Assistant/Associate Professor-Communication Design

Tenure-Track Faculty Appointment

 (Rank/Title commensurate w/ Credentials)

Myron E. Ullman Jr. School of Design

College of Design, Architecture, Art, & Planning

The College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) at the University of Cincinnati invites applications for the Communication Design faculty position in the top-ranked Myron E. Ullman Jr. School of Design (SoD) at the rank of Assistant/Associate Professor (rank/title commensurate with credentials).  The School of Design intends to hire up to three (3) qualified faculty members to commence employment in fall 2020.

The College of DAAP has as its primary mission the creation of a better cultural and design environment. The Myron E. Ullman Jr. School of Design’s role in advancing that mission is to prepare our approximately 700 undergraduate and graduate students to be responsible professionals and citizens in a complex and evolving world. We achieve this through a distinctive, rigorous, carefully sequenced curriculum that includes a substantial cooperative education program component dating back 100 years. This curricular model, expressed in classrooms, research labs, and professional offices all over the world, integrates practice and theory. It inspires interdisciplinary projects and builds solid corporate partnerships, and contributes to our strength as a leading design institution.

The Myron E. Ullman Jr. School of Design aims to prepare its students to be skilled professionals who can ably work in local and global markets while respecting the diversity of the human community. The Myron E. Ullman Jr. School of Design is innovative in teaching and in transforming the design disciplines by infusing learning with the newest design thinking methods and technologies. Through inspired interdisciplinary projects and solid corporate partnerships, the Myron E. Ullman Jr. School of Design is devoted to furthering its role as a leading design institution.

Our undergraduate and graduate programs empower students in our Myron E. Ullman Jr. School of Design with a core of knowledge that provides a solid educational base. Our students are prepared for careers in fashion, communication design, and industrial design by a passionate faculty, rigorous academic endeavors, and a world-class professional practice (co-op) program.

Communication Design: In this program, students receive a foundation in communication problem solving. The core of the curriculum is a series of sequential design studios that help students develop critical and visual thinking along with essential design processes. Students develop in areas including graphic design, interaction design and motion design, and reinforce their skills in a unique 5-year curriculum alternating education and professional practice experiences. Faculty develop research or creative work in a broad range of areas.

Responsibilities: Includes a full-time teaching load of 18 credit hours per academic year, which entails developing and delivering course content, projects, and supporting materials for skill-based demonstrations incorporating theory, practice and professional applications in communication design. Teaching will primarily occur at the undergraduate level but may include opportunities to teach in the Master of Design program. Candidates will be expected to conduct and publish research in the field of communication design and, in time, will also be expected to provide leadership in bridging theory and practice of communication design and form and mentor teams of faculty and students for research initiatives and curricular development within the program. Successful candidates are expected to maintain current knowledge and skills related to the field of communication design, which includes critical thinking, problem solving, visual composition, typography, image-making, data visualization, digital media production, user-interface/experience, design history, theory, and methods, and collaboration. A full-time faculty member serves on various School, College, and/or University committees.

Minimum Qualifications include all of the following prior to effective date of the appointment:

• Master’s degree in Communication Design or Interaction Design or Graphic or a related field
• Minimum two years of professional experience in communication design or a related field
• Candidates should possess a foundation in the fundamentals of Communication Design, which needs to be demonstrated in portfolio and/or teaching materials and outcomes (if applicable)
• Show potential for producing research and/or creative work in these or related fields based on the record of previous research and/or creative work as demonstrated in portfolio or CV
• At the Associate rank, two academic years of teaching at the University level (post-graduate degree) is required.

The position is available August 15, 2020. Review of applications will begin January 1, 2020.  For more information about the School of Design and the Programs, please visit: https://daap.uc.edu/academics/sod.

Application Process: Interested applicants must apply directly at jobs.uc.edu (Req #40068). In order to be considered for this position, please upload:

1. CV/Resume
2. Cover Letter
3. Statement of Teaching Philosophy
4. Three References
5. Portfolio of Candidate Work (submit as a link or web address)
6. Portfolio of Work Created by Students Under Candidate Teaching – if applicable (submit as a link or web address)

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As a UC employee, and an employee of an Ohio public institution, if hired you will not contribute to the federal Social Security system, other than contributions to Medicare. Instead, UC employees have the option to contribute to a state retirement plan (OPERS, STRS) or an alternative retirement plan (ARP).

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