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Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Visiting Scholar

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Position Summary

Applications to participate in the Center for Diversity Innovation’s Distinguished Visiting Scholars program are sought from exceptionally accomplished individuals who, through their record of scholarship and/or creative endeavors, teaching, mentoring, and service, as well as their skills, experiences, underrepresentation, and areas of scholarly and/or creative expertise, can substantially advance diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Buffalo. Deadline: January 31, 2021.

Exposing students, faculty, and staff to new ideas and perspectives, engaging with undergraduate and graduate mentoring circles, linking to the community through talks, exhibits, scholarship and/or creative projects, the Center for Diversity Innovation’s Distinguished Visiting Scholars program will contribute to the university’s existing commitments to groundbreaking research, transformative educational experiences, and deeply engaged service to its communities.

Program Structure:
One-year (10 month), temporary, full-time, residential, salaried position (benefits eligible) as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar hosted by the Center for Diversity Innovation and a department anywhere within the University at Buffalo. The Distinguished Visiting Scholars program will host a cohort of Scholars annually.

Eligibility/Rank:
Open recruitment. Advanced assistant professors, associate or full professors or highly accomplished non-academics whose profile matches the needs of the program and would be qualified to obtain tenure in a UB department. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States. No sponsorship is available for this position.

Topics of scholarship:

Any area of scholarship and/or creative endeavor. All candidates are encouraged to highlight ways in which their scholarly and/or creative endeavors, teaching, and/or service (including service in their communities) relate to diversity, equity/inequality, and inclusion.

Mentoring:

The evaluation of all Scholar applicants will include careful attention to the applicant’s history of mentoring students and record of developing the next generation of scholars, artists and/or practitioners in their field. Scholar applicants will include contact information for letters of reference from former mentees, as well as a description of their approach, accomplishments, and history of mentoring with particular emphasis on how they have advanced diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Visiting Scholar program is committed to the concept of a residential visit. Consequently, Scholars must reside during their fellowship term in a community which affords Scholars the ability to be in attendance in the Scholar offices during mid-day and at other designated times three to four days a week and as required to attend the weekly seminars and other speaker events hosted by the Center and/or their host departments. Our expectation is that Scholars remain in residence at the Center from opening day (the day after Labor Day in September) through late May, excluding holiday periods.

Center staff can provide information about finding housing and schools and relocation funds are available to all Scholars who move in order to participate in the program.

Salary: $115,000 (not negotiable)

University at Buffalo is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and, in keeping with our commitment, welcomes all to apply including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Minimum Qualifications

Qualifications fitting the mission of the program, as described:

A record of scholarship and/or creative endeavors, teaching, mentoring, and service, as well as skills, experiences, underrepresentation, and areas of scholarly and/or creative expertise, that can substantially advance diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Buffalo.

Demonstrated record of high scholarly and/or creative accomplishment.

Demonstrated record of excellence in—and commitment to—mentoring students.

Scholarship and/or creative endeavors which are compatible with a department at the University at Buffalo hosting the Distinguished Visiting Scholar and compatible with qualifications to hold a tenured or tenure-track position.

Preferred Qualifications

Appropriate terminal degree.

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University at Buffalo

UB is New York’s largest public university, one of America’s leading research universities and a flagship in the SUNY system.

UB is a top 40 university in a top city in which to attend college, and with more than 1,300 acres across three unique campuses, there is always something new to explore. Regular shuttle service takes students between North Campus and South Campus, and the Downtown Campus is easily accessible by Metro Rail

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