Dean of the Meehan School of Business Search

Summary of Opportunity

Stonehill College seeks a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and collaborative leader to serve as Dean of the Leo J. Meehan School of Business. Founded by the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1948, Stonehill College is a private Catholic College located just 22 miles from downtown Boston on a beautiful 384-acre campus in Easton, Massachusetts. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 13:1, the College engages more than 2,400 students through an array of graduate and professional offerings in education and business, as well as 60 undergraduate majors, and 50 minors in the liberal arts, sciences, and pre-professional fields. Stonehill’s culture is student-centered, and students enjoy close and supportive relationships with faculty and staff.
 
The Leo J. Meehan School of Business was created in 2017 as part of Stonehill’s goal to become a comprehensive university, alongside the Thomas and Donna May School of Arts & Sciences (est. 2017) and the Division of Graduate & Professional Studies (est. 2023), which serves as a bridge between the two schools. The Meehan School offers high-quality education, engagement with businesses, and career support to enable students and graduates to thrive. 
 
This is a unique and exciting opportunity to lead a young School on an upward trajectory, with a committed faculty, lively, hard-working students, and a beautiful new state-of-the-art building. Stonehill seeks a business school Dean who combines exemplary academic achievements with strategic leadership ability, outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, collaborative and creative energy, entrepreneurial ambition, and passion for leading a School whose mission is to educate and engage students and businesses in a collaborative community and to prepare students for professional success. 

The Leo J. Meehan School of Business

The Meehan School of Business empowers students to be adaptive, compassionate leaders in business, economics, and healthcare management. The School leverages Stonehill’s comprehensive foundation to foster the kind of creative thinking that helps students recognize and seize opportunities in a rapidly evolving global economy. The Meehan School was created in 2017 with the announcement of a $10 million gift from alumnus and Stonehill College Board of Trustees member Leo J. Meehan, CEO of the office products company W.B. Mason. In addition to naming the School of Business, the Meehan gift led to the construction of a new building for the School, which opened in 2019.
 
With the creation of the Meehan School of Business and the May School of Arts & Sciences in 2017, three departments – Business Administration, Economics, and Healthcare Management – were brought together to form the Meehan School, reorganized into eight departments, all of which are led by a Chair who reports to the Dean. After receiving initial accreditation from AACSB in 2011, the Meehan School of Business was reaccredited under Continuous Improvement Review in 2016 and in 2022. The School is scheduled for its reaccreditation visit in the 2026-2027 academic year. The Healthcare Management Program has full certification status from the Association of University Programs in Health Administration and is also coming under the AACSB umbrella. Currently, the Meehan School has a total of 30 full-time faculty and 40 adjunct faculty.
 
The Meehan School offers BA, BS and BSBA degrees, offering eight undergraduate majors in accounting, economics, finance, healthcare management, international business, management, marketing, and sports management. The curriculum integrates an undergraduate business education with experiential learning, leadership opportunities and a rigorous program in the liberal arts. The Meehan School promotes cross-campus engagement in an exceptionally caring academic environment, with an intense focus on guiding students to become effective, ethical leaders. Students learn to empower themselves through an expansive program of internships, externships, student research, service, and opportunities to study abroad. Students are also encouraged to double major, either within the business school or with a program in the May School of Arts & Sciences. The Meehan School enrolls approximately 950 undergraduates, totaling 30% of Stonehill’s undergraduate population. The School’s graduate programs, housed in the Division of Graduate & Professional Studies, are new to the College. The Dean of the Meehan School of Business works closely with the Dean of Graduate & Professional Studies to ensure excellence in graduate business programming and synergy between undergraduate and graduate programming. Meehan students also participate in school-specific organizations and professional societies that provide speakers, opportunities for networking, and support for professional development. These include the Accounting Association (AA); chapters of Alpha Mu Alpha (AMA),  Beta Alpha Psi (BAP), and Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS); Distributed Education Clubs of America (DECA); Economics Club; Financial Management Association (FMA); Healthcare Society; Lambda Epsilon Sigma; Marketing and Management Association (MMA); Omicron Delta Epsilon (ODE); Stonehill College Inspire Finance Initiatives (SCIFI); Upsilon Phi Delta; Women in Finance; American College of Healthcare Executives; National Alliance of Health Services Executives; Women in Healthcare Management; Medical Group Management Association; Healthcare Financial Management Association; and Association for Healthcare Resources & Materials Management.  
 
