Dean School of Law

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Dean, School of Law
The candidate leads efforts to engage faculty, staff, students, alumni, community members, and business representatives in support of the law school’s development and growth. Ensures that the law school contributes to society through teaching, scholarship, and service. Will be responsible for advancing the law school’s historical mission of providing opportunities in the legal profession for the underserved and the economically and/or educationally disadvantaged. Creates the infrastructure and controls that cultivate an environment of academic excellence through high student engagement, exceptional teaching, and a rigorous curriculum designed to produce consistently competitive bar performance scores. Supervises the law school’s daily operations, budget management, student recruitment, and academic activities. Sets priorities and sustains an environment of academic excellence through development and assessment of curricular, research, collaborative and partnership initiatives. Monitors the progress towards the college’s goals, leading the faculty, staff and/or administrators to adjust the goals as needed and appropriate. Maintains accountability of all TMSL programs, personnel and systems. Oversees all TMLS assessment activities. Develops long-term goals for the college and implements plans for achieving them through high quality programming, in conjunction with the Provost. Implements, monitors and adjusts programmatic activities to accomplish the policies established by the faculty in alignment with the delivery and evaluation of the curriculum of all TMSL programs. Works with the faculty to uphold the qualifications for admission to the School. Ensures that suitable standards of student performance are maintained, and makes the final decision regarding probation or dismissal of students for unacceptable performance and/or nonprofessional behavior. Advances a research environment aligned with relevant needs of the university and broader community. Promotes productive collaborative research initiatives and submission of grant proposals to increase scholarly research activities in the college and university. Fosters positive relationships with the University, law school alumni, the state and local bar. Maintains Association of American Law Schools Membership by encouraging consistent scholarship. The Dean represents the college at official university functions, and with the Board of Regents and other university administration, the external community, local, state, national and international officials and organizations, alumni and donors. The Dean is active in professional community activities, assuming leadership as appropriate in organizations and committees. Oversees faculty recruitment, research, teaching and compensation. Encourages and promotes professional development of faculty and staff. Fosters an environment that facilitates attracting, retaining, and developing outstanding faculty, administrators and staff. The Dean reviews and approves matters such as: appointment, continued employment, promotion and tenure, personnel matters, such as compensation, family medical leave, etc. in accordance with university policies and procedures.

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