Position Announcement: Auburn Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) Institutional Leader

Position Announcement: Auburn Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) Institutional Leader

The Office of the Provost welcomes applications for Institutional Leader for the Auburn Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL).

The Institutional Leader of the local CIRTL learning community leads Auburn University’s involvement in the CIRTL Network. A key role of the Institutional Leader is to inspire faculty, staff, and administrators to join and contribute to the local learning community (to be fully established Spring 2017). The successful Institutional Leader will be a change agent on campus, leading and encouraging others to prepare graduate students not only as researchers but also as future teachers in the STEM disciplines. To advocate effectively with peers and to successfully grow the nascent learning community, the Institutional Leader must be well-positioned to cultivate respect among both research-active STEM faculty and administrators as a means to build institutional regard for evidence-based teaching. This is an annually-renewable 25% position (based on performance and funds availability). This position reports to the Associate Dean of the Graduate School.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Associate or Full professor and graduate faculty member with demonstrated experience in evidence-based teaching.
  • A colleague whose home department is in a STEM discipline.
  • A colleague with a robust research agenda.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience recruiting and leading interdisciplinary faculty or graduate student groups in research, teaching, or service endeavors.
  • Previous experience at CIRTL institutions and/or knowledge of the CIRTL core ideas.
  • Interest in pursuing evidence-based teaching research.
  • Experience supporting graduate students on externally-funded grants.
  • Evidence of a sustainable research agenda.
  • Associate or Full Professor rank.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and be an advocate for Auburn’s CIRTL program and contribute to our local learning community.
  • Recruit faculty, staff, and administrators to join the CIRTL leadership team, program team and local learning community.
  • Educate faculty and administrative colleagues regarding the CIRTL core ideas: Learning Communities, Learning Through Diversity, and Teaching as Research.
  • Coordinate faculty and graduate student teams to pursue external grants for evidence-based teaching research.
  • Recruit and work closely with additional personnel assigned to the CIRTL project.
  • Coordinate Auburn’s contributions to the larger CIRTL network.
  • Represent Auburn at twice yearly CIRTL network events.
  • Document the impact of AU CIRTL Learning Community.
  • Oversee the preparation of annual reports and budget.

The search committee will begin reviewing applications July 6, 2016.

Application package should consist of:

  • A letter of interest documenting how your experience aligns with the position description and the CIRTL core ideas;
  • A current CV; and
  • A one-page integration of teaching and research philosophy

Application materials should be combined into a single PDF and sent electronically to George Crandell, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, at crandgw@auburn.edu.