Position Information

Proposed Faculty Rank Career Line

Department 01138 - Design

City Salt Lake City, UT

Track Non Tenure Track

New Position to Begin July 1st 2024

Details

The Multi-disciplinary Design Division ( MDD ) within the College of Architecture + Planning invites applications for an ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ( LECTURER ) OF DESIGN – non-tenure track career line lecturer. We are seeking a passionate, experienced educator / practitioner who can impart fundamental design skills and approaches in a multi-disciplinary context, as well as bring their own specialization to add to the range of design disciplines with the College.

This position will be a nine-month appointment (1.0 FTE ) to begin on July 1, 2024. Initial appointments will be for 3 years, but can be extended for additional terms.

Multi-disciplinary Design at the University of Utah is a digital, physical and platform product design program. We are a diverse community of academics, professionals and students engaging in design to meet the needs of a rapidly changing world. Students in the program move through a series of experiences exposing them to new technologies, grounded research, craft / making, ethics, leadership skills, entrepreneurship and systems and strategic thinking. Faculty collaborate across campus and around the world, with funded projects resulting in spatial design interventions, installations, exhibitions, systems, policies, programs, community engagement and scholarly outputs that address multiple scales and environmental and social issues. Collectively, we design products, places, experiences and the relationships around them, intelligently tackling complex social and environmental problems by creating innovative design solutions – see https://www.uofu.design/

MDD is looking for a colleague and community member with a commitment to working in social and critical spaces. We expect that this position will attract teachers and practitioners who are interested in the development and delivery of curricula that equips our energetic and ethically grounded students with the skills, knowledge and approaches to thrive as designers, now and into the future. Opportunities exist for experienced educators to shape courses and activities across our program and college, from undergraduate design foundation level through to capstone courses, internships and potential graduate level offerings, as well as administrative leadership of teaching teams and programs. If you are interested in co-designing solutions to complex problems, making things in the digital and / or physical contexts, creating experiences, exercising strategic thinking, speculating design futures and critically (and joyfully) engaging in design pedagogy, we strongly encourage you to apply.

Applicants for career-line lecturing positions must hold a terminal degree in a design related field: The definition of design includes all design and creative disciplines including industrial, product, fine arts, graphic, landscape, urban design, architecture and digital platforms. The responsibilities of the position involve teaching studio courses and seminar / lecture based courses (up to six per year in total) as well as selected administrative functions. Teaching assignments can be adjusted to reflect administrative leadership responsibilities, for example directorship of programs. In addition to teaching and administration, we seek candidates who will engage with the creative community of the division through sharing independent research, creative activity and professional practice, as well as participating in studio reviews and committee service. They will be adept at promoting design and its value to a wide audience.

Salary is commensurate with experience. All full-time employees are provided a health benefit plan.

Applications must be submitted on-line. The search committee with begin reviewing applications on 18 December 2023.

Further information for applicants:

The University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning (CA+P) is a community of award-winning and highly recognized set of faculty, entrepreneurial students, and supportive staff which together create a creative community unlike any other. Structurally, the College is made up of the School of Architecture, the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning, and the Division of Multi Disciplinary Design. CA+P is also home to two research centers–the Ecological Planning Center and the Metropolitan Research Center–and two collaboratives: the Healthy and Resilient Places (HaRP) Collaboratory and the Transforming Places, Practices, and Pedagogies (TP3C) Collaborative.

CA+P enrolls approximately 575 undergraduate and 145 graduate students and employs 21 tenured track faculty and 7 career-line faculty. The College’s total budget is approximately $9,800,000.

CA+P is at the leading edge of transforming design, architectural and planning education, engaging in critical work within an ethic of care. The College functions from an understanding that the global dynamics of population growth and aging, environmental degradation, and resource inequality are calling on 21st century designers to think, work and make in new ways. As such, students, faculty, alumni, and clients are challenged to seize upon these intrinsic resources to inform the creation of purposeful, inspiring interventions that foster ecological, social, and economic resilience, and further health and well-being for all, especially those for whom design makes the greatest difference.

CA+P is guided by four commitments related to teaching, scholarship, creative work and service:

1. Responsibility: A responsibility to past, present and future generations for the sustainability of our creative expressions that reallocate natural resources

2. Resilience: A systemic understanding that polycultures and diversity nurture greater ecological and community resilience

3. Respect: A respect for the health and culture of all people and all places

4. Response: The demand to respond to the grand challenges of our time through innovative and collaborative modes of practice that demonstrate our commitment to excellence and quality.

CA+P puts its values into action, leading to a record of successes that includes:

• The development of student support resources including a campus model of a Student Success Center with private consulting rooms and dedicated advisors, a digital fabrication lab, collaborative studio/lab spaces, a video/photo lab, and a café that serves as the social hub for the college as well as the adjacent College of Fine Arts.

• A recruitment and retention strategy resulting in 150% growth over seven years and one of the most diverse units on campus served by a female-majority faculty and the most diverse staff on campus.

Positioned on the East Bench of the Wasatch mountain range, the University of Utah is the flagship of the state higher education system. The location in Salt Lake City has an active design community, inspired by and responsive to the outstanding mountain desert context.

EEO/Non-Discrimination Information

All qualified individuals are strongly encouraged to apply. Veterans’ preference is extended to qualified applicants, upon request and consistent with University policy and Utah state law. Upon request, reasonable accommodations in the application process will be provided to individuals with disabilities.

The University of Utah is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and does not discriminate based upon race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy-related conditions, genetic information, or protected veteran’s status. The University does not discriminate on the basis of sex in the education program or activity that it operates, as required by Title IX and 34 CFR part 106. The requirement not to discriminate in education programs or activities extends to admission and employment. Inquiries about the application of Title IX and its regulations may be referred to the Title IX Coordinator, to the Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, or both.

To request a reasonable accommodation for a disability or if you or someone you know has experienced discrimination or sexual misconduct including sexual harassment, you may contact the Director/Title IX Coordinator in the Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action ( OEO /AA). More information, including the Director/Title IX Coordinator’s office address, electronic mail address, and telephone number can be located at:

https://www.utah.edu/nondiscrimination/

Online reports may be submitted at oeo.utah.edu

Notice

The University is a participating employer with Utah Retirement Systems (“URS”). Eligible new hires with prior URS service, may elect to enroll in URS if they make the election before they become eligible for retirement (usually the first day of work). Contact Human Resources at (801) 581-7447 for information. Individuals who previously retired and are receiving monthly retirement benefits from URS are subject to URS’ post-retirement rules and restrictions. Please contact Utah Retirement Systems at (801) 366-7770 or (800) 695-4877 or University Human Resource Management at (801) 581-7447 if you have questions regarding the post-retirement rules.

This position may require the successful completion of a criminal background check and/or drug screen.

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Special Instructions for Candidates

Application materials must include:

Cover letter

Teaching statement

Curriculum vitae

The contact information of at least three references

If available, evidence of teaching effectiveness

a one-page statement that describes how the candidate will contribute to fostering an inclusive research and teaching environment (submit this document under “commitment statement”)

Portfolio of creative / research / teaching work, can be a link to website

(submit this document under “Applicant Document – Other”)

Open Date 11/14/2023

Close Date

Open Until Filled Yes

Requisition Number PRN01142CF

Type Faculty