Leadership Profile
Dean of the School of Education and
Counseling Psychology (ECP)
The Opportunity Overview
Santa Clara University (SCU), a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located in California's Silicon Valley, is pursuing an ambitious period of growth across multiple fronts and has developed a bold new vision and integrated strategic plan, Santa Clara 2020. The University is launching new interdisciplinary initiatives, promoting
technology-enhanced teaching methods and building facilities that respond to the changing landscape of higher education and our increasingly technological society. The search advisory committee invites inquiries,
nominations, and expressions of interest for the position of Dean of the School of Education and Counseling Psychology (ECP). SCU seeks a collaborative leader with a distinguished reputation as a teaching scholar and a commitment to advancing the University’s mission, which is dedicated to academic excellence, social justice, and educating the whole person.
The School of ECP educates practitioners whose professional competence, social conscience, and human compassion will transform lives, schools,
and communities for the greater health, well being, and the common good of all—especially those in greatest need. The Departments of Education and Counseling Psychology were brought together in 1981 to form the Graduate Division of Counseling Psychology and Education, and in 2003, unified to form the School of ECP.
The School of ECP offers master’s degree programs to prepare professional counselors and K-12 educators and administrators; counseling psychology degrees leading to licensing for marriage and family therapists; professional credential programs for K-12 teachers and administrators in both public and Catholic school settings; preparation for those seeking later doctoral work in their fields, and other opportunities for post-baccalaureate study. The School prides itself on offering small, hands-on, state-of-the art classes and close contact with faculty. In summer 2015, the School moved into a 50,000 square foot section of a newly renovated building. The new space includes fourteen classrooms with cutting edge instructional technology, a science lab, and a suite of observation rooms. ECP also offers graduate training for culturally
responsive educational leaders at the East San Jose satellite campus. With these resources, the School provides a unique opportunity for an enterprising leader to leverage the dynamic,
entrepreneurial and diverse multicultural communities in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley. The School of ECP seeks a recognized leader with a distinguished academic record; experience leading an academic unit in a university or equivalent setting; demonstrated acumen in
budgetary and financial affairs; a record of leading successful innovation; zeal for external engagement and fundraising; a track record of making and implementing decisions in a collaborative and coordinated manner; appreciation of and commitment to shared governance with the faculty; and commitment to excellence in professional education as integral to the Jesuit educational vision of developing leaders of competence, conscience, and compassion.
The executive search firm Witt/Kieffer is assisting Santa Clara University in this recruitment. Inquiries, nominations, and expressions of interest are invited and should be directed to Witt/Kieffer consultants assisting the search committee as indicated in the section below entitled Procedures for Candidacy.
The Role of the Dean of the School of Education and Counseling
Psychology
Position Description and Responsibilities
The Dean is the chief academic and administrative officer of the School of Education and Counseling Psychology. The Dean reports to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and works in concert with the University Development Office for matters relating to fundraising. The Dean serves as a member of Santa Clara’s Council of Deans and as a member of Santa Clara’s Planning Action Council.
The Dean has the immediate responsibility and authority over the curricula, programs, courses of instruction, teaching, academic advising, School budget, and certification/accreditation of all programs of the School.
The Dean is responsible for evaluating the teaching performance, scholarship, and professional achievements of the faculty; submitting annually a proposed budget to the Provost and
administering the approved budget; presiding at all regular and special meetings of the faculty; and appointing such faculty committees as may be appropriate and, in cooperation with
appropriate faculty committees, recommending to the Provost candidates for faculty appointments.
Opportunities and Expectations for Leadership
The Dean is expected to excel in the following areas:
Vision Setting: Articulate how the mission of the School supports and promotes the Jesuit mission of Santa Clara University through the School’s academic programs, scholarship, and impact on surrounding communities.
Strategic Planning: Provide leadership for the School in strategic planning, direction setting, and policy development within the context of the University’s strategic plan and institutional policies.
Academic Quality: Stimulate, guide, and support the development of high-quality academic programs within the School; continually enhance the academic quality of the School by recruiting and retaining an exceptional faculty and student body, by refining the School’s rigorous academic programs, and by promoting strategic partnerships that will advance the School’s scholarship and impact.
Scholarship: Promote and support rigorous inquiry and innovative scholarship; and maintain and enhance an environment that fosters faculty commitment to both teaching and scholarship, in accordance with the University’s teaching scholar model.
External Relations and Fundraising: Enhance the external relations and public profile of the School in collaboration with other University programs; generate financial support for the School both through stimulating interest in the School’s programs and through personal involvement in fundraising as part of the University’s comprehensive campaign.
