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  • 11 Mar 2019 by Alan Gravano

                 

    25th AISNA Biennial Conference

    This 2019 marks the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), the universal genius, the twofold engineer of defense walls against the enemy as much as swing-bridges for overtaking them; of impenetrable dams for stopping natural waterways as much as artificial water-channels for the penetration of commerce and the mixing of peoples and cultures; of barricades for puzzling the enemy on the ground as much as flying machines and futuristic prototypes of inspection drones, anticipating our transcontinental connections. By electing Leonardo da Vinci’s anniversary as symbol and metaphor of all the statics and dynamics of the world we live in, AISNA invites you to participate to its 25th International Biennial Conference by joining the following call for panels:

     

    Gate(d)Ways. Enclosures, Breaches and Mobilities Across U.S. Boundaries and Beyond

    SDS of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Ragusa, September 26-28, 2019

     
       

     

    Call for Panels

    This is a time in which walls and fortifications, either physical or metaphorical, are put up as a response to the mobilization of the Global South. This fosters a necessary reflection upon the role of barricades in our contemporary times. Indeed, walls are a concrete and ideal impediment to the free circulation of peoples and cultures, their existence necessarily imposing the creation of borders, with the implicit corollary of liminality, periphery, ex-centricity and the obvious distinction between what/who is inside and what/who is outside.

    After exactly 30 years from the collapse of the Iron Curtain divide, the growing appearance of border walls and barriers across the world - from 7 in 1961 to 77 in 2019 - according to the New York Times and USA Today - shows that their occurrence keeps separating warring people, protecting trade and communication routes, and patrolling the flow of migrants and refugees. At the figurative level, the capital importance of the WWW, for instance, must elicit consideration on the virtual barriers of network security systems erected against the access to knowledge and its availability to people, such as firewalls.

    However, history also shows that walls, apart from sealing off communication and connections, can be structural elements instrumental to the creation of long-lasting edifices, parts of a theoretical founding for a different future. They invite intense interrogations on trans-border dynamics across, under, above and along boundaries and passageways, thus promoting new challenges on exchange and interaction.

    The 25th AISNA Biennial Conference proposes to reflect critically on issues of seclusion and openness to transit on both U.S. national and global stages, and on the complex scenarios that the loosening and/or forting up of borders generate.

    Panel proposals are solicited in all areas and disciplinary fields of AISNA. Possible questions/issues to address can be related but not limited to:

     

    Questions:

    1. - To which extent are walls intimately related to the concept of visibility/to the gaze? We build walls to prevent people from looking at us, from casting their gaze onto us, and we build a wall mentality/social walls to prevent people from looking inside our own personal and political spaces. The wall-scopic nexus also invites to look beyond, to look differently.
    2. - What is the effective power of walls on people, what do walls do and how do they shape all those people enclosed/entrapped/secluded in, and at the same time, protected by national barriers?
    3. - How does a “wall mentality” continue to be nurtured and cultivated by border humanities in order to secure one’s identitarian, historical and political boundaries?
    4. - Ideological and material walls function as a metonymy of a “fortress” ready to resist siege: to which extent an “under siege mental state” prevents critical thinking from embracing a more complex view of concrete and ideological boundaries? Is wall rhetoric more problematic and somehow powerful in its exclusionary potential than a real, concrete wall?

     

    Keywords and expressions:

    Forting up - Gated communities - Limes - Guarded barriers - Contested territories/No man’s lands - Living/Dwelling in walls - Frontier and Frontera - Walls and ladders/walls as bridges - Waterwalls and waterways – Securitization – Patrolling – Hybridization – Barricades–Fences.

     

    Topics include but are not limited to:

    North American and World Literature - Translation: new metaphors and challenges - Trans-border textualities - Geopolitical strategies of containment/securitization/patrolling/governmentality - International relations and protectionism - New aspects of Colonialism - The WEB and digital infrastructures - Border, Hemispheric Studies - Race relations, ethnicities and multiculturalism - Gender Studies - Globalization and its never-ending power of expansion - Domesticity/Public sphere - Communities and collective identities - Conflict management – “Breaking the fourth wall” in visual culture, theatre and literature - Supernatural passages across enclosures (in Gothic Literature, Ghost Stories, Science Fiction) - Mirrors on walls: identity and self-reflectivity.

