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Position Number: 1067704
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Position Type: Fine and Applied Arts - Digital Art

Assistant Professor of Digital Art (tenure-track)

Santa Clara University

Department, Program, Center: Art and Art History

Specialty or Subdiscipline: Digital Art

College or School: College of Arts and Sciences

Purpose:
The Department of Art and Art History at Santa Clara University, a Jesuit, Catholic University located in the Silicon Valley, seeks applicants for an assistant professor (tenure track) position in Digital Art. We seek applicants with both sophisticated digital arts skills and a demonstrated respect for traditional, analog media and fine arts skills. The successful applicant will be a teaching scholar who creates and presents his/her professional digital arts related scholarship at a regional, national and international level while maintaining a successful learning environment for students. This is an opportunity to help design/assemble a digital curriculum that will invigorate the academic programs for our current majors and minors. The teaching load for tenure-track faculty is seven courses annually (quarter system) with a one-course reduction annually to support support/creative work. Tenure track faculty also receive an additional course release in their first year of employment and are eligible for one quarter of faculty leave upon successful completion of mid-probationary review.

Salary: Competitive salary, Full benefits eligible

Basic Qualifications:
All applicants must meet the following basic qualifications:
MFA in Digital Arts or similar area of study at time of hire
A minimum of one year (full time or equivalent) of teaching digital arts at the college level are required (beyond teaching assistant)
Candidates must demonstrate a record of exceptional teaching, creative work, and professional achievements
Ability to teach and work effectively in a liberal arts institution, in a joint department that serves many non-studio art majors
Excellent communication skills
Demonstrated ability to provide valuable service to the department and greater institution, commensurate with position
A commitment to collaboration with undergraduates
An understanding of the Jesuit educational mission
An appreciation for an institution of higher learning that values ethics, social justice and global engagement

Preferred Qualifications:
Ability to teach in two or more key areas as listed from beginning to advanced levels: 2-D animation, 3-D modeling/animation, digital imaging, game design, virtual reality, digital illustration, storyboarding. Additionally desirable areas of expertise include: augmented reality, 3-D fabrication, 2-D design, connections to industry, and related disciplines that combine digital with analog learning experiences.
A demonstrated understanding of the theory and history of digital arts applications is desirable.
The ability to involve undergraduate students in your creative scholarship is strongly valued.
Potential for engagement with one of our three Centers of Distinction (Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education, and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics) and other areas of the campus community, such as the de Saisset Museum is desirable.

Responsibilities:
Duties include, but are not limited to:
1. Serve as a leader in program development in digital art and related areas.
2. Teach courses as assigned, which may include elementary through advanced (upper-division) courses in digital art and related areas. Develop and teach courses for the University Core Curriculum.
3. Maintain regular office hours at times reasonably convenient to students.
4. Serve as an advisor and mentor to students.
5. Develop and sustain a rigorous creative agenda and profile: produce a significant body high quality creative work that is evaluated through peer-review and disseminated to the appropriate regional, national and international venues beyond the University.
6. Engage in meaningful and useful service that promotes department, college and university strategic goals and priorities, commensurate to rank.

Work Authorization:
A foreign national who is appointed to a tenured or tenure-track faculty position is eligible for sponsorship by Santa Clara University.

Close Date: 11/14/2017

Open Until Filled: No

Special Instructions to Applicants:
Required materials include: letter of application (cover letter or a separate statement should include a description of the applicants experiences working and/or living with people of diverse cultures and identities and how such experiences enhance teaching and learning, C.V., teaching portfolio (that includes statement of teaching philosophy, examples of undergraduate student work [20 samples] with corresponding descriptive list, samples of teaching materials, such as syllabi and/or assignments), professional artist portfolio [20 samples or project links, with corresponding descriptive list, including precise description of role in team projects] Contact information for three professional references. If requested, confidential letters of recommendation would be due by January 8th, 2018 via our upload system. Statement of creative scholarship/research agenda Images may be submitted via a PDF (max. 9 MB), or as a list of online links in PDF. Additional support materials that enhance our understanding of the applicants teaching abilities are welcome. All materials must be submitted through the SCU job portal. Questions should be directed to Kathy Aoki (kaoki@scu.edu).

Additional Information:
The Department of Art and Art History offers undergraduate majors and minors in Studio Art and Art History as part of well-rounded liberal arts education. The program is situated in an exceptional facility equipped with two Apple computer labs, virtual reality stations in a flexible teaching space, and custom designed studio art labs.

To view the full job posting and apply for this position, go to https://jobs.scu.edu

About Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University is a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located in Californias Silicon Valley, offering its 8,800 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus masters, Ph.D., and law degrees.

Distinguished by the highest retention rate and ranked second among all masters universities in the West by U.S. News and World Report, Santa Clara University is Californias oldest operating institution of higher-education. The University is focused on creating an academic community that educates citizens and leaders who will build a more just, humane, and sustainable world.

Santa Clara University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, committed to excellence through diversity and inclusion, and, in this spirit, particularly welcomes applications from women, persons of color, and members of historically underrepresented groups. The University will provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability.

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