Dean, College of Public Affairs and Education (CPAE)

Untitled Document Dean, College of Public Affairs and Education (CPAE) Posting Category: E Application deadline: 10/10/2025 Minimum annual salary: $150,000 with robust benefits package The University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) seeks a committed, student centered, and collaborative leader to serve as Dean of the College of Public Affairs and Education (CPAE). Reporting to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs & Provost, the Dean serves as the College's chief executive-empowered to lead, advocate, and shape a dynamic academic enterprise that prepares future educators, policymakers, communicators, legal and civic professionals to make an immediate and lasting impact.

About CPAE.

CPAE comprises five units-the School of Education, School of Communication and Media, Department of Legal Studies, School of Politics and International Affairs, and School of Public Management and Policy-with approximately 50 full time faculty.

The College offers 11 baccalaureate programs, nine master's programs, and the university's sole doctoral program, serving 378 undergraduate and 436 graduate students as of Fall 2024.

Consistent with the College mission, CPAE engages, teaches, and inspires ethically grounded leaders; advances the public discourse; and conducts policy relevant, knowledge generating research that makes a difference.

Read more about the College at uis.edu/cpae The Role.

The Dean will champion inclusive excellence; foster a student centered culture; and build strategic relationships across the university, the Springfield community, and beyond.

The successful leader will grow innovative programs; strengthen external partnerships and fundraising; support high quality teaching and research; and steward resources with transparency and strong financial acumen-positioning the College at the nexus of education, public service, law, media, and policy.

The University & Location.

UIS is one of three universities in the world class University of Illinois System.

All UIS courses are taught by talented faculty who are leaders in their fields, and students benefit from uncommon leadership opportunities that accelerate career readiness and graduate study.

Our 746 acre campus in Springfield, Illinois-the capital of the nation's sixth largest state economy-provides unparalleled access to policymakers, agency leadership, think tanks, and conversations that matter.

UIS is approximately 200 miles southwest of Chicago and 100 miles northeast of St.

Louis.

Ideal Candidate Profile.

* Innovative, effective, and entrepreneurial academic leader * Demonstrated financial acumen and resource stewardship * Collegial, cooperative, and highly engaged collaborator and spokesperson for the College * Record of advancing inclusion and belonging and a deep commitment to civic engagement * Success in fundraising and cultivating external partnerships * Earned doctorate or terminal degree in a field aligned with CPAE's mission, and * A distinguished record of teaching, scholarship, and service meriting senior appointment in the College Join us to engage, teach, and inspire the ethically grounded leaders of tomorrow-graduates prepared to understand society's most complex challenges and equipped to solve them.

Link to the detailed job posting: Minimum Qualifications: Earned doctorate with qualifications for a tenured senior appointment in a UIS academic unit.

Distinguished record of teaching, scholarship, and service.

Minimum of five years of innovative leadership and academic administrative experience.

Higher education achievements relevant to the position's responsibilities.

Demonstrated commitment to the mission of public regional comprehensive universities.

Willingness to engage with and seek to understand programs within the position's purview.

Appreciation for the various populations that make up UIS students, staff, and faculty.

High integrity, curiosity, and commitment to collaborative leadership.

Employment Policies and other information: UIS is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer with a strong institutional commitment to recruitment and retention of a diverse and inclusive campus community.

Women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

As a qualifying federal contractor, the University of Illinois System uses E-Verify to verify employment eligibility.

The University of Illinois may conduct background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer of employment.

Background checks will be performed in compliance with state and federal law.

The University of Illinois System requires candidates selected for hire to disclose any documented finding of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment and to authorize inquiries to current or former employers regarding findings of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment.

For more information, visit Policy on Consideration of Sexual Misconduct in Prior Employment.

Benefits eligible positions include a comprehensive benefits package which offers: Health, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability & AD&D insurance; a defined benefit pension plan; paid leaves such as Vacation, Holiday and Sick; tuition waivers for employees and dependents.

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UIS employment in this role is not covered by Social Security, and instead, is covered by the State University Retirement System.

* You will not pay Social Security taxes and your earning will not be on your Social Security Record.

(Your record will, however, show your Medicare wages.

* Your pension from the State Universities Retirement System may affect the amount of your: * Social Security benefit and * Social Security benefit as a spouse Applicants with disabilities are encouraged to apply and may request a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (2008) to complete the application and/or interview process.

Requests may be submitted by contacting UIS HR at or call . * Please Note: All postings close at 5:00pm CST on the posting close date.*