    The deadline for panel proposals is April 20, 2019. The submitted proposals will be reviewed by the conference organizer committee and the AISNA board. A selection of max. 20 panels will be issued by May 5, notified to the submitters by email, and published on the Conference website.

     

    Submissions should be written in English and include:

    • a panel title
    • a clearly stated description of the proposed topic in no more than 300 words
    • contact details of the panel’s coordinator or coordinators (max. 2), including professional affiliation.

    Each panel will host no less than two and no more than four papers, including the coordinator’s or coordinators’. We remind aspiring coordinators that their task will include a brief introduction of the speakers, a strict monitoring of the observance of the allotted 20-minute time for each presentation, and a supervision of the following question and answer session, aimed to stimulate a fruitful discussion in the last but essential part of each panel.

     

    All panel proposals should be sent by e-mail to the conference organizer, Gigliola Nocera (noceragi@unict.it), as well as to the secretary of AISNA, Simone Francescato (segretario- aisna@unive.it).

     

    Scientific Committee: Aisna Board:

    Elisabetta Vezzosi, University of Trieste, President

    Simone Francescato, University of Venice “Ca’ Foscari”, Secretary Daniela Ciani, University of Venice “Ca’ Foscari”, Vice-president

    Gigliola Nocera, University of Catania, SDS of Languages, Ragusa, Vice-President Sabrina Vellucci, University of “Roma Tre”, Treasurer

    Gianna Fusco, University of L’Aquila, Board Member Fiorenzo Iuliano, University of Cagliari, Board Member

    Marina Morbiducci, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Board Member Matteo Pretelli, University of Neaples “L’Orientale”, Board Member

     

    Local Commettee:

    Gigliola Nocera, Angloamerican Language and Literatures Santo Burgio, Comparative Philosophy

    Antonino Di Giovanni, History of the Americas, History of the Unites States Raffaella Malandrino, Angloamerican Language and Literatures

    Marco Petrelli, Angloamerican Language and Literatures

    Salvatore Torre, Comparative Geography, Environmental Geography

     

     

  • 07 Aug 2019 by Alan Gravano

    Job Title: Director of Graduate Admissions, Queens College CUNY

    CUNY Title: Higher Education Officer

    Job ID: 20879

    Closing Date: August 19, 2019

    Queens College is looking for a dynamic professional to lead the Office of Graduate Admissions.  The ideal candidate should have a comprehensive understanding of today’s higher education marketplace and experience in creating short- and long-term recruitment strategies to reach specific enrollment goals.  The successful candidate will be a member of the Senior Enrollment team at Queens College. Bachelor’s degree and eight years’ related experience required. Salary commensurate with education and experience. CUNY’s benefits contribute significantly to total compensation; we offer a range of health plans, competitive retirement/pension benefits and savings plans, tuition waivers for CUNY graduate study and generous paid time off.

    For application information and more details: Go to cuny.jobs. In the search box labeled "Job titles and keywords", enter the job ID "20879." Click on " Director of Graduate Admissions " and select the "Apply Now" button and follow the instructions. 

    Please note that the candidates must upload a cover letter describing related qualifications and experience, resume, and the name and contact information of three (3) professional references as ONE DOCUMENT in any of the following formats: .doc, .docx, or .pdf format. **Please use a simple name for the document that you uploaded, for example: JDoeResume. Documents with long names cannot be parsed by the application system.