Management: Oversee ongoing operations of the School, including curriculum development, faculty recruitment and development, student recruitment, budget management, and outreach programs; and allocate resources to achieve most effectively the vision and goals of the School and the University.
Relations within the University: Integrate and represent the School within the University, seeking opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaborations with other academic units including the University’s Centers of Distinction.
Qualifications
The successful candidate for Dean of the School of Education and Counseling Psychology will demonstrate:
A record of academic and/or professional accomplishments appropriate for the position of Dean.
The ability to build upon the existing strengths of the programs and faculty of the School and articulate these to local, national, and international communities.
The ability to imagine a future for the School in a way that promotes excellence and enhances flexibility to adapt to changing conditions, particularly leveraging the School’s location in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Comprehension of, and/or experience with, private non-profit institutions of higher learning.
The ability and desire to advocate for the School both on campus and in the larger community.
The ability to understand, communicate, and work effectively with diverse communities.
A commitment to excellence in professional education as integral to the Jesuit educational vision of developing leaders of professional competence, conscience, and compassion.
An ability to communicate effectively for the School and the University and engage our diverse community in constructive dialogue.
An entrepreneurial spirit that will generate and apply resources in ways that help realize the priorities of the School and the University.
A familiarity with professional accreditation standards and expectations.
Procedure for Candidacy
Nominations and expressions of interest, including a CV and cover letter of interest, can be sent in confidence via email to SCU-ECPdean@wittkieffer.com. Inquiries and questions concerning this search may be directed to the executive search consultants assisting SCU: Brian Bloomfield at 630-575-6154 and Robert W. Luke at 781-564-2620. The position will remain open until filled, but for fullest consideration materials should be sent by October 14, 2015. The
recruitment will be conducted in confidence until finalists are invited for campus visits at which time professional references will also be contacted.
Overview of the School of Education and Counseling Psychology
Guided by a strong dedication to academicexcellence and service to society, the School of Education and Counseling Psychology educates practitioners whose professional competence, social conscience, and human compassion will transform lives, schools, and communities for the greater health, well being, and the common good of all— especially those in greatest need. To that end, the School’s graduate degrees, credentials, and continuing education
programs pursue the following learning goals:
To educate students as whole persons, helping them to gain respect and appreciation for people of all backgrounds, orientations, ages, and abilities.
To foster students’ professional competence through the rigorous study of theory, research, and practice.
To instill in students a commitment to lifelong learning.
To inspire an enduring commitment to conscience and ethical action that evidences itself across the diverse domains of professional and personal life.
To develop students as transformative leaders who benefit individuals, communities, and professions.
Within the context of a Catholic and Jesuit University, ECP seeks to create a community of learners dedicated to developing professional excellence, and devoted to promoting social justice for the common good.
The Departments of Education and Counseling Psychology were brought together in 1981 to form the Graduate Division of Counseling Psychology and Education. By 2003, the two
departments had been consolidated and unified to form the School of Education and Counseling Psychology (ECP).
The School of ECP offers master’s degree programs to prepare professional counselors and K-12 educators and administrators; counseling psychology degrees leading to licensing for marriage and family therapists; professional credential programs for K-12 teachers and administrators in both public and Catholic school settings; preparation for those seeking later doctoral work in their fields, and other opportunities for post-baccalaureate study. The School prides itself on offering small, hands-on, state-of-the art classes and close contact with faculty.
In summer 2015, the School moved into a 50,000 square foot section of a newly renovated building. The new space includes fourteen classrooms with cutting edge instructional
technology, a science lab, and a suite of observation rooms. Located across the street from the main campus, the new building includes a significant amount of office space for faculty,
spacious lounges for students, and two sets of classrooms that can be expanded to host larger workshops and conferences. ECP also offers graduate training for culturally responsive
educational leaders at the East San Jose satellite campus.
The Department of Education
The Department of Education is focused on: a) the preparation of teachers and administrators for public and Catholic schools and b) further professional development for educators through its Masters programs.
The department has offered teacher preparation programs for over 40 years. Its faculty currently comprises two Professors, three Associate Professors, four Assistant Professors, two Senior Lecturers, five Lecturers, and a dedicated cadre of adjunct faculty and collaborators in local school districts who complement and enhance the department’s skill sets. Over the next several years, the department has approval to hire four new tenure-stream faculty to
strengthen its program offerings.
The department is fully accredited by the California Commission on Teaching Credentialing (through 2016) for its Preliminary Multiple and Single Subject teaching credential programs (the initial professional license for both public school and Catholic school teachers), General
Education Clear credential program (designed to enable Catholic school teachers to obtain a clear teaching credential), and Preliminary and Clear Administrative Services credential programs.
