Part-Time Adjunct Lecturer, School of Visual Arts - 2024 -2025 Academic Year

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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

The School of Visual Arts is looking to hire a part-time adjunct lecturer. Successful applicants may teach courses and assist with various tasks related to teaching, such as, grading and setting up technology. These positions are typically only for one semester.

The College of Arts and Architecture is working to establish a culture of anti-racism and anti-oppression that embraces individual identities, fosters a culture of inclusion, and promotes equity through curricula, values, standards, ideals, policies, and practices. The ideal candidate share our interest in contributing to these goals.

Requirements:

• A terminal degree: MFA, Ph.D., or equivalent professional experience
• College-level teaching experience with a strong interest in undergraduate instruction
• Hybrid and online teaching experience is highly desirable.

Submit:

• Cover letter
• Curriculum Vitae

This job requires the following 3 publicly available clearances:

• PA State Police Criminal Background Check
• PA Child Abuse History Clearance Form
• FBI Criminal BackgroundCheck
  

About SoVA:

The School of Visual Arts (SoVA) at Penn State offer undergraduate degrees in Art Education (B.S.), Digital Arts and Multimedia Design (B.Des.), Studio Art (BA, BFA) and Photography (B.A., B.Des., B.F.A.) at our residential campus, and a fully online degree in Digital Multimedia Design (B.Des.) and Digital Arts certificate at World Campus. At the graduate level, we offer an M.F.A. in Art (Ceramics, Drawing and Painting, Graphic Design, New Media, Photography, and Sculpture), and dual M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Art Education with African American and Diaspora Studies, or Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

SoVA's mission aim:

• To contribute to the expansion of knowledge and scholarship in the visual arts, design, arts pedagogy, and related fields of study and practice.

• To facilitate the highest level of creative and intellection pursuit for students through teaching and learning experiences and opportunities.
• To provide expertise to the service and benefit of communities across campus, the commonwealth, the nation, and beyond.

• SoVA will be a safe space for creatively engaged minds and bodies. This community will operate in a cohesive and supportive manner to engender transformative experiences.

Vision Statement 2022-25:

• SoVA's curricula and programming will reflect 21st century learning and creativity.
• SoVA will lead and serve as reference point to other Big Ten Art and Design schools and offer the best fully online programs in the arts through World Campus.
• Diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, sustainability, integrative, innovation, and belonging will constitute core values for SoVA that are applied to all our activities and interests.
• SoVA will provide a lasting impact in the world through the arts, focused on fairness, innovation, community-building and access, instead of solely focusing on individual accomplishments and merits.

For more information, please visit https://arts.psu.edu/academics/school-of-visual-arts/

The Pennsylvania State University is committed to and accountable for advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability in all of its forms. We embrace individual uniqueness, foster a culture of inclusion that supports both broad and specific diversity initiatives, leverage the educational and institutional benefits of diversity in society and nature, and engage all individuals to help them thrive. We value inclusion as a core strength and an essential element of our public service mission.

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