    AA/EOE/IRCA/ADA

  • 31 May 2019 by Alan Gravano

     

     

    POSITION DETAILS

     

    Launched in the fall of 2013, the CUNY Service Corps is a University-wide initiative that builds on CUNY's legacy of service in New York City and supplements the broad base of experiential learning opportunities available for students at several CUNY campuses. The CUNY Service Corps is focused on meeting the City's most pressing needs in four thematic areas: community and public health; built and green infrastructures; the education of children and adults; and economic development. By participating in the CUNY Service Corps, students gain preparation for the workplace through structured reflections to make meaningful links between projects and college coursework, and acquire valuable work experience and exposure to real-world careers, while being supported to succeed as college students. CUNY Service Corps members are placed on paid assignments at community organizations, schools, government agencies, and working on research and planning efforts with individual CUNY faculty.

    The CUNY Service Corps program at Queens College seeks an entrepreneurial and student-centered professional to serve as its campus Service Corps Manager to implement and promote this University-wide student service learning program at Queens College. Reporting to the Assistant Provost, the Service Corps Manager administers and expands the program's components, training, recruiting and student employment functions via comprehensive planning, management, and assessment. Working in partnership with students, faculty, administrators, and staff members across various home and partner campus and University offices, plus external community partners, the Service Corps Manager will organize meaningful opportunities for students; seamlessly integrate the program into campus activities and priorities; deftly negotiate the usage of and access to campus resources; and diplomatically manage stakeholder relationships to sustain involvement. 

    Other duties include, but will not be limited to the following: 
    - Develop and implement an annual plan aligned with the Queens College Mission and Strategic Plan, as well as with the CUNY Service Corps priorities and tenets. 
    - Manage the administrative, operational, and financial aspects of the program. 
    - Lead campus-based informational and recruitment events and participate in University-wide activities.
    - Evaluate student applications for eligibility and coordinate group interview activities to identify and select participants. 
    - Implement the pre-service training curriculum to prepare students for engagements. 
    - Advise students on engagement opportunities to ensure suitable matches for optimal learning and success. 
    - Conduct regularly scheduled individual or group advising or debriefing sessions to engage students in meaningful reflections on and discussions about their engagement experiences, personal development and community contributions 

    - Manage data analysis and assessments to evaluate essential performance metrics and indicators of effectiveness. 
    - Work with Queens College and CUNY offices to create effective communication strategies, channels, and materials. 
    - Maintain a comprehensive database of student participants and community programs; prepare and submit all required program and student data reports and plans for campus and University reviews as scheduled. 
    - Coordinate campus participation in program activities and participate in University-wide meetings to assess evolving needs. 
    - Collaborate with site-based liaisons to facilitate appropriate and satisfactory student placements, services and supervision; share campus and University-specific information; and ensure compliance with guidelines and record-maintenance.

     

    QUALIFICATIONS

     

    Bachelor's degree and six years related experience required.

    OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

    The successful candidate will have the following knowledge, skills and abilities: 

    - An advanced degree in education or a social science discipline strongly preferred 
    - Experience managing a multi-faceted, fast-paced, time-sensitive, and demanding student-focused operation serving both internal and external constituents 
    - Experience developing program models, evaluating performance and analyzing data/metrics 
    - Experience developing and managing service learning, community service, civic engagement, volunteerism, field work, and/or experiential education programs in higher education 
    - Strong verbal and interpersonal communication skills to work and interact effectively, collaboratively, and cooperatively with a diverse community of students, faculty, staff and external constituents in a large centralized public university system 
    - Orientation to detail with strong analytical, evaluation, research, writing, and editing skills 
    - Presentation, negotiation, conflict management, mediation, and group facilitation skills 
    - Computer proficiency using standard office software programs/applications, collaboration software, and online publishing tools
    - Flexibility to work some evening hours and occasional weekends

     

    CUNY TITLE OVERVIEW

     

    Manages the development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of student programs and quality of life issues, promoting the personal development of a diverse student population. 
       
    - Evaluates student needs and trends to develop a range of student services 

    - Develops and administers specific programs and general activities in support of student needs 

    - Develops relationships with college departments and outside community organizations to understand student needs and available development opportunities 

    - Represents the College in campus-wide and university-wide groups and councils focusing on priority student issues 

    - Manages staff, fiscal resources, and facilities supporting student affairs activities 

    - Performs related duties as assigned. 


