Dean, College of Arts & Sciences

Please note that as of November 18, this search is at an advanced stage in the process. In the event that your experience and background are a good fit for the position, we will be in touch.

Georgetown University invites inquiries, nominations, and applications for the position of dean of Georgetown College of Arts & Sciences (CAS). The College is critical to Georgetown's identity as a student-centered research university located in the nation’s capital. The College and the university have a powerful sense of community, and the CAS is thriving within a university that continues to grow in scope, stature and recognition.

The dean of CAS is appointed by the president (John J. DeGioia) and reports to the provost (Robert Groves). The successful candidate will be an accomplished scholar, committed teacher, talented administrator, and strategic thinker with the intellectual and personal qualities essential to growing and fostering a diverse community and guiding CAS through a challenging and changing landscape in higher education. 

The dean is the academic leader of CAS, the oldest and largest school within the university, home to 26 academic departments and 12 interdisciplinary programs across the arts and sciences. The dean is responsible for supporting, strengthening, and diversifying a strong faculty, staff, and student body of both undergraduate and graduate students while enhancing the environment for teaching and research.

The dean will enhance and promote programs within and across disciplines – both within the College and in partnership with the other university deans. The dean is responsible for maintaining and promoting the College’s commitment to an exceptional education, achieved through substantive student-faculty interaction in and beyond the classroom; fostering a strong, diverse, welcoming and inclusive community in which all can flourish; pedagogical innovation; active, reflective, and experiential learning; application of theory to practice; artistic production; thriving faculty, graduate and undergraduate research; and the development of the critical thinking, writing, and analytical skills that are the hallmarks of a liberal arts education.

John Isaacson is leading this search with Berkley Braden.