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GSE is recruiting for the following two positions:
• College Student Affairs (Rank Open)
• Language Education (Assistant or Associate Professor)
The Rutgers University Graduate School of Education is dedicated to the study and improvement of educational institutions, processes, and agents to empower people to act as reflective, compassionate, and effective participants in a diverse and interconnected world. As a professional school within New Jersey’s flagship public university, the production and dissemination of knowledge about education is central to our mission. We seek tenure-track or tenured faculty colleagues whose research focuses on informing and improving education, especially PK-16 teaching, learning, and student development in diverse contexts.
Applicants are expected to have earned a doctoral degree from a major research university. In screening applicants, we will be looking for evidence of scholarly promise or accomplishment; commitment to a strong, productive, and externally funded research program; appropriate experience and commitment to excellence in teaching. We invite applications from beginning to mid-career scholars. Salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Our School and University are especially interested in applications from individuals who are members of groups that have been and still are underrepresented in university faculty positions.
For each position, responsibilities include: teaching and academic advising of both undergraduate and graduate students; an active program of research; contributing to the effective operation of the profession, the School, and the University. Pursuit of external funding for one’s research program is also expected. Further specificity is provided below for each position.
Apply electronically at the email address associated with the position you seek. Your application should include: 1) a cover letter of introduction including names and contact information for three references; references will only be contacted after initial screening and with your permission; 2) a CV or resume; 3) a description of your research program or plan; 4) a statement of teaching experiences and philosophy; 5) two samples of scholarly writing such as publications or conference presentations. Submit these items as separate attachments in either MS Office 2003/2004 format or preferably as PDF documents.
Screening of applications will begin immediately. We will accept applications until December 18, 2009. If interested, we encourage you to apply sooner than this deadline as we anticipate moving beyond initial screening as soon as possible.
Subject to the availability of funding, positions begin September 2010 in the following areas:
College Student Affairs (Rank Open)
The GSE seeks a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member for the master’s degree program in College Student Affairs. This position requires a strong record or promise of scholarship in higher education/student affairs, the ability to create partnerships with units within the divisions of Student Affairs and Undergraduate Education, and the administrative experience and leadership skills to help us develop a high quality and nationally recognized program. We encourage the applications of candidates with strong quantitative research skills and experience as a student affairs practitioner. The successful candidate will be expected to be an active scholar and contributor to national student affairs and higher education associations. This position is located within GSE’s Department of Educational Psychology. In addition, the master’s degree program in College Student Affairs has an advisory council consisting of the following faculty and staff members at Rutgers University whose primary affiliation resides outside of the GSE: Drs. Barbara Bender, Gregory Blimling, Gary Gigliotti, Barbara Lee, Patrick Love, Jill Richards, and Brent Rubin.
Apply at: college_student_affairs_search@gse.rutgers.edu
Language Education (Assistant or Associate Professor)
In line with the rapidly growing demographic changes in the State of New Jersey and the push to prepare students for today’s global society, the Language Education program of the Graduate School of Education would like to appoint an Assistant/Associate Professor in Language Education, beginning fall 2010. Candidates need an earned doctorate in language education or applied linguistics, and we will consider scholars who are experts in preparing future teachers to teach ELLs and/or world languages such as Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Urdu, and Hindi. Candidates must possess expertise in a language other than English, a research agenda related to classroom language teaching, bilingual education, emerging bilinguals, or language teacher education, and K-12 teaching experience. While teaching will be conducted in English, the capacity to teach and advise students in another language (such as, Chinese or Spanish) is a plus.
This position is located within GSE’s Department of Learning and Teaching.
Apply at: language_education_search@gse.rutgers.edu
About New Jersey
Rutgers University serves one of the most densely populated, highly educated, rapidly growing, economically dynamic, ethnically diverse, and globally connected states in the United States. More than ten percent of New Jersey’s citizens have postgraduate degrees, and one in three are foreign-born or have a foreign-born parent. As the flagship university of this extraordinary state, Rutgers faces marvelous challenges: how to produce the research essential to future breakthroughs, how to prepare the graduates who will contribute to the state and the world, how to be the new “golden door” for this next generation of Americans, how to capitalize on religious, artistic, linguistic, culinary, and cultural diversity, and how to educate all students in the democratic traditions of this country.
