Dartmouth invites applications for the position of Dean of the Frank J. Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies (the Guarini School). The Dean will provide strategic, collaborative, and inclusive leadership for Dartmouth's graduate and advanced studies enterprise, strengthening doctoral programs, graduate education, research training, and postdoctoral affairs across the institution. Dartmouth seeks to enhance the quality, breadth, and international reputation of its graduate, postdoctoral, and postbaccalaureate programs. The next Dean will lead this initiative.
As Dartmouth's academic home for nearly all PhD, MS, MA, and MFA programs, as well as postdoctoral scholars and other advanced scholarly training, the Guarini School plays a central role in advancing Dartmouth’s research mission and educating future scholars, professionals, and leaders. Through centralized oversight and close partnership with Dartmouth's schools, departments, and institutes, the Guarini School promotes academic excellence, innovation, access, and student success. Dartmouth's doctoral programs are concentrated primarily in STEM fields, with master's programs spanning the arts, sciences, engineering, and professional schools.
Reporting to the Provost, the Dean serves as the chief academic and administrative officer of the Guarini School and plays a key institutional role in shaping priorities related to graduate education and research training.
This is an exceptional opportunity for a visionary, decisive, and collaborative academic leader to serve as Dartmouth's principal advocate for graduate and advanced studies — articulating the essential contributions of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to Dartmouth’s research distinction, faculty excellence, undergraduate teaching, and broader intellectual community, and translating that advocacy into sustained investment, philanthropic support, and institutional standing. Dartmouth seeks an intellectual leader for graduate education: someone who will set bold priorities, make strategic tradeoffs, and shape the academic direction of the Guarini School with the scholarly authority and institutional stature to stand up for graduate programs at the senior leadership level.
Further details about the position, including responsibilities, are available in the position description. Questions about the role can be sent to office.of.the.provost@dartmouth.edu.