Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Newark, New Jersey 🕑 Full-Time 💰 TBD 💻 Administrator 🗓️ October 29th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

Rutgers University is hiring a Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. The role is the chief academic officer of Rutgers University-Newark, an urban public research university, reporting directly to the Chancellor as a member of the Chancellor's Cabinet. The provost sets academic strategy, planning, and resource allocation across the schools and colleges, with goals that include moving the campus toward Carnegie R1 status for very high research activity.

Highlights

Lead the full academic enterprise, including the schools and colleges and units for institutional research and assessment, student success, faculty affairs, graduate and undergraduate education, and university-wide centers and institutes.
Align academic strategy, planning, and resource allocation with the Rutgers-Newark Roadmap and the Rutgers University strategic plan.
Work with the research division to expand faculty research capacity and advance the campus toward Carnegie R1 status and higher academic rankings.
Improve academic planning and program portfolios, modernize policies and processes, and extend the university's reach through market-responsive online programs and certificates.
Partner with University Academic Affairs on accreditation, compliance, and faculty affairs, and use academic analytics and institutional data to guide decisions on student retention, graduation, and success.
Partner with Enrollment Management, Student Affairs, and Student Success to serve a majority-Pell, first-generation, and commuter student body.
Earned doctorate with scholarly credentials suited to appointment as a tenured full professor, and 5 to 8 years of progressive leadership experience directly related to the role.
Record of leadership as a dean, department chair, or other senior academic administrator, with experience in program development and assessment, faculty hiring and tenure and promotion, and aligning resources with academic priorities.
Preferred: engagement in extramural research, leadership in teaching and learning innovation and doctoral education, and familiarity with institutional research and metrics on social mobility and student outcomes.
Predominantly office-based in Newark, New Jersey, with a hybrid arrangement possible, off-campus travel, and sustained work hours.