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Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration Leadership Profile Dean of the Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration September 2007 This Leadership Profile is intended to provide information about Roosevelt University and the position of Dean of the Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration. This document reflects information provided by Roosevelt University.
The Opportunity
Roosevelt University seeks a Dean for the Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration to build upon its commitment to excellence, access, social justice and connectedness to the dynamic Chicago business community. We invite nominations and expressions of interest for this unique leadership position in a vibrant and growing academic environment. The Dean has the opportunity to re-invent the College, to hire and lead the faculty in developing new academic initiatives and to create an environment of intellectual excitement to serve the diverse Chicago area business and philanthropic communities. The Dean, who will also hold the Alice de Costa and Walter E. Heller Professorship, is the chief academic, fiscal, and administrative officer of the College and reports to the Provost and Executive Vice President. The successful candidate should possess an earned doctorate/terminal degree as well as a record of teaching and research to be appointed as a tenured full professor. As the College moves toward AACSB accreditation, ideally the Dean will have had experience in this process and five or more years of successful management experience. He/she must demonstrate a commitment to diversity, have a record of leadership characterized by collegiality and integrity, and demonstrate acumen in fundraising and external relations. Work experience in a leadership position in business will be advantageous. The mission of The Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration is to give students a career oriented business education that emphasizes personal and professional integrity and stresses the social responsibility of business. The College houses graduate and undergraduate programs offering degrees in accounting, finance, information systems, marketing, management, and real estate. The faculty includes distinguished scholars and experienced industry professionals. Roosevelt University, a national leader in educating socially conscious citizens, is a private, student-centered university with more than 7,000 students studying at comprehensive campuses in the Chicago Loop, Schaumburg and online. Founded on the principles of inclusion and social justice, Roosevelt offers academic programs in arts and sciences, business, performing arts, education and professional studies. Consideration of nominees and candidates will begin on September 10, 2007 and continue until the position is filled. For optimal consideration, nominations and applications should be received no later than October 31, 2007. Nominations and applications including a letter of interest and curriculum vitae should be sent electronically to: Nancy Archer-Martin, Executive Search Consultant Roosevelt University, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605 Leadership profile can be obtained below Roosevelt University welcomes women, LGBT, disabled, international, minority- classified individuals as applicants for all positions.
Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration: A Perspective
Roosevelt University’s Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration provides students with a career-oriented business education that emphasizes personal and professional integrity and stresses social responsibility in business. Named in honor of the late Walter E. Heller, a leader in the field of international business, the Heller College is accredited by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs. ACBSP accreditation is granted to business colleges which meet national and international standards for teaching excellence, learning outcomes, mission-based strategic planning and continuous improvement. The College is headquartered in Chicago, the nation’s second largest financial center. Alumni /ae of the College have the advantage of pursuing jobs with some of the nation’s largest corporations, banks and trading exchanges. The Heller College also has a major campus in northwest suburban Schaumburg, located near O’Hare Airport and such international companies as Motorola, Zurich American Insurance and Sears. The College’s full-time faculty members bring a diversity of experience and excellence in academic training to their work. The full-time faculty is augmented by approximately 50 adjuncts many of whom hold senior-level positions with major organizations and businesses in metropolitan Chicago. Currently there are 32 full time faculty positions budgeted including four positions in search for 2007-08. The College offers a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with students having the opportunity to choose majors in Accounting, Finance, Human Resources Management, Management, and Marketing. The College has six graduate programs which include the Master of Business Administration, Master of Science in Accounting, Master of Science in Human Resource Management, Master of Science in Information Systems, Master of Science in International Business, and the Master of Science in Real Estate. All of the undergraduate and graduate programs with the exception of the recently created MSRE program are accredited by ACBSP. Enrollment is 773 graduate students and 616 undergraduate students. In conjunction with academic programs in real estate, the Heller College operates the Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate which provides continuing education, research, professional leadership and leading-edge thinking in all important matters related to real estate in the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
