(NAME-MCE) Assistant Professor in Social Justice Education

[Christine Clark]

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Social Justice Education

Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track

The Department of Student Development and Pupil Personnel Services  
(SDPPS) in the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts  
Amherst is seeking candidates to join a dedicated and accomplished  
community of faculty, students, and staff as an Assistant Professor in  
Social Justice Education. This is a full-time, tenure-track position  
beginning in September 2009.

The School of Education is NCATE-accredited and offers a comprehensive  
program leading to Master’s and Doctoral degrees. We share a  
fundamental commitment to social justice and the pursuit of  
educational excellence. Located in the beautiful Pioneer Valley of  
Western Massachusetts, the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the  
flagship campus of the Commonwealth’s university system and is a  
leading center of public higher education in the Northeast.

The SDPPS Department offers concentrations in Social Justice  
Education, Special Education, School Counseling Education, and School  
Psychology with existing and or developing strengths in leadership,  
transitions, literacy, student assessment, and educational equity.

A major initiative is underway in Social Justice Education to develop  
partnerships with P-12 school systems focused on staff development,  
curriculum design, and organizational change that will enable schools  
to effectively meet the needs of diverse communities of learners in a  
society that continues to grapple with an ever increasing number of  
diversity and social justice issues.  These partnerships will lead to  
innovative, research-based on-site and online social justice education  
programming for teachers, parents and students at the P-12 level.  The  
successful candidate will enhance the program’s ability to maintain  
our current leadership as social justice educators in higher education  
settings, while developing teaching-partnerships and grant  
opportunities intended to serve the social justice and diversity needs  
in P-12 settings.

Qualifications: Doctorate in Education or in a related social science  
or human relations field with application to P-12 educational  
settings; demonstrated ability or excellent potential to conduct  
externally funded scholarship, research and publication, experience  
with practice-based research models (quantitative and/or qualitative)  
and familiarity with research on P-12 teaching and learning;  
experience with a broad range of social justice, multicultural, and/or  
diversity issues, preferably in school contexts; ability to work  
effectively with graduate students and faculty of diverse cultures and  
backgrounds; and experience in or strong indication of promise for  
developing internet-based instructional models, and ability to become  
an outstanding teacher at the university level. Candidates will be  
expected to demonstrate their experience with a range of social  
justice, multicultural, and/or diversity issues, preferably in P-12  
school contexts.

Responsibilities: Initiate, lead, and participate in high quality  
scholarship and externally funded projects addressing critical  
diversity and social justice issues in P-12 school settings that  
include the design and implementation of practice-based evaluation and  
assessment for P-12 curricula, programs and pedagogy; develop and  
teach courses that include a focus on P-12 schools; advise and direct  
M.Ed., CAGS and Ed.D. students; establish P-12 school partnerships  
with school and community stakeholders; maintain active relationship  
with School of Education licensure programs; take a leadership role in  
the Social Justice Education concentration and provide service to the  
profession.

All interested applicants are encouraged to apply. Send a curriculum  
vitae, letter of application, three letters of reference, transcripts,  
and samples of written work to: Search Committee Chair, Social Justice  
Education, c/o Cindy Hamel, Executive Assistant to the Dean, chamel at educ.umass.edu 
,  School of Education, 126 Furcolo Hall, University of Massachusetts,  
Amherst, MA 01003.  Review of candidates will begin October 31, 2008  
and will continue until a qualified candidate is identified. Salary is  
commensurate with qualifications. Final appointment is contingent upon  
the availability of funds.  For more information regarding the School  
of Education and the SDPPS Department please visit our website at:  www.umass.edu/education/ 
  or you may reach us by telephone at 413-545-0009.

Women, minorities, and person with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is an Affirmative Action/Equal  
Opportunity Employer.

The School of Education is committed to developing a more diverse  
faculty, student body and curriculum.

———
Christine Clark, Ed.D.
chriseclark at mac.com
702.896.1527 Telephone
702.896.4529 Facsimile
702.985.6979 Cellular

"What are the standards that we have?  If we're concerned about  
unarmed truth--understanding this condition of truth is allowing  
suffering to speak--and unconditional love--understanding justice is  
what love looks like in public--then the question is, what suffering  
voices do we hear...and what kinds of concerns about justice are made  
manifest...?

                                                                                                                                                 —Cornell 
  West