Executive Search
Executive Associate Dean of Informatics
The Indiana University School of Informatics seeks an outstanding leader with vision and experience as Executive Associate Dean to direct the School on the Indianapolis campus.
Position Description and Application Information
The IU School of Informatics, founded in the year 2000, was the first School of its kind in the United States. In eight short years, the School has grown to include undergraduate, graduate, and research programs in Bloomington and Indianapolis. It also has affiliated undergraduate Informatics programs in South Bend, Kokomo, and New Albany. The School was named one of Computerworld magazine’s “Top IT Schools to Watch 2008,” in an August, 2008 feature article on graduate programs. The ten schools, which included Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, and the University of Virginia, were selected on the basis of how well they were keeping pace with today’s IT workplace and the relevance of their curriculum to the fast-paced technology industry.
Informatics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) hosts the Informatics Research Institute (also on the Bloomington campus), the Android Science Center, and the Indiana Center for Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine. Informatics on the IUPUI campus had $1,191,228 in funded research expenditures in 2007-2008. The School is committed to “real world” projects with the surrounding business community and is invested in the economic development of Indiana. It supports entrepreneurship within the School and provides full service career services for students and corporations. A recent system-wide strategic planning process produced these directions for the School:
- Excellence in education and research
- Partnerships for economic development and entrepreneurship
- Commitment to diversity-participation of women and underrepresented minorities
Informatics degree programs on the IUPUI campus include: (1) the Informatics doctoral program (2) masters programs in Bioinformatics, Health Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction, and Media Arts and Science and (3) undergraduate programs in Informatics, Media Arts and Science, and Health Information Administration. The position of Executive Associate Dean of the Indianapolis campus includes oversight of twenty-two tenure track faculty and associated staff, housed in the Informatics and Communications Technology Complex (ICTC), a state of the art facility completed in 2004.
Informatics shares the ICTC with University Information Technology Services (UITS). UITS provides world-class technology resources for IUPUI students and faculty. It hosts a number of research facilities, including the Pervasive Technology Labs, the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL), a virtual reality theater, and the Global Network Operations Center which supports the Internet2 network and a number of important computing research networks. IU offers comprehensive support for scholarly activities including supercomputing and data analysis, grid computing, visualization, and GIS.
IUPUI is Indiana's urban research and academic health sciences campus. In August of 2008, IUPUI made the first annual Forbes.com list of the top 15 percent of America’s best colleges. The campus is located three blocks from the Indiana Government Center, four blocks from Victory Field and the Lucas Oil Stadium, and is adjacent to White River State Park, home of the NCAA National Headquarters, the Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis Zoo, and the Eiteljorg Museum.
