Search Position Description

From: Susan Van Pelt (vanpelt@oak.cats.ohiou.edu)
Date: 01/09/01


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<bold><fontfamily><param>Helvetica</param><bigger><bigger>Full Time
Tenure Track Position in Dance Beginning September 1, 2001


</bigger><underline>Salary and Rank</underline>

</bigger></fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><param>Helvetica</param><bigger>Assistant
Professor: salary and rank commensurate with qualifications.  $35,000
minimum. 


<bold><underline>Qualifications</underline>

</bold>Advanced degree required, professional experience, university
teaching experience, and scholarship in dance history, including
aesthetics, criticism, and/or world dance perspectives.  In addition,
expertise in one or more of the following: dance pedagogy, technique,
choreography, improvisation, technology, somatic studies.


<bold><underline>Responsibilities</underline>

</bold>Teach and develop dance history curriculum.  Teach courses in
other areas of expertise in studio and/or pedagogy.  Develop and teach
general education courses. Oversee student dance teachers, participate
as academic advisor, fulfill involvement in departmental activities as
assigned. The opportunity exists to choreograph work for presentation
in departmental productions and to participate in the development of
the Nikolais Louis Collection for use on the web.


<bold><underline>Description</underline>

</bold>The School of Dance enrolls approximately 65 majors and minors
and offers a BFA in modern dance performance and choreography with a
full complement of courses in kinesiology, history, and music.  The
School produces a minimum of six concerts per year and a senior tour. 
Housed in the College of Fine Arts, the School is an accredited
institutional member of NASD. The Alwin Nikolais/Murray Louis
Collection is now part of Ohio University Libraries Special Collections
and will be available soon for classroom use and research.


Ohio University is a state assisted residential Research II university
located in scenic Appalachian foothills 75 miles southeast of
Columbus<italic>.  </italic>Chartered in 1804, it is the oldest
university in the Northwest Territory.  Enrollment on the Athens campus
is currently 19,700.  Further information on Ohio University and the
School of Dance is available at the university web
site:http://www.dance.ohiou.edu.

 

<bold><underline>Application deadline:  February 1, 2001</underline>

</bold>Please send a current vita, three letters of recommendation
under separate cover, and the names of three additional persons whom
the committee may contact to: Search Committee Chair, School of Dance,
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701.  Submission of resumÈ and letter
of interest through email as attachments in ClarisWorks is welcomed. 
Please send to: <underline>dance@ohiou.edu</underline>, heading: Job
Search 

 	

Additional information may be requested at a later date in the search
process.  Ohio University is an EOAAE.  Women and minorities are
encouraged to apply.


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