Open forum: Dr. Tim Wall, dean candidate for College of Education, Health and Human Services
The Office of the Provost invites Northwest employees to attend an open forum with Dr. Tim Wall, who is a candidate to be the dean of Northwest’s College of Education, Health and Human Services.
The forum will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 17, in Meeting Room D at the J.W. Jones Student Union.
Primary responsibilities of the dean
The dean serves as the College’s chief academic and administrative officer. The dean is charged with ensuring the College’s academic programs, research, faculty development and student outcomes are of the highest quality and continue to grow. The dean must bring administrative acumen and nimbleness in strategically allocating resources to advance the College’s mission.
The dean also serves as the chief external representative to the broader community, with donors and alumni and other University leaders. The dean will lead a vision that leverages diverse strengths, manages the College organizationally and financially, supports faculty and staff, is actively engaged in building community relationships and advocating for the College within the University, continues and enhances its fundraising success, and effectively builds a strong collaborative group of faculty and staff. The dean leads and collaborates on student enrollment, retention, graduation, assessment and accreditations.
About Dr. Tim Wall
Wall has served since 2016 as dean and director of Northwest’s School of Education. He rejoined the Northwest faculty in 2013 and attained the rank of professor in 2019.
He had previously served the University from 2002 to 2009 as a faculty member in addition to roles as director of Teacher Education Student Services (TESS) and director of educational assessment. He was a member of the faculty at Missouri Western State University from 2009 to 2013, serving as chairperson of its Department of Education from 2012 to 2013, among other roles.
He has an Ed.D. in educational leadership and policy analysis from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has a Master of Business Administration degree with a business analytics emphasis and a Master of Science in education from Northwest. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in history from Truman State University.
