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Education Administrators, Postsecondary

Plan, direct, or coordinate student instruction, administration, and services, as well as other research and educational activities, at postsecondary institutions, including universities, colleges, and junior and community colleges.

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  • Skills
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  • Prepare reports on academic or institutional data.
  • Write grants to procure external funding, and supervise grant-funded projects.
  • Establish operational policies and procedures and make any necessary modifications, based on analysis of operations, demographics, and other research information.
  • Direct and participate in institutional fundraising activities, and encourage alumni participation in such activities.
  • Appoint individuals to faculty positions, and evaluate their performance.
  • Review registration statistics, and consult with faculty officials to develop registration policies.
  • Recruit, hire, train, and terminate departmental personnel.
  • Write grants to procure external funding, and supervise grant-funded projects.
  • Design or use assessments to monitor student learning outcomes.
  • Review registration statistics, and consult with faculty officials to develop registration policies.
  • Plan and promote sporting events and social, cultural, and recreational activities.
  • Determine course schedules, and coordinate teaching assignments and room assignments to ensure optimum use of buildings and equipment.
  • Establish operational policies and procedures and make any necessary modifications, based on analysis of operations, demographics, and other research information.
  • Design or use assessments to monitor student learning outcomes.
  • Represent institutions at community and campus events, in meetings with other institution personnel, and during accreditation processes.
  • Recruit, hire, train, and terminate departmental personnel.
  • Consult with government regulatory and licensing agencies to ensure the institution's conformance with applicable standards.
  • Teach courses within their department.
  • Plan, administer, and control budgets, maintain financial records, and produce financial reports.
  • Review student misconduct reports requiring disciplinary action, and counsel students regarding such reports.
  • Advise students on issues such as course selection, progress toward graduation, and career decisions.
  • Appoint individuals to faculty positions, and evaluate their performance.
  • Provide assistance to faculty and staff in duties such as teaching classes, conducting orientation programs, issuing transcripts, and scheduling events.
  • Participate in faculty and college committee activities.
  • Direct scholarship, fellowship, and loan programs, performing activities such as selecting recipients and distributing aid.
  • Direct, coordinate, and evaluate the activities of personnel, including support staff engaged in administering academic institutions, departments, or alumni organizations.
  • Formulate strategic plans for the institution.
  • Develop curricula, and recommend curricula revisions and additions.
  • Promote the university by participating in community, state, and national events or meetings, and by developing partnerships with industry and secondary education institutions.
  • Review student misconduct reports requiring disciplinary action, and counsel students regarding such reports.
  • Recruit, hire, train, and terminate departmental personnel.
  • Direct, coordinate, and evaluate the activities of personnel, including support staff engaged in administering academic institutions, departments, or alumni organizations.
  • Direct activities of administrative departments, such as admissions, registration, and career services.
  • Determine course schedules, and coordinate teaching assignments and room assignments to ensure optimum use of buildings and equipment.
  • Coordinate the production and dissemination of university publications, such as course catalogs and class schedules.
  • Provide assistance to faculty and staff in duties such as teaching classes, conducting orientation programs, issuing transcripts, and scheduling events.
  • Participate in student recruitment, selection, and admission, making admissions recommendations when required to do so.
  • Plan, administer, and control budgets, maintain financial records, and produce financial reports.
  • Prepare reports on academic or institutional data.
  • Develop curricula, and recommend curricula revisions and additions.
  • Confer with other academic staff to explain and formulate admission requirements and course credit policies.

