POSITION DESCRIPTION

North Dakota State University’s Department of Communication, a Ph.D.-producing department in Fargo, ND, (area population is 144,691) with undergraduate majors in Management Communication; PR & Advertising; Health Communication; Agricultural Communication; and Journalism, Broadcasting & Mass Communication Technologies invites applications for three tenure-track assistant professors at $55,000 plus $16,459 in benefits including a medical plan that the university pays in full.  

Applicants with a completed doctorate in any area of communication by August 15, 2008, receive full pay. If the doctorate is not complete until January 1, 2009, the applicant will receive reduced pay in the Fall Semester.  All applicants must have the doctorate completed by January 1, 2009, or their appointment reverts to a terminal, nine-month appointment.  

New faculty members have a 2/2 teaching opportunity with one semester of no classes during the probationary period.  New faculty can propose new classes and develop new areas.  New faculty members receive a minimum of $1,600 for travel to deliver refereed conference papers.  New faculty members may have a mentor inside or outside the department to help them advance as teachers and researchers.  Applicants should show evidence of good teaching evaluations from students and/or supervisors, and they should demonstrate a commitment to research with refereed conference papers or publications.  The university provides some funding for research projects.  

The department welcomes applicants who are people of color, single or married, partnered, female or international. The department is family friendly.  Finalists will be selected from the applicants with excellent graduate courses and grades; the strongest research and teaching records in the areas listed above; and the best recommendations from advisors, committee members, and administrators. Promotion and tenure requirements are rigorous, so applicants need to embrace collaborative research with colleagues and graduate students because our doctoral students are required to have two to three refereed publications before they move to comprehensives.

NDSU is an Equal Opportunity Institution.

 Contact: Paul.Nelson.1@ndsu or Paul E. Nelson, Professor & Chair, Department of Communication, NDSU, Box 5075, Fargo, ND 58105-5075; 701-231-7705.

Application deadline is October 31, 2007, with interviews available at National Communication Association (NCA) convention November 15-18, and a decision by December 1. To apply submit the follow documents (hard copy) to the contact listed below. Please note that electronic submissions will not be accepted.

Applicants must furnish:

• Official transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate course work.
• Three written recommendations including one from the most recent administrator in charge (basic course director, department chair, division head).
• One- to two-page explanation of teaching and research preferences and how they see themselves fitting in the department as described below.

Minimum qualifications required:

• Ph.D. in communication completed by January 1, 2009.
• Specialization in any area of communication taught in the department.
• Evidence of effective instruction as the teacher-of-record in the form of student, colleague or administrative evaluations.
• Evidence of research productivity in the form of refereed convention presentations or publications.
• Positive written recommendations by advisor, committee members or administrators.

Qualifications preferred but not required:

• Ph.D. completed by Fall 2008.
• Experience and/or academic work in areas of highest need: communication technologies, organizational communication, health communication, PR, journalism, broadcasting, risk & crisis.  Lower need in advertising, rhetoric, forensics, interpersonal, gender, and instructional though any of these could be combined with an area of higher need.

Compensation package:

Salary: $55,000.00

Plus:

• Health:                          $7,896.96
• Life:                               $       3.36
• Disability                       $  209.00
• Retirement                    $2,475.00
• Soc. Sec.                        $4,207.50
• Workers Comp             $1,650.00
• Staff Assistance            $     17.04

Total benefits:            $16,458.86

Total compensation: $71.458.86

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