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Toward a tenure-track professor position after graduation

I entered my doctoral program with all the hopes, dreams, and intentions of landing a tenure-track professor position after graduation. Please find the published job descriptions that best describe the professional activities I aspire to engage in immediately upon completion of my doctorate.

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Institution:Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Title: Assistant Professor (Curriculum Theory)
Job Category: Faculty
College: School of Education

Position Summary: 

Southern Illinois University Carbondale seeks applicants for an Assistant Professor position in curriculum studies in the School of Education. The position is a continuing, 9-month, tenure-track appointment to begin August 16, 2021. An additional summer teaching appointment may be possible contingent upon funding and student demand. Progress in rank will require demonstrations of productivity in research, publication, teaching, and service.

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Institution: The University of Tennessee

Title: Assistant or Associate Tenure Track
Job Category: Faculty
College: College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences

Position Summary: 

Assistant/Associate Professor of Instructional Technology (IT) and Learning, Design, and Technology (LDT) with specializations in one or more of the following areas: online learning environments, design thinking, emerging media design and development, and/or instructional design. The successful applicant will be an active faculty member in the IT Online Master’s Program and the campus-based LDT Doctoral Program. The faculty member in this position will be a collegial citizen to the program through student advising, teaching, research, and service to the department, college, university, and profession.

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Institution: the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) 

Title: Assistant Professor
Job Category: Faculty
College: School of Education

Position Summary: 

We seek a candidate in the field of Instructional Design and Technology with visionary leadership to guide and lead the growth of our fully-online M.S. in Instructional Design and Development through excellence in the areas of teaching, service, and scholarship. Duties will include engaging in appropriate scholarly activities such as grants, presentations, research and publications in refereed journals, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, providing service to the university and the profession, working collaboratively with faculty and administrators to meet accreditation requirements, and developing university/school partnerships to enhance programs. The candidate will also be expected to support a lab and offer open lab hours each week to assist students and faculty with instructional design and technology-related needs.

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Syracuse University 

© 2020 by Lei Wang

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