Work Activities

Work Activities

  • Prepare reports on academic or institutional data.
  • Write grants to procure external funding, and supervise grant-funded projects.
  • Establish operational policies and procedures and make any necessary modifications, based on analysis of operations, demographics, and other research information.
  • Direct and participate in institutional fundraising activities, and encourage alumni participation in such activities.
  • Appoint individuals to faculty positions, and evaluate their performance.
  • Review registration statistics, and consult with faculty officials to develop registration policies.
  • Recruit, hire, train, and terminate departmental personnel.
  • Write grants to procure external funding, and supervise grant-funded projects.
  • Design or use assessments to monitor student learning outcomes.
  • Review registration statistics, and consult with faculty officials to develop registration policies.
  • Plan and promote sporting events and social, cultural, and recreational activities.
  • Determine course schedules, and coordinate teaching assignments and room assignments to ensure optimum use of buildings and equipment.
  • Establish operational policies and procedures and make any necessary modifications, based on analysis of operations, demographics, and other research information.
  • Design or use assessments to monitor student learning outcomes.
  • Represent institutions at community and campus events, in meetings with other institution personnel, and during accreditation processes.
  • Recruit, hire, train, and terminate departmental personnel.
  • Consult with government regulatory and licensing agencies to ensure the institution's conformance with applicable standards.
  • Teach courses within their department.
  • Plan, administer, and control budgets, maintain financial records, and produce financial reports.
  • Review student misconduct reports requiring disciplinary action, and counsel students regarding such reports.
  • Advise students on issues such as course selection, progress toward graduation, and career decisions.
  • Appoint individuals to faculty positions, and evaluate their performance.
  • Provide assistance to faculty and staff in duties such as teaching classes, conducting orientation programs, issuing transcripts, and scheduling events.
  • Participate in faculty and college committee activities.
  • Direct scholarship, fellowship, and loan programs, performing activities such as selecting recipients and distributing aid.
  • Direct, coordinate, and evaluate the activities of personnel, including support staff engaged in administering academic institutions, departments, or alumni organizations.
  • Formulate strategic plans for the institution.
  • Develop curricula, and recommend curricula revisions and additions.
  • Promote the university by participating in community, state, and national events or meetings, and by developing partnerships with industry and secondary education institutions.
  • Review student misconduct reports requiring disciplinary action, and counsel students regarding such reports.
  • Recruit, hire, train, and terminate departmental personnel.
  • Direct, coordinate, and evaluate the activities of personnel, including support staff engaged in administering academic institutions, departments, or alumni organizations.
  • Direct activities of administrative departments, such as admissions, registration, and career services.
  • Determine course schedules, and coordinate teaching assignments and room assignments to ensure optimum use of buildings and equipment.
  • Coordinate the production and dissemination of university publications, such as course catalogs and class schedules.
  • Provide assistance to faculty and staff in duties such as teaching classes, conducting orientation programs, issuing transcripts, and scheduling events.
  • Participate in student recruitment, selection, and admission, making admissions recommendations when required to do so.
  • Plan, administer, and control budgets, maintain financial records, and produce financial reports.
  • Prepare reports on academic or institutional data.
  • Develop curricula, and recommend curricula revisions and additions.
  • Confer with other academic staff to explain and formulate admission requirements and course credit policies.

Skills

  • Programming

    Writing computer programs.

  • Instructing

    Teaching people how to do something.

  • Active Listening

    Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.

  • Negotiation

    Bringing people together to solve differences.

  • Systems Evaluation

    Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.

  • Reading Comprehension

    Reading work-related information.

  • Management of Material Resources

    Managing equipment and materials.

  • Critical Thinking

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.

  • Speaking

    Talking to others.

  • Coordination

    Changing what is done based on other people's actions.

  • Mathematics

    Using math to solve problems.

  • Active Learning

    Figuring out how to use new ideas or things.

  • Management of Financial Resources

    Making spending decisions and keeping track of what is spent.

  • Repairing

    Repairing machines or systems using the right tools.

  • Service Orientation

    Looking for ways to help people.

  • Judgment and Decision Making

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.

  • Learning Strategies

    Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things.

  • Technology Design

    Making equipment and technology useful for customers.

  • Installation

    Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs.

  • Management of Personnel Resources

    Selecting and managing the best workers for a job.

  • Equipment Maintenance

    Planning and doing the basic maintenance on equipment.

  • Persuasion

    Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior.

  • Social Perceptiveness

    Understanding people's reactions.

  • Complex Problem Solving

    Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.

  • Systems Analysis

    Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.

  • Operation and Control

    Using equipment or systems.

  • Equipment Selection

    Deciding what kind of tools and equipment are needed to do a job.

  • Operations Analysis

    Figuring out what a product or service needs to be able to do.

  • Troubleshooting

    Figuring out what is causing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs to not work.

  • Operations Monitoring

    Watching gauges, dials, or display screens to make sure a machine is working.

  • Monitoring

    Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.

  • Science

    Using scientific rules and strategies to solve problems.

  • Time Management

    Managing your time and the time of other people.

  • Writing

    Writing things for co-workers or customers.

  • Quality Control Analysis

    Testing how well a product or service works.

WorkKeys®

Applied Math
5
Workplace Documents
5
Graphic Literacy
5

Abilities

  • Glare Sensitivity

    Seeing something even if there is a glare or very bright light.

  • Wrist-Finger Speed

    Making fast, simple, repeated movements of your fingers, hands, and wrists.

  • Mathematical Reasoning

    Choosing the right type of math to solve a problem.

  • Dynamic Flexibility

    Quickly and repeatedly bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching out with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Gross Body Coordination

    Moving your arms, legs, and mid-section together while your whole body is moving.

  • Speed of Closure

    Quickly knowing what you are looking at.

  • Peripheral Vision

    Seeing something to your side when your are looking ahead.

  • Explosive Strength

    Jumping, sprinting, or throwing something.

  • Trunk Strength

    Using your lower back and stomach.

  • Far Vision

    Seeing details that are far away.

  • Extent Flexibility

    Bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Reaction Time

    Quickly moving your hand, finger, or foot based on a sound, light, picture or other command.

  • Speech Clarity

    Speaking clearly.

  • Sound Localization

    Noticing the direction that a sound came from.

