>Approved-By: [log in to unmask] >Delivered-To: [log in to unmask] >X-Sender: [log in to unmask] >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 >Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 12:59:07 -0500 >Reply-To: H-NET List for the History of Rhetoric <[log in to unmask]> >Sender: H-NET List for the History of Rhetoric <[log in to unmask]> >From: "h-rhetor, Linda Vavra" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: positions at UC Davis >To: [log in to unmask] >X-Virus-Scanned: by antibody.sfu.ca running antivirus scanner >X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on > antibody2.sfu.ca >X-Spam-Level: Spam-Level > >Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:43:23 -0700 >To: [log in to unmask] >From: "Charles Bazerman" <[log in to unmask]> > >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 >[log in to unmask] >http://www.education.ucsb.edu/bazerman -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] For the list archives and information about the organization, its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-