    Job Title Name:  Student Life Manager

     

    CUNY TITLE

     

    Higher Education Associate

     

    FLSA

     

    Exempt

     

    COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

     

    Commensurate with qualifications and experience 

    CUNY's benefits contribute significantly to total compensation, supporting health and wellness, financial well-being, and professional development.  We offer a range of health plans, competitive retirement/pension benefits and savings plans, tuition waivers for CUNY graduate study and generous paid time off.  Our staff also benefits from the extensive academic, arts, and athletic programs on our campuses and the opportunity to participate in a lively, diverse academic community in one of the greatest cities in the world.

     

    HOW TO APPLY

     

    If you are viewing this job posting on any website other than CUNYfirst, please follow the instructions below:

    - Go to cuny.jobs
    - In the box under "job title/ keyword", enter "20672" 
    - Click on "Queens College Service Corps Manager (Student Life Manager)" 
    - Click on the "Apply Now" button and follow the instructions.

    Please note that the candidates must upload a cover letter describing related qualifications and experience, resume, and the name and contact information of three (3) professional references as ONE DOCUMENT in any of the following formats:  .doc, .docx, or .pdf format.

    **Please use a simple name for the document that you uploaded, for example:  JDoeResume.  Documents with long names cannot be parsed by the application system.

     

    CLOSING DATE

     

    June 20, 2019

  • 21 May 2019 by Alan Gravano

    HOW TO APPLY

    If you are viewing this job posting on any website other than CUNYfirst, please follow the instructions below:

    • Go to cuny.jobs
    • In the box under "job title/ keyword", enter "20623"
    • Click on "College Laboratory Technician­ Makerspace"
    • Click on the "Apply Now" button and follow the instructions.

    Please note that the candidates must upload a cover letter describing related qualifications and experience, resume, and the name and contact information of three (3) professional references as ONE DOCUMENT in any of the following formats: .doc, .docx, or .pdf format.

    https://silkstart.s3.amazonaws.com/b1de868c-3f02-48c4-b590-9183953f4bfb.pdf

  • 23 Apr 2019 by Alan Gravano

    MELUS 2020 Call for Papers

    University of New Orleans

    April 2-5, 2020

    Le Meriden Hotel

    “Awakenings and Reckonings: Multiethnic Literature and Effecting Change—Past, Present, and Future”

    MELUS 2020 Call for Paper

    University of New Orleans

    April 2-5, 2020

    MELUS 2020 takes its theme’s inspiration from the 2016 novel In the Wake: On Blackness and Being in which Christina Sharpe draws on various meanings of “wake” to consider Black experience in the US. She invokes the watery wake that followed the slave ship, the ritual of the funeral wake, and a state of consciousness, wakefulness, or “wokeness” that signals awareness about new and enduring legacies of injustice.

    New Orleans is an apt site for considering how multiethnic literatures have been in dynamic relation to various wakes. Ships, burials, mournings, and hauntings have long defined the experiences of and stories told by New Orleanians and those who have passed through the city. A port city that served as 19th century America’s largest trading center of enslaved Africans and African Americans. New Orleans saw one of the most important and overlooked rebellions led by enslaved people in the US. The long wake of slavery created dramatic race and class disparities. The wake of the failure of the federal levee system, which caused the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina, continues to be visible 14 years later.

    The conference theme also alludes to Kate Chopin’s classic New Orleans novel, The Awakening, which challenged gender and sexual norms of the late 19th century. Chopin is part of a robust genealogy of writers who have told—and continue to tell—stories of shifting consciousness, social change, and painful reckonings set in and around the South. As such, we aim to highlight and discuss how literature has responded to and effected change in the past, present, and in imagined and manifested futures. New Orleans has been a key site for moments or processes of personal and collective awakenings. For many, Katrina was an important moment of awakening or renewed consciousness about the adaptation of past structures of exploitation and disposability for a new era.

