Job Title: President
Location: Jackson, Tennessee
The Search Committee of Union University welcomes nominations and applications for its sixteenth President to lead the university into a new and engaged era of excellence, teaching, scholarship, research, partnership, and service.
Union University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts-based university offering bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. The campus is located in Jackson, Tennessee, (80 miles northeast of Memphis) with additional campuses in Germantown and Hendersonville. Union University currently enrolls more than 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 40 states and 30 countries. The University stands as a national leader among colleges and universities in promoting a Christian worldview and a Christ-centered approach to education. Union is consistently ranked among the nation’s premier Christian universities and has been recognized as a top-tier institution each year since 1997 by U.S. News & World Report, which also recognized Union at a national level for undergraduate teaching excellence. The University was also recently recognized by The Chronicle of Higher Education as a “Great College to Work For,” one of only 30 four-year institutions to receive this honor roll designation.
The successful candidate must be a professing Christian, Baptist, and active member of a Southern Baptist church, who enthusiastically supports Union University’s Identity, Mission, and Core Values, and articulates a Christian worldview in their work and life.
We invite you to view a two-minute introductory video to the search by clicking here:
Union Presidential Search Video
