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Rutgers The State University Arts in Health Endowed Chair, Tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor in New Brunswick, New Jersey
Position Details
| Recruitment/Posting Title | Arts in Health Endowed Chair, Tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor |
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| Department | Mason Gross Sch Arts-Deans Ofc |
| Salary | Commensurate With Experience |
| Posting Summary | Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty member to serve as the school's inaugural Arts in Health Endowed Chair. We seek an interdisciplinary, collaborative, and divergent thinker to serve in this faculty role and guide the school in developing a strategic vision for its arts in health initiative. The successful candidate will be an accomplished artist and educator in dance, filmmaking, music, theater, or visual art/design, with demonstrated research and/or artistic excellence in arts in health, a field that improves health and well-being through direct arts engagement in diverse institutional and community contexts. The ideal candidate will possess strengths in cross-disciplinary collaboration and have substantial experience addressing inclusive audiences. They will have demonstrated the ability to build interdisciplinary teams as well as the interpersonal skills to serve as a facilitator and ambassador for arts in health throughout MGSA, the university, and the community. The Rutgers Arts in Health Endowed Chair will:
Appointment will be at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, depending on the candidate's experience. |
| Position Status | Full Time |
| Posting Number | 24FA1323 |
| Posting Open Date | 12/13/2024 |
| Posting Close Date | 09/01/2025 |
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| Overview | About the school Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a nationally ranked public research university with an enrollment of more than 49,000 students on its flagship New Brunswick campus. The nation's eighth oldest institution of higher learning, Rutgers-New Brunswick is located about an hour by train or car to both New York City and Philadelphia. Mason Gross School of the Arts is dedicated to professional programs in the arts at graduate and undergraduate levels, and to fulfilling the missions of its constituent departments: Art & Design, Dance, Filmmaking, Music, and Theater, as well as Arts Online and Community Arts Divisions. Mason Gross provides the disciplinary focus and interdisciplinary opportunities of an arts school as well as access to the rich intellectual resources of a major research institution. The school's core pillars are inclusive excellence, collaboration, and community. Its roughly 1,100 students reflect the diversity of New Jersey, the fourth most diverse state in the nation. Please see the EDI vision that drives the school here. |
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| Special Instructions to Applicants | Apply This position is a full-time, ten-month academic appointment with an anticipated start date of September 1, 2025. Applicants are encouraged to submit their applications by February 10, 2025. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. The application requires:
For questions, email cpw48@mgsa.rutgers.edu |
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| Quick Link to Posting | https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/241668 |
| Campus | Rutgers University-New Brunswick |
| Home Location Campus | Rutgers University - New Brunswick |
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