  • Written Expression

    Communicating by writing.

  • Visual Color Discrimination

    Noticing the difference between colors, including shades and brightness.

  • Gross Body Equilibrium

    Keeping your balance or staying upright.

  • Control Precision

    Quickly changing the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat.

  • Multilimb Coordination

    Using your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down.

  • Flexibility of Closure

    Seeing hidden patterns.

  • Perceptual Speed

    Quickly comparing groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.

  • Visualization

    Imagining how something will look after it is moved around or changed.

  • Problem Sensitivity

    Noticing when problems happen.

  • Near Vision

    Seeing details up close.

  • Originality

    Creating new and original ideas.

  • Information Ordering

    Ordering or arranging things.

  • Time Sharing

    Doing two or more things at the same time.

  • Stamina

    Exercising for a long time without getting out of breath.

  • Depth Perception

    Deciding which thing is closer or farther away from you, or deciding how far away it is from you.

  • Hearing Sensitivity

    Telling the difference between sounds.

  • Auditory Attention

    Paying attention to one sound while there are other distracting sounds.

  • Oral Expression

    Communicating by speaking.

  • Response Orientation

    Quickly deciding if you should move your hand, foot, or other body part.

  • Category Flexibility

    Grouping things in different ways.

  • Arm-Hand Steadiness

    Keeping your arm or hand steady.

  • Oral Comprehension

    Listening and understanding what people say.

  • Number Facility

    Adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing.

  • Dynamic Strength

    Exercising for a long time without your muscles getting tired.

  • Static Strength

    Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying.

  • Spatial Orientation

    Knowing where things are around you.

  • Inductive Reasoning

    Making general rules or coming up with answers from lots of detailed information.

  • Selective Attention

    Paying attention to something without being distracted.

  • Fluency of Ideas

    Coming up with lots of ideas.

  • Night Vision

    Seeing at night or under low light.

  • Manual Dexterity

    Holding or moving items with your hands.

  • Speed of Limb Movement

    Quickly moving your arms and legs.

  • Speech Recognition

    Recognizing spoken words.

  • Written Comprehension

    Reading and understanding what is written.

  • Rate Control

    Changing when and how fast you move based on how something else is moving.

  • Deductive Reasoning

    Using rules to solve problems.

  • Memorization

    Remembering words, numbers, pictures, or steps.

  • Finger Dexterity

    Putting together small parts with your fingers.

Knowledge

  • Administrative

    Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.

  • Economics and Accounting

    Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.

  • Chemistry

    Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.

  • Production and Processing

    Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

  • Personnel and Human Resources

    Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.

  • Food Production

    Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.

  • Engineering and Technology

    Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.

  • Mathematics

    Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

  • Sociology and Anthropology

    Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.

  • Building and Construction

    Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.

  • Communications and Media

    Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.

  • Therapy and Counseling

    Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.

  • Computers and Electronics

    Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

  • Law and Government

    Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

  • Mechanical

    Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

  • Education and Training

    Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

  • Transportation

    Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.

  • Medicine and Dentistry

    Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.

  • Psychology

    Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

  • Administration and Management

    Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

  • English Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

  • Public Safety and Security

    Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

  • Foreign Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.

  • Biology

    Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.

  • Design

    Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

  • History and Archeology

    Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.

  • Philosophy and Theology

    Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.

  • Physics

    Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.

  • Geography

    Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.

  • Sales and Marketing

    Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

  • Fine Arts

    Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.

  • Customer and Personal Service

    Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

  • Telecommunications

    Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.

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Pay

  • Typical Salary
  • $174,050
    $83,520
    $50,970
    Ohio
    US
    $209,870
    $102,610
    $62,970
  • Typical Hourly Wage
  • $84
    $40
    $25
    Ohio
    US
    $101
    $49
    $30

Ohio Employment Trends

  • Currently Employed 5,870
  • Yearly Projected Openings 390

Typical Education

Personality

Social: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.They do well at jobs that need:
  • Initiative
  • Integrity
  • Leadership
  • Dependability
  • Cooperation
  • Achievement/Effort

Tools

  • Desktop computers
  • High capacity removable media drives
  • Liquid crystal display projector
  • Notebook computers
  • Personal computers

Technology

  • Accounting software
  • Analytical or scientific software
  • Business intelligence and data analysis software
  • Cloud-based data access and sharing software
  • Computer based training software
  • Customer relationship management CRM software
  • Data base reporting software
  • Data base user interface and query software
  • Desktop communications software
  • Desktop publishing software
  • Electronic mail software
  • Enterprise resource planning ERP software
  • Facilities management software
  • Human resources software
  • Instant messaging software
  • Internet browser software
  • Mobile messaging service software
  • Office suite software
  • Presentation software
  • Process mapping and design software
  • Project management software
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Video conferencing software
  • Video creation and editing software
  • Web page creation and editing software
  • Web platform development software
  • Word processing software
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