Educational Leadership, Assistant/Associate Professor, Tenure Track
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND
COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY
Title: Assistant/Associate Professor
Salary: Competitive/commensurate with experience
Position: Permanent full-time; tenure-track
Effective Date: August 2010
Washington State University is a major public research university where research, teaching, and service are emphasized. The WSU Educational Leadership program offers a full range of administrator certification and degree programs at the Master’s and Doctoral levels through the four WSU campuses: Pullman, Spokane, Tri-Cities, and Vancouver. Classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a Doctoral-Research-Extensive Institution, WSU is a founding member of the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) and is accredited by NCATE. This Educational Leadership position is located at the WSU Vancouver campus in Vancouver, Washington. WSU Vancouver offers an array of programs, including business, science, nursing, agriculture, humanities, engineering, education, and environmental science. Vancouver is known for its mild climate, access to outdoor recreation, and is across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon with its fine dining, theater and the arts, and within driving distance to the beaches of the Pacific Ocean and the Cascade Mountains.
The Position: The Educational Leadership Program seeks candidates with the potential to make a significant contribution to scholarship in the field of educational leadership. Research expertise in educational leadership related to diversity issues, culturally competent leadership and/or leadership for social justice are preferred. Candidates must be able to contribute to graduate programs in education by teaching appropriate courses, advising students, and chairing doctoral students’ committees. Candidates should be able to teach in two or more of the following areas: culture, diversity and social justice; leadership theory; ethics and values; instructional leadership; community and communications; law; and finance. In addition, candidates are expected to teach either qualitative research methods or quantitative research methods. Responsibilities include maintaining an active research and scholarly agenda; advising Master’s and Doctoral students; providing service to the university and to the profession at the local, state, and national levels; and engaging in collaborative work with Educational Leadership faculty on the other three campuses. Candidates must be willing to teach using distance learning technologies and/or on off-campus sites, and duties may include supervision of administrative interns. The successful candidate will be expected to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with professionals in regional school districts and will have a demonstrated commitment to diversity with evidence of successful work with underrepresented populations.
Required Qualifications: Earned doctorate in educational leadership or closely related field by the time of appointment and evidence of potential for significant contribution to scholarship in the field of educational leadership.
Preferred Qualifications: Research expertise in educational leadership related to diversity issues, culturally competent leadership and/or leadership for social justice; expertise to teach core educational leadership coursework; expertise to teach either qualitative or quantitative research methods; demonstrated ability to teach at the university level; demonstrated understanding of K-12 education; evidence of capacity to provide leadership in an educational context; and commitment to work collaboratively with other faculty and K-12 educators.
Application Process: Screening begins on December 1, 2009. The targeted starting date is August 16, 2010. Electronic submission of applications is encouraged. Applicants should submit a letter of application that carefully addresses the position description and qualifications; curriculum vitae; 1-2 sample publications if available; and the names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of at least three professional references to:
Roxanne Doenecke, Search Committee Manager
Washington State University Vancouver
14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave
Vancouver, WA 98686-9600
For information regarding this position, contact Roxanne Doenecke, Search Committee Manager at: 360.546.9652; Fax: 360.546.9040 ; email: rdoenecke@vancouver.wsu.edu. Additional information on Washington State University’s Educational Leadership Program is posted at
http://education.wsu.edu/elcp/programs/
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. Members of ethnic minorities, women, special disabled veterans, veterans of the Vietnam-era, recently separated veterans, and other protected veterans, persons of disability and/or persons age 40 and over are encouraged to apply.
WSU is committed to excellence through diversity, has faculty friendly policies including a partner accommodation program, and a NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant (see http://www.excelinse.wsu.edu/).
WSU employs only U.S. citizens and lawfully authorized non-U.S. citizens. All new employees must show employment eligibility verification as required by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Washington State University is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact Human Resource Services: 509-335-4521(v), Washington State TDD Relay Service: Voice Callers: 1-800-833-6384; TDD Callers: 1-800-833-6388, 509-335-1259(f), or hrs@wsu.edu.
