ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SAXOPHONE
/FULL-TIME TENURE TRACK
DATE OF APPOINTMENT: August 15, 2008
QUALIFICATIONS: Outstanding saxophone performer and teacher with significant professional classical and jazz performance experience, and a minimum of three years of successful college studio teaching. A Doctorate in music or equivalent professional experience is required.
RANK AND SALARY: The appointment is at the level of Assistant Professor and is a full-time, nine-month, tenure-track appointment. Salary is commensurate with background and experience.
JOB DESCRIPTION: The primary assignment is the studio teaching of undergraduate and graduate classical saxophone students and coaching of saxophone ensembles. The successful candidate must also be able to provide meaningful experiences for students in the jazz idiom. A demonstrated ability to teach in one or more of the following areas: jazz studies (improvisation or arranging), woodwind pedagogy, arranging for public school, is preferred. Recruitment of saxophone students is required.
DEADLINE: Review of applications will begin December 3, 2007. The search will remain open until the position is filled.
COLLEGE OF CREATIVE ARTS, DIVISION OF MUSIC: The College of Creative Arts (http://www.ccarts.wvu.edu/): The College of Creative Arts is one of 13 colleges within the University and includes the Divisions of Music, Theatre and Dance, and Art and offers the state’s premiere training in the visual and performing arts. Each of these units has a national profile of excellence and all programs are nationally accredited (NAST, NASM, and NASAD).
The College is housed in WVU’s recently renovated Creative Arts Center. There are approximately 800 majors in the college, 71 full-time faculty and 21 professional staff. The mission of the faculty and staff of the College of Creative Arts is to advance the visual and performing arts and advocate life-long appreciation, understanding, and involvement in the arts as a medium in which the diversity of human experience is expressed, examined, and valued. The College accomplishes this mission by being student-centered, and by educating succeeding generations of artists, teachers, and scholars through excellence and innovation in performance, exhibition, scholarship, and the dissemination of creative research.
Of the almost 800 majors in the College of Creative Arts, roughly 350 are in the Division of Music. The Division of Music comprises 35 full-time and 8 part-time faculty, and is the only fully accredited music unit in the state of West Virginia that offers B.A., B.M., M.M., D.M.A., and Ph.D. programs in music.
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY, MORGANTOWN: West Virginia University (http://www.wvu.edu): The University is classified as a Doctoral/Research University-Extensive and the state’s only comprehensive doctoral-granting, land grant institution. WVU has a current enrollment of approximately 27,000 students on the Morgantown campus and 29,000 statewide. WVU is located 75 miles south of Pittsburgh, 200 miles west of the Baltimore/Washington DC metropolitan area, and within easy driving distance from New York. The university community is committed to student-centered priorities, academic excellence, research, creative activity, and service to the State.
APPLICATION: Applicants must submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, credentials (including names and contact information for three current references), and an unedited CD or DVD of recent live classical and jazz performances. Other supporting materials may include commercial CDs, or examples of compositions or arrangements. Materials should be sent to Dr. Keith Jackson, Interim Chair; Division of Music, College of Creative Arts; West Virginia University, P.O. Box 6111; Morgantown, WV 26505-6111. Phone: 304-293-4841 x3224. Fax: 304-293-7491. E-mail: Keith.Jackson@mail.wvu.edu. Materials will be returned if accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped mailer.
West Virginia University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, minorities, and protected-class individuals are encouraged to apply.
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