Department Chair

Clemson University Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture seeks a Departmental Chair at the rank of Full Professor to begin August 2010. Candidates should be senior scholars with a doctorate or appropriate terminal degree and professional registration/certification credentials as well as a distinguished teaching, research/practice, and/or public service applied professional record.

The successful candidate should have excellent interpersonal skills, experience in academic planning, fiscal and personnel management; consensus building; external funding and sponsored projects; communication with leaders in a range of sectors; capital and departmental fundraising; and alumni relations. Chairs will continue limited teaching, research/practice, and public service.

The Department is interdisciplinary in a diverse College. It offers a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, professional masters degrees in: City and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Real Estate Development and participates in a multidisciplinary Ph.D. The department has over 20 faculty members and 230 students and has direct links to both the national leadership and SC chapters of APA, ASLA, ULI, etc.

For full consideration, applications should be received by December 1, 2009. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Salary will be competitive based on background and discipline.

Applicants should submit via email a letter of application that addresses the job description, curriculum vita, two samples of your best scholarship/creative work and the names of three references including their snail mail and e mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers to: kreva@clemson.edu.

Clemson University, the land grant institution of South Carolina, is located mid way between Atlanta and Charlotte. For more information, please visit http://www.clemson.edu/about/clemsonataglance.html, the college, http://www.clemson.edu/caah/, and the department, http://www.clemson.edu/caah/pla.

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