OPENING FOR A NEW IMAGINING AMERICA FACULTY DIRECTOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS

Greetings,

Today begins the national search for a new Imagining America Faculty Director at the University of California, Davis. As an Imagining America Campus Representative, we want to bring the position to your attention to build the strongest possible pool of candidates. Please forward the information below to your networks and encourage anyone you believe to be an excellent candidate to apply.

David Scobey and Lisa Lee, cc’ed here, are representing Imagining America’s National Advisory Board on the Search Committee, and would welcome follow-up conversation.

Many thanks,
Jamie Haft

UC Davis and Imagining America: Artists and Scholars In Public Life (IA) have launched a nationwide recruitment for the position of Faculty Director of Imagining America. The Faculty Director will report directly to the UC Davis Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, with a secondary, “dotted-line” reporting relationship to the Chair of IA’s National Advisory Board. The Faculty Director will also have a permanent appointment as a tenured member of the UC Davis faculty.

Imagining America is a national consortium of nearly 100 academic institutions and cultural organizations, dedicated to advancing civic engagement, democratic culture, and equity within higher education through the approaches of the arts, humanities, and design. IA was launched at the University of Michigan in 1999 and has had its home at Syracuse University since 2007. In the summer of 2017, it will move from Syracuse to the University of California, Davis for a renewable, five-year term ending June 30, 2022. IA and UCD are committed to a partnership of mutual benefit, one that advances the shared values of engagement, diversity, equity, and inclusion both within the University and across higher education.

The Faculty Director will be an established or emerging leader in higher education, whose work exemplifies excellence in public scholarship and the value of public scholarship to the future of higher education. The Faculty Director will bring dynamic, visionary, intellectual leadership to the advancing the mission of Imagining America, to building and sustaining the IA consortium, and to supporting UC Davis’ commitment to engaged scholarship and community partnership. The successful candidate will have a record of scholarship, teaching, and service appropriate for appointment as a tenured professor at UC Davis, as well as demonstrated skills in academic leadership and administration. S/he will have the capacity to build collaborative relationships across higher education, to work with diverse community and academic partners, and to be a voice for IA’s values and mission in higher education nationally. Finally, the successful candidate will share the University’s Principles of Community, which are characterized by respect, integrity, openness and responsiveness, and will advance UC Davis’ and IA’s shared commitments to engagement, diversity, and equity. For more information about this position, please refer to the position description.

The recruitment advisory committee is chaired by Susan B. Kaiser, Interim Dean of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies in the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis and co-chaired by David Scobey, Imagining America National Advisory Board Member.

About UC Davis: The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) is a premier land-grant public research university in Northern California. With over 35,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, it has the third largest enrollment in the University of California system. Founded in 1905, UC Davis is known for standout academics, sustainability, and Aggie Pride as well as valuing the Northern California lifestyle. UC Davis is at the forefront of solving problems related to food, health, the environment and society. The 5,300-acre campus is in the city of Davis[ucdavis.edu], a vibrant college town of about 68,000 located in Yolo County. The state capital is 20 minutes away, and destinations such as the San Francisco Bay Area, Lake Tahoe and the Napa Valley are within a two-hour drive.

UC Davis is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities and is ranked 11th among public research universities nationwide, according to the 2016 U.S. News & World Report. The National Science Foundation ranks UC Davis 15th in the nation in research funding among public universities and 22nd among public and private universities. Annual external research funding reached an all-time high of $786 million in 2014-15. For more information about UC Davis please see: https://www.ucdavis.edu/about/[ucdavis.edu]

Nomination and Application Process

Inquiries and nominations should be directed to Linda Fairfield, Human Resources, at ldfairfield@ucdavis.edu with the subject line “UCD – Imagining America.” 

TO APPLY: Please click on this link: https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/apply/JPF01204[recruit.ucdavis.edu]

This position is open until filled, but for full consideration, please apply by Friday, September 23, 2016.

The University of California, Davis is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.