Approximately 330 students are enrolled in the department’s three major programs (teacher and administrator preparation, master degrees, and Catholic education). The current priorities for Education programs are to integrate new pathways (i.e., internship Credential, Bilingual Authorization) into the teacher education program, increase the sociocultural and linguistic diversity of the credential candidate population, to implement a newly reconceptualized Master’s degree program in Interdisciplinary Education, and to heighten the visibility and impact of the existing partnerships within the Catholic Diocese of San Jose.
New programs in the past two years include the Blended Learning Academy and the ExCEL program. The Blended Learning Academy is part of the Saint Katharine Drexel School Initiative which involves a close partnership between the San Jose Diocecen schools and Santa Clara
University. ExCEL’s three-year program creates a pathway for aspiring teachers to be concurrently admitted to SCU’s masters degree program and assigned a supervised student-teaching placement at an appropriate parochial school site. ExCEL participants do not pay for their tuition or housing. Living in an intentional community is an integral component of ExCEL.
Department of Counseling Psychology
Established in 1964, the Department of Counseling Psychology aims to educate and train master’s level therapists to work with the breadth of populations found in California and beyond. The department offers three master's-level degree programs: (1) Counseling (52.5-units); (2) Counseling Psychology leading to licensure as a Marriage and Family Therapist(90-units); and (3) Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (90-units). The State of California license in the latter two degrees allows the holder to engage in private practice, and graduates of Santa Clara University
consistently achieve one of the highest licensing exam pass rates in the state. Distinguishing features of this department are its theoretical pluralism, extensive array of advanced elective clinically-oriented classes, and areas of optional program emphases. Each emphasis or sub-specialty allows students to coalesce several of their elective classes around a particular theme in the counseling field. The largest emphasis, Health Psychology,is the only one integrated into a master’s program in the nation. The Correctional Counseling emphasis is the only such
program in California; and the rapidly growing Latino Counseling emphasis is one of only five nationwide.
The Counseling Psychology Department has three Professors, three Associate Professors, two Assistant Professors, one Senior Lecturer, two lecturers, and a number of adjunct lecturers. The department also has approval to hire one new tenure-stream faculty in the coming years. Although this department trains practitioners, the faculty is very much influenced by a teaching-scholar-practitioner model, with teaching and research being equally valued and supported. This department, which serves approximately 370 students per year, is among the largest programs in the state and is the largest private program with a single campus.
Center for Professional Development
Santa Clara University offers continuing education and lifelong learning programs in response to the professional re-certification requirements in counseling psychology, education, and other human services and health care fields. The School’s Center for Professional Development coordinates programs for credit, CEU, and personal development for the School, as well as for other areas of the University.
Overview of Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University is a leading Jesuit, Catholic institution that has grown in size and stature during the last decade and is increasingly recognized as one of the most dynamic and
successful private, nonprofit educational institutions in the West. Founded in 1851, Santa Clara University is California’s oldest institution of higher learning. The University occupies a 104-acre campus of handsome mission-style buildings, palm trees, beautiful gardens, and broad lawns. It is located in Silicon Valley, one of the most innovative and vibrant regions of the country. Santa Clara University has over 8,000 students and is organized into six academic units: the College of Arts and Sciences, the Jesuit School of Theology, the Leavey School of Business, the School of Education and Counseling Psychology, the School of Engineering, and the School of Law. The University has an annual budget of $420 million and an endowment of approximately $850 million. U.S. News & World Report ranks Santa Clara 2nd among 127 master’s universities located in the West, and Forbes magazine ranks Santa Clara 86th on its list of America’s Top Colleges.
Student learning takes place in an educational environment that integrates rigorous inquiry and scholarship, creative imagination, reflective engagement with society, a deep understanding of ethics, and a commitment to fashioning a more humane, just, and sustainable world. The vision of the University is to educate leaders and citizens of competence, conscience, and compassion.
Santa Clara 2020: Integrated strategic Plan
Since its founding in 1851, Santa Clara
University has excelled at educating the whole person. In doing so, it has transformed
generations of students into principled and skilled citizen leaders, contributing profoundly to the social, economic, intellectual, and cultural well-being of our region, the state, and the nation—and far beyond.
Today, the University finds itself at a
remarkable intersection: the convergence of history and tradition, great new challenges, and remarkable opportunities. With deep roots in both the Jesuit tradition of education and Silicon Valley's world-changing culture of innovation, Santa Clara is poised to redefine values-based higher education.
