The University of Waterloo has advertised a number of positions for the next academic year that could be suitable for our membership. The deadline for application is February 22.
1. Communication Across the Curriculum, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
2. Communication, Technology, and Design, Tenure-Track Assistant or Associate Professor
3. Digital Media Arts & Production, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
The Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo is seeking candidates for a position in Digital Media and Rhetoric at the Assistant Professor rank. In a note promoting the position, Professor Marcel O’Gorman, University Research Chair, explained “UWaterloo can provide a great platform for someone doing critical media studies, especially if they enjoy hands-on creative work or want to learn those skills. The teaching load is 2/2 (including 1 grad course/year), the pay is generous, benefits are excellent, and there are great research funding opportunities. I am hoping to invite the right candidate to join me as Co-Director of the Critical Media Lab.” You can reach him for questions at marcel@uwaterloo.ca
See also:
http://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca
http://marcelogorman.net
The deadline for applications is February 22, 2022.
The University of Waterloo’s Department of Communication Arts is advertising an attractive LTF-style lecturer position, with a starting date of July, 2022. They’re looking for someone with the kind of expertise and experience our CUPE lecturers would easily demonstrate. There are some attractive features (such as a $70,000-$100,000 salary range, and a three-year term). The deadline for applications is January 4, 2022.
May you have many lazy breakfasts until January…
York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design is advertising a tenure-track Teaching Stream position in Creative Technologies for the new program at York’s Markham Campus. See the full description here. The deadline for applications is December 14, 2021.
Now that we’ve been invited to consider HyFlex teaching (and some of us are well versed already), it may be time to dip into some explanations. Educause has published a short info sheet that you may find helpful. Another quick read is an article by a teacher who has experience with this mode, and she shares how she’s solved some of the problems encountered so far. If you want more, you could turn to this free online book, which includes chapters on HyFlex learning.
Not surprisingly, The Chronicle of Higher Education has recent articles on the subject. If you have a subscription, you can access two of them. In “How to Engage Students in a Hybrid Classroom” (referring to the HyFlex model), an academic-technology expert at Stanford University advises teachers to “design a fully online class and think of the in-person part of it as an enhancement to the core of your coursework.” The reason is that trying to keep remote and in-person students engaged simultaneously can be counterproductive. If you’re worried about logistical frustrations, Kevin Gannon corroborates those fears with an amusing scenario of what it can be like to operationalize this mode of teaching in “Our Hyflex Experiment: What’s Worked and What Hasn’t”:
I hasten to add that the article doesn’t just stress “what hasn’t” worked. If any of you have some tips about what has worked for you, please share them in the comments.
Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax Nova Scotia is soliciting applications for a full-time assistant professorship in the Department of Communication Studies. The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2022, with a start date of July 1 of that year. Once you’ve landed on the page at this link, you’ll need to scroll down and click item number 12 to see the ad.
York and U of T are soliciting applications for some attractive positions.
York’s Department of Communication and Media Studies is advertising a full-time assistant professorship. They’re looking for applicants with an interest in research and teaching. The deadline for receipt of applications is December 15, 2021.
UTM’s Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy (ISUP) is advertising three full-time teaching-stream positions in Writing Studies in Higher Education. ISUP is also requesting applications for a tenure-stream assistant professorship with a research emphasis. Note that the deadline for applying is November 9, 2021.
UBC, Okanagan campus is advertising two sessional appointments, starting in January. The deadline for applying is October 15. You’ll need to scroll down to the History and Sociology job offers. I know we have members who would be fully qualified to teach these courses. UBC is actively posting this as an external search, and because the courses are delivered virtually, you won’t have to move to BC’s interior. Just imagine the lovely scene presented here as you prep…
McMaster’s Sherman Centre is advertising a two-year digital scholarship coordinator position. The closing date is July 4.