Dean

The University of Miami seeks a visionary, collaborative, and entrepreneurial leader to serve as Dean of the Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music (“Frost School” or “the School”). As the leader of one of the world’s most innovative schools of music, the Dean will have the singular opportunity to shape the future of music performance, scholarship, and professions by fostering creative and scholarly excellence in the context of a world-class research university.

Recently celebrating its centennial, the Frost School transforms students’ lives through the study and performance of music and enhances the future of the field through innovative and relevant curricula. The School is devoted to excellence and a culture of collegiality, in which a broad variety of musical styles, academic pursuits, and careers are valued. It is one of the broadest and most musically diverse schools in the country, with programs in classical, jazz, and contemporary music, as well as in music engineering, media scoring and production, music education, music therapy, musicology, music theory and composition, and music industry. Students are encouraged to become well-rounded musicians and professionals by exploring across disciplinary and departmental boundaries. Beyond campus, the School connects to the community through sustained outreach efforts and strives to engage meaningfully with the cultural richness of the Greater Miami area and broader South Florida region.

The Dean will join the Frost School at a pivotal moment in its history. The community is primed for a leader to arrive on campus, assess the considerable assets and opportunities that exist, and collaboratively develop a strategic plan to guide the School forward into its second century of excellence and innovation. To ensure the success and sustainability of the School, the Dean will lead efforts to recruit and develop the world-class faculty and staff who make the Frost School excellent. Leading with deep commitments to shared governance and collaboration, the Dean will strengthen a culture of trust, transparency, and engagement. As the School has grown increasingly complex and the University has redesigned its budget model in recent years, the Dean will have the opportunity to assess the operational infrastructure of the School, and to further develop structures and processes that enable the faculty, staff, and students to work, teach, and learn fairly and effectively. More broadly, the Dean will create opportunities for strategic partnership at all levels: across disciplinary and departmental boundaries within the School; with other schools and units across the University; and beyond campus, with surrounding communities. To support these efforts, the Dean will be an entrepreneurial financial leader for the School, developing new resources through programmatic and fundraising initiatives, and allocating existing resources strategically.

A search committee has been formed to conduct the search. The national executive search firm Isaacson, Miller has been retained to assist the search committee. Applications (including CV and cover letter), inquiries, and nominations should be submitted in confidence below.

Katie Rockman and Ben Tobin are leading this search with Keith Mason and Alaine Small. 

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