Dean of the Graduate School at Coastal Carolina University

The Position

Coastal Carolina University seeks a Dean of the Graduate School.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for the Graduate School, advancing a vision aligned with university priorities for graduate enrollment growth, student success, academic quality, and institutional advancement.
• Lead the expansion and refinement of master’s and doctoral program portfolios using data-informed, market-responsive strategies that reflect workforce demand, regional needs, and CCU’s academic strengths.
• Champion the development and quality of in-person, online and hybrid graduate programs, ensuring appropriate academic standards, student support systems, and sustainable faculty workload models.
• Serve as a collaborative, service-oriented partner to academic colleges, building strong relationships with deans, chairs, and faculty while establishing centralized policies, processes, and administrative support structures.
• Advocate for graduate students and enhance enrollment strategy by partnering with enrollment management on recruitment, marketing, and yield efforts, while ensuring graduate student needs are represented in campus-wide planning and services.
• Strengthen the role of graduate education in supporting research productivity and doctoral culture, collaborating with academic colleges and research leadership to advance research goals.

Required Qualifications

• An earned doctorate from an accredited institution.
• A history of demonstrated achievement in furthering the role of graduate education at a university.
• Experience of administrative leadership in graduate education, including program planning and development, assessment, new program approval, budgeting, student support, and/or enrollment management.
• History of collaboration with deans and faculty colleagues to cultivate and grow graduate programming and enrollment.
• Experience related to fiscal and budgetary management related to graduate education including budgeting, revenue and cost projections, enrollment targets, and support.
• Experience with developing external relationships and increasing philanthropic giving.
• Experience with PhD programs and ability to foster their success.
• Experience managing people and the ability to facilitate teamwork among faculty, staff, and students.