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Faculty Sought for University of Aizu, Japan
| Position: | Faculty (tenured at Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level, based on qualifications) |
| University: | Center for Language Research School of Computer Science and Engineering University of Aizu |
| Location: | Aizu, Japan |
| Application Due: | 25 February 2008 |
| Contact: | position@u-aizu.ac.jp |
| Start Date: | At a mutually convenient date between 1 April and 1 October 2008 |
Qualifications:
- Doctorate (in hand or nearly complete), with specialization(s) in applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, testing and assessment, technical communication, English for science and technology, computer-assisted language learning, or related areas.
- Scholarly publications, presentations, and professional experience
- Native or near-native English-speaker proficiency
- Ability to teach/research academic and workplace English for students, faculty, and working professionals in computer science, IT, and related technical/business fields
Duties:
Teach four to five courses per semester (one course meets for 90 minutes each week), develop original innovative instruction, participate in projects, serve on committees, conduct research, network internationally, and publish widely
Salary:
Based on experience, qualifications, and rank assigned
Benefits:
- Subsidized furnished housing in faculty apartments within walking distance of the university
- Large, well-equipped private office in modern building
- New-employee allowance for computer equipment
- Well-equipped, air-conditioned, high-tech classrooms
- Annual budget for research, domestic conference travel, academic memberships, etc.
- Eligibility for one annual overseas conference trip
- Internal grant opportunities for special research projects/conferences
- Consulting and other business activities permitted
- Subsidies for special extra-curricular classes
- Winter utilities allowance
- Two bonuses per year
- Full-time employment till age 65 with retirement and health benefits
- One-way transportation costs to Aizuwakamatsu
- Shipping expense allowance
- Scenic setting close to ski and hot spring resorts, national parks, rivers, lakes, mountains, museums, castle, historical district, shopping
- Only two and a half hours from Tokyo by train
Submission Package:
- Cover letter
- CV
- Copies of two representative papers
- Three recent letters of recommendation
- Photocopies of university diplomas
- URLs of any online work or educational materials
All documents should be sent to the following address (hardcopy or digital)
Professor Yuko Kesen
Office of Planning and Management
University of Aizu
Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima 965-8580 JAPAN
Attention: CLR Faculty Selection CommitteeEmail: position@u-aizu.ac.jp
The University of Aizu is the first university in Japan solely dedicated to computer science and engineering. It has approximately 1,200 students at the undergraduate and graduate level, and about half of its faculty are non-Japanese, coming from roughly 12 different countries. The University is officially bilingual and all official meetings/documents are conducted/printed in both English and Japanese.
The University of Aizu is located in Aizuwakamatsu City, a historic castle town of scenic beauty with a population of nearly 120,000. For more information about the university, please visit our web page: http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/.