Associate Professor or Full Professor and Department Chair Comparative Race and

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Application Deadline
March 25, 2022

Position Details
This full-time faculty position is on-campus and in-person.

Department Chair for Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Studies
The School of Interdisciplinary Studies seeks strong leaders and teacher-scholars for the position of chair for our Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies Department. The CRES Department Chair will be a (1) engaged, active, and visible academic colleague, (2) possesses an inspiring leadership ethos of exemplary workplace citizenship, and (3) supports while enhancing stellar unit-wide achievements in the primary areas of teaching, research/creative activities, service, and community engagement. In addition to serving as a successful critical thought leader on the Dean's leadership team, the CRES chair will lead as an innovative bridge builder between SIS departments and others campus wide. Our new CRES chair also will engage in numerous teaching, research, and leadership activities that directly or indirectly support the transformative mission and vision of SIS either entrepreneurially or as assigned by the dean.

Department Details
School/College Description
Established in 2018, the School of Interdisciplinary Studies connects experts, ideas, and communities to promote empathy, respect, and social justice. Our vision is to transform the TCU community through diversity, equity, and inclusion; to enable scholarly and radical collaborations; and to model deep, integrated learning that connects TCU's academic disciplines, faculty, and students to our broader communities. The School offers bachelor's degrees and graduate certificates in Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies and Women and Gender Studies; a bachelor's in Interdisciplinary Inquiry; and undergraduate minors in CRES, WGST, African American and Africana Studies, and Latinx Studies. The School also oversees the student success program University Life, the Intensive English Program, and the IdeaFactory, an innovation hub that provides workshops and courses on human-centered design.

University & Fort Worth Description
ABOUT TCU

Founded in 1873, **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. sits on 299 acres nestled in a primarily residential part of Fort Worth, just minutes away from downtown. The University includes eight schools and colleges, in addition to the John V. Roach Honors College and the new TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine, which is operated in collaboration with the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth.

Currently, TCU enrolls 9,474 undergraduates and 1,490 graduate students. Twenty-six percent of students self-identify as a member of a minority group, 5 percent are international students, and 42 percent are from out-of-state. Our students are supported by more than 2,200 faculty and staff. The University has more than 700 full-time faculty members, 87 percent of whom hold a terminal degree. For nine consecutive years, TCU has been selected as one of the Great Colleges to Work For.

At TCU, diversity, equity and inclusion are an educational imperative that is tied directly to our University mission and vision. For the second consecutive year, TCU has earned the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award, which highlights our ongoing commitment to build a comprehensive DEI strategy that aligns with our core values and to create a campus culture where everyone is respected and feels included. Among TCU's actions this year was approving a resolution to adopt DEI into its core curriculum.

ABOUT FORT WORTH

Like TCU, Fort Worth has the approachable, friendly charm of a smaller town, but offers the amenities, cultural activities, diversity and unique personality of a much larger city. Fort Worth, Texas, is the 13th largest city in the United States with an ever-growing population nearing 1 million. Fort Worth is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, the fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States, and the number 1 tourist destination in Texas. In 2018, bizjournals.com ranked Fort Worth the 7th most affordable city to live and work in the United States and U.S. News and World Report named Fort Worth one of the Best Places to Live. Fort Worth, Dallas and Arlington all rank among the top 25 most diverse cities in the country.

Fort Worth is known for its vast array of cultural, educational and entertainment opportunities. The city boasts three world class art museums the Kimbell Art Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. The Bass Performance Hall is one of the premier performance venues in the country. Concerts, film festivals and other events are held regularly at Sundance Square, Panther Island and Near Southside venues.

Required Application Materials & Application Instructions
The CRES chair will be a tenurable member of CRES at the rank of either an advanced associate or full professor. Interdisciplinary specializations in the following disciplines are strongly preferred: Education, Business, Fine Arts, or a STEM/Professional school area uniquely twinned with a humanities-focused field of concentration.
An exemplary teacher-scholar possessing three or more years of extensive administrative leadership marked by a successful record of quantifiable excellence in key areas of (1) strategic vision and organizational management, (2) curriculum iteration, design, and/or modification, (3) faculty and student success, and (4) a masterful comprehension of university systems and the dynamic states of work-flow cohesiveness between, among, and across academic units at premier higher ed institutions.
Demonstrated state-of-the art proficiency in DEI leadership excellence that is twinned if not organic to the candidate's shared-governance philosophy in action.
Evidenced comfortability and leadership agility in making tough administrative decisions that, at times, prove favorable and/or unfavorable to colleague-peers, sometimes both and simultaneously at others.
Possessing unquestionable integrity and a fidelity to direct reports, those in one's reporting chain, and overall unit mission
An exemplary teacher (strengths in DEI/antiracist pedagogy strongly preferred)
Demonstrated success and ongoing potential for productivity in research, publication, creative exhibitions, and/or performance.
The CRES department chair will report directly to the dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies and be an excellent communicator in an array of leadership and communication contexts.
A statement of pedagogy and leadership grounded in candidate's teaching philosophy and personal theory of democratic leadership is required.

AA/EEO Statement
As an AA/EEO employer, TCU recruits, hires, and promotes qualified persons in all job classifications without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ethnic origin, disability, genetic information, covered veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.

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