Dean of the College of Business

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Location: Utica, NY Category: Management Posted On: Fri Jun 27 2025 Job Description:
The Dean of the College of Business is responsible for leading and promoting the vision, mission, and goals of a comprehensive and diverse academic unit that includes the Management, Finance, and Accounting disciplines.

The Dean will have a commitment to advancing a world-class college with a focus on growing enrollment, attracting and retaining highly qualified faculty, and leading initiatives to maximize the college's potential.

In particular, the Dean will play a key role as a champion of multidisciplinary efforts such as the Center for Business and Applied Ethics.

The Dean is responsible for the fiscal health of the college and will lead and oversee the budget process for the College ensuring continued fiscal health while leveraging the fiscal landscape for further growth and development.

This position has the authority to assist in determining, creating, and affecting policy for SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

Other reasonable duties as assigned.


+ Overseeing strategic planning for the college and provide leadership to faculty and staff, encouraging a sense of academic community and the vision, commitment, and integrity necessary to define and accomplish the institution's goals.



+ Take a proactive role in acting as an external champion with key college stakeholders to advance the college mission, maintain AACSB accreditation, promote external funding and investment, and build scholarship/endowment support for the institution's initiatives.

+ Proactively supporting and advancing the vision of SUNY Poly, both externally and internally; supporting SUNY Poly leadership; advancing and promoting the institution as a whole as well as an individual college.

+ Develop and maintain relationships with various stakeholders across the college and broader community to achieve excellence in the teaching, research and service.

+ Effectively recruit and evaluate faculty and staff and support their professional development.

Provide leadership, oversight and direction to direct reports and academic personnel to assure goals, programs, activities, and personnel practices, including faculty reviews and continuing appointment processes, are consistent with and contribute to strategic goals of the institution.

+ Manage state, federal and private resources provided to the college strategically, fairly and effectively, and take initiative to seek out and generate external resources.

+ Provide direction and support to departments to assure goals, programs, activities, and personnel practices are consistent with and contribute to the institution's goals and strategies.

+ Other reasonable duties as assigned.


Benefits: https://www.suny.edu/media/suny/content-assets/documents/benefits/benefit-summaries/MC13-Unclassified-Benefits-at-Glance-Jan-2025.pdf

Job Requirements:
Minimum Qualifications:


+ Candidates must hold a doctoral degree from a College or University accredited by the US Department of Education or other internationally recognized accrediting organization, with a minimum of 3 years of experience in academic administration at the departmental or similar level and successful experience in college or university teaching to justify appointment at the rank of full professor.

+ Candidates must possess excellent leadership qualities, communication skills, and the ability to convey information concisely.

They must support the vision, mission, and values of SUNY Poly.

In addition, candidates must possess the flexibility and capacity to oversee, prioritize, and execute a variety of strategic partnerships and initiatives and multiple projects concurrently.

+ Candidates must have knowledge of AACSB accreditation and an understanding of compliance in a regulatory environment covering research and education program administration, as well as the ability to manage complex business matters and transactions in a dynamic environment.

+ Some travel, both on site and off site, will be necessary, as there will be some engagement activities scheduled outside of normal work hours.


Preferred Qualifications:


+ Experience in academic administration serving as a Department Chair, Associate Dean, or Dean in an AACSB accredited college of business, at an institution whose faculty and staff are governed by a collective bargaining agreement.

+ Earned doctorate from an AACSB-accredited institution.


Additional Information:
Initial review of applications will begin August 25, 2025.

Posting will remain open until filled

SUNY Polytechnic Institute offers exceptional benefits such as healthcare, dental, vision, pension plans, competitive pay, generous paid time off, tuition assistance, life insurance and long-term disability insurance.

As an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer, SUNY Polytechnic Institute will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant's race, creed, religion, color, citizenship, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, predisposing genetic characteristics, gender identification or expression, genetic information, familial status, marital status, pregnancy, status as a domestic violence victim, criminal conviction, disability, military status, disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, Armed Forces Service Medal veteran, active duty or wartime campaign badge veteran, or other characteristic as protected by law.

Please feel free to review your equal employment opportunities protections and laws pertaining to these protections at http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf

The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, or Clery Act, mandates that all Title IV institutions, without exception, prepare, publish and distribute an Annual Security Report.

This report consists of two basic parts: disclosure of the College's crime statistics for the past three years; and disclosures regarding the College's current campus security policies.

The SUNY Polytechnic Institute Annual Security Report is available in portable document format [PDF] by clicking this link:

https://sunypoly.edu/sites/default/files/Clery Report 2023 - Utica [83].pdf

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Inquiries may also be directed to the United States Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, 32 Old Slip 26th Floor, New York, NY 10005-2500; Tel.

(646) 428-3800; Email OCR.NewYork@ed.gov.

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If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor's Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@oer.ny.gov (%20info@oer.ny.gov) .

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