3 tenure-track positions

The Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida Atlantic University is expanding its faculty with three new tenure-track positions to begin in August 2008. We are a young, dynamic, growing, and multidisciplinary Department looking for energetic faculty who can help us shape and implement our vision for the Department. We offer a PAB-accredited Master degree and a Bachelors degree in Urban and Regional Planning on the university’s downtown Fort Lauderdale campus, in the heart of one of the best urban/regional laboratories in the world.  

The faculty sees its role in planning research, education, and service as visionary and holistic. We want to provide leadership in producing nationally significant research and in serving national and international planning and planning education. We are expanding our national and international engagement to broaden our access to new ideas and practices, and embrace emerging technologies. We are committed to innovative research and teaching that both draws on planning’s visionary roots and looks ahead in new ways. Our focus is on educating future practitioners and researchers to enter national and global practice as leaders in managing change, developing new policy frameworks, and guiding decision-makers toward an urban future that is environmentally, economically, and humanly beneficial.

Further information about our Department/College can be found on our website at http://www.fau.edu/caupa

The positions:

Associate Professor (position number: 991152)
For this position, we are seeking a nationally recognized scholar with a strong, innovative research agenda and a demonstrated ability to secure funding. 

Two Assistant Professors (position numbers: 980609 & 980610)

For all positions, we are looking for candidates with interests in some combination of the following:

• environmental analysis;
• economic development, housing, real estate, and/or community development;
• international planning &  the impacts of globalization on planning;
• planning practice;
• emerging, cutting-edge concepts and theories in planning; and/or
• 3-D planning and visualization.

Candidates for all three positions should hold a Ph.D. in planning or a closely related field and have both a strong research agenda and a commitment to excellence in teaching and service. Salaries are competitive and commensurate with experience. All applications must be submitted on-line at https://jobs.fau.edu, no later than December 15, 2007. 

Florida Atlantic University is a comprehensive university designated a Carnegie Doctoral/Research-Intensive institution. About 26,000 students attend the University. Florida Atlantic University is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access Institution. Women and minority candidates are especially encouraged to apply.

For more information please contact Jaap Vos, Chair and Associate Professor at the conference at 954-415-1413.