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The University of Denver (DU) invites applications and nominations for the next Dean of the Daniels College of Business ("the College" or "Daniels").

Daniels is nationally recognized as a leader in providing an immersive and engaged business education for its students. It is also known for innovative programming across business disciplines. The incoming dean will be building on a strong foundation as they move the Daniels College of Business into its next chapter, strengthening its reach and impact nationally and making it the destination for a high- quality, business education in Denver, Colorado, and the Rocky Mountain Region.

The Daniels College of Business is one of the largest degree-granting colleges at the University of Denver. Daniels currently enrolls around 2,300 students, divided between graduate, undergraduate, and dual undergraduate/graduate programs spanning four schools: the Reiman School of Finance, the Fritz Knoebel School of Hospitality Management, the School of Accountancy, and the Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management as well as the departments of Business Ethics and Legal Studies, Marketing, Management, and Business Information and Analytics. Multiple programs span units, including four MBA programs and an Executive E.Ph.D. program. Daniels is consistently ranked among the top business schools nationally and internationally for its graduate and undergraduate programs by U.S. News & World Report, Poets & Quants, and Bloomberg Businessweek.

DU is a private, doctoral-granting university enrolling more than 13,500 students from all regions of the United States and 83 foreign countries in its distinguished undergraduate liberal arts and sciences, graduate, and professional programs. The University's holistic 4-Dimensional Experience (4D) aims to redefine the purpose of higher education and shape a new kind of humanistic, character-driven leader. With two campuses - the Denver campus and the recently opened James C. Kennedy Mountain Campus - DU's experience is unique in higher education.

It is an exciting time to join the University of Denver. In January 2022, DU was reclassified as a Research 1 (R1) university in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The DU community is excited about the reputational and material benefits of its new R1 classification while also maintaining the University's commitment to the "teacher-scholar model." To address the distinctive identity DU possesses, the University has launched a series of funded initiatives to support teaching and scholarly excellence at DU known as "R1 Our Way."

The College seeks an inspiring, visible, and collaborative leader to set a dynamic course for the future. The new Dean will bring high academic standards, strong management and leadership skills, and an appreciation for transparency and shared governance. They will have exceptional communication skills, political aptitude, and the capacity to raise the visibility and to amplify the impact of the College to local, regional, national, and international constituencies.

To be successful, the Dean will be expected to address a number of opportunities and challenges, listed below, and outlined in detail beginning on page 6 of the document:

• Design and advance a bold vision and strategic plan to further the Daniels College of Business' local and regional reach and impact in alignment with the University's strategic plan.
• Serve as a visible leader and strong advocate for the Daniels College of Business internally and externally.
• Foster a culture of shared governance through empathetic and collaborative communication and management.
• Manage and grow resources for the College to realize the strategic objectives co-created with the Daniels community.
• Strengthen critical relationships across the Daniels College of Business, the University of Denver, and with external stakeholders.
• Advance e uity, diversity, and inclusion efforts.
• Recruit, retain, delegate to, and inspire a talented faculty and staff. A list of desired qualifications and characteristics of the Daniels College of Business Dean can be found at the conclusion of this document. All confidential applications, inquiries, and nominations should be directed to the parties listed at the conclusion of the document.

Five Strategic Imperatives

The University of Denver has a bold and courageous vision for higher education in the 21st century, aiming to create substantial changes that will impact its students, the research of its faculty, and the community, all framed by the strategic plan, DU IMPACT 2025. DU will continue to innovate around its strengths in teaching, learning, and discovery, while supporting its faculty and students in their efforts to accelerate the ways in which research can be used to address society's most vexing problems.

Chancellor Jeremy Haefner has emphasized Five Strategic Imperatives that will accelerate DU's progress toward the goals of DU IMPACT 2025. These are:

• Ensure a bold, enduring future for DU;
• Create a unique, global, and holistic 4D experience for DU students;
• Cultivate an exceptionally diverse, inclusive, equitable, and welcoming community;
• Define and model a global, engaged research university;
• Deliver academic excellence with a signature portfolio of academic programs and a relentless pursuit of quality. These imperatives represent the University's most pressing priorities and an exciting future. They will enable the University to proactively participate in this time of change, including advances in technology, shifts in demographics, increasingly complicated globalization patterns, expanding inequity, the transforming nature of jobs and careers, the challenges of cultural and political division, new perceptions of the value of college degrees, and competing educational modes.