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College of Veterinary Medicine: Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery - Veterinary Clinical Medicine...

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location
Champaign, IL

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Professional Fields, Veterinary Science
Employment Type
Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

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University of Illinois

College of Veterinary Medicine

Veterinary Clinical Medicine

Full-time, 100% (12 month basis) Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Veterinary Medicine invites applications for a full-time academic year Lecturer position. Specialized faculty members are important members of our campus community who collectively make significant contributions to the teaching, research, and service missions of their units. The academic community flourishes when the best specialized faculty members are recruited, evaluated, and retained using fair employment practices and procedures. Lecturers are specialized faculty that are engaged primarily in providing classroom instruction, although some may have ancillary service or administrative duties. In this unique position, the successful applicant will develop and participate in educational programs for professional veterinary students, graduate veterinarians, and house officers and pursue scholarly activities related to teaching and learning specifically in the small animal surgery arena.

Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.

Professional opportunities: We are seeking candidates who are strong team players and interested in utilizing and developing their clinical and teaching skills in a collaborative and vibrant teaching environment. The ideal candidate would be committed to professional development and advancement within the role.

Required Qualifications: The successful candidate must have a DVM degree or equivalent, and have achieved ACVS board certification or completed residency training with credentials accepted by ACVS. Preference will be given to candidates with ACVS certification, advanced degree(s), a track record in scholarship, and/or prior research training. The successful candidate should provide evidence of his or her aptitude for teaching and ability to make an instructional impact through scholarly publications, invited lectures, curriculum development, design or introduction of innovative teaching methods, or other indicators of success related to student learning. Evaluation will be based on the individual’s record of teaching, instructional motivation and innovation, student interactions, and scholarly and service accomplishments. At a minimum, the candidate must be able to demonstrate the ability to make instructional contributions to the college, campus, and broader veterinary profession.

Preferred Qualifications: An MS degree and experience in veterinary education and outreach.

Duties: This position is a full-time (100%) twelve-month academic year, non-tenure track appointment in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine. The appointment will have a starting date on or about May 16, 2019. The primary teaching responsibility will be in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, Small Animal Surgery section; including the soft tissue and orthopedic services area where the successful candidate will provide educational opportunities for 4th year students and house officers through the supervision of surgical cases and daily rounds. Introductory instruction for first and second year veterinary students during their clinical rotations will also be an expectation. Responsibilities include, and are not limited to, providing clinical service, supervision of the surgery services, and coordinating development of a senior surgery rotation in partnership with an envisioned community practice center and other faculty. Coordinating didactic and patient rounds, providing supervision of the junior surgery laboratories, coaching students as they develop psychomotor skills, creating and investigating the effectiveness of learning tools and methods, and participating in objective structured clinical examinations.

Scholarly activity is also an expectation of this position. It is anticipated that the successful candidate’s scholarly activity will derive from developing innovative teaching and learning techniques, outcome assessment of instructional programs and pioneering student-led surgical efforts in the context of teaching and service duties related to clinical caseload.

Salary: Commensurate with applicant’s experience and qualifications. The University of Illinois offers a complete benefits package. For additional information, please visit: https://nessie.uihr.uillinois.edu/cf/benefits/index.cfm.

Starting date: Anticipated starting date is May 16, 2019, or as soon as possible thereafter.

Application procedures: Please create a candidate profile through https://go.illinois.edu/VCMLecturer. For full consideration, applications must be received by May 1, 2019. Applicants may be interviewed before the closing date; however, no hiring decision will be made until after that date. The University of Illinois conducts background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer. For additional information regarding the position requirements, please contact:

Dr. Krista Keller, Chair of the Search Committee

Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine

University of Illinois

1008 West Hazelwood Drive

Urbana, IL 61802-4714

217-333-5375

kak@illinois.edu

College Name or Administrative Unit:College of Veterinary Medicine Category:1-Faculty Title:College of Veterinary Medicine: Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery - Veterinary Clinical Medicine (112897) Open Date:04/17/2019 Close Date:05/01/2019 Organization Name:Vet Clinical Medicine

Organization

Since its founding in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has earned a reputation as a world-class leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.

