Dean

Clark University, a nationally ranked, private liberal arts-based research university, seeks a visionary and collaborative leader to serve as the inaugural dean of the new School of Media Arts, Computing, and Design. This role represents a rare opportunity to lead a new School at the convergence of the arts, interactive media, and technology.

The University’s internationally ranked programs in game design and interactive media, alongside established strengths in computer science, the arts, and the humanities, form a robust academic ecosystem. The School of Media Arts, Computing, and Design brings these distinct but complementary areas together in a single academic home, creating new opportunities for integration across creative, computational, and humanistic disciplines, with growing attention to how people engage with and are shaped by interactive media, computing, data, and AI. Together, these strengths underpin a School that unites rigorous scholarship grounded in the values of a liberal arts education, alongside an experiential, studio-based approach to learning. As this new School continues to take shape, Clark students will be competitively prepared for success in an increasingly digital and interdisciplinary world.

The successful candidate will bring an entrepreneurial vision and approach to leading this new academic enterprise. The inaugural dean will play a pivotal role in shaping and launching the School, positioning Media Arts, Computing, and Design as a destination for creative, computational, and design-driven work with broad societal impact. This is an opportunity for a builder—an innovative and collaborative leader who can bring colleagues together, develop new structures and programs, and help define the School's future direction. The dean will also be a compelling communicator, able to clearly articulate the value and impact of Media Arts, Computing, and Design’s interdisciplinary model, and leverage this platform to cultivate external relationships and drive fundraising success, recruitment, and resource development for the School.

Clark has retained Isaacson, Miller, a national executive search firm, to assist in this search. Inquiries, nominations, referrals, and applications should be sent to Ben Tobin, Raul Bernal, and Alaine Small below. 

Clark University embraces equal opportunity and affirmative action as core values: the University believes that cultivating an environment that embraces and promotes diversity is fundamental to the success of our students, its employees, and its community. This commitment applies to every aspect of education, services, and employment policies and practices at Clark. Clark’s commitment to diversity informs its efforts in recruitment, hiring, and retention. All positions at Clark share in the responsibility for building a community that values diversity and the uniqueness of others by exhibiting integrity and respect in interacting with all members of the Clark community to create an atmosphere of fairness and belonging. Clark strongly encourages members from historically underrepresented communities, inclusive of all women, to apply.