Assistant Professor Landscape Architecture- Resilient Open Space Design

Rutgers University

United States, New Jersey, New Brunswick

Nov 21, 2024

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Position Information

Recruitment/Posting Title	Assistant Professor Landscape Architecture- Resilient Open Space Design
Department	SEBS - Landscape Architecture
Salary	Commensurate With Experience
Posting Summary	Rutgers and SEBS are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (https://diversity.rutgers.edu). One of our main priorities is to diversify our faculty ranks as outlined in the SEBS/ NJAES DEI strategic plan to ensure our faculty composition reflects the diversity of our state and student population. We encourage applications from backgrounds underrepresented in the sciences and design fields including Black, Latine, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ persons. The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences ( SEBS) has the only landscape architecture program in the state. The department's mission is to provide a creative, analytic, and interdisciplinary approach to stewardship of the environment through planning and design. We engage students in art, science, theory, and practice with a commitment to equitable, sustainable, and resilient solutions that contribute to human and environmental health and well-being. This position bridges the gap between academically focused climate action and community grounded nature-based solutions to explore resilient alternatives to the natural, rural, farmland, suburban, and urban open space that exists across the state. The position will focus on applied research, community visioning and student service learning to develop nature-based solutions that focus on urban resilience, green infrastructure, city greening, long term resilience management and environmental community art to address climate change, creativity, cultural diversity, and human expression. Review of applications will begin January 6, 2025
Position Status	Full Time
Posting Number	24FA1251
Posting Open Date	11/25/2024
Posting Close Date	01/31/2025

Qualifications

Minimum Education and Experience	(1) MLA/MArch/Master of Planning or equivalent advanced degree; (2) evidence of professional practice and/or outreach experience; (3) interest in and ability to effectively teach design studio and seminars at undergraduate and graduate levels; (4) experience in grant-funded research and /or in engagement with diverse organizations and publics; (5) interest in and ability to contribute to the mission of the department. A PhD in landscape architecture or related field and a professional license in landscape architecture or planning is strongly desired but not required.
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Overview	The Department of Landscape Architecture in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, invites applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture position with an anticipated start date of September 1, 2025. We welcome participants in the landscape performance, environmental design, urban planning, participatory design and environmental justice fields. A faculty hire in Resilient Open Space Design, Management and Engagement is core to the mission of the department and education of future Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning professionals. The successful candidate will have access to centers of research on campus (such as the Rutgers Climate Energy Institute, The Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability, Institute of Food Nutrition and Health, Eagleton Institute for Politics, The Institute for Research on Women, Office of Urban Extension and Engagement) and engage with recognized research faculty within the department and the University community. Job duties include establishing and directing an independent research program, pursuing and securing grant funding, undergraduate and graduate teaching in design and planning studios and other courses, and service on departmental committees
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Quick Link to Posting	https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/239595
Campus	Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Home Location Campus	Cook (RU-New Brunswick)
City	New Brunswick
State	NJ
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