The Rutgers University Graduate School of Education located in New Brunswick, NJ has an extraordinary opportunity to have two scholarly leaders join our faculty as of September 1, 2010. Each position requires an earned doctorate and a body of work that merits appointment to a senior faculty position with tenure. Preference will be given to applicants with a distinguished record of teaching and research including an established record of external funding. We seek colleagues who can work with other faculty members to help our School and University advance ongoing efforts to improve the educational experiences and academic achievements of PK-16 students, especially those students who continue to be underserved in America’s classrooms.
The specific tenure home for each position will be determined based on the expertise of the candidate. Responsibilities for each position include: teaching and academic advising of undergraduate and graduate students, an active program of research including efforts to attract external funding, and contributing to the effective operation of the profession, the School, and the University.
The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Chair in Education
The late Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor served as a member of the Rutgers University faculty for 15 years, including appointments on the faculty of the Graduate School of Education, as the first incumbent of the Martin Luther King Jr. Chair, and as a visiting Professor in the Department of Africana Studies. Dr. Proctor was the first African-American faculty member at both the school and the university to have an endowed professorship named for him. Dr. Proctor served as President of Virginia Union and North Carolina A&T Universities, Pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church of New York, on the governing boards of the United Negro College Fund, National Urban League, Harvard Divinity School and in the Peace Corps before coming to Rutgers. This chair was established in honor of Dr. Proctor’s career at Rutgers, marked by excellence and leadership in teaching, scholarship, and service.
At the Graduate School of Education, he enriched the curriculum with courses in African-American Studies in education and ethics. He also recruited generations of students to the university for graduate studies, which were followed by careers as educational scholars and leaders. Dr. Proctor also served as Chair of the Rutgers Campaign for Community, Diversity, and Educational Excellence. This campaign raised funds to recruit outstanding students to prepare for careers as educational leaders via scholarships, and to develop pre-college programs that assist all students -- regardless of their backgrounds -- to prepare themselves for entry to the university. Professor Proctor held more than 50 honorary degrees, including one from Rutgers, which also awarded him the Rutgers medal for distinguished service. The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Chair honors his legacy and manifests the continuing commitment of the Graduate School of Education and University to his lifetime of work on issues of education and equity.
The search for the second Proctor Chair incumbent is reopened from 2008-09. The faculty member appointed to the tenured position is intended to hold the Chair for a period of five years (renewable) but serves at the pleasure of the Dean and/or the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. The new incumbent will have the opportunity and resources to work with the Dean to develop an original vision of the Proctor legacy and new initiatives to realize the core mission of advancing civic leadership and educational excellence. An annual report of activities and accomplishments supported by the Chair funds is required.
Applications should include: 1) a cover letter of introduction including names and contact information for references; references will be contacted only after initial screening and with the permission of the applicant; 2) a CV or resume; 3) a statement of research program or plan; 4) a sample of scholarly writing; and 5) a statement articulating a vision for continuing the mission of the Proctor Chair at Rutgers University.
Applications should be submitted electronically to:
proctor_chair_search@gse.rutgers.edu
The Rose and Nicholas DeMarzo Chair
Established in April 2009 by a bequest gift from the estate of Charles A. DeMarzo to honor his parents, Rose and Nicholas, the DeMarzo Chair is designed to honor, retain, or recruit eminent scholars in the field of teacher education (excluding social studies) for service on the faculty of the GSE. We are looking for scholars whose work makes significant contributions to teacher education theory, practice, or policy.
The establishment of the Rose and Nicholas DeMarzo Chair comes at an historic moment in American education. Researchers, school leaders, and educational policymakers agree that the most important factor in improving student achievement and closing achievement gaps is teacher quality. The Graduate School of Education faculty is dedicated to programs of research and practice focused on addressing the central questions that arise from this core finding. For example:
The faculty member appointed to the Rose and Nicholas De Marzo Chair will have the opportunity to develop a plan of research, teaching, and professional leadership to address these and related core questions about teacher quality, teacher education, and student achievement in collaboration with current GSE faculty and through the creation of new initiatives designed to position the Rutgers Graduate School of Education as a national leader in teacher education research, practice, and policy.
The faculty member appointed to the tenured position is intended to hold the Chair indefinitely, but serves at the pleasure of the Dean and/or the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. The inaugural DeMarzo Chair incumbent will have the opportunity and resources to work with the Dean to develop an original vision and initiatives to realize the core mission of advancing the field of teacher education. An annual report of activities and accomplishments supported by Chair funds is required.
Applications should include: 1) a cover letter of introduction including names and contact information for references; references will be contacted only after initial screening and with the permission of the applicant; 2) a CV or resume; 3) a statement of research program or plan; 4) a sample of scholarly writing; and 5) a statement articulating a vision for the DeMarzo Chair at Rutgers University.
