Position Announcement: Instructor in Composition Administration
English | December 08, 2011
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
POSITION: Positions available for Fall and Spring semesters, 2012-2013, for Instructor in Composition Administration: College Composition
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- MA required; PhD, MFA, or ABD preferable
- Record of college teaching excellence
- Initiative for program development
- Supervisory experience, preferably in composition program administration
- Experience developing instructional materials for distribution via the internet
Preference will be given to candidates with academic or scholarly credentials in composition theory and pedagogy or rhetoric.
Duties:
- The position is full time (4/4 load) with one course release each semester for administrative work.
- The Composition Administration assignment entails the training and supervision of graduate teaching assistants in CO150, College Composition
- This role includes co-coordinating intensive, week-long orientation program before fall semester; holding weekly in-service workshops; observing classes of and holding conferences about grading with new GTAs; maintaining records about and evaluating GTA teaching performance; and collaborating to update/revise common CO150 syllabus and course materials.
- Successful applicants will be expected to meet departmental objectives for the courses they teach. In composition, instructors might teach CO130 (Academic Writing), CO150 (College Composition), CO300 (Writing Arguments), or CO301 (Writing in the Disciplines). The availability of other courses is based on department need and the instructor’s background.
- The Composition Administration assignment entails the training and supervision of graduate teaching assistants in CO150, College Composition
Salary: $32,000. This position is a special assignment. Annual reappointment depends on performance and the continued availability of funding. The term of this assignment is customarily three years.
General Information: The English Department at CSU has a tenure-track faculty of 35, approximately 500 undergraduate majors, and more than 140 graduate students. The department appoints more than 35 graduate teaching assistants who teach creative and expository writing and English as a second language. Undergraduate concentrations in creative writing, English education, language, literature, and writing lead to a B.A. in English. Master of Arts degrees are offered in creative nonfiction, English education, literature, rhetoric and composition, and TESOL. A Master of Fine Arts is offered in creative writing. For further information, visit the Department home page at http://english.colostate.edu/.
Applicants should write to Dr. Louann Reid, Chair, Department of English, Colorado State University, 1773 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1773. Direct questions to Sue Russell, at (970) 491-1898 or Sue.Russell@colostate.edu.
For full consideration, applications should reach Dr. Reid by February 15, 2012. The 2012-13 instructor application pool will expire on February 14, 2013. You will need to reapply each year to be added to the following academic year’s instructor pool.
Applications must include:
- a letter of application that outlines your teaching experience and range of teaching interests, particularly those courses you are interested in teaching at CSU;
- a detailed résumé or c.v.;
- three recent (written in the last 3-5 years) letters of reference that speak to teaching;
- documentation of your post-baccalaureate degree (e.g., a photocopy of your diploma; a transcript that notes the degree conferred);
- a descriptive overview that highlights specific examples of teaching practices, discusses any professional development to mentor/prepare other teachers, explains any experience with composition program administration, and explains how the hiring committee should weigh other supporting material;
- Recent supporting materials that indicate teaching quality in each of 4 categories:
- written reports of classroom observations,
- student evaluations,
- syllabi,
- three student papers with a range of grades in response to a single assignment (one paper an “A,” one a “B,” and one below “B”). Please also include a narrative describing the assignment and grading criteria (up to one page). Explain how the assignment fits into the overall picture of the course;
- a street address, phone number, and email address where you can be reached during both the school year and the summer.
Colorado State University is an EO/EA/AA Employer and conducts background checks on all final candidates.