ADMINISTRATOR:
PRESIDENT
The President of Mississippi University for Women (MUW) reports
directly to the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher
Learning (IHL Board). The President is responsible for the
administration of the University and for keeping its expenditures
strictly in harmony with the budgetary authorization of the Board.
The President has overall responsibility for these areas of the
institution: assisting the Board with issues that affect the
institution and the system of higher education; administrative
leadership of the campus; educational leadership; resource development
and acquisition; overall strategic and long-range planning, including
financial management; and public service.
Responsibilities:
Shape educational policy and academic standards,
recommend such policies to the IHL Board and maintain the policies as
approved by that Board.
Initiate the selection and recommendation for
election by the Board of faculty members of the institution and those
employees that require Board approval, including filling vacancies that
occur as emergencies.
Maintain appropriate standards of conduct of
students and take necessary actions pursuant to such conduct subject to
due process procedures.
Ensure that the vision of institutional purpose is
defined and continually renewed and that forums exist for the faculty
and staff to continually define the role of the University. This
responsibility requires continuing efforts to gain support for the
University’s purpose and mission by the Board of Trustees,
elected officials, and the Legislature.
Enhance the University and resources through
fund-raising efforts.
Build support among and enhance relationships with
local, state and national constituencies.
Make visible to appropriate decision-makers and
funding sources the financial, personnel, and facility needs of MUW.
Continue to revise MUW’s organizational patterns to
provide effective matches of talent and needs.
Utilize resources in the most effective and
efficient ways in accordance with standards of ethical practice and
policy from agencies and boards.
Invest in the growth of the University human
resources by providing opportunities for faculty and staff development.
Recognize the constructive uses of dissent by
providing appropriate forums for conflict resolution.
Act as a buffer between the University and the
community to allow the unfettered pursuit and dissemination of
knowledge.
Continue to set a standard of integrity,
excellence, and caring before the University and the community.
Add to the University’s existing climate of higher expectations
in which the best is expected of both staff and students and a
diversity of personality and talent is respected and affirmed.
Refine the strategic planning mechanisms in which
the aspirations and needs of various MUW units and programs are
coordinated and linked to the budgeting process as they are transmitted
through formal committee structure. Ensure that faculty, staff,
students and alumni participate in the ownership of MUW’s future.
Provide information profiles from both internal and
external sources for decision-making purposes.
Make all possible efforts to anticipate state,
regional and national trends which might affect the future of MUW.
Continue to provide a model of professional
behavior through service in community structure and forums.
Continue professional activity on statewide, regional and national
fronts. Use the involvement to acquire new ideas and to remain
sensitive to environmental trends affecting the University.
Examine and make visible the values to which the
MUW community give allegiance through policies, faculty/staff behavior
and program content for the University’s students. Subject
current values to continual examination and consider new or revised
values as appropriate.
Emphasize concern for students by ensuring that
practices, policies and commitments made to them are fulfilled in a
climate of caring and high expectations.
Organizational Structure:
The following administrators report directly to the President of the
University:
Assistant to the President
Director of Internal Audit
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Vice President for Finance and Administration
Vice President for Institutional Advancement
Vice President for Student Services