Assistant/Associate Professor of English & Director of WAC and the Writing Center

Hiram College invites applications for the position of Assistant/Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and the Writing Center. This is a full-time, tenure-track position.

Founded in 1850, Hiram College provides students of all backgrounds an attainable private education that teaches the 21st-century skills needed to thrive professionally and personally in the face of inevitable and constant change. Built on a community that fosters student-faculty collaboration, the College equips all students with the tools necessary to embrace active learning in the classroom, in Ohio, and beyond through technology, internship, study away, research, and other experiential opportunities for growth and development. Recognized by Colleges of Distinction, The Princeton Review, U.S. News and World Report, and as a top baccalaureate college by Washington Monthly, Hiram enrolls over 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students in academic programs on its Northeast Ohio campus and through Online@Hiram.

This position will be responsible for teaching a 2-2 load of courses in their discipline and in Hiram’s distinctive Urgent Challenges Curriculum. This load includes a one-course release each semester for administrative work. Position responsibilities include the following:
• Developing, maintaining, and leading assessment for the WAC program curriculum, particularly the first-year program of Hiram College’s Urgent Challenges Curriculum. The WAC Director will train faculty from across disciplines in best practices for teaching writing, critical thinking, oral expression, and information literacy, both for courses in the first-year program and throughout the curriculum.
• Managing the Hiram College Writing Center, including oversight of budgets and payroll, training and supervising undergraduate peer Writing Assistants, scheduling Writing Center hours, and managing peer Writing Assistants in first-year program courses. Training student peers, Writing Assistants, and supervising and scheduling those tutors in running the Hiram College Writing Center. Coordinating tutoring with Hiram’s Academic Support Services office.
• Overseeing first-year writing coursework across all delivery platforms and locations, including supervision of online, College Credit Plus, and adjunct first-year writing coursework and faculty.
• Providing resources and curricular guides for faculty to promote effective teaching in the Urgent Challenges first-year program and writing courses across the curriculum. Serving as permanent resource member on Academic Program Committee, helping review coursework and program proposals.
• Supervising and training faculty to teach corequisite Writing courses, including WRIT 10400—Basic Exposition and WRIT 10500—Basic Exposition II.
• Ensuring a broad commitment to employing a racial equity lens to develop and evaluate writing across schools and disciplines. Serving on appropriate committees to promote that equity in curriculum and program design.

Successful candidates will have the flexibility and mindset to work in a small-college environment with faculty from across disciplines. Experience in writing program administration and training, Writing Center administration and training, or extensive experience teaching in First-Year Program courses is expected. Successful candidates may also have expertise in creative writing, online/digital pedagogy, and/or (multi)media literacies.

Minimum/Required Qualifications
Required
• Terminal degree/Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition, English, or a related field
• Evidence of administrative success in institutional or organizational capacities
• Demonstrable commitment to promoting and enhancing diverse, equitable, and inclusive practices, policies, and programs
• Evidence of high-impact undergraduate teaching and curricular development
Preferred
• Administrative experience designing pedagogical workshops and/or training sessions for faculty, graduate teaching assistants, and instructors
• Record of success in curricular development and implementation in undergraduate and rhetoric and writing courses
• Expertise in the use of technology in writing pedagogy
• Expertise in teaching writing center pedagogy

Application Process

Apply directly through the College website at http://hiram.edu/careers-at-hiram/

Please submit a cover letter, CV, and a teaching portfolio (including a statement of teaching philosophy, two representative course syllabi, and a diversity statement). Include the names of three professional references with email addresses and phone numbers below. Candidates who move to the second round of evaluation will be asked to submit two or three letters of recommendation which must address excellence in teaching.

Hiram College is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity!