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<div>This comes from Molly Shanley, at Vassar, via Corri Taylor</div>
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color="#000000"><b>Vassar College: Director of Quantitative Reasoning
Center</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Vassar College invites
applications from candidates for the position of founding Director of
a new Quantitative Reasoning Center. The director will establish a
Quantitative Reasoning Center within our Learning, Teaching and
Research Center to enhance students' quantitative reasoning abilities
and contribute to faculty development initiatives for teaching
quantitative reasoning across the curriculum. The director's
responsibilities include training and overseeing student peer tutors,
including those in our Supplemental Instruction Program in math,
chemistry and physics; consulting with faculty teaching courses that
fulfill the College's Quantitative Reasoning requirement; teaching one
or two courses yearly; and developing means to assess programs of the
QRC.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Vassar's Learning, Teaching
and Research Center was established in 2004. It currently houses a
program in faculty teaching and research development, and a Writing
Center. The director of the Quantitative Reasoning Center will work
closely with the director of the LTRC and the director of the Writing
Center to enhance student skills; provide programs to enrich faculty
teaching and research; and collaborate with other college offices that
support student learning, including the Offices of the Dean of Studies
and Disability and Support Services. The new QRC is an eagerly awaited
component of our comprehensive LTRC.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Located in the scenic
mid-Hudson Valley, 90 miles north of New York City, Vassar College is
a highly selective, residential, co-educational liberal arts college.
Vassar is strongly committed to fostering a community that reflects
the values of a liberal arts education and to promoting an environment
of equality, inclusion and respect for difference. Vassar College is
an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer, and applications
from historically underrepresented groups are especially
encouraged.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Successful applicants will
demonstrate an ability to develop and lead a program that enhances
quantitative reasoning skills consonant with the college's general
education requirements. The ability to interact effectively with
students and collaborate with faculty and staff is essential. A Ph.D.
degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline is required, and
experience teaching at the college level preferred. This is a
full-time administrative position with some teaching opportunity. This
assignment is expected to last for three years, with a possible
extension.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">To apply for this position,
submit letter of application, CV, and a statement of your vision for a
quantitative reasoning center. In addition, you must have three
professional references submit letters of recommendation. All
materials are to be submitted electronically at</font> <a
href="https://employment.vassar.edu"><font
face="Arial"><u>https://employment.vassar.edu</u></font></a><font
face="Arial" color="#000000">: open the link there to "Search
Postings" and then to Position Title, "Director of Quantitative
Reasoning Center." Letters of recommendation can be submitted at
this website as well, once a candidate has begun the application
process. For full consideration, all materials should be submitted by
March 1, 2009. The position will remain open until
filled.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">For further information,
please visit</font> <a href="http://www.bowdoin.edu"><font
face="Arial"><u>www.Vassar.edu</u></font></a><font face="Arial"
color="#000000"> and ltrc.vassar.edu. Send questions to</font> <a
href="mailto:QRCSearch@vassar.edu"><font
face="Arial"><u>QRCSearch@vassar.edu</u></font></a><font face="Arial"
color="#000000">.</font></div>
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