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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Plan, direct, or coordinate research, instructional, student administration and services, and other educational activities at postsecondary institutions, including universities, colleges, and junior and community colleges. | Recruit, hire, train, and terminate departmental personnel. | |||
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Plan, administer, and control budgets, maintain financial records, and produce financial reports. | ||||
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Represent institutions at community and campus events, in meetings with other institution personnel, and during accreditation processes. | ||||
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Participate in faculty and college committee activities. | ||||
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Provide assistance to faculty and staff in duties such as teaching classes, conducting orientation programs, issuing transcripts, and scheduling events. | ||||
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Establish operational policies and procedures and make any necessary modifications, based on analysis of operations, demographics, and other research information. | ||||
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Confer with other academic staff to explain and formulate admission requirements and course credit policies. | ||||
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Appoint individuals to faculty positions, and evaluate their performance. | ||||
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Direct activities of administrative departments such as admissions, registration, and career services. | ||||
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Develop curricula, and recommend curricula revisions and additions. | ||||
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Determine course schedules, and coordinate teaching assignments and room assignments to ensure optimum use of buildings and equipment. | ||||
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Consult with government regulatory and licensing agencies to ensure the institution's conformance with applicable standards. | ||||
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Teach courses within their department. | ||||
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Participate in student recruitment, selection, and admission, making admissions recommendations when required to do so. | ||||
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Review student misconduct reports requiring disciplinary action, and counsel students regarding such reports. | ||||
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Assess and collect tuition and fees. | ||||
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Direct scholarship, fellowship, and loan programs, performing activities such as selecting recipients and distributing aid. | ||||
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Coordinate the production and dissemination of university publications such as course catalogs and class schedules. | ||||
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Review registration statistics, and consult with faculty officials to develop registration policies. | ||||
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Audit the financial status of student organizations and facility accounts. | ||||
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Plan and promote sporting events and social, cultural, and recreational activities. | ||||
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Direct and participate in institutional fundraising activities, and encourage alumni participation in such activities. | ||||
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Advise students on issues such as course selection, progress toward graduation, and career decisions. | ||||
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Direct, coordinate, and evaluate the activities of personnel, including support staff, engaged in administering academic institutions, departments or alumni organizations. | ||||
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Formulate strategic plans for the institution. | ||||
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Promote the university by participating in community, state, and national events or meetings, and by developing partnerships with industry and secondary education institutions. | ||||
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Write grants to procure external funding, and supervise grant-funded projects. | ||||
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Oversee facilities management for the university, including construction, repair, and maintenance projects. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Education Administrators, Post Secondary
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. | |||
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Personnel and Human Resources | Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems. | |||
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Psychology | Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders. | |||
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Therapy and Counseling | Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance. | |||
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Sociology and Anthropology | Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins. | |||
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Communications and Media | Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media. | |||
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Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. | |||
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Clerical | Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology. | |||
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Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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Law and Government | Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. | |||
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Philosophy and Theology | Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture. | |||
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Sales and Marketing | Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Management of Personnel Resources | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. | |||
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Negotiation | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. | |||
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Learning Strategies | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. | |||
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Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. | |||
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Systems Analysis | Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. | |||
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Systems Evaluation | Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. | |||
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Management of Financial Resources | Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures. | |||
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Mathematics | Using mathematics to solve problems. | |||
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Management of Material Resources | Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Memorization | The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Mathematical Reasoning | The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. | |||
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Number Facility | The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. | |||
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Time Sharing | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). | |||
