Syracuse University seeks a Vice President for Research (VPR) committed to advancing excellence across all areas of research, scholarship and creative work. Reporting to the Provost, the VPR will build on our distinctive areas of excellence and create new possibilities for faculty and students to change the world through research and creative endeavor.
The VPR will be a critical member of the academic affairs leadership team who will lead the essential components of our research endeavor – technology transfer, corporate and institutional partnerships, funding agency relationships, and infrastructure planning – that enable and magnify the impact of Syracuse University’s research on the world. The University has a strong commitment to provide the VPR with the resources needed to succeed.
Syracuse has a long tradition of cross-disciplinary research impact. We seek a VPR who is as excited about advancing our strength in creative writing as they are our impact in physics. We are looking for an individual with the right experience, drive, and leadership to advance cutting-edge ideas and to create new initiatives across the University with new and existing partners at a local, national and global scale.
Our new VPR will enhance the professional development and entrepreneurship of undergraduate researchers, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. They will advance programs that mentor early-career scholars and create pathways for research and creative inquiry for people from backgrounds that are underrepresented in their disciplines.
We welcome inquiries and nominations of individuals who value Syracuse University’s commitment to being a student-oriented research university, to conducting socially relevant and impactful research, to encouraging creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship and to broad collaboration both within and outside of the University.
Sincerely,
Gretchen Ritter
Vice Chancellor, Provost and Chief Academic Officer
provost@syr.edu