MAC colleagues,
I have posted the job description for the department’s chair position.  If you are interested or have any candidate suggestions, please contact me.  I am  scheduling meetings at AEJ with our dean for interested people.  I just stepped down as chair, in part to establish the Center referred to in the description, so certainly I am available to answer any questions about the position.  Please note that a Ph.D. is preferred not required.  
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
-kt

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Temple University
Department of Journalism
Professor and Chair

The ACEJMC-accredited Department of Journalism at Temple University invites applications and nominations for the faculty position of department chair
beginning September 2004, at the rank of full professor.

The chair will oversee the administrative operation of a department on Temple University’s main campus with 11 faculty members and with two degree programs: a Master of Journalism program with approximately 90 students, and an undergraduate journalism program with approximately 600 students and sequences in broadcast journalism, magazine, news-editorial, and photojournalism. The chair also will be involved in the department’s soon-to-be-established Center for Urban Journalism and the program’s new converged newsroom located at Temple’s Center City campus.  This Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab (MURL), used primarily by the capstone classes, is a key component in the department’s urban journalism-focused curriculum.  

Candidates for the position of department chair preferably will have a professional background in (and/or will have a distinguished record of research on) journalism, plus college-level administrative experience, documented teaching excellence, and a Ph.D. She or he also must have a desire to teach and advise our diverse student population. Candidates should have the academic credentials and professional reputation that warrant appointment as a senior faculty member at Temple.

Applicants should submit: (1) a cover letter indicating interest in the position and relevant professional and/or academic background, including any experience working with diverse populations and covering urban issues; (2) a resume or vita; (3) a statement of teaching interests/philosophy; (4) a statement of research/professional activity philosophy; and (5) the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses of at least three references.  Mail application materials to TBA,
Chair, Search Committee, Department of Journalism, Temple University, 2020 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122-6080.

Applications will be screened as they are received. All applications must be postmarked by TBA.

Temple University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution.


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"I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career.   I have lost
almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take
the game winning shot... and I missed.  And I have failed over
and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely...
...why I succeed." Michael Jordan

Karen M. Turner
Director, Broadcast Journalism sequence
Department of Journalism
2020 N. 13th Street
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215.204.8386 (voicemail)/ 215.204.1974 (fax)
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