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December 2011
News
The School of Planning at Dalhousie University invites applications for the position of Director, starting in July 2012.
Dalhousie University, located in the heart of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is one of Canada's leading comprehensive research and teaching universities. Halifax occupies an unsurpassed natural setting on the Atlantic coast and is the academic, cultural, and economic centre of Atlantic Canada.
The School of Planning is one of two constituent schools in the Faculty of Architecture and Planning. The School serves the Atlantic Region of Canada as the only professional planning school east of Quebec. The School has seven regular faculty (including the Director), longstanding part-time and adjunct faculty from the professional sector, and an enrollment of about 40 graduate and 160 undergraduate students. It offers two professional degrees recognized by the Canadian Institute of Planners: the Bachelor of Community Design (Honours) and the Master of Planning. The School also offers a general undergraduate program in Community Design that enables joint degrees in association with the College of Sustainability and with Environmental Programs in the Faculty of Science. The School also offers a research-based Master of Planning Studies for practicing planners.
The School of Planning seeks to advance the planning and design professions and academy through teaching, research, and community service. We see planning as a broad and collaborative enterprise uniting diverse interests to create rich and vibrant communities. For us, the essential ingredients of planning are land and environmental concerns, people and social context, and their expression in settlement patterns. We excel at education and research that is community-based and design-focused. As a School, we engage in collaborative decision-making for the future, following the processes we advocate in planning and design practice.
We are looking for a new Director, eligible for tenure and for appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level, who will lead the School in expanding its capacity in program development, practice-based education, and research. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated ability to effect change, to facilitate collaboration, and to make exceptional contributions to planning and design education, research, or practice. We encourage applications from professionals and academics in planning, landscape architecture, and urban design fields. Applicants who are practicing professionals must be members in good standing in their professional associations and must hold an advanced degree. Ideally, applicants from the academy will hold a PhD. Applicants must be eligible for membership in the Canadian Institute of Planners with preference being given to applicants with academic qualifications in planning.
The Director of the School of Planning actively engages in teaching core and elective courses in the graduate and undergraduate programs. In addition to administration and teaching, the Director may also undertake research or professional practice. In keeping with the School's community-based philosophy, the successful candidate will understand the planning opportunities and challenges faced by rural communities and smaller urban centres and will be comfortable working with communities through an interdisciplinary, design-based approach.
The Director serves a term of four years, following which he or she joins the School as a regular faculty member or chooses to apply for an additional term through an internal review process.
Candidates will provide a statement describing their approach to administration, their teaching philosophy, and their career achievements in administration, teaching, research or professional practice. Candidates will submit a CV, evidence of teaching accomplishments (e.g. syllabi, course evaluations), and examples of recent, peer-reviewed published work or professional planning or design projects. Candidates will arrange for three referees to submit letters of reference directly to the Chair of the Search Committee. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Dalhousie University is an Employment Equity/Affirmative Action employer. The University encourages applications from qualified Aboriginal people, persons with a disability, racially visible persons and women.
The review of applications will commence on Monday, January 16, 2012.
For more information about the School of Planning, Dalhousie University and Halifax, please go to these websites:
http://architectureandplanning.dal.ca/planning/
http://www.dal.ca/
http://www.halifax.ca/
Please send applications to:
Dr. Patricia Manuel
Chair, School of Planning Search Committee
School of Planning, Dalhousie University
P.O. Box 15000
5410 Spring Garden Road
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
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