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West Virginia University (www.wvu.edu) the state's flagship Land Grant university, invites applications and nominations for the position of Dean of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.
The Dean is the Chief Academic and Administrative Officer of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences and reports directly to the Provost of West Virginia University. The Dean is responsible for the leadership and management of all programs within the college. The Eberly College (http://eberly.wvu.edu/) is the largest college at West Virginia University and provides 55-60% percent of all undergraduate instruction. Enrollment includes 6350 undergraduate majors and 1350 graduate students. The college has 415 full-time faculty and 98 classified staff in 23 academic departments, programs, and centers in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Annual research expenditures total approximately $15.2 million, with 129 active Principal Investigators. A well-established development plan has led to a $55 million endowment that supports 27 distinguished professorships, 5 chairs, and numerous faculty development programs and student scholarships within the college. The college has multiple key relationships with other colleges within WVU.
Founded in Morgantown in 1867, West Virginia University is a public research university (high research activity as defined by the Carnegie Foundation) and conducts over $175 million worth of sponsored research...