CLTA Newsletter September 2022

current information regarding vaccination
requirements and guidelines for employment at
UVA.
The University of Virginia, including the UVA
Health System which represents the UVA Medical
Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA
Physician’s Group and the Claude Moore Health
Sciences Library, are fundamentally committed to
the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe
diversity is excellence expressing itself through
every person’s perspectives and lived experiences.
We are equal opportunity and affirmative action
employers. All qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to
age, color, disability, gender identity or expression,
marital status, national or ethnic origin, political
affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy),
sexual orientation, veteran status, and family
medical or genetic information.
Associate Director of the Language and
Culture Center (LCC) (Suzhou, China)
Duke Kunshan University (DKU) invites
applications for the Associate Director of the
Language and Culture Center (LCC). The Language
and Culture Center is responsible for offering
language courses for undergraduate and graduate
DKU programs, including courses in English for
academic purposes, Chinese as a second language,
written and oral communication, and additional
languages. The LCC supports intercultural
communication among students and faculty at
DKU, helping facilitate the achievement of key
institution-wide goals that include the development
of students who can communicate lucidly and
navigate successfully diverse cultures and
languages. The Associate Director of the LCC will
assist the LCC Director in managing the LCC
faculty team and the courses offered by the LCC,
and also teach in the LCC. The position begins July
1, 2023. This is a tenure-track position.
Responsibilities and Duties: The duties of the
Associate Director will include the following:
• Teach 1.5 courses per semester within the LCC.
This teaching assignment will normally consist
of teaching one 4-credit or two 2-credit courses
per semester, in areas of the candidate’s
expertise, and one .5 coaching assignment in the
Writing and Language Studio.
• Assist the LCC Director with LCC
administrative duties, such as the following:
• Reviewing and improving curriculum and
courses.
• Helping plan course offerings, new courses, and
teaching assignments.
• Assisting with LCC faculty and staff searches.
Serving on reappointment and tenure review
committees.
• Reviewing annual faculty reports.
• Reviewing course evaluations.
• Mentoring LCC faculty in their teaching and
scholarship.
• Planning and delivering faculty orientation and
planning workshops.
• Planning and managing the LCC budget and
approving expenditures.
• Establishing new programs (e.g. summer
programs, community-facing programs).
Qualifications.
Required:
• Terminal degree/Ph.D. in a field related to
language education.
• Significant university-level teaching experience,
especially in languages or related fields.
• Administrative experience in higher education.
• Solid record of scholarship.
• Strong command of English.
Preferred
• Administrative experience in language teaching
programs.
• Already attained associate or full professor
academic rank.
• University working experience in East Asia.
• Strong command of Chinese and/or other
languages.
Applicants should provide a cover letter, a
curriculum vitae, and a teaching/research statement,
and should arrange to have three letters of reference
submitted. All materials should be submitted
through Academic Jobs Online: https://
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22568. Questions
about the position may be sent to lccsearch@dukekunshan.edu.cn
using “Associate
Director for LCC” as the subject line. Priority will
be given to applications received by November 1,
2022; applications will be accepted until the
position is filled.
DKU is a collaborative partnership of Duke
University, Wuhan University and the Municipality
of Kunshan, China (https://dukekunshan.edu.cn/).
Our campus provides an innovative and robustly
interdisciplinary undergraduate liberal arts
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