Steven House, Provost and VPAA, and Chris Fulkerson, AVP/CIO, jointly announced a call for applications for the next faculty fellow position in technology to continue advancing the relationship between faculty and the leadership of Instructional and Campus Technologies.
The Announcement
We are pleased to jointly announce a call for applications for the next faculty fellow position in technology to continue advancing the relationship between faculty and the leadership of Instructional and Campus Technologies. Randy Piland, Senior Lecturer in Communications will complete his two year term in December. Professor Piland offered workshops, supported summer online initiatives and served as a leader for the mobile tablet initiative. We would like to thank Randy for sharing his knowledge of technology and his willingness to help his colleagues find technical solutions as well as helping to foster an ongoing partnership with faculty.
The Faculty Fellow for Technology will liaison with faculty and technology staff in promoting and broadly communicating about new technologies at Elon. The fellow must be a full-time teaching faculty with interests in technology and new initiatives. The fellow will meet regularly with technology leadership, actively discuss academic technology projects, and widely share information with colleagues about new and changing technologies. Resources will include two course releases and increased access to technology and training while in the position. The appointment is for a 2-year term.
After consulting with Mat Gendle and Academic Council, we are pleased to announce that Amy Overman, ATACC Chair, and Christopher Waters, Assistant CIO, will co-chair the search committee. The search committee will make a recommendation to the Assistant Vice President for Technology and the Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs who will select the fellow at the end of the fall semester to begin work in Winter Term.
Please submit via email to Christopher Waters (cwaters@elon.edu) a letter of application explaining why you are interested in the position and how your background and experience are suitable to the role of Faculty Fellow for Technology by November 9, 2012.
The full committee is listed below.
- Co-Chair Amy Overman, Psychology
- Co-Chair Christopher Waters, Instructional and Campus Technologies
- Jeffrey Carpenter, Education
- Karen Nunez, Accounting
- Ray Johnson, Communications
- Michael Smith, Performing Arts
- Dave Powell, Computing Sciences
- Paula DiBiasio, Physical Therapy
- Connie Keller, Library
- Austin Rutherford, Student
- Joshua McGee, Student
Position Description
- Serve as advocate among academic departments, ATACC (academic technology and computing committee), and broader technology staff
- Attend regular planning and deployment strategy meetings with technology staff
- Partner in creating strategies for deploying new technologies with focus on pedagogy and support
- Assist in defining a plan for appropriate methods and media for communicating new services and support models to faculty
- Participate actively in discussions surrounding academic creative and research projects submitted to Teaching and Learning Technologies
- Assist in identifying peer faculty for training and development opportunities
- Projects could include investigation and proposal of models to further advance research computing or mobile technologies in teaching.