The Dean is charged with the administration of policies and procedures affecting graduate admissions, retention, graduate assistantships, graduate faculty research activities, sponsored research, curricula, degrees, programs, and faculty. The Dean chairs the Graduate Council and oversees the activities of the Office of Sponsored Programs and of International Programs. The University offers master s degrees in thirty different academic programs. It also offers a specialist degree in education and is involved in cooperative Ed. D. and Ph.D. programs with the University of Missouri and Southern Illinois University.
Admissions are moderately selective.
I level as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference in athletics. Cape Girardeau , located on the Mississippi River less than two hours south of St. Louis and three hours north of Memphis, serves as the major medical, retail, wholesale, financial, transportation, and educational center for southeast Missouri and southern Illinois. The Cape Girardeau metropolitan area has a population of approximately 60,000. Applications and nominations are invited for the position, which will be available July 1, 2001. Review of applications by the Search Committee will begin on March 1 and continue until the position is filled.