[Frameworks] position opening: director of the harrington school of communication & media

[Sheri Wills]

Hello Everyone,
For the right person, this will be an exciting position – and lovely  
to see someone with experimental leanings in it.
Feel free to distribute, far and wide, to anyone who may be interested.
Sheri

Professor and Director of the

Harrington School of Communication and Media

The University of Rhode Island (www.uri.edu) is the state’s largest  
university, with an enrollment of about 13,000 undergraduates and  
3,000 graduate students on four campuses.  With nationally and  
internationally renowned faculty engaged in a broad range of  
research, teaching and outreach activities, URI is a land grant, sea  
grant and urban grant institution.  The University’s 1,200 acre main  
campus is located in Kingston, about 30 miles south of Providence and  
six miles from the coast.  Other campuses are the 165 acre  
Narragansett Bay Campus, the Feinstein Providence Campus in the city  
of Providence, and the 2,300 acre W. Alton Jones Campus in West  
Greenwich, RI.
The University seeks an innovative leader with the rank of Professor  
(or Associate Professor) to serve as the founding Director of the  
Harrington School of Communication and Media.  Continuing to build on  
URI’s strong record of teaching, research, and outreach, the  
successful candidate will lead the development of Harrington School  
of Communication and Media, established thanks to a $5M gift by  
Richard and Jean Harrington.  Reporting directly to the Dean of Arts  
and Sciences, the Director will work with faculty to create the  
vision and mission for the School; bring together the programs in  
Communication Studies, Film Media, Journalism, Library and  
Information Studies, Public Relations and Writing and Rhetoric; and  
establish and launch innovative interdisciplinary programs of  
teaching and research to build a School of national distinction.  The  
Harrington School includes over 30 tenure track faculty members,  
other instructional personnel, over 1,200 undergraduate majors, and  
274 full and part-time graduate students.

Qualifications for the position include:  An earned doctorate and/or  
terminal degree with a demonstrated strong record of scholarship,  
teaching, service and/or administration appropriate for appointment  
as a tenured full or associate professor in an academic program in  
the Harrington School; demonstrated ability to work well with a  
diverse community of students and faculty; demonstrated appreciation  
and understanding of communication and media technology and the  
global marketplace; evidence of dynamic leadership; administrative,  
management or supervisory experience; experience in program building  
and/or global initiatives; skills in support of grant writing and  
fundraising; demonstrated ability to manage corporate and community  
outreach; and excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
Visit our website at https://jobs.uri.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/ 
position/JobDetails_css.jsp?postingId=139424 for a complete job  
description and application procedures.  Procedures require a cover  
letter, curriculum vitae, and the names and contact information for  
five references.  Review of candidates will begin February 16, 2011  
and continue until the position is filled.

Nominations and questions should be directed to:  Dr. Winifred  
Brownell, Dean of Arts and Sciences (Phone: 401-874-4101; Fax:  
401-874-2892; Email: Winnie at uri.edu).
URI is an AA/EEO employer and values diversity.
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