Job Description

Dean Roles, Responsibilities & Effectiveness

The primary role of the Dean is to, mentor, teach, develop course requirements, promote faculty excellence in curriculum, and strengthen institutional effectiveness. Under the supervision of the Chief Academic Officer, the Dean is responsible for the promotion of essential concepts, skills, and knowledge for the development of students as world-changing leaders. For these reasons, the faculty is encouraged to approach teaching, the curriculum, and other activities with:

• Advanced knowledge and application of the Word of God.
• Appreciation for diversity and different approaches in teaching and learning.
• Multi-disciplinary approaches that promote intellectual freedom to explore, reason, analyze, and resolve the challenges of the world.

The role of faculty is vital to the success of this mission. The faculty is an important participant and is significant to assure the fulfillment of the University’s mission and principles. The primary responsibilities of the faculty include the following: teaching, research, curriculum design, and evaluation. Moreover, faculty effectiveness shall be determined in accordance with the University’s mission, principles, vision, and goals. Faculty are expected to:

Promote the student’s commitment and ability to influence world order and peace.

Cultivate unprecedented world-changing leadership and professionalism after the image and likeness of God.

Link achievements to broad pursuits in higher education, research, communication, and policy reform.

Faculty Qualifications for Teaching Assignments

Full-time and part-time faculty must have completed at least 18 graduate semester hours in the teaching discipline and hold at least a master’s degree or hold the minimum of a master’s degree with a major in the teaching discipline. In exceptional cases, the President’s Council may accept professional experience and demonstrated contributions to the teaching discipline upon approval.

The criteria for teaching an undergraduate course are as follows:

A master’s degree or at least 18 hours at the post-graduate level.

The instructor’s degree must be from an accredited institution.

Submission of course syllabus and course description approved by the Department Chair.

Must demonstrate acceptable teaching skills and classroom management via evaluation.

Must have at least 5 years of experience in teaching research or professional experience in a particular discipline.

Must be approved by the Dean of the College.

Only doctorate-prepared faculty are qualified to teach Masters and Doctoral courses

 

Office Hours and Availability to Students.

All faculty members are expected to be available each week for student meetings and consultation and to keep the Dean informed concerning their office hour schedules or any changes to their office hour schedule. Acceptable methods of meeting these requirements include in-person meetings, phone meetings, or use of e-mail. Faculty members are to post office hours on office doors and list hours in the course syllabus.

 

Faculty Effectiveness

A strategic planning process and other derivatives are vehicles for faculty participation, evaluation, and development. The faculty shall engage in a 5 step continuous process to foster participation, evaluation, and development. The steps are teamwork building, shared Vision, personal mastery, mental models of excellence, and improved systems. Strategic planning sessions are scheduled three times per year in May, July, and October to review progress, make revisions, set new objectives, and document the process. See Chart A on University Effectiveness, page 19 in the Faculty Handbook.

The strategic planning process is based on a University-wide system. The process engages four (4) primary components of the institution, which include:

• Organization structure and function
• Academic programs and related activities
• Resources availability and utilization
• Long term planning

Faculty are encouraged to participate in all four components. See Section on Faculty Committees in the Faculty Handbook.

Essential Functions

• Ensures compliance with accreditors, copyright laws, and regulations.
• Monitor classrooms weekly for faculty performance evaluations.
• Monitor classroom attendance.
• Coordinates and implements distance education projects from inception to completion.
• Directs faculty development activities in the design/production of learning materials in a variety of formats, which would include print, graphics, audio, video, animation, and multimedia to support teaching and learning, and university information needs;
• Provides assistance to faculty in prepping courses prior to the start of each semester.
• Manages the evaluation process of Distance Learning support services and operations.
• Designs, develops, and delivers workshops and online training to faculty and staff in the use of instructional technologies and resources, best practices, and multimedia hardware/software to support teaching and learning.
• Maintains confidentiality of information exposed to in the course regarding students, supervisors, or other employees.
• Prepare Faculty evaluations each semester and discuss results with Faculty.
• Develop distance learning program goals or plans, including equipment replacement, quality assurance, or course offering plans
• Develop educational goals, standards, policies, or procedures.
• Maintain knowledge of current developments in area of expertise.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of distance learning programs in promoting knowledge or skill acquisition.
• Other duties as assigned.

 

Skills

• Leadership
• Administrative
• Interpersonal
• Mentoring
• Communication – writing, speaking, and listening skills

 

Activities

• Leadership
• Set goals with faculty members in the form of a planned faculty portfolio.
• Conduct faculty evaluations.
• Guide development of faculty.
• Assist with CAO maintenance of accreditation.
• Coordinate the completion of academic and government tasks required of academic area members within the division.
• Represent the department to external academic communities, alumni, business and industry, government, foundations, and the general community.
• Promote and enhance the image of the department and University of Fort Lauderdale through participation in appropriate professional and academic organizations.
• Administrative
• Assist with recruiting, training, and developing faculty to meet the needs of the department.
• Oversee graduate assistants. (if applicable)
• Actively promote department programs within the university, at other institutions (including community colleges), and in the tri-county area.
• Participate in management committee meetings.
• Handle student grievances, complaints, cases of plagiarism and other cheating, etc.
• Academic
• Teach Courses
• Publish in peer-reviewed academic or practitioner articles

 

Portfolio Breakdown

• 20% teaching
• 60-70% administration
• 10-20% research

Salary Range:

The salary range for this position is $58,000 to $63,000.

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Individuals who meet these requirements must submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching philosophy statement, original transcripts for all academic degrees, and three professional references to humanresources@uftl.edu. 

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