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Speed of Closure | The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver | Web page creation and editing software | |||
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CollegeNET Schedule 25 | Facilities management software | |||
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Enterprise resource planning ERP system software | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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Jenzabar EX | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Microsoft Office Visio | Charting software | |||
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Microsoft Office software | Office suite software | |||
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Microsoft Outlook | Electronic mail software | |||
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Microsoft PowerPoint | Presentation software | |||
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Microsoft Project | Project management software | |||
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Microsoft Word | Word processing software | |||
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Nolij Corporation Nolij Transfer | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Oracle PeopleSoft | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports | Data base reporting software | |||
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Statistical software | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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Student and Exchange Visitor Information System SEVIS | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Student information systems SIS | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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SunGard Higher Education Banner Unified Digital Campus | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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SunGard Higher Education DegreeWorks | Project management software | |||
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Web browser software | Internet browser software | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Laptop computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Liquid crystal display LCD video projectors | Liquid crystal display projector | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Universal serial bus USB flash drives | High capacity removable media drives | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | Master's Degree | |||
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Related Work Experience | Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Academic Affairs Dean | |||
Academic Affairs Director | |||
Academic Affairs Vice President | |||
Academic Dean | |||
Academic Department Chair | |||
Academic Director | |||
Academic Support Director | |||
Academic Vice President | |||
Administration Dean | |||
Administration Vice President | |||
Administrative Assistant | |||
Admissions Advisor | |||
Admissions Dean | |||
Admissions Director | |||
Admissions Officer | |||
Admissions Representative | |||
Adult Basic Education Manager | |||
Alumni Secretary | |||
Applied Science and Technologies Dean | |||
Arts and Sciences Dean | |||
Assessment Coordinator | |||
Assistant Dean | |||
Associate Dean | |||
Athletic Coordinator | |||
Athletic Director | |||
Athletics Director | |||
Behavioral Sciences Department Chair | |||
Biology Department Chair | |||
Business Dean | |||
Business Division Chair | |||
Business Manager | |||
Business Services Director | |||
Business Services Vice President | |||
Campus Administrator | |||
Campus Dean | |||
Campus Director | |||
Career Development Director | |||
Career Services Director | |||
Chairperson | |||
Chancellor | |||
College Administrator | |||
College Admissions Counselor | |||
College Dean | |||
College Director | |||
College President | |||
College Recruiter | |||
College of Education Dean | |||
College or University Business Manager | |||
College or University Department Head | |||
College or University Registrar | |||
Commandant | |||
Communications Department Chair | |||
Communications Director | |||
Continuing Education Dean | |||
Continuing Education Director | |||
Controller | |||
Coordinator | |||
Counseling Director | |||
Dean | |||
Dean of Men | |||
Dean of Students | |||
Dean of Women | |||
Department Chair | |||
Department Head | |||
Development Director | |||
Development Vice President | |||
Director Career Services | |||
Director of Admissions | |||
Director of Athletics | |||
Director of Institutional Research | |||
Director of Physical Education | |||
Director of Research | |||
Director of Student Affairs | |||
Director of Student Financial Aid | |||
Director of Testing | |||
Director of Veterans Affairs | |||
Division Chair | |||
Division Director | |||
Economics Department Chair | |||
Education Dean | |||
Education Department Chair | |||
Education Director | |||
Engineering Department Chair | |||
Enrollment Coordinator | |||
Enrollment Counselor | |||
Enrollment Management Director | |||
Enrollment Management Vice President | |||
Enrollment Services Dean | |||
Enrollment Services Vice President | |||
Enrollment Specialist | |||
Executive Vice President | |||
Extension Division Director | |||
Extension Work Director | |||
External Relations Director | |||
Faculty Dean | |||
Faculty Member | |||
Finance Director | |||
Finance Manager | |||
Finance Vice President | |||
Financial Aid Advisor | |||
Financial Aid Coordinator | |||
Financial Aid Director | |||
Financial Aid Officer | |||
Financial Services Director | |||
Fine Arts Chair | |||
Fiscal Services Director | |||
Graduate School Dean | |||
Graduate Studies Dean | |||
Grants Director | |||
Health Sciences Dean | |||
Health Sciences Department Chair | |||
Higher Education Administrator | |||
Housing Coordinator | |||
Human Resources Director | |||
Humanities Department Chair | |||
Information Services Vice President | |||
Institutional Advancement Vice President | |||
Institutional Research Coordinator | |||
Institutional Research Director | |||
Instruction Dean | |||
Instructor | |||
Interior Design Program Chair | |||
Learning Support Services Director | |||
Liberal Arts Dean | |||
Library Director | |||
Marketing Director | |||
Marketing Services Vice President | |||
Mathematics Department Chair | |||
Music Department Chair | |||
Natural Sciences Department Chair | |||
Nursing Program Chair | |||
Operations Director | |||
Operations Vice President | |||
Physics Department Chair | |||
Placement Director | |||
Principal | |||
Professor | |||
Program Director | |||
Program Supervisor | |||
Provost | |||
Psychology Department Chair | |||
Public Relations Director | |||
Records Officer | |||
Recruitment Director | |||
Registrar | |||
Research Director | |||
Residence Life Director | |||
Resource Development Director | |||
Retention Specialist | |||
School of Nursing Director | |||
Social Sciences Department Chair | |||
Student Accounts Manager | |||
Student Activities Director | |||
Student Affairs Dean | |||
Student Affairs Vice President | |||
Student Development Dean | |||
Student Development and Retention Vice President | |||
Student Financial Aid Manager | |||
Student Life Dean | |||
Student Life Vice President | |||
Student Services Dean | |||
Student Services Director | |||
Student Services Representative | |||
Student Services Vice President | |||
Study Abroad Coordinator | |||
Summer Sessions Director | |||
Teacher Education Director | |||
Technologies Division Chair | |||
University Administrator | |||
University Dean | |||
University President | |||
University Relations Vice President | |||
Upward Bound Director | |||
Vice President of Academic Affairs | |||
Vice President of Instruction | |||
Workforce Development Vice President | |||
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