Teaching Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture and Design (Two Open Positions)
About The Position
The Teaching Assistant Professor (1-year) is a full-time, nine-month, non- tenure track faculty position teaching at the undergraduate level and providing service to the department, school, university, and community are foundational expectations. Instructing 18-22 credit hours of coursework per academic year with an assignment of two studios, or one studio and two lectures/seminars per semester is required. The faculty member will lead studio and classroom instruction, create curriculum material, construct syllabi, assess student knowledge and skills, advise students, and provide other scholastic achievement guidance. The full-time nine-month position is intended to be awarded for a period of one academic year with potential for additional teaching in the summer. Regular, reliable, and non-disruptive attendance is an essential job duty, as is the ability to create and maintain collegial, harmonious working relationships with others.
Requirements
- Terminal graduate degree in interior design / interior architecture, or design-related discipline from an accredited institution of higher education conferred by the start of employment
- Excellent body of creative design work
- Demonstrated excellent writing and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to be an active, involved, collegial member of a collaborative studio teaching team and willingness to be a team player with departmental faculty
- Willingness and ability to advocate for interior architecture and design specific education and professional practice
Nice To Haves
- One or more degrees in interior design / interior architecture
- Demonstrated ability to employ current best teaching practices leading studios and lectures/seminars
- Demonstrated ability to address issues of contemporary design-inquiry teaching studios and lectures/seminars
- Experience with emerging technologies, digital fabrication, BIM, VR, AI and/or visualization
- Demonstrated ability to teach digitally integrated and comprehensive design studios
- Professional practice experience designing interior space
- NCIDQ certification (or the qualifications and willingness to complete the exam)
Responsibilities
- Teaching at the undergraduate level
- Providing service to the department, school, university, and community
- Instructing 18-22 credit hours of coursework per academic year with an assignment of two studios, or one studio and two lectures/seminars per semester is required.
- Lead studio and classroom instruction
- Create curriculum material
- Construct syllabi
- Assess student knowledge and skills
- Advise students
- Provide other scholastic achievement guidance
Benefits
- university contributions to health, dental, life and disability insurance
- tuition waivers for employees and their families
- 12 official holidays
- immediate leave accrual
- a choice of retirement programs with university contributions ranging from 5 to 10% of employee salary
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