    New Orleans’ diverse communities also provide considerable opportunities for examining how immigrant groups and their literatures have effected and contine to effect change. The city’s port was the second largest point of entry for immigrant to the US in the 19th century, among them German, Irish, Italian, and Sicilian, and Haitian immigrants after the 1809 revolution. More recently, Vietnamese and Latin American immigrants have also helped to shape the city. Their voices join others in moment of awakenings and reckonings.

    We welcome proposals for individual papers, panels, and roundtables, as well as creative writing and pedagogical discussions, on the broad spectrum of underground histories in multi-ethnic literature, culture, and performance including but not limited to:

    • Representations of wakes, wakefulness, and awakenings;
    • Representations of reckoning with the past;
    • Shifts in consciousness;
    • Reckoning with the South’s Confederate past;
    • Literature and public memory/monuments;
    • Representations of ports, shipping, and circulation;
    • Representations of funerals, wakes, and burials;
    • And any other topics related to multi-ethnic literature and change.

    The MELUS 2020 conference website, along with a complete CFP, will be available later this summer. In the meantime, if you have any questions, you may email Kim Martin Long at kmlong@uno.edu

  • 23 Apr 2019 by Alan Gravano

    William J. Connell, Professor of History and Joseph M. and Geraldine C. La Motta Chair in Italian Studies, has been selected a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. As a recipient of the so-called "Brainy Award," the fellowship includes a $200,000 grant to devote significant time to research, writing, and publishing in the humanities and social sciences.

    Connell's project, Tracking Migrant Labor in Renaissance Florence, researches the ending of a century-old policy of free immigration and the passage of a law requiring foreign workers to register with the state by purchasing numbered annual work permits.

    "My discovery in Florence's Archivio di Stato of the registers recording deliveries of these work permits over a 40-year period, from 1473 to 1512, means for the first time we can measure this substantial population. Particularly intriguing is the way data analysis can be applied to these records to demonstrate in a very precise way, how this extremely mobile population fluctuated over time in response to growth or downturns in the economy, and also around war or plague," said Connell.

    The Carnegie Fellowship supports Connell's efforts to shed important light on this topic, looking at the structuring of Florence's society around the city's political, scholarly and artistic achievements as well as what citizenship looked like in an early modern state versus in classical antiquity or the medieval commune.

    "The issuance of these numbered permits for categories of outsiders is evidence that a new conception of citizenship was taking hold. The lower classes of laborers who were native to Florence, for example, did not have to purchase permits for their work," explained Connell, sharing that this research mirrors some of the conversations still going on around immigration, refugee and labor issues today.

    "Professor William Connell has been one of our scholarly treasures for years and we are very proud of his accomplishment in being selected as a Carnegie Fellow. An international expert on Machiavelli, Dr. Connell is highly qualified for this project having published a series of original studies on Renaissance Florence and Machiavelli, additional books on Italian and Italian-American culture more broadly, and a highly-regarded translation of Machiavelli's Prince. The range and dedication of Dr. Connell's teaching on both the undergraduate and graduate levels serve a thriving research enterprise that is acclaimed and systematic," said Mary J. Meehan, Ph.D., Interim President.

    A distinguished panel of 16 jurors chose the fellows based on the quality, originality and potential impact of their proposals, as well as each scholar's capacity to communicate the findings to a broad audience. The jurors are all scholars and intellectual leaders from the some of the world's leading educational institutions, foundations, and scholarship societies – and six are either current or former university presidents. For 2019, the Corporation received a total of 273 nominations. Each underwent a preliminary anonymous evaluation by national experts in the relevant fields. Then, the top proposals were forwarded to the members of the jury for review and the final selection of 32 fellows for the Class of 2019.

    "Andrew Carnegie believed in education and understood its influence on the progress of society and mankind. The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program is an integral part of carrying out the mission he set for our organization," said Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York and president emeritus of Brown University. "Over the past five years, we at Carnegie have been very impressed by the quality, range, and reach of our fellows' work. This year is no exception. We salute this year's class and all of the applicants for demonstrating the vitality of American higher education and scholarship."

    Carnegie Corporation of New York was established in 1911 by Andrew Carnegie to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. In keeping with this mandate, the Corporation's work focuses on the issues that Andrew Carnegie considered of paramount importance: international peace, education and knowledge, and the strength of our democracy.

