Position Announcement: Penn State

[Bonnie J. F. Meyer]

Title: Position Announcement: Penn State

The Pennsylvania State University
College of Education
Department of Educational and School Psychology and Special Education
125 CEDAR Building, University Park, PA  16802-3109

Position Available:

Assistant / Associate Professor of Education (Educational Psychology)
This is a tenure-track position offered by the College of Education with the tenure line in Educational Psychology.

Beginning: Fall Semester, 2003

Appointment conditions:

This is a tenure track, 36-week appointment with the possibility of supplementary summer appointments in research and/or teaching.  Full University benefits apply.  Penn State has a strong commitment to the diversity of its workforce.  We encourage applications from individuals of diverse backgrounds.

Responsibilities:

*  Teach graduate or undergraduate courses in Educational Statistics and Measurement
*  Advise and mentor graduate students in Educational Psychology
*  Develop/continue successful program of scholarship in Educational Statistics or Measurement
*  Contribute to the generation of external funding
*  Provide service to the educational community

Required Qualifications:

1. Earned doctorate in Educational Psychology or closely related field by the time of appointment.

2. Relevant teaching experience in higher education.

3. Evidence of high quality scholarship relevant to Educational Statistics or Measurement.

4. Demonstrated commitment to teaching and advising graduate and undergraduate students

    commensurate with rank.
5. Ability to teach introductory and advanced courses in educational statistics.

6. Demonstrated commitment to collegiality and collaborative research efforts commensurate with  

                rank.
7. Experience in working with individuals of diverse backgrounds commensurate with rank.

Desired Qualification: A program of research on measurement/assessment issues.

The Pennsylvania State University

Penn State [http://www.psu.edu] is a comprehensive, multi-campus research university serving all regions of the Commonwealth, as well as the nation and the world in instruction, research, and service roles that require responsiveness to and support from society's public and private sectors.  As a land-grant university, Penn State has responsibility for providing a wide array of programs in the professional and technical disciplines, as well as a balanced offering of undergraduate and graduate programs in the arts and sciences.  Penn State shares with other major research universities the traditional responsibilities to discover, develop, preserve, and disseminate knowledge.

The College of Education

        The College of Education [http://www.ed.psu.edu] at Penn State was established in 1923 to deepen and extend knowledge about the formation and utilization of human capabilities.  It offers resident degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as an extensive outreach effort aimed at continuing professional development for educators at distant locations.  The College's research program is also extensive and College faculty members secured  $37 million in external support during the past three years from a wide range of national and state government agencies, private foundations, and corporations.  The College's location within a large, research oriented, land-grant university provides numerous opportunities for studying education from multidisciplinary perspectives in the context of a university-wide commitment to making life better for all citizens.

        The College houses five academic departments:  Adult Education, Instructional Systems, and Workforce Education and Development; Counselor Education, Counseling Psychology and Rehabilitation Services; Curriculum and Instruction; Education Policy Studies; and Educational and School Psychology and Special Education.  The departments offer five undergraduate majors to more than 3,300 students and 14 graduate programs, under authority of the Graduate School, to more than 1,200 students.  Recent surveys rank the Penn State College of Education among the top colleges, schools, and departments of education in the United States.

Department of Educational and School Psychology and Special Education (ESPSE):

Three programs constitute this Department: Educational Psychology, School Psychology, and Special Education.  The ESPSE department is a dynamic group of College faculty, staff, and students within Penn State's College of Education who

*       work to develop effective ways of teaching and evaluating both children and adults in a variety of                      educational settings across the life span.
*     are a community of scholars that base their teaching and practice on cutting edge research in the field.
*       are committed to the recruitment of excellent students.
*        value professionalism, integrity, diversity, and equity.

Our Department is known for conducting research on and preparing professionals to employ evidenced-based practices for working with at-risk and identified special needs populations.

The program in Educational Psychology [http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/edpsy/edpsy.htm] offers M.S. and Ph.D. programs for students specializing in (a) learning and instruction, or (b) applied measurement. The program offers a variety of graduate courses in learning, instruction, and measurement. In addition the program provides service courses in educational psychology and statistics for graduate and undergraduates in the College of Education and the University in general.
 Application procedures:

Applicant must submit a letter of application addressing the required qualifications for the position, current curriculum vitae, copies of official transcripts (where appropriate), up to three representative reprints or preprints of scholarly publications (if available), at least three letters of recommendation, and mail and e-mail addresses and telephone numbers of the academic references. Review of applications will begin on January 10, 2003 and continue until the position is filled. Send all materials to:

Bonnie J. F. Meyer, Chair
EDPSY Search Committee

Box LSEST, 125 CEDAR Building

University Park, PA  16802

Penn State is committed to affirmative action,
equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workforce.