Applications should be submitted electronically to:
demarzo_chair_search@gse.rutgers.edu
About New Jersey
Rutgers University serves one of the most densely populated, highly educated, rapidly growing, economically dynamic, ethnically diverse, and globally connected states in the United States. More than ten percent of New Jersey’s citizens have postgraduate degrees, and one in three are foreign-born or have a foreign-born parent. As the flagship university of this extraordinary state, Rutgers faces marvelous challenges: how to produce the research essential to future breakthroughs, how to prepare the graduates who will contribute to the state and the world, how to be the new “golden door” for this next generation of Americans, how to capitalize on religious, artistic, linguistic, culinary, and cultural diversity, and how to educate all students in the democratic traditions of this country.
Chartered in 1766, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is the eighth-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It has a unique history: from its inception as a colonial liberal arts college, Rutgers grew to become the land-grant college of New Jersey in 1864, and to assume full university status in 1924. Legislative acts of 1945 and 1956 designated it the State University of New Jersey.
Today, Rutgers is one of the leading public research universities in the nation. With nearly 50,000 students and over 9,000 faculty and staff on its three campuses in Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick, Rutgers is a vibrant academic community committed to the highest standards of teaching, research, and service.
A 2007 major reorganization of undergraduate education in New Brunswick reinvigorated the undergraduate experience for both students and faculty by combining the traditions and strengths of four undergraduate liberal arts colleges—Douglass, Livingston, Rutgers, and University—into a single School of Arts and Sciences.
With 27 schools and colleges, Rutgers offers over 100 undergraduate majors and more than 100 graduate and professional degree programs. The university graduates more than 10,000 students each year, and has more than 350,000 living alumni residing in all 50 states and on six continents. Rutgers also sponsors community initiatives in all 21 New Jersey counties. University wide, new degree programs, research endeavors, and community outreach are in development to meet the demands of the 21st century.
The Graduate School of Education
In 1893-94, the study of Education at Rutgers College was initiated by Eliot R. Payson with a course for graduating Classics students. A professional program in Education was later developed by Alexander Inglis who became Rutgers’ first full-time time Professor of Education in 1912. His successor, Charles H. Elliot, made Education a statewide endeavor by building a large network of extension courses throughout New Jersey.
A Department of Education within Rutgers College was formed in 1917 and a School of Education was formed in 1923, offering bachelor’s degrees in Education. In 1930, master and doctor of education degrees were added to the School of Education. In 1954, responsibility for the preparation of K-12 teachers was shifted out of the School of Education and back to the campus’s various undergraduate liberal arts colleges. In 1960, the Rutgers BOG changed the name of the School to the Graduate School of Education. This renaming recognized the role of the School as a graduate institution in the preparation of educational personnel.
In 1980, during a reorganization and consolidation of the faculty groups in New Brunswick, teacher education and the undergraduate college faculty who were primarily associated with that task were again sent back to the Graduate School of Education which had not prepared teachers for over 25 years. The programs that were in place in the colleges stayed largely intact in the GSE for another 15 years, until 1995. At the time, the GSE faculty shifted teacher preparation to a Five-year program in which New Brunswick undergraduates are admitted in their junior year. Upon completion of the program, students will have earned a bachelor’s degree in a liberal arts area and a master’s degree in education.
The design of this program recognizes the need for prospective teachers to receive a rigorous liberal arts education with training in a discipline as well as in pedagogy. The GSE’s teacher education and educational administration programs have been granted pre-accreditation status by the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC). In 1998, a Ph.D. in Education program was developed. GSE now offers both Ed.D. and Ph.D. in Education programs. The GSE is a member of the Carnegie Professional Educational Doctoral (CPED) network and is currently revising its doctoral program (Ed.D. and Ph.D.) offerings in light of trends occurring at both the local, national, and international levels.
Please explore our website to learn more about the Graduate School of Education. The website has information about our faculty, students, programs, news, and events. The Faculty/Research tab on our Homepage contains links to our Centers and Institutes including the National Institute of Early Education Research; the Center for Effective School Practices; the Center for Educational Policy Analysis-NJ; the Rutgers Institute for Improving Student Achievement; and the Robert B. Davis Institute for Learning. Rutgers GSE and other partners constitute the Regional Educational Laboratory: Mid-Atlantic sponsored by the US DOE’s Institute for Education Sciences.
Finally, visit http://www.gse.rutgers.edu/southafrica/site/default.asp to learn about GSE’s South Africa Initiative.
The Rutgers GSE has been consistently ranked as one of “America’s Best” graduate schools of education in the annual US News & World Report survey. At present the School is ranked #38 in the US News & World Report survey.
Rutgers University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and a NSF ADVANCE Institution.