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Chartered in 1766, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is the eighth-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It has a unique history: from its inception as a colonial liberal arts college, Rutgers grew to become the land-grant college of New Jersey in 1864, and to assume full university status in 1924. Legislative acts of 1945 and 1956 designated it the State University of New Jersey.
Today, Rutgers is one of the leading public research universities in the nation. With nearly 50,000 students and over 9,000 faculty and staff on its three campuses in Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick, Rutgers is a vibrant academic community committed to the highest standards of teaching, research, and service.
A 2007 major reorganization of undergraduate education in New Brunswick reinvigorated the undergraduate experience for both students and faculty by combining the traditions and strengths of four undergraduate liberal arts colleges—Douglass, Livingston, Rutgers, and University—into a single School of Arts and Sciences.
With 27 schools and colleges, Rutgers offers over 100 undergraduate majors and more than 100 graduate and professional degree programs. The university graduates more than 10,000 students each year, and has more than 350,000 living alumni residing in all 50 states and on six continents. Rutgers also sponsors community initiatives in all 21 New Jersey counties. University-wide, new degree programs, research endeavors, and community outreach are in development to meet the demands of the 21st century.
The Graduate School of Education
In 1893-94, the study of Education at Rutgers College was initiated by Eliot R. Payson with a course for graduating Classics students. A professional program in Education was later developed by Alexander Inglis who became Rutgers’ first full-time time Professor of Education in 1912. His successor, Charles H. Elliot, made Education a statewide endeavor by building a large network of extension courses throughout New Jersey.
A Department of Education within Rutgers College was formed in 1917 and a School of Education was formed in 1923, offering bachelor’s degrees in Education. In 1930, master and doctor of education degrees were added to the School of Education. In 1954, responsibility for the preparation of K-12 teachers was shifted out of the School of Education and back to the campus’s various undergraduate liberal arts colleges. In 1960, the Rutgers BOG changed the name of the School to the Graduate School of Education. This renaming recognized the role of the School as a graduate institution in the preparation of educational personnel.
In 1980, during a reorganization and consolidation of the faculty groups in New Brunswick, teacher education and the undergraduate college faculty who were primarily associated with that task were again sent back to the Graduate School of Education which had not prepared teachers for over 25 years. The programs that were in place in the colleges stayed largely intact in the GSE for another 15 years, until 1995. At the time, the GSE faculty shifted teacher preparation to a Five-year program in which New Brunswick undergraduates are admitted in their junior year. Upon completion of the program, students will have earned a bachelor’s degree in a liberal arts area and a master’s degree in education. The design of this program recognizes the need for prospective teachers to receive a rigorous liberal arts education with training in a discipline as well as in pedagogy. The GSE’s teacher education and educational administration programs have been granted pre-accreditation status by the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC). In 1998, a Ph.D. in Education program was developed. GSE now offers both Ed.D. and Ph.D. in Education programs. The GSE is a member of the Carnegie Professional Educational Doctoral (CPED) network and is currently revising its doctoral program (Ed.D. and Ph.D.) offerings in light of trends occurring at both the local, national, and international levels.
Please explore our website to learn more about the Graduate School of Education. The website has information about our faculty, students, programs, news, and events. The Faculty/Research tab on our Homepage contains links to our Centers and Institutes including the National Institute of Early Education Research; the Center for Effective School Practices; the Center for Educational Policy Analysis-NJ; the Rutgers Institute for Improving Student Achievement; and the Robert B. Davis Institute for Learning. Rutgers GSE and other partners constitute the Regional Educational Laboratory: Mid-Atlantic sponsored by the US DOE’s Institute for Education Sciences. Finally, visit www.gse.rutgers.edu/southafrica to learn about GSE’s South Africa Initiative.
The Rutgers GSE has been consistently ranked as one of “America’s Best” graduate schools of
education in the annual US News & World Report survey. At present the School is ranked #38 in the US News & World Report survey.
Rutgers University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and a NSF ADVANCE Institution.
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