TITLE OF POSITION:

 Program Director & Assistant/Associate Professor, Fashion Design

STATUS:

 Full-time, renewable contract

DEPARTMENT:

 Fashion Design

QUALIFICATIONS:

The successful candidate must demonstrate the ability to teach appropriate undergraduate and potentially graduate courses across the Fashion and Business of Fashion degree programs and within Kanbar College. Hold an appropriate terminal degree in Fashion Design, Education or a closely related discipline with experience sufficient to enter at the rank of Associate Professor. Provide service to the school, College and University, as appropriate.  Develop and maintain an active research agenda in an area that is synergistic with and complementary to established research on campus.

EDUCATION REQUIRED:

 Master's degree (terminal)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to lead, direct and transform the BS Fashion Design degree program, building on its heritage as a leader in fashion design education.  They must also actively seek out and develop curricular and project collaborations with the design, engineering and business degree programs within Kanbar College and with other degree programs across campus.  In addition, they must drive innovation in curriculum development in the fashion design degree program and grow enrollment at the undergraduate level. 

Demonstrated leadership in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment, with the ability to  work closely and collaboratively with faculty in the Fashion Design degree program, various academic administrators within Kanbar College, and with faculty, staff and administrators from across the University (e.g., other colleges, student life, admissions, registrar, etc.) to assist the University in executing its strategic plan.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES:

Please submit a letter of application; curriculum vitae; teaching philosophy statement; and three professional references to Mike Leonard, Dean, School of Design and Engineering, Kanbar College, Philadelphia University, School House Lane and Henry Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19144-5497, or by email to KanbarCollegeJobs@PhilaU.edu.

STARTING DATE:

 August, 2013

POSTING DATE:

 February, 2013