Faculty Development Specialist, Language & Thinking
- Employer
- Bard College
- Location
- Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
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- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
The Faculty Development Specialist for Language & Thinking (L&T) is responsible for faculty training and guidance for the curricular design and academic quality of the L&T program at Al-Quds Bard College.
The AQU/AQB L&T Faculty Development Specialist will:
- Provide guidance for the overall academic content, academic quality, and faculty training of L&T at AQB
- Participate on the selection committee and train the faculty for L&T at AQB
- Conduct a minimum of 6 days per year of in-person and/or on-line training
- Review, with the assistance of the L&T Associate Director, the faculty “scripts” for L&T courses.
- Work with the L&T Associate Director to design and evaluate quality assessment mechanisms for L&T
- Recommend and assist with arrangements for Bard Network training opportunities for the AQB L&T Associate Director and other AQB L&T faculty
- Consult with AQB leadership and faculty over the course of 2021-22 about possibilities for AQB to play a stronger role in the oversight of L&T at AQU
This consultant position will be hired by the head of the AQB Core Division, in consultation with the L&T associate director and the AQB dean.
Note: The Faculty Development Specialist can be based outside of Palestine. The work can be conducted through occasional visits (as time and circumstances permit), and through on-line workshops and meetings.
Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in the Humanities or related field
- Extensive experience with Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (associate of the IWT preferred)
- Fluency in Arabic a plus, but not required.
The position will begin in spring/summer 2021, with faculty training in August 2021.
To Apply:
Please submit a CV, a cover letter that addresses your interest and background as it relates to this position, and 3 contact references through Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/87276
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until a suitable candidate is selected.
Al-Quds Bard College is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications from those who contribute to our diversity.
AA/EOE
Organization
Undergraduate Degrees
Bard offers courses of study in four divisions—Arts; Languages and Literature; Science, Mathematics, and Computing; and Social Studies—and in interdivisional programs and concentrations. Students may also earn a five-year B.S./B.A. degree in economics and finance. The Bard College Conservatory of Music offers a five-year program in which students pursue a dual degree—a B.Music and a B.A. in a field other than music. Bard and its affiliated institutions also grant the following undergraduate degrees: A.A. at Bard High School Early College; A.A. and B.A. at Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College; and through the Bard Prison Initiative at six correctional institutions in New York State.
Graduate Degrees
More than 200 students are seeking graduate degrees: M.A. in curatorial studies, M.Music in vocal arts, conducting, and curatorial, critical, and performance studies, and M.S. in environmental policy, climate science and policy, and economic theory and policy at the Annandale campus; M.F.A. and M.A.T. at multiple campuses; M.B.A. in Sustainability in New York City; and M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in the decorative arts, design history, and material culture at the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan. M.Music degrees are also offered at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Early Colleges
Bard's early colleges educate the next generation of thought leaders, preparing them to be lifetime learners. Bard High School Early Colleges in New York City, Newark, New Jersey, and Cleveland, Ohio; Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts; and Bard Early College New Orleans and Bard Early College at the Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy all serve the needs of highly motivated younger students.
International Degrees
Internationally, Bard confers dual B.A. degrees at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, Russia (Smolny College); American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan; and Bard College Berlin: A Liberal Arts University; as well as dual B.A. and M.A.T. degrees at Al-Quds University in the West Bank.
Cultural Life
Campus life in Annandale is vibrant, with world-class performing arts venues; continuous and varied student activities; and numerous cultural and recreational opportunities in the surrounding historic Hudson River Valley and in New York City. Students choose from more than a hundred active clubs on campus, and new clubs begin every semester. The Bard College athletic teams are the Raptors. The College’s colors are red and white. The critically acclaimed Bard Music Festival is presented on campus each summer, exploring the life and work of a single composer through chamber music, choral and orchestral performances, symposia, panel discussions, and preconcert talks. Since 2003 the festival has been part of Bard SummerScape, which annually presents operas, films, and theatrical productions that complement the festival’s theme.
Outstanding Faculty
Bard's undergraduate faculty-to-student ratio is 1:10 and courses are taught by full faculty members. Among the many distinguished faculty at Bard College are five MacArthur Fellows—poets John Ashbery and Ann Lauterbach, novelist and memoirist Norman Manea, painter and multimedia artist Judy Pfaff, and journalist Mark Danner. Other notable faculty members include soprano Dawn Upshaw, journalist Ian Buruma, composers Joan Tower and George Tsontakis, poet Robert Kelly, and writers Luc Sante and Francine Prose. Over the years, four recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature have taught at Bard—Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, José Saramago, and Orhan Pamuk.
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