Position Announcement: Instructor in Upper-Division Composition

English | December 08, 2011

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

POSITION: Positions available for Fall and Spring semesters, 2012-2013, for Instructor in Upper-Division Composition.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• MA required; ABD or PhD preferred
• Record of college teaching excellence
• Evidence of teaching experience in upper-division composition courses

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Preference will be given to applicants with documented experience in program administration such as curriculum development, developing web materials, and professional development.

Duties: Successful applicant will have a full-time (4/4 course load equivalent) appointment with one course release for administrative and curricular work. Typically, the teaching load will include a combination of CO300, Writing Arguments; CO301A, B, C, or D, Writing in the Disciplines; or CO302, Writing Online. Successful applicants will be expected to meet departmental objectives for the courses taught.

Salary: Starting at $38,000.  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 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 2012-2013 instructor 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 and discusses specifically your experience in upper-division writing courses;
• relevant evidence of administrative, faculty development, and/or program development experience;
• 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.