Open forum: Dr. Rod Barr, dean candidate for College of Agricultural and Natural Sciences
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 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, 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. Rod Barr
Barr, an associate professor, joined the Northwest faculty in 2003 and has led the School of Agricultural Sciences since 2013. Prior to his work at Northwest, he was a secondary agricultural education teacher at Northwest Technical School in the Maryville R-II School District.
In addition to teaching a variety of agriculture-related coursework, he has led efforts at Northwest to restructure agriculture programming, facilitate partnerships and improve facilities, including the relocation of the School of Agricultural Sciences to the Dean L. Hubbard Center for Innovation, a renovation of the McKemy Center for Lifelong Learning and multiple construction projects at the R.T. Wright Farm.
He has an Ed.D. in educational leadership and policy analysis from the University of Missouri-Columbia. At Northwest, he earned an educational specialist degree in educational leadership with a superintendent and secondary principal emphasis, a master’s degree in secondary education teaching agriculture, and bachelor’s degrees in secondary education agriculture education and animal science.
