Interactive Media, Media Communications, Multimedia and Strategic Communications
The School of Communications at Elon University is searching for four tenure-track assistant or associate professors to join our current 40 full-time faculty members, effective August 2010. Dr. Connie Book, associate dean of the school, is chairing these searches. Review of applications begins November 15th and continues until the positions are filled.
INTERACTIVE MEDIA POSITION: We seek a faculty member with a Ph.D. and professional experience to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in interactive media. The ideal candidate will have an interactive media professional background and a theory driven scholarship agenda in interactive design and/or strategies. Teaching expertise can be from any of the following fields: broadcast, cinema, journalism, new media, photojournalism, strategic communications or other related field. Please send an application letter, CV and list of references to imediasearch@elon.edu.
MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS POSITION: We seek a faculty member with a Ph.D. and professional experience to teach courses in our core curriculum, such as Communications in a Global Age, the senior capstone and courses in the communication science sequence. The School specifically seeks a faculty member who will be engaged in global perspectives and interdisciplinary teaching. Please send an application letter, CV and list of references to mediacomsearch@elon.edu.
MULTIMEDIA POSITION: We seek a faculty member with a terminal degree (Ph.D. or M.F.A.) and professional experience in digital media to teach courses in visual design and basic multimedia production. This faculty member will teach a core course required of undergraduate majors in communication, Digital Media Convergence. In this course students learn design theory and a broad range of hardware and software skills. Skills include, but are not limited to, graphic design, photography, audio/video and web-design work. The successful applicant’s area of expertise can be in any of the following fields: should be rooted in broadcast, cinema, journalism, new media, photojournalism, strategic communications or other related field. The ideal candidate will have a strong digital media background and a solid theoretical foundation. When applying please specify your hardware and software skills and include examples of work in the form of a digital portfolio available online or by DVD. Please send an application letter, CV and list of references to multimediasearch@elon.edu.
STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS POSITION: We seek a faculty member with a Ph.D. and professional experience to teach courses in our Strategic Communications major. Teaching expertise should include Strategic Writing, Strategic Campaigns, Communications Research or Corporate Publishing. Research area is open, but the school has current needs in interactive media as it relates to strategic communication. Please send an application letter, CV and list of references to stratcomsearch@elon.edu.
We seek outstanding teachers who are committed to being teacher-scholars and contribute in meaningful ways to the life of the university. Elon operates on a 4-1-4 calendar, with a fall term, a three-week winter term (January) and a spring term. Most faculty rotate between teaching five courses a year (for instance, a 2-1-2) and six courses a year. All faculty teach in the School of Communications core curriculum and participate in the University’s general education program.
Elon is a private university of 5,000 students and almost 700 graduate students in the heart of North Carolina. Newsweek recently named Elon the nation’s leading college for engaged learning. U.S. News & World Report ranks Elon #2 among the 199 master’s-level universities in the South. The University is located in the corridor that includes Duke, Wake Forest and UNC Chapel Hill. Elon’s campus is designated as a botanical garden.
Elon’s nationally accredited School of Communications is home to almost 20 percent of the student body. Students select among majors in Journalism, Strategic Communications, Media Arts & Entertainment (broadcast and cinema), and Communication Science. The School also offers an M.A. in Interactive Media. The School of Communications has six Mac labs, two television studios, and a large field production inventory for faculty and students. Final Cut Studio 7, Adobe CS4 Design Premium, and Pro Tools 8 are the primary software tools currently used in our curriculum. The school is known for having one of the best technology infrastructures in the nation. To learn more about the School of Communications, visit www.elon.edu/communications.
