Job Title: DIRECTOR, INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH - The College of Staten Island,

Deadline Date: Open Until Filled

Starting Date: September 2009

Institution: The College of Staten Island (CSI) is one of 11 senior colleges of The City University of New York and the only public college on Staten Island. CSI offers 36 academic programs, 15 graduate degree programs, and 7 challenging doctoral programs to 13,000 students and employs approximately 2,000 faculty and staff. Located on a 204-acre park-like campus that is minutes away from the cultural treasures of Manhattan, the CSI campus is the largest collegiate site in NYC. Fourteen neo-Georgian-style buildings house 300 classrooms, laboratories, instructional spaces, and study lounges as well as department, faculty and program offices. CSI boasts an advanced, networked infrastructure and is developing a high performance computational center that will support technology-based research, teaching, and learning throughout CUNY. The College is planning for enrollment growth and for the construction of new residential facilities during the coming five-year period.

The College’s faculty, administration, and staff are committed to educational excellence as they instill in students an enduring love of learning and respect for pluralism and diversity. The college community recognizes its responsibility to strive for the common good, including an informed appreciation for the interdependence of all people as well as providing students with the tools for successful future careers.

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Job Duties: The College of Staten Island seeks a broadly trained individual with strong analytical and computer skills to fill an opening as Director of Institutional Research. The Director reports to the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost and is a key member of the Provost’s Council. The Director contributes to academic program planning, evaluation, and other activities related to the mission of the College. He/she designs and conducts research projects with an institutional scope and assists departments and offices with more focused research needs. Responsibilities include: Conducting institutional research studies related to academic, student, and personnel issues; serving as coordinator of program reviews and accreditation reports; maintaining the institutional research data system; maintaining standard management information and official statistics for both internal and external reporting; developing a regular survey research procedure to support the analytical, planning, and assessment functions in the student and academic areas.

Duties:
• Coordinate all college wide surveys (e.g., NSSE, FSSE, BCSEE). Champion the adoption of other national measures (such as the CLA) to assess student learning.
• Provide and/or coordinate official college response to CUNY and external surveys.
• Work collaboratively with the Associate Provost for Institutional Effectiveness on issues of assessment both general institutional effectiveness as well as measure of student success and student learning.
• Work collaboratively with IT to develop and use a central data warehouse with appropriate tools for College access to data.
• Help instill a culture of data based decision making in all areas of the campus.

Qualifications: An earned doctoral degree with at least eight years of increasing responsibility performing statistical analyses and documenting results; experience developing automated programs for statistical analysis and information retrieval; facility with SAS or SPSS, database, spreadsheet, and other computer programs to translate quantitative data into usable information for planning, assessment, and other decision-making purposes; strong analytical, writing, communications, and interpersonal skills; and familiarity with academic settings.

Salary/Benefits:

To Apply: Please submit a curriculum vitae, cover letter including a statement of administrative philosophy, one writing sample from the candidate’s of scholarly expertise, and the names, addresses, and phone numbers of at least five references via e-mail.

Receipt of applications will be confirmed electronically.

EEO/AA: The Search Committee is especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute, through their research, teaching and/or service, to the diversity and excellence of the academic community. The College of Staten Island is an EEO/AA/IRCA/ADA employer.