Chief Academic Officer and SVP, Academic Affairs

LaGuardia Community College; New York (NY); On-site; USD 225,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, seeks a Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs to provide strategic leadership for the College’s academic enterprise, including programs, departments, curriculum, and instructional services. The Provost reports to the President and directs the Academic Affairs division to advance student success and credential attainment.

The role oversees departments, library, accreditation, and instructional technology, driving student

Qualifications

• An earned doctorate or other appropriate terminal degree.
• Significant and progressively responsible experience in academic administration.
• Experience in leadership roles in large, complex, unionized organizations.
• A distinguished record of teaching, service, scholarly achievement, research, and professional accomplishments.
• A demonstrated record of sound fiscal and resource management.
• Successful experience in associate degree program evaluation and development, accreditation, including outcomes assessment.
• Experience working in a multicultural/multiethnic environment with the ability to build bridges and interact successfully with diverse constituent groups to foster a climate of inclusivity.
• An understanding of, commitment to, and respect for shared governance.
• Understanding of the changing landscape of higher education and knowledge of current and emerging best practices in community colleges.
• Experience managing and navigating the tenure and promotion processes.
• Experience serving students from underrepresented communities.
• Ability to recruit and retain a diverse faculty and staff and a demonstrated commitment to their professional growth and development.
• A record of providing support for teaching, research, scholarship, and service.
• Evidence of a respectful, consultative, and accessible leadership style that will energize and inspire the campus community.
• The ability to listen closely, make informed, data-driven decisions firmly, and communicate those decisions clearly and effectively in a timely manner, as well as hold others accountable.

Responsibilities

• Lead faculty and academic personnel matters, including recruitment, appointment, workload, evaluation, tenure and promotion, professional development, succession planning, and the resolution of academic personnel issues in accordance with CUNY policy and collective bargaining agreements.
• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous evaluation of an academic plan that advances LaGuardia’s 2030 Strategic Plan and student-success goals in alignment with CUNY priorities.
• Encourage and support innovative and high-impact teaching and learning practices across in-person, online, hybrid, and other modalities, and support the use of educational technology, OER, instructional design, artificial intelligence, and emerging approaches to teaching and learning.
• Oversee academic program development, review, assessment, and discontinuance.
• Identify opportunities for new degrees, certificates, credentials, and programs responsive to student interest, transfer opportunities, employer needs, and labor-market demand.
• Lead efforts to strengthen and promote Liberal Arts programs and ensure successful transfer pathways to four-year colleges for students seeking baccalaureate degrees in Liberal Arts disciplines.
• Oversee accreditation and compliance activities and ensure that academic policies, programs, assessment practices, and operations meet CUNY, state, federal, and accrediting requirements.
• Support faculty scholarship, research, creative activity, grants, sponsored programs, and opportunities for external funding.
• Support initiatives that enable faculty and students to participate in research and experiential learning.
• Manage academic resources, personnel, and budgets strategically and transparently; Align resource allocation with academic priorities, student outcomes, enrollment needs, and institutional goals.
• Partner with the President and Cabinet on college-wide planning and decision-making and serve as a senior institutional leader, including representing the President as appropriate and serving as a visible ambassador of LaGuardia, including at events that highlight, celebrate, and amplify student and faculty achievement.
• Build strong relationships with CUNY’s Office of Academic Affairs, other CUNY colleges, government and education agencies, accrediting organizations, community organizations, employers, industry partners, and other external stakeholders to advance the College’s academic mission.
• Ensure that academic policies and practices are developed through effective shared governance, consultation, transparency, and timely communication with faculty, staff, students, and other constituents.

Skills

Academic administration

Unionized leadership

Teaching & scholarship

Fiscal & resource management

Accreditation & assessment

Diversity & inclusion

Shared governance

Higher education trends

Tenure & promotion

Student access & outcomes

Diversity recruitment

Scholarship support

Leadership style

Data-driven decisions

Education

Earned doctorate or terminal degree

Job description

LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, seeks a Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs to provide strategic leadership for the College’s academic enterprise, including programs, departments, curriculum, and instructional services. The Provost reports to the President and directs the Academic Affairs division to advance student success and credential attainment.

The role oversees departments, library, accreditation, and instructional technology, driving student