Assistant Professor of Education, Special Education
Position Announcement
Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education
Assistant Rank Tenure-track Faculty Position in Special Education
Position Available
Assistant Professor of Education (Special Education)
Beginning
Fall Semester, 2013 or Spring Semester, 2014
Appointment Conditions
A 36-week tenure track appointment will be made at the assistant professor level starting August of 2013 or January of 2014; summer appointments in research and/or teaching may be possible. Full University benefits apply. Penn State has a strong commitment to the diversity of its workforce. We encourage applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds.
Responsibilities:
• Teach and advise both undergraduate and graduate students.
• Develop a successful well-defined program of research.
• Generate external funding for the support of related research, training, or outreach efforts.
• Work collaboratively with faculty in academic programs throughout the University
• Provide service to the college, profession, and community.
Required Qualifications:
- Earned doctorate or ABD (with defense date before the start of the appointment) in Special Education or a closely related field.
- Minimum of two years professional experience with individuals with special needs and/or
individuals at risk for special education services.
- Evidence of, or strong potential for, significant research and publications.
- Evidence of a strong background in research design.
- Evidence of a commitment to excellence in teaching and advising including a willingness to consider teaching in online environments, where appropriate, along with an interest in the use of modern technology, commensurate with experience.
- Experience in working with individuals of diverse backgrounds.
- Commitment to collegiality and collaboration. Evidence of the capability to undertake interdisciplinary and collaborative research.
Desirable Qualifications:
Applicants should have expertise in either autism, applied behavior analysis, effective (explicit) instruction, and/or science technology engineering and mathematics education (STEM).
The Pennsylvania State University:
Penn State [http://www.psu.edu] is a comprehensive, multi-campus research university serving all regions of the Commonwealth, as well as the nation and the world in instruction, research, and service roles that require responsiveness to and support from society's public and private sectors. As a land-grant university, Penn State has responsibility for providing a wide array of programs in the professional and technical disciplines, as well as a balanced offering of undergraduate and graduate programs in the arts and sciences. Penn State shares with other major research universities the traditional responsibilities to discover, develop, preserve, and disseminate knowledge.
The College of Education:
The College of Education [http://www.ed.psu.edu] at Penn State was established in 1923 to deepen and extend knowledge about the formation and utilization of human capabilities. It offers resident degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as an extensive outreach effort aimed at continuing professional development for educators at distant locations. The College's research program is also extensive and College faculty members secured over $46 million in external support during the past three years from a wide range of national and state government agencies, private foundations, and corporations. The College's location within a large, research oriented, land-grant university provides numerous opportunities for studying education from multidisciplinary perspectives in the context of a university-wide commitment to making life better for all citizens.
The College houses four academic departments: Curriculum and Instruction; Education Policy Studies; Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education, and Learning and Performance Systems. The departments offer seven undergraduate majors to more than 2,500 students and 12 graduate programs, under authority of the Graduate School, to nearly 1,000 students. Recent surveys rank the Penn State College of Education among the top colleges, schools, and departments of education in the United States.
Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education (EPCSE):
Five programs constitute this Department: Counselor Education, Educational Psychology, School Psychology, Special Education, and Rehabilitation and Human Services. The Graduate Program in Special Education was ranked 17th in the nation in the most recent ranking of 1,300 special education graduate programs. The EPCSE department is a dynamic group of College faculty, staff, and students within Penn State's College of Education who:
- work to develop effective ways of teaching and evaluating both children and adults in a variety of educational settings across the life span;
- are a community of scholars that base their teaching and practice on cutting edge research in the field;
- are committed to the recruitment of excellent students;
- value professionalism, integrity, diversity, and equity.
Application Procedures:
Applicants must submit a letter of application documenting qualifications for the position, current curriculum vitae, copies of official transcripts (where appropriate), up to three representative reprints or preprints of scholarly publications (if available), and at least three names, mail and e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of academic references. Applications received by November 1 are assured full consideration; however, applications will be received until the position is filled.
Electronic submission of all materials is strongly preferred. Send application materials to: bjb9@psu.edu
Those who do not have access to electronic mail can direct hardcopy of application to:
Richard Kubina, Chair
SPLED Search Committee
125 CEDAR Building
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
This job announcement is also available in alternate format. Employment will require successful completion of background check(s) in accordance with University policies. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workforce.
