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>Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:43:23 -0700
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>From: "Charles Bazerman" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Interesting things are happening here in the UC system with regard to
>rhetoric and composition.  The latest is that the Writing Program at UC
>Davis is breaking away from the English Department to form a separate unit,
>with five new tenure-track faculty positions designated for this unit.  The
>first two positions will be the director and a second tenured person, to be
>hired immediately.  I have attached the flyers, but the information is also
>pasted below.
>
>Please distribute this information widely, and feel free to contact me
>about these positions, as I have been consulting with the folks at Davis
>about this new unit.  It's a wonderful opportunity for a couple of senior
>people in the field. (A note: the Clark Kerr Chair comes with an extra
>$30,000/AY for program development.)
>
>Sue McLeod
>
>
>
>POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
>
>Clark Kerr Presidential Chair of the University Writing Program
>University of California, Davis
>
>
>The University of California, Davis, seeks to hire a full professor to
>direct the University Writing Program, an independent academic program. The
>successful candidate will be appointed as Clark Kerr Presidential Chair of
>the University Writing Program with an academic appointment in an
>appropriate discipline. We are seeking a candidate with successful
>administrative experience in a composition or writing program, preferably
>in a large public university, and with a national reputation in Composition
>and Rhetoric Studies. Ability to work with faculty in a large range of
>science, social science, and humanities disciplines desirable, as well as
>experience with assessment projects. Proven grant-writing ability is also
>desirable.
>
>The Program presently oversees the lower-division composition requirement
>that can be satisfied in three different departments (English, Comparative
>Literature, and Native American Studies). In addition to an upper-division
>composition course, the program also offers a series of courses
>specifically tailored to disciplines and to professions that satisfy the
>upper-division writing requirement. Besides these academic courses, the
>University Writing Program trains graduate students in writing intensive
>courses as well as in all courses where the composition requirement can be
>satisfied. Presently offering a Workshop program to strengthen the teaching
>of writing-in-the-disciplines, the program expects to develop a fully
>functioning writing across disciplines curriculum.
>
>The successful candidate should have the necessary skills and experience to
>steer the program through the following tasks: overseeing the design of a
>writing across disciplines program, developing a comprehensive pedagogy and
>training program for graduate students and postdoctoral lecturers who teach
>writing, overseeing an assessment project of the writing in the program,
>developing a PhD minor or designated emphasis in Composition and Rhetoric,
>and representing the program in grant-writing and other outreach
>activities. The director will work creatively with a professional staff of
>continuing and year-to-year lecturers who teach in the program.
>
>With a $3,000,000 budget, the Program offers approximately four hundred
>courses per year (for four quarters) and serves approximately nine thousand
>students annually. The director supervises a group of continuing lecturers,
>who primarily teach the upper-division courses, postdoctoral lecturers, and
>graduate students. Team-building of this large and diverse teaching staff
>is central to the job of the director. For information about the program,
>see http://writingprogram.ucdavis.edu
>
>Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, select publications, and the
>names and addresses of at least three professional references to:
>
>Professor Brenda Deen Schildgen
>Search Committee Chair
>University Writing Program
>University of California, Davis
>One Shields Avenue
>Davis, CA 95616
>
>The position will be open until filled but, to receive full consideration,
>applications should be postmarked by September 15, 2004.
>
>The University of California is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity
>employer.
>
>
>
>
>
>POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
>
>Associate Professor or Professor, Rhetoric and Composition
>The University Writing Program
>University of California, Davis
>
>
>
>The University of California, Davis is seeking to make an associate or full
>professor appointment in the University Writing Program, an independent
>academic program.  The successful candidate will be appointed to an
>appropriate discipline.  We are seeking someone with a national reputation
>in Rhetoric and Composition and administrative experience in a large public
>university.  Because the University of California, Davis has a high profile
>in the sciences, we are especially seeking someone who could develop and
>expand our science and technology writing curriculum.  Also desirable are
>experience developing a Writing-Across-the-Curriculum or a
>Writing-in-the-Disciplines Program, and proven ability to train faculty to
>teach writing intensive courses and graduate students and/or postdoctoral
>lecturers to teach lower and upper-division writing courses.  The
>successful candidate would also contribute to the design of a writing
>assessment mechanism for the program.
>
>The Program presently oversees the lower-division composition requirement
>that can be satisfied in three different departments (English, Comparative
>Literature, and Native American Studies), along with an upper-division
>requirement.  In addition to a general composition upper-division course,
>the program also offers a series of courses specifically tailored to
>disciplines and to professions that satisfy the upper-division writing
>requirement.
>
>Besides these academic courses, the University Writing Program trains
>graduate students in writing intensive courses as well as in all courses
>where the composition requirement can be satisfied and also offers a
>Workshop program to strengthen the teaching of writing in the disciplines.
>For information about the program, see http://writingprogram.ucdavis.edu
>
>Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, sample publications, and the
>names and addresses of at least three professional references to:
>
>Professor Brenda Deen Schildgen
>Search Committee Chair
>University Writing Program
>University of California, Davis
>One Shields Avenue
>Davis, CA 95616
>
>The position will be open until filled but, to receive full consideration,
>applications should be postmarked by September 15, 2004.
>
>The University of California is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity
>employer.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Susan H. McLeod, Professor of Writing
>Director, Writing Program
>1516 South Hall
>University of California, Santa Barbara
>Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3010
>
>Phone: (805) 893-4808
>FAX:   (805) 893-7699
>http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/faculty/mcleod.htm
>
>--
>Professor Charles Bazerman
>Chair, Department of Education
>Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
>University of California, Santa Barbara
>Santa Barbara, CA 93106
>phone: 805-893-7543
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>http://www.education.ucsb.edu/bazerman

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