The Department of City and Regional Planning invites applications for a tenured position at the full or associate professor level, effective July 1, 2008. The department seeks outstanding candidates with a strong commitment to contribute to scholarship and practice in land use planning, environmental planning or any closely related field. Attractive candidates would be well known for their outstanding scholarship, funded research, student mentoring, teaching experience, and professional service.

The department currently has over 100 full time graduate students in the M.R.P. and Ph.D. programs as well as undergraduate minors in Urban Studies and Planning. The 16 faculty members are known for their scholarship and extensive contributions to planning practice. Over its 60-year history, the department has established a distinguished tradition of training professional planners in its M.R.P. program and developing future scholars in its Ph.D. program.

The M.R.P. program offers specializations in land use and environmental planning, transportation planning, design and preservation of the built environment, economic development, and housing, real estate and community development. The department has seven dual degree programs including landscape architecture, law, and public health. The faculty participates in the Institute for the Environment (a multidisciplinary initiative aimed at environmental sustainability), environmental science and management, public policy, public health, and the School of the Environment at Duke University. See www.planning.unc.edu.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an equal opportunity employer, and the department is strongly committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply.

Candidates should submit a letter of interest, resume, and a list of four references. The Department will initiate contact with references to solicit letters of recommendations. Reference Recruitment Plan 755. Please send all materials to:

Professor Phillip Berke
Search Committee Chair
Department of City and Regional Planning
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 3140
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3140

Screening of applicants will begin in November 2007 and continue until the position is filled.

Related Link: City and Regional Planning, UNC

For more information contact:

Jeri Curtis
Department of City and Regional Planning, UNC
New East, CB3140
Chapel Hill
North Carolina 27599
USA

Phone: 919 962 4779
Fax: 919 962 5206
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.planning.unc.edu/