COLLEGE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Full-time Faculty Positions
Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology (IST) invites applications for several tenure-track positions in Library and Information Science, Information Systems, and Software Engineering at the assistant, associate, or full professor level. We welcome applications with a wide variety of teaching and research interests. We are particularly interested in applicants in the following areas:
Digital libraries
Digital preservation
Information security
Information architecture
Information representation and retrieval
Healthcare informatics
Human-computer interaction
Software engineering
The successful candidate will have:
A completed doctorate in library and
information science or a related field
Evidence of excellence in teaching and research
Interest in a highly collaborative faculty
environment
Candidates for
senior positions should have established research records and success in
obtaining external research funding. Joint appointments with other Drexel
academic units are also a possibility.
The IST view of information is broad,
multidisciplinary, and practical. IST continues to evolve as an innovative
leader in educating information professionals in the twenty-first century,
combining high quality teaching and research in a broad, multidisciplinary, and
collaborative environment. We offer three BS degrees, three Masters
degrees, and the PhD. The MS(LIS) degree is highly ranked, both overall
and for specializations in information systems and digital librarianship within
the MS(LIS) degree. Faculty and student interests span a broad spectrum of
library and information science areas. Full-time PhD students are
supported either through faculty research grants from the National Science
Foundation, the Institute for Library and Museum Services, and other funding
agencies, or while performing other research or teaching related activities in
the College.
All programs emphasize applied research, with a tradition of both quantitative and qualitative research that encourages interdisciplinary activity. We consider experience in industry a plus.
Drexel is a privately endowed technology university founded in 1891. With approximately 20,000 students, it has one of the largest undergraduate cooperative education programs in the nation, with formal relationships in place with over 1500 local, national, and multi-national companies. Drexel is located on Philadelphia’s Avenue of Technology in University City and at the hub of the academic, cultural, and historical resources of the nation’s fourth largest metropolitan region. Philadelphia is also the midpoint of a mid-Atlantic technology corridor that stretches from New York City (100 miles north) to Washington, DC (135 miles south).
Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and names and contact information of at least three references to:
Dr. Denise E. Agosto, Chair
IST Search Committee
College of Information Science &
Technology
Drexel
University
3141 Chestnut
Street
Philadelphia, PA
19104
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Review of applications will begin immediately and
will continue until the positions are filled. Drexel is an Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and encourages applications from women,
members of minority groups, disabled individuals and veterans.
Members of the Search Committee will
be available at the ASIST and ALISE annual and mid-winter meetings to discuss
these open faculty positions.