    Connell, founding director of the Charles and Joan Alberto Italian Studies Institute and co-editor of The Routledge History of Italian Americans (2018), has received numerous recognitions including fellowships at Harvard's Villa I Tatti and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Mille Grazie Award of UNICO National, and the Presidential Award of the Columbian Foundation. Twice he served as a gubernatorial appointee on the New Jersey Italian Heritage Commission. In 2016 he received the Monsignor Joseph Granato Italian Culture Medal of Seton Hall University.

  • 01 Apr 2019 by Alan Gravano

    Student Athletics Program Coordinator in QueensNew York

     

    Job Title: Student Athletics Program Coordinator

    Job ID: 20416

    Location: Queens College

    Full/Part Time: Full-Time

    Regular/Temporary: Regular

    POSITION DETAILS

    Reporting to the Athletics Director, the Student Athletics Program Coordinator will assist with the planning, coordination and administrative duties associated with the Queens College Summer Camp and other year round community recreation programs. In addition to the CUNY Title Overview, specific duties include, but are not limited to:• Work closely with the Athletics Director to support summer camp planning and operations• Assist with the purchasing of supplies for the summer camp and other department student and community programs• Run frequent reports on program registration data and communicate information to the Athletics Director • Assist in the creation of annual budgets for summer camp and all community based programs• Maintain and organize purchasing, invoicing paperwork for submission to the Athletic Department Finance Manager• Assist with program evaluation processes to increase and improve services• Stay up-to-date on all NYC Board of Health summer camp codes and regulations• Collaborate with the Office of Communications on the development of promotional materials for programs and assist with the promotion of summer camp programming at Open House events• Coordinate the hiring and payroll processes for part-time summer camp support staff

    QUALIFICATIONS

    Bachelor's degree required.PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS• Two year’s work experience in a summer camp or intercollegiate athletics setting• Experience in children’s educational or recreational setting• Marketing/ promotional experience a plus • Demonstrated ability in and a commitment to educational values• Strong interpersonal skills and customer service orientation• A flexible schedule is expected to include working some nights and weekends as necessary• Knowledge/experience with Windows and Microsoft office

    CUNY TITLE OVERVIEW

    Supports the administration of College athletic programs.

    • Assists with compliance programs activities required by the CUNYAC (CUNY Athletic Conference) and external bodies

    • Serves student-athletes through providing advising services and enrichment programs

    • Organizes student-athlete communications and activities, and other department work such as calendars, materials, reports, handbooks, and compliance manuals

    • Performs related duties as assigned.

    CUNY TITLE

    Assistant to HEO

    FLSA

    Non-exempt

    COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

    Salary $39,282 - $53,758 (commensurate with education and experience).CUNY's benefits contribute significantly to total compensation, supporting health and wellness, financial well-being, and professional development. We offer a range of health plans, competitive retirement/pension benefits and savings plans, tuition waivers for CUNY graduate study and generous paid time off. Our staff also benefits from the extensive academic, arts, and athletic programs on our campuses and the opportunity to participate in a lively, diverse academic community in one of the greatest cities in the world.

    HOW TO APPLY

    If you are viewing this job posting on any website other than CUNYfirst, please follow the instructions below:- Go to cuny.jobs- In the box under "job title/ keyword", enter "20416" - Click on "Student Athletics Program Coordinator" - Click on the "Apply Now" button and follow the instructions.Please note that the candidates must upload a cover letter describing related qualifications and experience, resume, and the name and contact information of three (3) professional references as ONE DOCUMENT in any of the following formats: .doc, .docx, or .pdf format.**Please use a simple name for the document that you uploaded, for example: JDoeResume. Documents with long names cannot be parsed by the application system.

    CLOSING DATE

    April 17, 2019

    JOB SEARCH CATEGORY

    CUNY Job Posting: Managerial/Professional

    EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

    CUNY encourages people with disabilities, minorities, veterans and women to apply. At CUNY, Italian Americans are also included among our protected groups. Applicants and employees will not be discriminated against on the basis of any legally protected category, including sexual orientation or gender identity. EEO/AA/Vet/Disability Employer.

