**INTERNAL ONLY** - Director of General Education
- Employer
- The Citadel
- Location
- Charleston
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- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Job no: 495970
Work type: Full Time Permanent - Faculty
Location: Charleston
Categories: Academic Affairs, Internal Only
Payscale: Unclassified
**Internal applications are invited to apply for the position of Director of General Education**
The Directorship is a faculty position, compensated with an eleven-month contract. The Director serves a five-year term, which is renewable one time. The Director’s teaching responsibilities are four General Education classes over the course of the eleven months. The Director reports to the Associate Provost of Academic Affairs but retains status as a tenured faculty member within his/her home academic department.
The General Education director must be:
- A tenured (as of Fall 2021) faculty member with the rank of Associate or Full Professor
- An enthusiastic and articulate proponent of the new strands-model General Education program
- An inspiring mentor, thoroughly committed to faculty development
- A participant in assessment who understands that assessment is key to sustaining a healthy General Education program
- A visible presence on campus, personally available to students and faculty during working hours
Responsibilities of the Director:
- Scheduling and Staffing of classes: The Director is primarily responsible for scheduling and staffing the Freshman Seminars and GenEd capstones. The Director will work with the relevant department heads to staff and schedule strands classes and the leadership-themed Junior Seminar.
- Faculty Development: Working closely with the Director of CEITL&DE, the Director will provide sufficient training on the six learning outcomes to faculty teaching in the Freshman Seminar, the strands classes, the leadership-themed junior Seminar, and all capstone classes that incorporate the GenEd outcomes. The Director will also monitor grade reports and student evaluation reports for all Freshman Seminars, strands classes, Junior Seminars, and GenEd capstones. The Director will also arrange for and monitor periodic class observation reports for GenEd faculty.
- Assessment: Working closely with the Director of Accreditation and Assessment and with the Associate Provost of Academic Affairs, the Director will ensure the implementation of the assessment measures prescribed for the Freshman Seminar, the strands classes, the Junior Seminar, and all the capstones that incorporate the six learning outcomes. The Director will employ several faculty members active in General Education to serve as Outcomes/Strands coordinators. These coordinators will become experts on the VALUE rubrics and will work under the Director’s supervision to ensure reliability in the evaluation of all the student work. They will also work with the faculty and department heads to ensure the coherence and distinctiveness of the different strands.
- Budget: The Director will manage the budget provided to run the General Education program.
- Leadership: The Director serves as chair of the Committee on General Education. This Committee concerns itself with the health and well-being of the General Education program.
Upon selection of the General Education director, the Office of the Provost and school dean will work with his or her home department to ensure that the home department will be able to maintain its academic mission.
Advertised: Feb 19 2021 Eastern Standard Time
Applications close: Mar 16 2021 Eastern Daylight Time
Organization
The Citadel is a landmark in Charleston, South Carolina that is noted for its educational reputation and tradition of preparing and producing principled leaders. Founded in 1842, The Citadel has an undergraduate student body of 2,272 students who make up the South Carolina Corps of Cadets. 1,066 students attend The Citadel Graduate College, a civilian evening program that offers graduate and professional as well as undergraduate programs. The Citadel is best known nationally for its Corps of Cadets which attracts students from 43 states and eight countries. The men and women in the Corps live and study under a classical military system that makes leadership and character training an essential part of the educational experience. One third of the graduating classes accept military commissions. The Citadel is divided into five academic schools: Business Administration, Education, Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Science and Mathematics. Because of its focus on teaching, a high graduation rate and strong alumni support, The Citadel ranks highly in the annual U.S. News & World Report ratings of southern colleges that offer at least a master's degree.
Living in The Citadel Community
Located in picturesque coastal Charleston, South Carolina, The Citadel offers a classic military education for young men and women who seek a college experience that is intense, meaningful and academically strong. Citadel graduates say the disciplined lifestyle and the friendships they forge here have had a profoundly positive effect on their lives and create bonds with generations of cadets before them and with generations to come. Small class sizes give students both the academic opportunities expected at a university and the personalized attention of a small liberal arts college. Bachelor of Arts degrees are available in chemistry, criminal justice, English, history, mathematics, modern languages, political science, and psychology. Bachelor of Science degrees are offered in biology, business administration (the most popular major), chemistry, civil and environmental engineering, computer science, education, electrical and computer engineering, mathematics, physical education, and physics. All cadets participate in the Army, Air Force or Naval/Marine Corps Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs. These programs do not require students to accept a commission or to be committed to active duty unless the cadet accepts an ROTC scholarship. A unique honors program gives advanced students at The Citadel the opportunity to work one-on-one with professors over a period of three years – a practice usually associated with graduate level studies. Generations of Citadel graduates have served their nation, their state and their community with distinction. Though the campus relocated in 1922 and the physical facilities have changed over time, The Citadel has stayed faithful to its original mission. It graduates men and women who value honor, integrity, loyalty and patriotism, and who accept the responsibilities that accompany principled leadership. The Citadel remains a stronghold of duty, self-discipline, and high ideals in a changing American society.
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