Job Title:
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Information Technology (Tenure Track) - The New Community College at CUNY
Job Description:
The New Community College (NCC) at the City University of New York (CUNY) seeks a skilled and experienced educator in Information Technology to join its faculty to teach in the curriculum's first-year experience of inter-disciplinary coursework rooted in experiential learning activities with New York City as a primary text and laboratory, as well as in the major. The successful candidate will be an effective educator committed to preparing urban community college students, who typically enter unprepared to do college work, for academic success and completion. To do so, the candidate will make use of a range of effective curricular, pedagogical and support strategies and be flexible and open to sharing and learning from others. The candidate must be committed to the College's vision to serve a linguistically and culturally diverse student body and to teaching in the first year experience. This tenure-track appointment will begin in the Summer/Fall 2012 semester.
Additionally, the successful candidate will have broad knowledge and expertise to teach students the foundations of IT, including courses in programming, networking, databases, and web-based systems; and provide learning opportunities to cultivate logical and analytical thinking for students to apply in various contexts across the disciplines and life. Moreover, s/he will employ hands-on teaching methods to engage students with course content relevant to real businesses to gain relevant exposure to and knowledge of the field and enter the job market with marketable technical skills to meet the computer technology needs of various organizations.
The general duties of a faculty member include but are not limited to teaching courses in the first-year core and in the majors; advising and supporting students as they progress; participating in committees and other governance structures; scholarship in the discipline and/or teaching and learning; and performing administrative, supervisory, and other duties as may be assigned.
Prior to NCC's opening, appointed faculty and staff will work as a team to develop programs at a new institution dedicated to rethinking community college education to improve student learning and completion. Candidates will have the capacity to work with their colleagues to develop courses and learning goals, create learning communities, and define and participate in faculty development initiatives. They will be comfortable crossing disciplinary boundaries, as they will be expected to develop and teach interdisciplinary courses as well as in a major field.
Minimum Qualifications: A Doctoral degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, and Software Engineering, or a related discipline required. Preferred technology specializations include programming, networking, databases, and/or web-based systems.
Other Qualifications:
-Demonstrated capacity to use a diverse range of effective instructional strategies and openness to adopting new practices
-Ability to conduct ongoing learning assessments for both formative and summative purposes
-Understanding of urban community college students' assets and challenges.
Additional consideration will be given to applicants who have the above plus the following:
-Demonstrated experience in program or curriculum development
-A commitment and ability to take full advantage of a technology-rich environment
-Experience working with an economically and culturally diverse student body
-Capacity to establish partnerships with the public and private sectors.
Compensation: Rank and salary are commensurate with experience, qualifications, and academic accomplishments.
FLSA: Exempt
To Apply: For full consideration, complete applications must be submitted online with the following required documents as attachments: a letter of interest; curriculum vitae; statements of research, teaching interests and teaching philosophy including approach to experiential learning; evidence of teaching ability; and the contact information for at least three professional references.
CUNY Job Notice #: FY19598
Interview Exchange Job ID #: 31846
To see the full job posting/position description and qualification requirements, go to the CUNY website Click on Additional Job Opportunities under the Search for Jobs section of the page, and then click the Job Title for the related discipline.
Close Date: 6/28/2012
EEO Statement: The City University of New York (CUNY) is an EO/AA Employer.
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