- Location details
- Highland Heights, Kentucky
- Posted
- Closes
- Position type
- Administrator, Professor, Assistant
- Organization type
- 4-year college or university
- Languages
- English
- Field
- Composition and rhetoric, Technical and business writing, Technology and digital media
- Employment category
- Full-time
- Tenure Status
- Tenure or tenure track
- Location
- Kentucky
- Academic Hiring Standards
- Hiring standards
12-month, tenure-track appointment to direct the Writing Instruction Program in the Department of English at Northern Kentucky University. The department offers both upper and lower division writing courses at a university with approximately 15,000 students. Writing courses are taught by 22 full-time and 30 part-time faculty. Normal teaching load will be two courses per semester. The department has a graduate program (MA) that offers certificates in composition/rhetoric and professional writing. Credit towards tenure negotiable.al teaching load will be two courses per semester. The department has a graduate program (MA) that offers certificates in composition/rhetoric and professional writing. Credit towards tenure negotiable.
Responsibilities:
● Provide leadership for the Writing Instruction Program
● Develop policies and curricula for undergraduate general education composition classes in dialogue with departmental and university writing initiatives
● Supervise writing instruction in the general education curriculum, including traditional and co-requisite writing courses and critical reading courses
● Conduct training of graduate students, dual credit teachers, and part-time faculty and teach practicum in writing pedagogy
● Recruit, hire, mentor, and evaluate part-time writing faculty
● Represent the Writing Instruction Program in the university community and the broader regional community
● Lead university’s directed self-placement efforts
● Chair the department Writing Instruction Program Advisory Committee
● Work with offices and campus partners related to student success, including first-year programs, office of international students and scholars, writing center.
Requirements:
● Ph.D. in English—composition/rhetoric
● Record of teaching excellence in the field of composition/rhetoric
● Experience/familiarity with the administration of writing programs
● Record of on-going scholarly achievement in the field of composition/rhetoric
● Experience with technology in the field of composition/rhetoric
Desirable:
● Ph.D. in composition/rhetoric with emphasis on digital writing, new media, writing program administration, or public writing
● Experience/familiarity with writing assessment
● Experience/familiarity with general education issues
● Experience/familiarity with service learning
● Experience/familiarity with writing across the curriculum
Applications must include the following: (1) Letter of Application, (2) Curriculum Vitae, and (3) Confidential letters from three professional references.
Open until filled; review of application starts on October 31, 2024.
For questions about the search, contact Dr. Jonathan Cullick, Chair of the Search Committee at cullickj@nku.edu
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