Medicine and Arts Faculty (Tenure-track)

The Center for Learning Innovation (CLI), an interdisciplinary department focused on health sciences at the University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR), seeks applications for a full-time, 9-month, tenure-track faculty position in Medicine and Arts to begin spring semester, 2022. Applicants who specialize in the integration or application of literary, performing, and/or visual arts and design, or other forms of creative expression into health care or to enhance health and well-being in diverse institutional and community contexts are encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will have experience in implementing pedagogical strategies and supporting a diverse student body population as UMR has growing populations of students of color and first generation college students. The instructor should be prepared to teach undergraduate courses in their field and student focused courses in the Center for Learning Innovation, such as first-year Cornerstone or senior year Capstone courses, to support student success. 

About the UMR Center for Learning Innovation. The new Medicine and Arts faculty member will join colleagues in the Center for Learning Innovation (CLI), an interdisciplinary department that focuses on undergraduate education in health sciences and engages students as participants in research on learning. The CLI is a learning-centered faculty community in which ongoing assessment guides practice and is the basis for research on teaching and learning. Faculty take a team-based, collaborative approach to teaching and research. While some engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning across the integrated curriculum, others approach their research from a disciplinary education perspective. The CLI promotes a learner-centered, technology-enhanced, concept-driven, and community-integrated learning environment. Through ongoing assessment of student achievement, the CLI aspires to personalize education and continuously improve the educational experience for our students. As a tenure-track position in the CLI, the successful candidate will contribute to the Center’s engagement in scholarship of teaching and learning as their primary area of scholarship (see: https://r.umn.edu/learning-research-and-innovation/cli).

Qualifications

Candidates for Assistant Professor for Medicine and Arts must have the following qualifications:

Have a terminal degree (i.e., MFA or PhD) in one of the visual, fine, or performing arts with teaching experience and scholarly work appropriate for rank and tenure/tenure-track status as required by Section 7.12 of the Regents Policy on Faculty Tenure found online at https://faculty.umn.edu/promotion-tenure/approved-712-statements Demonstrated experience and commitment to the scholarship of teaching and student learning. Demonstrated scholarship or teaching integrating or applying visual, fine, or performing arts to health, medical practice, or well-being. 

Successful candidates will also:

Show experience designing and teaching courses at the undergraduate level. Demonstrate familiarity with undergraduate health care education and/or expertise in a related discipline. Work well in interdisciplinary teams; is enthusiastic about shaping a developing university; and demonstrates successful experience with team teaching. Have knowledge, experience and ongoing commitment to working with underrepresented and diverse students, including: People of color; new immigrant populations; American Indians; people with both visible and invisible disabilities; women; people of various gender and sexual identities and expressions; first-generation students; and/or students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Exhibit creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship and excellent communication skills.

About the University of Minnesota Rochester: 

Our Vision is to transform higher education through innovations that empower graduates to solve the grand health challenges of the 21st-century. In this vibrant context, students are at the center of all we do – including faculty research focused on the efficacy of educational innovation. By offering a distinctive health sciences education, UMR prepares students for a broad spectrum of career pathways including patient care; resilience, wellbeing and mental health; health care research and discovery; global health and public policy; emerging health technologies; and the business and leadership of health care. In its second decade of serving students, the campus community currently serves more than 900 undergraduate and graduate students in the heart of downtown Rochester. Through creative partnerships, this campus continues to grow in size and influence. At UMR, relationships and research drive student success. Our strategic growth plan has been aligned with the University of Minnesota System strategic plan (MPact 2025) establishing key metrics and aspirations. For more information about the University of Minnesota Rochester campus, please visit http://r.umn.edu/about-umr

Active review of applications will begin September 24, 2021, and will continue until the position is filled, with the expectation of a January 3, 2022, start date. Applications must be submitted online at https://employment.umn.edu. Search postings for Job Requisition #343322 for application instructions and links. In addition to the Faculty/Academic Application for Employment form, applicants must attach to the online application a (1) description of teaching experience and philosophy, (2) summary of research interests, (3) curriculum vitae, (4) and a statement of commitment to diversity with an example of addressing diversity in scholarship and/or teaching. For more information, e-mail umrhr@r.umn.edu.

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