The College of Health Solutions (CHS) invites applications for the position of dean with a concurrent appointment as a tenured professor. The appointment is on the downtown Phoenix campus with an anticipated start date of no later than June 1, 2025. Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience. This is a fiscal-year, full-time, benefits-eligible position.

College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University

The College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University is the only health college of its kind — which is what you would expect from the most innovative university in the nation. We bring together researchers, faculty, students and community partners from a variety of disciplines to translate scientific research and discovery into practical solutions that make a difference. Our undergraduate and graduate students gain the knowledge and insight necessary to help solve our greatest health challenges — improving the health care system, increasing access to care and enhancing the health of individuals and populations.

ASU Health

Through ASU Health, Arizona State University is accelerating its health-related efforts to tackle the state’s urgent health care needs, now and into the future. The College of Health Solutions will play a meaningful role in the evolution of advancing the charge to address significant and growing health care needs and help improve health outcomes for families across Arizona.

Essential functions:

• Provide administrative vision, leadership, and management for the college.
• Foster and contribute to innovation and collaboration in teaching, research, and service that advances the ASU charter.
• Foster and contribute to interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary research and teaching.
• Provide leadership in the development, implementation, and evaluation of academic programs, ensuring they align with the evolving needs of the healthcare industry, population trends, accreditation requirements, and legal standards.
• Build and sustain strong relationships with healthcare organizations, community partners, and alumni to enhance college visibility, reputation, and opportunities.
• Facilitate internships, clinical placements, sponsorships, and collaborative initiatives.
• Monitor student retention and outcome data while supporting strategies to enhance student recruitment, retention, and success.
• Cultivate and secure philanthropic support by building and strengthening relationships with donors, alumni, and external partners to advance strategic initiatives.
• Oversee budget and resource management including fiscal operations, budget planning, and seeking opportunities for external funding to support academic programs, research, and student scholarships.
• Contribute to ASU Health’s primary goal of advancing health equity, healthcare access, and health education in Arizona through an inclusive and innovative environment.
• Champion alignment with the ASU Charter at the student, faculty, and staff levels, and across all aspects of the college's operations.

This Search is Internal to current ASU Employees Only

Required Qualifications

• Earned doctorate
• Record of distinguished scholarly research commensurate with an appointment as full professor with tenure.
• Administrative leadership experience in an academic environment.
• Current ASU employee.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in setting a vision and implementing a strategic plan resulting in developing and expanding academic programs of national and international recognition.
• Commitment to the ideals of ASU’s mission and Charter: access, excellence, and impact; and ASU’s design aspirations.
• Flexibility/adaptability in managing the unique aspects of the CHS structure to create new programs and to scale existing programs to deliver growth in research, scholarly and enrollments.
• Willingness to collaborate in the development, impact, and interconnectedness of ASU Health and its component parts.
• Desired capability to create and negotiate unique, flexible faculty appointments for the CHS; supportive of ASU Health strategies and the strengths of other academic and research endeavors at ASU.
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering academic excellence in a fast-paced, complex, and innovative university environment.
• Experience with hiring, retaining and supporting faculty and staff, including faculty promotion and tenure, career track faculty, staff career development, and mentoring.
• Experience fostering a robust scholarly environment and facilitating transdisciplinary, solutions-oriented collaborative research initiatives.
• Demonstrated commitment to promoting an inclusive learning environment with experience serving the needs of multiple student populations and multiple modes of learning and program delivery.
• Demonstrated commitment to student success with a focus on access, recruitment, retention, excellence and impact, and graduation metrics.
• Willingness to be a creative, bold and innovative thinker with a predisposition to transdisciplinary, socially embedded research and learning.
• Willingness to be an active listener and strong communicator who leads with integrity, honesty and transparency.
• Willingness to function as an effective and compelling spokesperson and advocate for the CHS in internal and external environments.
• Capacity to develop innovative and creative approaches to fundraising to enhance academic program excellence and student success.
• Ability to attract students to the CHS through coordinated recruitment strategies that result in increased enrollment, retention, and career success.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with a range of audiences, including the public and media, about health issues, faculty research, and college accomplishments.
• Excellence in cross-disciplinary collaboration within ASU Health and beyond, advancing shared goals while championing the college’s mission and priorities.
• Skill in building and sustaining community partnerships across sectors, leveraging College resources to drive impactful health solutions at local, regional, state, and national levels.

For best consideration, applications should be submitted by March 31, 2025. Applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis for a reserve pool. Applications in the reserve pool may then be reviewed in the order in which they were received until the position is filled.

Candidates are requested to submit the following:

• A Letter of interest that describes: (a) the breadth of experience that will contribute to leading a college; and (b) how the ASU Charter is reflected in past work and future plans.
• A Current curriculum vitae.
• The names & contact information for three references from ASU but outside of CHS (will only be contacted after candidate notification).

Arizona State University

ASU is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real-world applications blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU champions intellectual and cultural multiplicity and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe.

All we do at ASU is guided and inspired by the University Charter, which reads: ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves.