Vassar College: Director of Quantitative Reasoning Center

Vassar College invites applications from candidates for the position of founding Director of a new Quantitative Reasoning Center. The director will establish a Quantitative Reasoning Center within our Learning, Teaching and Research Center to enhance students' quantitative reasoning abilities and contribute to faculty development initiatives for teaching quantitative reasoning across the curriculum. The director's responsibilities include training and overseeing student peer tutors, including those in our Supplemental Instruction Program in math, chemistry and physics; consulting with faculty teaching courses that fulfill the College's Quantitative Reasoning requirement; teaching one or two courses yearly; and developing means to assess programs of the QRC.

Vassar's Learning, Teaching and Research Center was established in 2004. It currently houses a program in faculty teaching and research development, and a Writing Center. The director of the Quantitative Reasoning Center will work closely with the director of the LTRC and the director of the Writing Center to enhance student skills; provide programs to enrich faculty teaching and research; and collaborate with other college offices that support student learning, including the Offices of the Dean of Studies and Disability and Support Services. The new QRC is an eagerly awaited component of our comprehensive LTRC.

Located in the scenic mid-Hudson Valley, 90 miles north of New York City, Vassar College is a highly selective, residential, co-educational liberal arts college. Vassar is strongly committed to fostering a community that reflects the values of a liberal arts education and to promoting an environment of equality, inclusion and respect for difference. Vassar College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer, and applications from historically underrepresented groups are especially encouraged.

Successful applicants will demonstrate an ability to develop and lead a program that enhances quantitative reasoning skills consonant with the college's general education requirements. The ability to interact effectively with students and collaborate with faculty and staff is essential. A Ph.D. degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline is required, and experience teaching at the college level preferred. This is a full-time administrative position with some teaching opportunity. This assignment is expected to last for three years, with a possible extension.

To apply for this position, submit letter of application, CV, and a statement of your vision for a quantitative reasoning center. In addition, you must have three professional references submit letters of recommendation. All materials are to be submitted electronically at https://employment.vassar.edu: open the link there to "Search Postings" and then to Position Title, "Director of Quantitative Reasoning Center." Letters of recommendation can be submitted at this website as well, once a candidate has begun the application process. For full consideration, all materials should be submitted by March 1, 2009. The position will remain open until filled.

For further information, please visit www.vassar.edu and ltrc.vassar.edu. Send questions to QRCSearch@vassar.edu.