DIRECTOR OF THE WORLD MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/FULL-TIME TENURE TRACK
DATE OF APPOINTMENT: August 15, 2008
QUALIFICATIONS: Outstanding record as a performer and teacher with a minimum of three years of successful collegiate teaching experience in such a role. A doctoral degree in music or equivalent professional experience is required. The candidate must be qualified to administrate and teach in a vibrant university World Music Performance Center.
RANK AND SALARY: The appointment is at the level of Assistant Professor and is a full-time, nine-month, tenure-track appointment.
JOB DESCRIPTION: The assignment is to provide leadership in growing and maintaining a world music performance center with a national and international reputation for the performance and study of world music. This will include curriculum development and the designing of new courses and programs that promote world music across all degree programs and performance areas. Duties will include instructing undergraduate and graduate students in performance, teaching courses in non-western musical traditions, and conducting research/creative activity in one or more non-western musical traditions.
DEADLINE: Review of applications will begin November 26, 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 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 recent references), videotape or DVD of a recent student performance(s) coached or conducted by the applicant, and a videotape or DVD of a recent performance. 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.
West Virginia University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, minorities, and protected-class individuals are encouraged to apply.
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