The Role and Opportunities for Leadership
The Dean of the Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration joins a college and a university with a compelling mission, a sound financial position and aggressive, visionary and transformative aspirations for the future. Like the city and metropolitan regions it serves, Roosevelt makes no small plans. The Dean has the opportunity to re-invent the college, to explore opportunities for business education in alignment with the university's mission of social justice and equity in a global context, to hire and lead the faculty in developing an environment of intellectual excitement, to build university-wide collaborative programs and to actively grow partnerships with the diverse Chicago region and philanthropic communities. Reporting to the Provost & Executive Vice President and participating as a member of the Deans' Council, the Dean serves as the chief executive officer and academic leader of the college. He/she holds fiscal accountability for the college, provides leadership for the hiring, retention and professional development of its faculty, acts as a role model/advocate for students and a student-centered educational program and serves as principal entrepreneur for creating and sustaining partnerships with alumni/ae and friends of the College and university. Highlighted opportunities include to: Build a Vision for the College Historically, the College was one of the founding schools of the university. Its students of several generations gravitated to its accounting and finance programs because the College offered access to these programs where other institutions in the city did not. That tradition of access continues today, and it has produced successful alumni/ae whose note-worthy accomplishments enrich Chicago and beyond (see alumni/ae profiles attached). The College is accredited currently by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs. While university leadership and Roosevelt trustees have acknowledged their support to consider AASCB accreditation as an aspirational goal, they and the faculty seek a Dean who will build a vision for undergraduate and graduate business education grounded in the university's core mission and values-- not seek the goal as the end itself, but rather as the result of the vision's realization. Create a Climate of Collegiality and Community Roosevelt University is grounded in its egalitarian mission. Facilitating change has thus been highly participatory, with all the benefits and challenges that come with a model of lengthy and collaborative decision-making. Recognizing this, the faculty has articulated a desire for a strong facilitator. The College seeks a Dean who will conduct needs assessment and asset mapping, then quickly move into strategic planning and its implementation. Maximize the Profile and Talents of the Faculty The Dean has a tremendous opportunity to shape the profile of the faculty through judicious, aggressive and astute hiring and the professional development of faculty, both new to the College and those affiliated with the college for a longer time span. Advance Enrollment and a Student-Centered Culture Roosevelt's assets include its faculty members, who are known for their commitment to teaching and to their students; the university's palpable commitment to access, and the consequent attraction of a highly diverse student body; and emerging hybrid and on-line program possibilities. The University has experienced significant increase in competition for students across many programs. The Dean has the opportunity to build on Roosevelt's assets and strengthen both the undergraduate and graduate programs and creative delivery options to appeal to a broader audience of prospective students. Additionally, the Dean has the opportunity to grow degree and certificate programs with corporations across the Chicago region. Naturally, the challenge will be to continue to nurture a student-centered culture as the student population grows both on-site and on-line. Develop Partnerships across the University and with External Communities As the new Dean explores programmatic possibilities, he/she will surely want to explore, the future of undergraduate business education and the role of general education and the arts & sciences in that future. The Deans of Arts & Sciences, Education, Professional Studies and Performing Arts are supportive partners in this endeavor and all are open to possibilities for new learning paradigms. The College must enhance visibility for itself with the business and community leaders of Chicago and its environs. While funding is crucial to the College's success, the College, under the Dean's leadership, is responsible to its students as well as all of its stakeholders, in the region for a well-prepared workforce. And indeed, Roosevelt has been and can be the city's leader in preparing a highly diverse, talented group of leaders for the city and region's diversity of profit and not-for-profit entities.
