Job: University Fellow for Faculty Diversity in Ceramics at University Of North Carolina, Asheville, NC
Posted on December 8, 2021, open until filled
To support the development of a more diverse professoriate, the Department of Art & Art History at the University of North Carolina Asheville invites applications for the University Fellowship for Faculty Diversity (University Fellows) Program, to begin Fall 2022. The program invites candidates seeking a faculty position at a liberal arts institution with a strong desire to provide excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level. Applicants must hold an MFA in Ceramics, and specialize in wheel-thrown functional and decorative ceramics, glaze calculation, slip casting and kiln operation and maintenance as our curriculum prides itself on teaching students how to be practitioners beyond what the University facilities provides. The University Fellow will rotate teaching all levels (I-IV) of undergraduate ceramics courses, three-dimensional design and the BFA senior capstone course. This position requires knowledge and willingness to co-manage the high studio demands that is required of the Ceramics concentration.
The successful candidate will have a lightened teaching load, extensive mentorship, and support for the development of their pedagogy and scholarship. The term of appointment is 2 years. Following this term, the University Fellow may be offered a tenure-track position in the Department.
Applicants should submit the following electronically:
- Cover Letter addressing your interest in this position, why you are a fit for our undergraduate institution, a description of your creative and scholarly interests, and the ways in which you engage or contribute to the evolution of your discipline.
- Curriculum Vita
- Recent Samples of Scholarship: 15-20 images of your professional/research work, identified with title, date, medium and dimensions
- Teaching Philosophy: 1-2 pages describing your approach to teaching undergraduates at a liberal arts university.
- Diversity Statement: 1-2 pages describing: (a) your experience in advancing diversity in teaching, scholarship and/or service; (b) examples of demonstrated leadership potential in the area of equity and inclusion; and © your understanding of the importance of diversity and inclusion to the mission of a liberal arts university.
- References: Names and contact information for three references from whom we will request letters of reference to be sent separately; these references should address your written, verbal and interpersonal skills; ability to teach and mentor undergraduate students; and potential to develop and maintain a successful research program and working studio.
Review of applications will begin March 1 and continue until the position is filled.
Inquiries only should be directed to the Search Committee Chair, Megan Wolfe (mwolfe@unca.edu).
University Fellows Program Mission
UNC Asheville is among the nation’s best public liberal arts & sciences colleges and the only designated liberal arts institution in the North Carolina university system. We are the founders of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research and our students and faculty helped to design, fabricate, and install the largest public art installation ever shown in Times Square, collaborating side by side with a recent McArthur genius award winner. We offer an extraordinary liberal arts education at an incredibly affordable rate (tuition is under $7500 per year for in-state students), all in the beautiful mountain town of Asheville, NC.
Our excellence is first and foremost a product of a faculty deeply committed to both teaching and
scholarship in their disciplines. That excellence also demands that our curriculum, co-curricular activities, and entire community welcome, reflect, and celebrate a diversity of perspectives, lived experiences, and identities. Currently, our required core curriculum includes diversity intensive courses and we offer living learning communities specifically designed for students of color. Our Racial Justice Roadmap will serve as a guide to the work in which we will be engaging to become an even more inclusive campus. That Racial Justice Roadmap includes initiatives that span student affairs, admissions and financial aid and critically important, academic affairs. In particular, to support the development of a more excellent and diverse professoriate at UNC Asheville, we are expanding the University Fellowship for Faculty Diversity (University Fellows) Program.
The program invites candidates specifically considering careers at a liberal arts institution which takes equal pride in the excellence of its faculty’s teaching and the quality of its faculty’s scholarship and creative production. UNC Asheville is looking for candidates who are able to help us advance one of our most important strategic objectives—to develop, maintain, and support a faculty whose diversity more closely represents the demographics of the nation and the state of NC, particularly with respect to race, with special attention to domestic underrepresentation of minorities in various disciplines.
