Tenure Track Position in Inclusive Education

We define inclusion as a commitment to the education of all students within learning environments that value diversity and maintain high expectations based on students’ individual strengths, needs, and interests. Applicants are expected to have a strong commitment to inclusive practices that promote collaboration between school, family, and community while providing students and teachers the necessary supports and services. The position also requires a commitment to teacher preparation in secondary (6-12) settings. A successful candidate will be well grounded in the inclusion literature and familiar with new interdisciplinary directions in understanding disability. Experience teaching in inclusive settings preferred but not required.

This position reflects a dedication to teacher education, school reform, diversity and equity, as well as a strong theoretical background and research agenda. The Teaching and Curriculum Department of the Warner School offers a variety of masters’ and doctoral programs. All these programs emphasize a social, historical, and contextual approach to education that is rooted in an interdisciplinary perspective. Responsibilities for tenure track faculty include: scholarly and service activities, teaching graduate courses, advising graduate students, supervision of student teachers, and successful grant development. The position will begin fall 2008. Candidates should have an earned doctorate by that time.

Send a letter of application stating research and teaching interests, current vita, samples of publications or other writing, and letters of reference to: Chris Ghinazzi, Search Committee Support Staff, Box 270425 Dewey Hall, Warner Graduate School of Education, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627. We will begin to review applications immediately and continue until the position is filled.

Since 1850, the University of Rochester has been one of the country’s leading private universities. The Warner School is a professional school committed to offering challenging education, advancing scholarship and research, and encouraging a fruitful collaboration between basic scholarship in education and human development and current issues in practice and policy. We seek to improve education by preparing leaders in research and practice and creating new knowledge. Rochester offers a variety of public and private school systems in urban, suburban, and rural settings for school-based research and consultation.

The Teaching and Curriculum Program invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the assistant/associate professor level.

The University of Rochester is committed to the development of a multicultural environment. We seek greater diversity in our faculty and staff to broaden our academic experience. We value input of multiple viewpoints and perspectives across the university; our goal is to create an academic community that is rich with cultural, social, and intellectual diversity.