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SUNY New Paltz Vacancy
External Posting (Faculty)
Applications are invited for consideration for appointment to the following position:
Department: Art Department
Budget Title: Assistant Professor
Local Title: Assistant Professor of Graphic Design/Foundations
Posting Date: September 18, 2009
Salary Level: TBD
Duties: Full time tenure-track position, typical teaching load of 18 credits (6 courses) per academic year. The faculty member will be expected to establish a strong program of creative and scholarly work, to advise students, and to contribute to the life and work of the department and college. Active scholarship, committed teaching, and service on standing department and college committees is expected and required for tenure. Potential future leadership opportunities include the Art Department Chair position, which is filled by qualified tenured faculty on a three-year rotation basis.
Qualifications: MFA required, preferably in graphic or communication
design; significant demonstrated expertise in visual systems, typography, concept development, and design problem-solving for print and/or screen-based media. Critical and conceptual awareness, strong formal vocabulary, and engagement with materials, processes, and range of 2D, 3D and time-based media. Applicants should be conversant with design history, theory, and criticism; contemporary art and design discourse; and show strengths in the field through published work and/or other evidence of relevant scholarship. Professional design experience and college-level teaching preferred.
The candidate must be able to develop curricula and teach courses in both the Graphic Design and Foundations programs. Successful candidates are able to develop and deliver both relevant Foundation pedagogy to first-year students (whose eventual practices may be in diverse areas of art and design) and upper division coursework in Graphic Design.
We are especially interested in considering applicants with a strong commitment to fostering a culturally diverse atmosphere. We are especially interested in considering applicants who bring diverse cultural experiences or perspectives to the campus and who can mentor and advise all members of our diverse student body.
SUNY New Paltz enjoys a reputation as a highly selective mid-sized public institution with a broad liberal arts curriculum. The campus is situated in the scenic Hudson River Valley, 90 miles north of NYC. The Art Department has extensive facilities in three buildings and is comprised of seven professional studio disciplines: Ceramics, Graphic Design, Metal, Painting and Drawing, Photography, Printmaking, and Sculpture, as well as Foundation and Art Education programs. The School of Fine and Performing Arts also includes Art History, Music, Theater Arts, and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.
Contact Information: Electronic application submissions are preferred. They are to be submitted electronically in two .pdf files (each no larger than 20 MB).
The first file should be called “LastName_appl.pdf” and include the following application materials:
1. Cover letter, including full contact information for three references,
2. Resume,
3. Teaching Philosophy,
4. Transcript showing highest degree earned.
The second file should be called “LastName_portf.pdf” and include the portfolio:
5. Ten examples of scholarly and/or artistic work,
6. Examples of course outlines and 10 examples of student work.
Please mark all materials as Search # F09-19 and email the Art department at: search-19@zmail.newpaltz.edu with the two separate .pdf attachments.
Alternatively, applications can be sent to:
SUNY New Paltz
Art Department
Graphic Design/Foundation Search # F09-19
1 Hawk Dr.
New Paltz, NY 12561
Deadline: To assure full consideration, applications should be received by November 16, 2009.
Other important information about this vacancy: The start date for the position is mid-August 2010.
SUNY New Paltz is an AA/EOE/ADA employer