Associate Dean for Graduate Programs & Professor

Mays Business School is in the midst of the most transformative period in its history, propelled by sweeping academic, programmatic, and strategic renewal aligned with its mission of developing leaders of character who make a positive difference and its vision of building a better future through business. Over the past three years, Mays has experienced unprecedented momentum growing revenues from approximately $98M to $134M, expanding corporate partnerships, and launching innovative new programs, including the Flex Online portfolio, a suite of rapidly scaling graduate degrees designed for the future of work.

Graduate business education is now the fastest-growing enterprise within Mays. Master’s enrollment has nearly doubled since 2021, fueled by explosive demand for the Flex Online MBA and newly introduced online master’s programs that dramatically extend Mays’ reach to working professionals. The Flex MBA suite alone grew from 67 students in 2021 to nearly 1,000 in 2025. These programs, along with new AI-enhanced pedagogies, stackable credentials, industry-embedded learning, and experiential capstones, position Mays at the forefront of next-generation graduate education.

Mays’ Path to Preeminence strategy has already delivered measurable progress: new dual-degree MBA pathways; multi-city executive education expansion; national AI competitions; the new Engineering MBA; and the launch of Creative Destruction Lab–Texas. The school is also expanding its physical footprint, with the Wayne Roberts ’85 Building opening in 2025 and a new state-of-the-art graduate facility projected for 2029 designed to support large-scale, innovative, AI-enabled graduate learning.

Located in College Station, Texas, one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities and central to the booming Texas Triangle innovation corridor, Mays benefits from rapidly expanding partnerships with corporate accelerators, leading employers, and national research institutes. With strong leadership from Dean Nate Sharp, exceptional fundraising momentum, and a strategic plan focused on growth, excellence, and innovation, Mays is positioned to become one of the nation’s most globally connected and impactful public business school ecosystems.

The next Associate Dean for Graduate Programs will step into a moment of extraordinary opportunity leading a graduate enterprise of scale, strength, national visibility, and immense untapped potential. This leader will not simply steward programs; they will shape the future of a top public graduate business portfolio poised for preeminence.

Strategic Leadership, Growth, and Innovation
The Associate Dean will provide the vision and leadership necessary to elevate all graduate degree programs and align them with Mays’ Path to Preeminence. This includes reimagining the Full-Time MBA into a nationally visible flagship program that enhances selectivity, strengthens employer partnerships, improves student outcomes, and elevates national rankings to position Mays among the top public business schools in the country. The role will drive growth in enrollment, reputation, corporate partnerships, and program revenue by expanding offerings, modalities, and markets. Additionally, the Associate Dean will lead long-range planning for a new graduate building targeted for 2029, ensuring that its design, technology, faculty needs, and learning spaces support next-generation, AI-enabled graduate education. Responsibilities also include overseeing financial sustainability, forecasting, pricing strategy, and revenue management in partnership with senior leadership, while ensuring Mays remains a national leader in online graduate business education through scalable, high-impact online and AI-driven learning that delivers superior student outcomes.

Academic Excellence, Student Experience, and Faculty Collaboration
The Associate Dean will ensure world-class learning outcomes across all MBA and MS programs by overseeing curriculum quality, assessment, assurance of learning, and continuous improvement. This role will collaborate with academic departments to staff programs with high-impact instructors, applied scholars, and industry practitioners while maintaining research intensity and meeting AACSB faculty qualification standards. In partnership with career management teams, program staff, and corporate engagement leaders, the Associate Dean will lead a reimagining of graduate career services to strengthen employer visibility and deliver superior career outcomes. The position will also champion innovations in AI-enhanced teaching, experiential learning, cross-disciplinary program development, consulting and capstone projects, and industry certification pathways to elevate the graduate student experience and enhance academic excellence across the portfolio.

External Relations and Corporate Partnerships
The Associate Dean will serve as a prominent public-facing leader for graduate education, representing Mays Business School on a national stage with employers, rankings organizations, peer institutions, research institutes, foundations, and media outlets. This role will cultivate and strengthen partnerships with employers across the Texas Triangle and beyond to support internships, applied learning projects, scholarships, recruiting pipelines, and global immersion opportunities. Additionally, the Associate Dean will expand international collaborations and enhance the visibility of dual-degree programs to further elevate Mays’ global brand and extend its impact worldwide.

Leadership and Service to Mays Business School
The Associate Dean will serve as a key member of the Mays Senior Leadership Team, contributing to major college-level decisions, long-range planning, accreditation efforts, and strategic initiatives. This role will promote a culture grounded in excellence, innovation, collaboration, inclusion, and academic integrity across the graduate enterprise. Additionally, the Associate Dean will support fundraising efforts, strengthen alumni engagement, and cultivate major donor relationships that advance and sustain the growth and success of Mays’ graduate programs.

Required Education and Experience
• Earned doctorate in a business discipline (or closely related field).
•Tenured full professor (or immediately eligible) with a nationally recognized scholarly record and significant leadership experience in graduate business education at a top ranked public FTMBA program—program director, associate dean, vice dean, department head, or equivalent—preferably with a track record of overseeing a top ranked public FT-MBA program specifically in a college-town environment similar to Bryan/College Station.

Preferred Qualification
• Proven track record of academic innovation, career placement success for graduate students, program development, curriculum leadership, and measurable student-outcome improvement.
• Experience with accreditation, assurance of learning, faculty coordination, and academic operations.
• Experience leading a successful, highly ranked full-time MBA program at a Top 10 public business school.
• Strong corporate engagement experience and ability to represent the school to executive-level employers.
• National or global recognition in graduate business education, analytics, digital learning, entrepreneurship, leadership development, or related areas.
• Experience leading a successful, highly ranked full-time MBA program at a Top 10 public business school.

•  Experience growing programs and revenue in competitive graduate markets, especially with full-time MBA.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Strategic planning and execution
• Visionary program building and innovation
• Executive-level communication and stakeholder management
• Data-driven decision making, assessment, and continuous improvement
• Ability to lead faculty, staff, and large operational teams
• Commitment to student success, inclusion, and ethical leadership

Additional Information
• This position is security sensitive
• Requires compliance with state and federal laws/codes and Texas A&M University System policies
• All tasks must be performed safely and with integrity

Please submit nominations and applications to Texas A&M Executive Search Partner Larry Elliott at larry.elliott@tamu.edu. Applications should include a Letter of Interest and CV; references are not required at this time.

The positon will remain open until filled; however, for full consideration, application materials should be submitted by February 16, 2026.

For inquiries, please contact searches@tamu.edu or Larry Elliott directly.

CHAIR

• Shrihari Sridhar, Senior Associate Dean of Mays Business School
  

MEMBERS

• Javier Aldape, Director, MS Analytics
• Jamie Brown, Professor & Department Head
• Priyanka Dwivedi, Associate Professor
• Myra Gonzalez, Director, Flex Online MBA Program
• 'Jon Jasperson, Associate Dean for Academic Innovation
• Julie Orzabal, Director, Executive MBA Program
• Sarah Rice, Professor