Michael Oudshoorn

About Michael Oudshoorn

Over 15 years of senior university experience as a Department Head, Associate Dean, and Dean with operating budgets of up to $10 million and responsibility for 95 faculty members and over 100 adjunct faculty. Experience in supervision of faculty, administrative and professional staff. A track record in international student recruitment, curriculum improvement and development, process improvement, fiscal management, change management, mentoring of faculty and guidance of students. LEADERSHIPEnergetic leader who promotes and achieves academic and professional excellence in all areas. Personal characteristics include ethics, honesty and integrity. Exercise independent judgement. Develop and articulate vision through strategic plans. Collaborative and consultative management style with a commitment to shared governance within the university environment. Develops an effective relationship with faculty, staff and students through collegiality and respectful treatment. Actively engage and encourage constituent involvement. An attentive listener with creative problem solving skills.MANAGEMENTHighly competent administrator with experience in improving processes and procedures to improve workflow without sacrificing accountability and client service. Successful experience with successful change management. Strong believer in shared governance. Significant budget and resource management aligning resources with strategic priorities. Experience with accreditation bodies at both the professional level (both as an evaluator and having programs evaluated) and at the regional level. Responsible for hiring and evaluating faculty, professional and classified staff. Monitor and evaluate faculty workload and manage space needs of departments and the college. Strong complex problem solving skills and negotiation skills to deal with delicate issues such as inter college space and resource needs.

Experience

1. Founding Dean of Engineering

   High Point University

   Jul 2018 — Present · High Point, NC, US

   Founding Dean of Engineering and interim Founding Chair of Computer Science at High Point University in High Point, North Carolina. An exciting position which involves the development of several Engineering programs and the growth of a Computer Science department as it emerges from the Mathematics department as it\'s own department. If you are interested in joining High Point University to help create and build exciting programs for future engineers, please contact me.

Education

• University of Adelaide

  PhD, Computer Science

  1984 — 1992

• University of Adelaide

  B.Sc., Computer Science and Applied Mathematics

  1980 — 1982

• University of Adelaide

  B.Sc.(Hons), Computer Science

  1983 — 1983

• St. Ignatius College

  High school diploma, High school - general education

  1972 — 1979

Skills

• Admissions
• Student Development
• Academic Advising
• Programming
• Program Management
• Staff Development
• Distance Learning
• Research
• Distributed Systems
• Campus
• Curriculum Development
• Java
• Adult Education
• Science
• Student Affairs
• Curriculum Design
• Critical Thinking
• E-Learning
• Educational Technology
• Lecturing
• University Teaching
• Student Engagement
• College Teaching
• Blended Learning
• Policy
• Teaching
• Instructional Technology
• Faculty Development
• Educational Leadership
• Program Evaluation
• Career Counseling
• Tutoring
• Applied Mathematics
• Leadership
• Grant Writing
• Computer Science
• Courses
• Instructional Design
• Career Development
• Theory