Santa Clara 2020—the University's new integrated strategic plan—articulates the University's bold and ambitious goals, together with the means to achieve them. In pursuing this vision, Santa Clara will take its place among leading universities, earning a distinctive reputation for rigorous and holistic education that uniquely prepares and empowers its graduates to build a more humane, just, and sustainable world.
The Santa Clara Community
In the heart of Silicon Valley, the City of Santa Clara is located about 45 miles south of San Francisco at the southern tip of the San Francisco Bay. The city's population was 116,468 at the 2010 United States Census, making it the ninth-most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In addition to being of the home of Santa Clara University, the State’s oldest institution of higher education, other points of interest include, Mission College, the 100-acre California's Great America theme park, an award-winning Santa Clara Convention Center, Triton Museum of Art, the de Saisset Museum, Intel Museum, and the home of the San Francisco 49ers.
The City of Santa Clara is voted one of ten All-America Cities in the New Millennium by the National Civic League. Santa Clara is a Charter City with a Council/Manager form of
government. The City’s financial stability ensures the highest levels of citizen and business service, low business taxes and solid real estate value, and it is also one of the safest U.S. cities with a population of 75,000+.
APPENDIX I – Senior Leadership
President Michael E. Engh, S.J.
Michael E. Engh, S.J. took office as the 28th president of Santa Clara University on January 5, 2009. Since arriving at Santa Clara, Fr. Engh has led the
University in defining the University's vision and setting the course for the future. The bold new vision and integrated strategic plan, Santa Clara 2020, articulates a plan to transform the Santa Clara student experience, redefining and elevating the University's position among the nation's premier universities animated by a distinctive Jesuit approach to holistic education.
Among his priorities as president are attracting diverse and academically gifted students; recruiting and retaining talented faculty and staff; and engaging with the diversity, energy, and entrepreneurial spirit that are the hallmarks of Silicon Valley.
Active in higher education governance and in the local community, Fr. Engh serves on a number of boards, including the Board of Trustees of Boston College, Board of Directors of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the Board of Directors of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, Council of Presidents of the Graduate Theological Union and the Board of Trustees of Bellarmine College Preparatory. He also holds an appointment on the Executive Board of the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (AICCU), and is a member of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.
Prior to coming to Santa Clara, Fr. Engh served as Dean of the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts and professor of history at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. A teacher and historian of the American West, Fr. Engh has published on the history of Los Angeles and the role of religion in the history of the American West. He entered the Jesuits in 1972 and was ordained a priest in 1981. He holds a B.A. from Loyola University of Los Angeles, now LMU; an M.A. from Gonzaga University; a Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley; and a Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dennis C. Jacobs, Ph.D.
Dr. Jacobs is the Chief Academic Officer at Santa Clara and a Professor of Chemistry. Appointed in 2011, Dennis provides leadership and management of all aspects of academic and student life programs, information services, and campus recreation. Jacobs was previously a chemistry professor for 23 years at the University of Notre Dame, and from 2004-2011, he served as Notre Dame’s Associate Provost and Vice President for Undergraduate Studies and
International Studies.
In 2002, Dennis was named the ‘U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universities’ by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The award honors dedication to teaching, commitment to students
In Dennis’s role as Provost, he oversees all undergraduate and graduate educational programs and curricular offerings in the College of Arts & Sciences and in Santa Clara’s five professional schools. He works to enhance the intellectual vibrancy of the faculty, student body, and curriculum by providing leadership in matters related to academic affairs, faculty affairs, information services, and student life. In addition, Dennis has been responsible for directing the development and implementation of the University’s integrated strategic plan.
Dennis was born and raised in California. He earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University and bachelor's degrees in chemistry and physics from the University of California at Irvine.
APPENDIX II– Search Committee
Ujala Akram, Assistant Dean for Marketing and Enrollment Management, ECP
Marco Bravo Ph.D., Associate Professor, Education
Lisa Goldstein Ph.D., Professor, Education
Harold Hoyle Ph.D., Lecturer, Education
Peter Pabst, S.J., President of Cristo Rey School in San Jose
Teri Quatman Ph.D., Associate Professor, Counseling Psychology
Ed Ryan Ph.D., Vice Provost for Planning and Institutional Effectiveness (Search Chair)
Jerry Shapiro Ph.D., Professor, Counseling Psychology
Santa Clara University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer committed to excellence through diversity and, in this spirit, particularly welcomes applications from persons of color and members of historically underrepresented groups. Upon request, the University will provide reasonable accommodations in the application
process to individuals with disabilities.
The material presented in this position specification should be relied on for informational purposes only. This material has been copied, compiled, or quoted in part from publically available institutional information and personal
interviews and is believed to be reliable. Naturally, while every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this information, the original source documents and factual situations govern.