Faculty

A talented and highly respected faculty is the University's most significant resource. Many are recognized for exceptional scholarship with memberships in such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering. 

Our faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and the Fields Medal in Mathematics.The success of our faculty is matched by that of our alumni: 11 are Nobel laureates and another 18 have won Pulitzer Prizes.

Academic Resources

Academic resources on campus are among the finest in the world. The University Library is one of the largest public university collections in the world with 11 million volumes in its 37 unit libraries. Annually, 53,000,000 people visit its online catalog. Students have access to thousands of computer terminals in classrooms, residence halls, and campus libraries for use in classroom instruction, study, and research.

Research

Students and scholars find the University an ideal place to conduct research. The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a model for interdisciplinary research, where eighteen research groups from sixteen University departments work within and across three broadly defined themes: biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures. The University is also home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Undergraduate Education

The University has a fundamental commitment to undergraduate education. Nearly 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled in nine undergraduate divisions, which together offer some 4,000 courses in more than 150 fields of study.

Undergraduate admission is highly selective. In the 2001 freshman class, students in the middle 50% had ACT scores between 25 and 30 and ranked between the 83rd and 96th percentiles of their high school graduating classes.

The University enrolls over 9,000 graduate and professional students in more than 100 disciplines. It is among the top five universities in number of earned doctorates awarded annually in the United States.

Also integral to the University's mission is a commitment to public engagement. Each year about 65,000 Illinois residents participate in scores of conferences, institutes, courses, and workshops presented statewide. Research and class projects take students and professors off campus to share expertise and technical support with Illinois farmers, manufacturing firms, and businesses. In a typical year, student volunteers log more than 60,000 volunteer hours.

The Arts

A major center for the arts, the campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The University also supports two major museums: the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; and the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture. 

Other major facilities include the multipurpose Assembly Hall (16,500 seats); Memorial Stadium (70,000 seats), site of Big Ten Conference football games; and the Intramural-Physical Education Building, one of the largest recreational facilities of its kind on a university campus.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Illinois is about how we value difference to make a difference. http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/

As evidence of the University’s commitment to enhance the working, living, and learning environment for faculty, staff, and students, the University will encourage a standard of conduct and behavior that is consistent with the values of inclusivity. In an environment of inclusivity, there is no place for acts of hatred, intolerance, insensitivity, bigotry, threats of violence, harassment or discrimination.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Through education, engagement, and excellence, each voice creates the Inclusive Illinois Experience.

How can we appreciate difference to make a difference?

Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. We value it because we know that we have so much to learn from each other in our living, learning, and working environment.

Illinois is the place where we recognize the power of possibility and where great potential is realized. Inclusive Illinois is the vision of that place: a vision made real by leadership and commitment.

Illinois is the place where consensus is forged by discourse and where everyone’s contributions are recognized: significant contributions that elevate us because they are informed and enhanced by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, physical ability, religion, class, and national origin. We are enriched by these perspectives, and we are united by the very discourse that brings these views together.

It is a process. It is transformative. And we celebrate the remarkable changes we set in motion here … taking an important step … crossing boundaries … starting with our own.

It all starts with each of us: with our willingness to embark on the journey in the search for answers, and with our openness and acceptance of the answers we find. Illinois is the place where it all comes together.

Learn more about how Inclusive Illinois promotes diversity here.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

The commitment of the University to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity requires that decisions involving students and employees be based on individual merit and be free from invidious discrimination in all its forms, whether or not specifically prohibited by law. Among the forms of invidious discrimination prohibited by the University policy but not law is discrimination, including harassment, on the basis of sexual orientation. Complaints of invidious discrimination in violation of University policy are to be resolved within existing University procedures. The policy of the University of Illinois is to comply with all federal and state nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action laws, orders, and regulations. The University will not engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, unfavorable discharge from the military, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era. This nondiscrimination policy applies to admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs and activities

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