The Meehan School’s $35 million, 63,450 square-foot academic building, which opened in fall 2019, houses state-of-the-art classrooms with cutting-edge technology to foster collaborative learning, critical thinking, and future leadership. Students have access to a Bloomberg classroom, a capital markets room with a dozen Bloomberg terminals, a one-button recording studio, a simulated boardroom, and a collaboration zone to simulate experiences students can expect in the workforce.
 
The six Business Administration Departments’ 20-member Visiting Committee (Advisory Board) – composed of local alumni in financial services, industry, and technology – sustains and strengthens the Meehan School’s longstanding ties to the business community. The Visiting Committee counsels the Dean on strategy and provides support and guidance for planning, evaluating and strengthening the School’s academic programs and community outreach. The Department of Healthcare Management (HCM) has its own Advisory Group of alumni who also assist with community outreach and provide valuable input on emerging trends and challenges in the realm of healthcare and how the curriculum for the HCM major must evolve accordingly.
 
In the last few years, the Meehan School has implemented a number of curricular and programmatic innovations, including the launch of Financial Technology education  –  one of the first undergraduate institutions to incorporate this field into the curriculum – to prepare students to lead in the area of digital technologies, such as blockchain, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence in the financial services industry. In addition, the School has launched a new major in sports management and collaborated with the May School of Arts & Sciences to develop a new major in actuarial mathematics.  Courses offered by the Business, Sociology, and Anthropology Departments, along with the Interdisciplinary Studies Program, have been incorporated into the new areas of concentration within the Healthcare Management major: public health; supply chain management; priority/at-risk populations; performance improvement & consulting; and fundraising/development for not-for-profit organizations in healthcare. The Department of Healthcare Management works closely with the May School’s new Health Sciences major. Designed to prepare students for careers in allied health professions involved in clinical care, the Health Sciences curriculum includes required courses offered by the Department of Healthcare Management.

Department of Business Administration

The Department of Business Administration produced a five-year plan (2020-2025) with a focus on societal impact, in line with the new 2020 AACSB standards. In support of its mission to offer an effective, high-quality business education, the plan identifies three strategic initiatives: expanding and improving experiential learning for students, exploring new programs to enhance the quality of business education and meet the evolving needs of the marketplace, and broadening the business program’s positive impact on the College, the local community, and the practice of management. There are currently 860 students completing the business major and 113 students completing the business minor.

Department of Economics

The Department of Economics offers a BA major and a minor. In a typical year, 15 to 20 majors graduate, with another 20 students completing a minor. Economics graduates go on to succeed in a wide range of fields, including industry, financial markets, law, MBA programs, academia, public policy, and nonprofit organizations. Some take advantage of the department’s articulation agreement with Boston College to accelerate their progress through BC’s Master’s in Applied Economics. Many students double major, or spend a semester abroad, or both. Economics faculty – seven when fully staffed – are active in scholarly research in various fields, including economic education, sharing their expertise and advice with Stonehill students. The economics curriculum offers a mixture of rigorous theory courses and electives, some reflecting member faculty specialties.

Department of Healthcare Management

Since its inception in the 1970’s, the Stonehill undergraduate Healthcare Management (HCM) Program has prepared students to go on to careers in the planning, coordination, delivery, and evaluation of healthcare services and systems. The HCM Program is one of only 48 U.S. undergraduate programs fully certified by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration. The HCM students complete courses in a variety of subjects, such as economics of healthcare, population health management, healthcare law, supervision & leadership, operations management, and statistical analysis for healthcare managers. Many alumni of the HCM Program complete graduate degrees (MHA, MBA, MPH, MSW, MPP, and JD) during the course of their careers.
 
The Department of Healthcare Management includes three full-time and eight adjunct faculty.  Experiential learning is an important component of the curriculum for the HCM major. Each student majoring in HCM is required to complete a 400-hour internship within a healthcare organization, typically done as a full-time internship during the summer months. Graduates of the Stonehill HCM Program go on to a wide array of careers: hospital and long-term care facility management, outpatient/community-based care, public health and wellness promotion, health IT/data analysis, health policy, consulting, supply chain management, fundraising and development for nonprofit health organizations, global health, biotech/pharmaceuticals, and human resources management in healthcare. There are currently 43 students completing the HCM major and 31 students completing the HCM minor.

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