This is a new staff position in the College of VPA, charged w expanding the college's programming at Fisher Center, Syracuse University's academic home in NYC. With 20,000 sq. ft. of state-of-the-art teaching facilities, center currently supports the Department of Drama's signature Tepper Semester, a unique program that offers undergraduate students in advanced levels of acting, casting, design, directing, dramaturgy, musical theater, playwriting, producing, stage management, and theater management the opportunity to immerse themselves in a rigorous artistic program. To implement University's Strategic Plan for sending students abroad and away, the NYC Program Dir will work w chairs, director from the college's residential schools and department (Art, Design, Drama, Music, Communication & Rhetorical Studies, and FMA) to not only expand the Tepper Semester, but also design and deliver immersive academic program and internship opportunities in New York City that will support all VPA students, students from other Syracuse University schools and colleges, and non-SU partner institutions. This will include semester-long, summer-long, and short-term opportunities and programs that will appeal to both currently enrolled students and non-SU students. Importantly, will manage the program to achieve operational effectiveness and fiscal sustainability.