Assistant or Associate Professor-Bob Schieffer College of Communication

Assistant or Associate Professor-Bob Schieffer College of Communication

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• Full-time
• Opening at : Jul 12 2024 at 10 : 45 CDT
• Schieffer College of Communication

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Application Deadline :

Open Until Filled. Review of applications starts September 3, 2024.

Position Details :

This full-time faculty position is on-campus and in-person.

The Bob Schieffer College of Communication at Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth, Texas, invites applications for a full-time, on-campus, in-person tenure-track assistant or associate professor in its Department of Communication Studies or its Department of Strategic Communication beginning in January 2025 (preferred) or August 2025.

Candidates must possess a Ph.D. in Communication Studies or Strategic Communication (e.g., advertising or public relations) and provide evidence of skilled teaching and peer-reviewed scholarship.

We seek applications from teacher-scholars who can contribute to the Schieffer College’s social scientific approach to the study of communication, and who can be appointed associate director of the Schieffer Media Insights Lab and faculty director of a post-baccalaureate certificate program in digital and social media analysis being launched by the lab and the college.

The Schieffer Media Insights Lab, opened in fall 2023, was created to address how today’s communicators can understand who, what, where, when, why and how audiences whether sports fans, voters, consumers, company stakeholders, employees or competitors are thinking, feeling and behaving.

The lab provides AI-powered social media listening and facial expression analysis tools and training to help faculty teacher-scholars and their students identify implications for effective and ethical communication.

The lab’s associate director will work in concert with the lab director to serve the needs of Schieffer College faculty and students, TCU colleagues and programs, and Fort Worth community stakeholders in learning to use analytical tools to measure the reach and impact of digital and social media.

The post-baccalaureate certificate program in digital and social media analysis will be launched by the Schieffer Media Insights Lab in 2025.

The certificate consists of four three-credit courses that will provide knowledge and skills to address contemporary issues using social and digital media data and tools.

The certificate program is designed for working professionals seeking to enhance their social and digital media skills, and for individuals seeking new skills to improve their career prospects.

Courses will use the powerful analytical tools of the Schieffer Media Insights Lab to ethically curate and analyze data to solve important communication issues.

To meet the needs of working professionals and students beyond the Fort Worth / Dallas area, we anticipate offering the certificate in an online, synchronous format during summer sessions.

We specifically seek candidates whose scholarly work examines digital and social media as they intersect with areas of strength in our Communication Studies Department (communication technology, health, interpersonal or organizational communication, or social influence in communication) or in our Strategic Communication Department (advertising, integrated digital communication, media planning, media analytics and measurement, media technology, or public relations).

As Schieffer Media Insights Lab associate director and digital and social media analysis certificate director, the successful candidate’s teaching load will be reduced from the standard annual 3-2 teaching load for tenure-stream faculty to an annual teaching load of 2-1 due to the administrative leadership duties.

As tenure-stream faculty, the successful candidate also will receive course reductions in the first and fourth years on tenure track to support progress toward tenure.

The administrative appointment is made on a three-year renewable basis and subject to annual evaluation by the Schieffer College dean with feedback obtained from relevant stakeholders (lab clients, certificate students, etc.).

The successful candidate’s faculty appointment would be located in either the Communication Studies Department or Strategic Communication Department, where the department chair and department faculty would conduct the candidate’s tenure and / or promotion reviews.

The successful candidate would be expected to teach some of the relevant department’s core courses (such as interpersonal communication, organizational communication or communication theory in Communication Studies, or advertising, public relations, research or campaigns in Strategic Communication).

In either department, the successful candidate would have opportunities to teach or develop courses related to their area of specialization in the department’s undergraduate and master’s degree programs.

Candidates seeking to be appointed at the associate professor level are expected to possess experiences and qualifications commensurate with that rank, such as having earned tenure at another university, completing at least five years of full-time university teaching experience, and possessing a record of significant peer-reviewed scholarly publication.

Department Details :

The Schieffer College Department of Communication Studies is the academic home to 500 students, who complete the bachelor of science degree, the master of science degree, or the minor.

The department also offers TCU’s core essential competency in effective oral communication and houses TCU’s nationally ranked speech and debate program.

The department’s faculty regularly publish in top tier journals and are active in the National Communication Association.

The master’s degree program ranks among the most research productive in the nation and has a strong track record of placing students in professional positions and doctoral programs.

The Schieffer College Department of Strategic Communication is the academic home to 450 students, who complete the bachelor of science degree or the master of science degree.

The department’s faculty regularly publish in top tier journals and are active in such organizations as the American Academy of Advertising and the Institute for Public Relations Research.

As well, the department participates annually in the National Student Advertising Competition, is home to an award-winning student-led advertising and public relations agency, and to a Public Relations Students Society of America chapter and an AAF student chapter, Ad Association.

Faculty also lead an annual Non-Profit Communicators Conference and the Certified Public Communication Program.