Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Interactive Design, School of Media Arts and Design

James Madison University, United States

Updated: 3 months ago
Location: Harrisonburg, VIRGINIA
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: ;

Position Details
Position Information


Working Title Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Interactive Design, School of Media Arts and Design
Position Number 2879
Posting Number F2264
Position Type Instructional Faculty - Full Time
Position Status Full Time
College/Division College of Arts and Letters
Department 100018 - School Media Arts
Pay Rate Commensurate with Experience
Specify Range or Amount
Is this a JMU only position? No
Is this a grant-funded position? No
Is this a Conflict of Interest designated position? No

Position Summary Information


About James Madison University
Mission
We are a community committed to preparing students to be educated and enlightened citizens who lead productive and meaningful lives.
Vision
To be the national model for the engaged university: engaged with ideas and the world.
Who We Are
Located in the heart of Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the city of Harrisonburg is approximately 120 miles from Washington, D.C. and Richmond, VA. With a population of just over 53,000, Harrisonburg is one of the most diverse communities in the Commonwealth of Virginia. JMU is a selective, public institution with a growing national reputation for offering experiences that lead to an outstanding education and inclusive environment for students, faculty and staff. The student body includes approximately 20,000 undergraduate and 1,900 graduate students, with over 1,000 full-time instructional faculty.
JMU offers thriving programs in the liberal arts, science and technology, and professional disciplines at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. The university is committed to expanding diversity, fostering equity and inclusion, and supporting superlative teaching and scholarship. JMU has achieved national recognition for the high quality of its academic programs, focus on maintaining strong student/faculty interaction, and innovative faculty research.
General Information
The College of Arts and Letters in which the School of Media Arts and Design (SMAD) is located, enrolls more than 3,100 undergraduate majors and about 150 graduate students across ten academic units in the humanities, social sciences, and communication studies. Home to several interdisciplinary centers and institutes, the College employs 270 full-time faculty. We embrace the teacher-scholar model and encourage excellent applicants within our particular disciplines, as well as scholars and teachers eager to work across them.
SMAD invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position, with a focus on interactive design and UI/UX design, beginning in August 2024.
Interdisciplinarity is a SMAD hallmark. SMAD’s distinctive undergraduate major has four concentrations: Creative Advertising, Digital Video and Cinema, Interactive Design, and Journalism. Each empowers students to use mass media as a vehicle for storytelling. SMAD provides one of the finest media production facilities in the country offering instructional workspaces for creating video, audio, graphics, animation, websites, and apps. The School has about 700 undergraduate majors and more than 20 faculty members, who represent a blend of professional and academic interests. All SMAD faculty are actively engaged in teaching, service, and research or creative activities. For more information, go to http://www.jmu.edu/smad .
Duties and Responsibilities
We seek a student-oriented colleague who is committed to mentoring and producing compelling stories through user experience design and who can teach some combination of SMAD foundation courses and interactive design concentration classes. The ideal candidate also will demonstrate excellence in creative works or scholarly research that incorporates innovative uses of state-of-the-art tools, processes, methodologies, and creative practices in areas such as artificial intelligence, information architecture, interaction design, or spatial computing.
Qualifications
An MFA or Ph.D. is required within 10 months of date of appointment; ABD applicants will be considered. The ability to teach current trends in technology with industry specific software (such as the Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, and GitHub) is required. Professional experience with interactive media production or development platforms for UI/UX design based on web standards (including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) is preferred.
Conditions of Employment
Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a criminal background check.
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Posting Detail Information


Posting Date 09/12/2023
Beginning Review Date 10/16/2023
Closing Date
Open Until Filled Yes
Proposed Starting Date 08/25/2024
EEO Statement

James Madison University is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating and supporting a diverse and inclusive work and educational community that is free of all forms of discrimination. This institution does not tolerate discrimination or harassment on the basis of age, color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, parental status, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or veteran status.

We promote access, inclusion and diversity for all students, faculty, staff, constituents and programs, believing that these qualities are foundational components of an outstanding education in keeping with our mission. The university is interested in candidates whose experience and qualifications support an ongoing commitment to this core quality.

Anyone having questions concerning discrimination should contact the Office for Equal Opportunity: (540) 568-6991.
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Quick Link for Direct Access to Posting https://joblink.jmu.edu/postings/15428
Additional Posting Information
Applications must include:
  • Curriculum vitae.
  • Cover letter.
  • Portfolio or work samples (uploaded as a document under “Portfolio” in JobLink that contains either the portfolio directly or the link to their digital portfolio).
  • The names and contact information for three references.


For questions, please contact Chen Guo ([email protected]) or Dave Wang ([email protected]).

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