the ability to foster an environment of growth intellectual development for students faculty and staff collegiality and should demonstrate the ability to work effectively within Northeasterns sharedgovernance practices on the basis of a management style that builds confidence promotes teamwork enhances creativity and collaboration and builds consensus.
Qualified candidates will have an earned doctorate or equivalent terminal degree in their academic field and a distinguished record of accomplishment as a scholar educator creator and/or practitioner appropriate for appointment as a tenured full professor at Northeastern University in one of the academic departments or schools of the college.
Appointment Terms
The dean reports to the Provost for a renewable fiveyear term. As dean they will be in a 12month 100 administrative role. The dean will be a tenured full professor in a department or school within CAMD (with possible secondary and/or courtesy appointments elsewhere at Northeastern) and will move into a regular 9month faculty position at the end of their service as dean. CAMDs dean may be based at a Northeastern campus in Boston New York City London or Oakland California while investing appropriate time in building relationships and camaraderie among colleagues university leaders and staff in Boston.
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
Trajectory
Founded in Boston in 1898 Northeastern is renowned for its experiential learning model highimpact research deep partnerships and worldwide reach. From day one the university has pursued innovative ways of teaching and research that place a premium on experience and engagement with the world. Today its signature approach spans the world empowering not only students but faculty alumni partners and innovators to explore ideas solve problems and scale impact.
Its global university provides its community and academic government and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. It includes 13 campuses across the U.S. U.K. and Canada 320000plus alumni and more than 3800 employer partners worldwide serving as a platform for scaling ideas talent and solutions.
The universitys residential campuses for undergraduate and graduate education and research are located in Boston London and Oakland California. Its research and graduatefocused campuses are in the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant; Arlington Virginia; Charlotte North Carolina; Miami Florida; Portland Maine; Seattle Washington; Silicon Valley California; Toronto; and Vancouver.
Northeasterns personalized experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across its campuses each led by a dean reporting to the universitys provost. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data technology and human literacies uniquely preparing graduates for an AIdriven world and the careers of the future.
Its research enterprise with an R1 Carnegie classification is solutionsoriented and spans the world. Its faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines but also sectorsaligned around solving todays highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind.
Measures of Success
The pace of change and progress has accelerated significantly under the leadership ofPresident Joseph E. research profile and external funding levels have risen sharply: External research funding was $296.3 million in 2024 up more than 500 since 2006. In 2015 the university moved into the top tier for research activity when it achieved R1 status under the Carnegie Classification system. The university had an endowment of $1.9 billion as of June 30 2024 and an FY24 operating budget of $2.3 billion.
Northeasterns faculty totals more than 4000 (of whom more than 2000 are fulltime) and comprises a diverse and talented group of teachers and scholars. TheAcademic Planprioritizes research personalized experiential learning and global impact. The chairs deans and provost have built a tenuretrack faculty aligned with Northeasterns strategic themes supported by large investments in new campuses facilities and startup packages. Faculty productivity and distinction is at the heart of the Northeastern mission and of the universitys commitment to grow its academic enterprise. The nontenuretrack faculty receive progressive titles for promotion training on the science of teaching and learning and direct participation in shared governance. Faculty cite the interdisciplinary and translational intellectual culture of the campus Northeasterns excellence in foundational disciplinary research and institutional momentum as key reasons for joining the university community.
Northeasterns distinctive internationally recognized programs for experiential learning attract an increasingly diverse and academically talented pool of students. The universitys signature cooperative education program (coop) and other experiential programs have enabled Northeastern undergraduate and graduate students to have professional research and service opportunities in 151 countries giving students realworld experience that adds enriching new dimensions to their classroom studies. Northeastern received 105092 applications for the Fall 2025 entering class and the mean composite SAT score of Fall 2024 freshmen was 1483. Applications for masters and certificate programs exceeded 71000 for Fall 2024 up 260 in the last decade.Over the past five years 97 of Northeastern graduates were employed (full or parttime) or in graduate school within nine months of graduation and 91 of employed 2022 graduates were doing work related to their major. Roughly 60 of graduates obtain their first job placement at one of their coop employers.
About the Global Campuses
The university campuses across the U.S. Canada and the U.K. operate as a distributed global network. For example new programs may be developed and established at one of the network campuses enhanced locally and then offered throughout the broader campus system consistent with local needs and demand. The successful Align computer science masters programwhich accelerates people with no prior computer science education or training into a career in computingis an example of this approach. It was designed implemented and revised in Seattle before being offered in Boston and other campuses. The university also encourages and enables students to benefit from pursuing learning and experiential opportunities at more than one campus in the system. Faculty are encouraged to use the campuses to scale their research and several of the universitys research institutes have hubs on multiple campuses. The Academic Plan envisions that all members of the Northeastern community will have a passport to the universitys global network to maximize their own opportunities and the impact of their work.
Academic Plan
In 2021 the Northeastern community adopted a new strategic planBeyond 2025that builds on previous efforts and sets ambitious goals for Northeasterns coming decade. At the heart of the framework is the central goal of maximizing Northeasterns positive impact in the world by:
- Recognizing the complexity of acute and chronic challenges and working across disciplines to address them
- Translating excellence in scholarship and learning into measurable impact
- Ensuring all students faculty and staff have access to the skills and tools they need to take projects from idea to implementation
- Preparing globally mobile culturally agile lifelong learners through experiential learning and a curriculum that emphasizes the intersection of data tech and human literacies
- Promoting an academic community in which all members share a sense of belonging and fully participate
- Providing an unparalleled experience for those who place their trust in Northeasternstudents employers research partners familiesenabled by seamless technological integration
President Joseph E. Aoun
Joseph E. Aoun a wellknown higher education thought leader and renowned scholar in linguistics is the seventh President of Northeastern University.
An internationally respected voice on the value of higher education President Aoun has led the global expansion of Northeasterns signature coop program bringing experiential learning opportunities to more than 150 countries. During his tenure the university has created a global university system spanning 13 campuses across North America and the U.K. increased external research funding sevenfold and hired more than 1000 tenured and tenuretrack faculty.
He is the author of numerous articles and books includingRobotProof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence(MIT Press revised and updated 2024. In it he expands on his initial blueprint for colleges and universities to meet the challenges and opportunities associated with the transformative effects of artificial intelligence.
President Aoun came to Northeastern from the University of Southern Californias College of Letters Arts & Sciences where he was the inaugural holder of the Anna H. Bing Deans Chair. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics and philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and advanced degrees from the University of Paris VIII (France) and Saint Joseph University (Beirut Lebanon). He was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and a Chevalier dans lOrdre des Palmes Academiques by the French government and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a past Chair of the American Council on Education.
Application Instructions
Northeastern University has engaged Opus Partners to assist with this international recruitment. Craig Smith Senior Partner and Abigail Maynard Managing Associate are leading the search. To seek additional information nominate qualified candidates or to apply please email Abigail Maynard:.
An application should include a CV and cover letter. Letters should highlight relevant experience explain interest and motivation and describe an initial vision for leading the College of Arts Media and Design. Northeastern University values fostering a sense of belonging among students faculty and staff and will seek a leader who is committed to promoting a sense of inclusion and belonging in leading CAMD. We encourage candidates to describe initiatives and accomplishments they have led or participated in that have lowered barriers to and increased participation for all and to address how they might advance a sense of belonging as the Dean of the College of Arts Media and Design. Review of applications will begin February 10 2025 and will continue until the university concludes the search.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by the law.
Position Type
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All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color national origin age sex sexual orientation disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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