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University of South Carolina – DIRECTOR, School of Journalism and Mass Communica tions, College of Information and Communica tions, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. The University of South Carolina, Colum bia, invites applications and nominations for the position of Director of the School of Jour nalism and Mass Communications. The School is part of the College of Information and Communications, which also includes the School of Library and Information Science, and the Director holds the position of Associate Dean of this College. The Director reports di rectly to the Dean of the College. The Director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications is the top aca demic and administrative officer in the School. The Director oversees all undergraduate and graduate faculty and programs, staff, budgets,
resource development and allocation. The Di rector provides academic and administrative leadership while representing the School to a wide range of campus and professional con stituencies. The School is especially interested in attracting candidates with strong academic and/or professional credentials (earned doc torate preferred) and national reputations, as well as proven leadership skills, vision and management experience. The qualifications of candidates should also include a record of and continuing commitment to scholarly and pro fessional achievement commensurate with appointment as a tenured full professor in the School and commitment to the School’s dual track (academic and professional) faculty tenure and promotion system. The Director should demonstrate the ability to work collab oratively with the Director of the School of Li brary and Information Science, and commitment to (and ideally experience with) maintaining the School’s accreditation with the Accrediting Council on Education in Jour nalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC). The position will be available after August 1, 2016. The School of Journalism and Mass Com munications offers Bachelor of Arts degrees in six major areas of study – journalism, elec tronic journalism, advertising, public relations, visual communications and mass communica tions. The School also confers the Master of Arts, Master of Mass Communication and Doc tor of Philosophy degrees. The School enrolls approximately 1,500 undergraduate and 75 graduate students annually. The School has enjoyed consistent and sustained growth in its accomplishments in academic and profes sional areas, and will begin fall 2015 classes in a new 55,000 square foot facility.
Information about the School of Journal ism and Mass Communications, the University of South Carolina, the Columbia area and the state of South Carolina is available on the School’s Web site: http://www.jour.sc.edu. The University of South Carolina in Colum bia, South Carolina, is the major research insti tution of the University of South Carolina system and its largest campus, enrolling ap proximately 21,000 undergraduate students and approximately 8,000 students in graduate and professional programs. USC Columbia of fers over 320 degrees at the bachelor's, mas ter's, doctoral, and professional program levels. It is among America’s oldest and most comprehensive public universities, and is one of only 40 public universities to earn the Carnegie Foundation’s toptier designations in both research activity and community engage ment. Applications and Nominations: The search committee will begin reviewing applications on September 21, 2015. Applicants should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae and names of three references either by regu lar mail or as PDFs in an email to: Director Search Committee c/o Nancy Twohey at: twohey@mailbox.sc.edu School of Journalism and Mass Communi cations University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 The chair of the Director Search Commit tee is Dr. Jed Lyons. Applicants may contact Dr. Lyons at: lyons@sc.edu or (803) 7779552. The University of South Carolina is an affir mative action, equal opportunity employer. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. The University of South Carolina is re sponsive to the needs of dual career couples.
Two AEJMC Members Receive Inaugural “Scholarsourcing” Book Contracts Two AEJMC members have been selected to receive the inaugural book contracts in the new “Scholarsourcing” ini"a"ve from AEJMC and Peter Lang Publishing. The two proposals, selected by AEJMC members, are Who’s a Journalist: What’s News in the Digital Age by Deb Aikat, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Global Mass Communica!on and Journalism Research by Alexis Tan, Washington State. Scholarsourcing is based on the concept of crowdsourcing. AEJMC members were invited to upload abbreviated book proposals to an online database last fall, enabling other members to browse, comment and vote on the ideas they felt were most promising. The only requirements were that proposed books address the mission of AEJMC and be relevant to journal ism or mass communica"on. Authors of the proposals that gained the most member support were then invited by Peter Lang to provide more extensive proposals. These were reviewed by a fivemember AEJMC Scholarsourcing Commi#ee, which made the final selec"ons. The Scholarsourcing series, the brainchild of Peter Lang Senior Acquisi"ons Editor Mary Savigar and AEJMC Past Presi dent Paula Poindexter, represents AEJMC’s first venture in book publishing. It reimagines the way that scholarly books are proposed, peerreviewed and awarded contracts amidst ongoing change in the journalism and publishing industries. Entries for the second year of Scholarsourcing can be uploaded beginning Sept. 1.
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