  • 08 Jan 2019 by Alan Gravano

    Job Vacancy Notice

    Job Title:                     Faculty Open Rank (Assistant/Associate/Full Professor) in Special Education

    Job ID #:                      9382

     

    Location:                     Queens College Regular/Temporary: Regular

    FACULTY VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

    Often referred to as "the jewel of the CUNY system," Queens College is a place of contrasts: An urban school in a suburban setting, where a large and diverse student body receives personalized attention. This formula has made us one of New York's premier educational institutions.

    With a mission to prepare students to become leading citizens of an increasingly global society, we offer a rigorous education in the liberal arts and sciences under the guidance of a faculty dedicated to both teaching and research. Our liberal arts, science, and pre-professional programs earn us high rankings in prestigious college guides such as The Princeton Review America's Best Value Colleges. Our students graduate with the ability to think critically, address complex problems, explore various cultures, use modern technologies and information resources, and have won prominence in nearly every field.

    The Graduate Programs in Special Education (GPSE) are housed in the Department of Educational and Community Programs (ECP), a multidisciplinary graduate department in the Division of Education at Queens College, CUNY. We are seeking candidates for an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor position in special education, beginning in the fall of 2015. The successful candidate will be expected to fulfill teaching and related duties, carry out a research agenda, and participate in curriculum development and program initiatives.

    The mission of the GPSE is to prepare educators and scholars to effectively teach and support people with disabilities to be self-determined, included, and respected members of their schools and communities. The GPSE are also committed to influencing research, practice, and policy related to people with disabilities at the international, national, state, and local levels.

    This appointment includes expectations for teaching courses, engaging in research, scholarly activities, and grantsmanship. As well, the candidate will be expected to provide academic advisement to GPSE candidates and service to GPSE, the department (ECP), and the College. For more information about our program, please visit our website at http://wv.w.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/Degrees/Educatio n/ECP/Specia!Ed /Pages /default.aspx.

    QUALIFICATIONS

    An earned doctoral degree in special education or a related field, teaching experience in P-12 schools that support students with disabilities, and experience in postsecondary special education teacher preparation. Candidates should have expertise in and a strong record of research depending on rank, as evidenced by publications , preferably in special education curriculum and instruction.

    It is highly desirable that candidates have: strong interest in and experience working in urban, multiethnic and multicultural settings; knowledge of research validated instructional practices to successfully include students with disabilities in the general education curriculum at the secondary level; and experience modifying and adapting curriculum/i nstruction , differentiating instruction, and use of assistive technology in public school settings.

     

    COMPENSATION

    CUNY offers faculty a competitive compensation and benefits package covering health insurance, pension and retirement benefits, paid parental leave, and savings programs. We also provide mentoring and support for research, scholarship, and publication as part of our commitment to ongoing faculty professional development.

    Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.

    HOW TO APPLY

    If you are viewing this job posting on any website other than CUNYfirst, please follow the instructions below:

    • Click "Search job listings"
    • Click on "More options to search for CUNY jobs"
    • Search by Job Opening ID number
    • Click on the "Apply Now" button and follow the instructions.

    Please note that candidates must upload ONE DOCUMENT in any of the following formats:

    .doc, .docx, .pdf, .rtf, or text format, consist of (1) a cover letter describing related qualifications, experience, and research agendas; (2) curriculum vitae; and (3) the names and contact information of three (3) professional references. Please use a simple name for the document that you upload, for example, JDoeResume. Documents with long names cannot be parsed by the application system.

    CLOSING DATE

    60 days.

    JOB SEARCH CATEGORY

    CUNY Job Posting: Faculty

    EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

    We are committed to enhancing our diverse academic community by actively encouraging people with disabilities, minorities, veterans, and women to apply. We take pride in our pluralistic community and continue to seek excellence through diversity and inclusion. EO/AA Employer.