Assistant Professor/Student Success Librarian, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Posted December 9, 2019
The University of Rhode Island University Libraries seeks a highly motivated individual to use collaborative and innovative approaches to lead the Libraries’ efforts to develop a supportive learning and research environment with emphasis on undergraduate first-year, international, first generation, and transfer students for overall student retention and success.
Informed by the University’s mission and strategic priorities, this position will expand the Libraries’ instruction in information literacies (including data literacy, media literacy, etc.) by designing, creating, coordinating, teaching, and assessing key first-year courses and programs, general education courses, and grand challenge courses connected with the College of the University Libraries.
This position is a 12-month tenure-track faculty appointment at the Assistant Professor level. The position will be a calendar year appointment with an expected start date of July 2020.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work collaboratively with others in the Libraries to support the teaching and research initiatives of both the Library and University.
- Design innovative outreach programming to connect underserved populations with the Libraries’ resources.
- Teach sections of Library credit-bearing courses.
- Coordinate select library partnerships (e.g. the Library portion of the Introductory Writing program)
- Deliver classes and workshops to support information literacies across the University and collaborate on the creation of instructional materials, outcomes, and activities.
- Develop assessment tools and assess classes, tools, and student information literacies development especially as related to student success and retention.
- Maintain awareness of innovations and trends within the library and education professions and propose, implement, and promote services and technologies that adopt new models of teaching and learning.
- Commit to continuing development of teaching skills and on-going evaluation and self-assessment of teaching.
- Foster an environment of accessibility, inclusion, and respect.
Qualifications and additional details available at: https://jobs.uri.edu/postings/
The search will remain open until the position is filled. First consideration will be given to applications received by January 27, 2020.
Direct questions to Peter Larsen [email protected]