Teaching Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture and Design (Two Open Positions)

University of Arkansas • Fayetteville, NC

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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. The Department of Interior Architecture and Design at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas, seeks an individual interested in leading innovative and transdisciplinary approaches to teaching. The successful candidate will join a vibrant team of faculty in a department growing in stature and national recognition to forge a rich culture of thinking and making within the existing professional undergraduate curriculum. The Fay Jones School's emphasis on collaborative design education is aimed at preparing students to address contemporary challenges and issues of imperative value to the state, nation and world. The school has diverse resources available in its award-winning building and state-of-the-art fabrication facilities. The U of A Community Design Center, Garvan Woodland Gardens, and the Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Material Innovation by the Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Grafton Architects, provide for a range of teaching and scholarship activities. There also are opportunities to take advantage of the School's external relationships with institutions and programs such as the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Momentary, and the Walton Arts Center. Established 50 years ago, the Interior Architecture and Design Department has more than 280 undergraduate students and a faculty with broad based, scholarly research accomplishment and strong professional practice experience. Graduates have a very strong employment rate at nationally and internationally recognized design firms. The CIDA-accredited professional program requires and provides high-quality international education and cross-disciplinary studio experiences. Overarching values guiding the faculty are a commitment to a rigorous team-taught, process-driven design education, integration of research/creative activity into classroom teaching, assimilation of teamwork skills by our students, emphasis on inclusive environments, and the realization of sustainable design solutions. Students develop strong conceptual, spatial design and technical skills through experimentation, discovery, iteration, and invention. Required practice-based internships in locations across the US and internationally build relationships between students and potential employers and produce sophisticated graduates capable of performing in a wide range of creative contexts. A supportive professional advisory board includes successful design leaders from across the country and assists the Department in achieving its goals and promoting the program.

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)
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abillities (KSAs)

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• The benefits package includes university contributions to health, dental, life and disability insurance, tuition waivers for employees and their families, 12 official holidays, immediate leave accrual, and a choice of retirement programs with university contributions ranging from 5 to 10% of employee salary.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees