Morning,
We’re excited to share this joint recruitment for three Associate Director positions. UC San Diego’s college system provides undergraduates with a living and learning community that mirrors the experience of studying at a smaller liberal arts college while affording the benefits of a large research university. The eight colleges in UCSD’s system each have their own academic programs through which students fulfill the university’s writing requirements. These programs define the student experience at each college, reflecting each college’s mission statement and educational philosophy, providing a general education foundation on which the students build their disciplinary expertise in their major and upper-division coursework. The overall structure, subject-matter, and educational approach of these programs vary from college to college, but in fulfilling the UC-mandated writing requirement, they are all designed to help students develop the core competencies of written communication, oral communication, critical thinking, and information literacy.
Thurgood Marshall, Seventh, and Eighth Colleges all share a commitment to social justice and employ equity-centered and inclusive pedagogies in their programs. This year each program seeks to hire an Associate Director as an Assistant Teaching Professor. These positions are tenure eligible. The academic programs of Seventh College and Thurgood Marshall College each seek candidates for the position of Associate Director of Writing, and Eighth College seeks candidates for the position of Associate Director of Engagement and Community.
All three colleges value antiracist pedagogy, alternative grading practices that center equity, and the development of course content and assignments that empower students to see writing as a tool for social change. In putting forth this joint call, we demonstrate our practice of collaboration and community and hope to attract scholar-educators committed to researching and enacting pedagogical practices that center students, especially our most diverse student populations. This joint call is the first in the history of UCSD’s college system; it signifies our programs’ commitments to fostering a culture of writing and curriculum design on our campus that responds to the significant social changes wrought by the global pandemic, man-made climate change, and the ongoing reckoning with U.S. racial and social hierarchies. Though we expect the three Assistant Professors to collaborate in their roles as Associate Directors to cultivate programmatic and pedagogical initiatives in the name of social justice, the individual positions have different structures and responsibilities.
The first review date for the Associate Director positions is 11/23/23.
The Colleges also opened a recruitment for full-time lecturers. These positions will begin in the ’24-25 academic year and are eligible for continuing appointment after 18 quarters of teaching. Most programs will begin the review of applications in early 2024.
Director of Seventh College Synthesis Program
Teaching Professor, Seventh College
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