Leadership Qualities & Capabilities
From a professional perspective, the Dean should have demonstrated successful experience in leading a group in either a business and/or academic institutional setting. From an administrative perspective, the faculty and administration seek an individual who is a proven facilitator, one capable of reshaping a participative framework for both the College and its relationship with university administration. The successful candidate should have expertise through scholarship, experience and values to articulate how the university's mission of social justice and equity can come together in a college of business education. Awareness of the significance of global business education as well as corporate responsibility is also of importance. It will be ideal if the Dean has had experience with the AACSB accreditation/reaccreditation process. He/she should have experience and/or acumen to develop relationships with the corporate and philanthropic communities as well as with alumni/ae and friends to secure funds to support academic and other initiatives. Finally, the Dean should aspire to bring knowledge of "best practices" of business schools, in undergraduate and graduate programs, to Roosevelt. From an educational perspective, the Dean must possess an earned doctorate/terminal degree as well as a record of teaching and research to be appointed as a full professor. The Dean will hold the Alice de Costa and Walter E. Heller Professorship. From a personal perspective, the College and university seek an "appreciative leader," one who leads and manages through focusing on institutional and individual strengths, attributes and aspirations. The Dean should be a good communicator, one capable of building and sustaining relationships across the spectrum of College and university constituents. He/she should be a consummate listener, one who is flexible but strong as a facilitator. The Dean must be a person who resonates with Roosevelt's mission, its true commitment to diversity, access and equity and student centeredness. Finally, the College seeks a leader who is a balanced, collegial person, who possesses a sense of humor, zest for hard work and desire to advance the university's contemporary and enduring mission.
Roosevelt University: A Perspective
Roosevelt University is a thriving institution in the midst of a period of both expansion and focus on enhancing academic excellence. Led for the past five years by President Charles R. Middleton, the university has conceived and moved to implement an ambitious strategic plan which has transformed the student and academic profiles of the University. Contributing factors to the university’s remarkable success include:
Roosevelt University History
Roosevelt University was founded in 1945, as an independent, nonsectarian, coeducational institution of higher learning. The new school had no campus, no library, and no endowment, but its founders had an ideal that enabled them to overcome great obstacles. They were determined to make higher education available to all students who could qualify academically - considerations of social or economic class, racial or ethnic origin, sex, or age were, and remain, irrelevant in determining who is admitted. Originally named Thomas Jefferson College, the new school was soon renamed Roosevelt College in recognition of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s democratic ideals and values. The Roosevelt experiment was a success from the start. Independent and unencumbered by tradition, Roosevelt was free to pioneer new educational programs and democratic decision making. Student representatives are voting members of the University Senate; and faculty, alumni, and student representatives serve on the Board of Trustees. While insisting that its students meet the same high standards of academic excellence that characterize any first-rate university, Roosevelt has kept its doors open to the residents of the inner city, to students who work full-time to support themselves, and to students who are the first members of their families to attend college. Current enrollment is more than 7,000 students, of whom about one third are pursuing graduate studies. While a large percentage of Roosevelt students also work either full-time or part-time, the growth of full time undergraduates on both campuses is a vital feature of the University’s recent success. Roosevelt offers programs and services that place the needs of its students uppermost in its priorities. Class schedules are flexible. Courses are offered from early morning until late at night as well as on weekends, and class sizes are small. The Roosevelt faculty, numbering more than 500 full-time and part-time members, is accessible to students. An impressive number of the faculty publish books and articles, conduct important research, and perform in the world’s great concert halls. But first and foremost, Roosevelt professors are dedicated educators who enjoy teaching and excel at it. For many students, Roosevelt University’s appeal is its focus on traditional academic disciplines, out of which innovative interdisciplinary programs have emerged. A Roosevelt education long has been characterized as being ahead of the academic mainstream, and the university’s many new academic programs continue that tradition. The College of Arts and Sciences has developed new centers of excellence in the social sciences, humanities and natural sciences, and an honors program called the Roosevelt Scholars. Programs in the Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration combine a solid liberal arts background with professional training in areas from accounting and financial services to international business. The College of Education has played a leadership role in the Postsecondary Leadership Council, a consortium of nine university presidents and leaders from the Chicago Public Schools. The Chicago College of Performing Arts offers many rigorous performance programs in music and theatre along with studies in such areas as jazz studies, music education, and composition. The Evelyn T. Stone College of Professional Studies is a well-established college for adults who return to earn their degrees. Through a generous grant from the McCormick Tribune Foundation, Roosevelt has undertaken an initiative in fully online education, called RU Online, managed by the Provost’s Office. Roosevelt is known as an outstanding metropolitan university for several reasons. Its original campus in downtown Chicago and its suburban campus in Schaumburg are near convenient modes of transportation, which make it easy for working students to attend classes. The university provides numerous public services for the greater metropolitan area from which it draws the majority of its students. Roosevelt also has a number of specialized areas of study including affiliations with other academic, health, musical, theatrical, legal, and civic institutions. Exchange programs with international universities and schools provide a global dimension for both American students abroad and international students who come to study at the university. There are several institutes and centers at the University, including the Institute for Metropolitan Affairs, the St. Clair Drake Center for African and African-American Studies, the Center for New Deal Studies, and the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice—all of which promote research, discourse, and action in the areas of social responsibility and social justice. In all of its richly varied educational and research programs, Roosevelt is inspired and guided by the words of Eleanor Roosevelt who dedicated the university “to the enlightenment of the human spirit.”
A Few Notes on Chicago
By any measure, Chicago and its environs comprise one of the world’s great metropolitan regions. The city is at once a megalopolis of 8 million people and an accessible Midwestern town of unique neighborhoods. Chicago is a city of world-class architecture, unsurpassed beauty, and enormous civic pride. Located on the shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago is home to sports teams, buildings, museums, and cultural attractions and a richly diverse population. Lakefront parks, parades, cherished landmarks, and diverse neighborhoods all invite residents and visitors to live, to work, and to enjoy themselves here. Chicago is the U.S. entry in the competition to host the 2016 summer Olympics. Chicago benefits from an elaborate system of parks, boulevards, and museums and boasts 29 miles of beaches, bike and running paths, fishing piers, and eight yacht harbors. The public availability of waterfront makes Chicago unique among major American cities. The renovation of Navy Pier, a famous landmark, has added even more vitality to the lake front area by including restaurants, specialty shops, marina activities, and docking for cruise and charter ships. The Chicago Park District’s 500 parks, comprising over 7,000 acres, offer a wide range of athletic and recreational activities that are enjoyed by residents and visitors alike. Chicago has a long-established and growing tradition as a center for business and industry, ranging from a well-established manufacturing sector to newer fields like biotechnology. Adding to the city’s reputation as a business and industrial center is its popularity as a premier location for many corporate headquarters. Companies choose Chicago in order to take advantage of the proximity to transportation, suppliers, customers, and similar businesses, and to have access to a skilled labor force and an extensive urban infrastructure. Major exchanges are at the heart of Chicago’s financial prominence (80 percent of the world’s largest and oldest futures and options exchanges). The Chicago Board of Options Exchange is the world’s first and largest stock options exchange. A top priority of Mayor Richard M. Daley’s administration is to improve classroom performance and overall education in the Chicago Public School system. The Chicago Public Schools enroll more than 430,000 students, preschool through grade twelve, in a system encompassing almost 600 elementary and high schools. Of these, 36 elementary and nine high schools are magnet schools, which offer specialized educational programs to 35,000 selected students. In addition, Chicago has a large and highly regarded parochial school system as well as several fine private schools. There are 173 parochial elementary and high schools in Chicago, with a total enrollment of 71,200 students. The suburbs boast some of the nations’ top public and private elementary and secondary schools. Chicago has something for everyone – and all of it on the true world-class level: higher education art, architecture, theater, music, dance, sports, politics, museums, restaurants, shopping, recreation, and much more. The region truly is one of the great places in the world to live, to work and to play. Information on the city is available at its Website: www.ci.chi.il.us.
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