Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Employer:The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Architecture department invites applicants for a full-time faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, to commence fall 2025. Rank will be dependent on professional status and teaching experience.
The department seeks qualified individuals for a full-time critical review position (RISD’s version of tenure) to offer undergraduate and graduate-level instruction in the area of building, architectural tectonics, and fabrication. This is a design-plus position; successful candidates will teach undergraduate and graduate students, at the core and thesis levels in addition to teaching foundational, required, and advanced courses in their area of expertise.
The department values applicants with a demonstrated record of university-level teaching (core and advanced) and with a demonstrated record of scholarly contributions and/or exhibition/installation/built work. The department welcomes versatile applicants equally adept with AI/machine learning and hand tools, at home in the classroom and fabrication shop with demonstrated construction/fabrication experience. The department seeks candidates with demonstrated knowledge of and experience with the cultural traditions of building construction, coupled with an interest and ability in advancing new fabrication and construction techniques driven by digital processes and material technology.
RISD recognizes principles of social equity, inclusion, and diversity as fundamental to its academic mission as an art and design school. We understand these principles to require ongoing attention to difference and expansion of the forms of knowledge from which our curricula originate. RISD is engaged in the collective work of institutional transformation and would value applicants whose pedagogical and professional experiences have prepared them to foster equitable teaching and learning environments. We encourage applicants whose teaching and professional work (creative practice and/or academic scholarship) centers on bodies of knowledge from historically underrepresented communities. We are eager to welcome applicants who can help advance the institution’s social equity, inclusion, and diversity goals and those from groups whose underrepresentation in the American professoriate has been severe and long standing, including Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other People of Color, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, veterans, people with disabilities, and first-generation college graduates.
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Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) is an undergraduate and graduate college of art and design with approximately 2,500 graduate and undergraduate students. RISD has a critical review process, which is very similar to the tenure process. RISD supports faculty professional practice with sabbaticals, pre-critical review leave, conference funds, and professional development grants. For more information about RISD, please visit www.risd.edu.
RISD Architecture is one of the college’s large departments with over 200 students enrolled in two degree paths: a five-year B.Arch and a three-year M.Arch (with the possibility of advanced standing for completion of this graduate degree in two years). We are currently a faculty of 10 full-time, 4 visiting professors, and over 30 part-time members. We are fortunate to be one of a few departments of architecture in this country housed within a preeminent college of the arts, and we take advantage of this proximity by creating a milieu that is rich in media exploration, testing various materials and formats for the dissemination of architectural ideas. We approach architecture as a cultural discipline and teach design through experimentation, iteration, and critique. The context of the institution supports this approach, as the exploration of and experimentation with various materials and media serve the development and dissemination of architectural ideas for our students.
Central to the mission of our department, and our college, is a commitment to making racial, social, and environmental justice foundational to the education of the architect. As an art college, RISD has an activist student culture driving our community’s desire to make these important and substantive changes in the curriculum. Our students are engaged and creative, and upon graduating they become advocates for the built environment and the communities that architecture has historically underserved.
As teaching is key to the RISD experience, the department seeks a colleague whose practice or scholarly agendas work in tandem with their teaching (i.e. by evidencing how one’s area of expertise relates to curricular and pedagogical materials). Full-time faculty are also expected to participate in the department’s curricular development, and contribute to the life of the school through service, such as student advising, as well as departmental and school-wide committees.
The full-time faculty teaching load is five teaching units a year. In addition to teaching, full-time faculty are expected to maintain a dynamic professional practice, serve on college committees, advise students, participate in curriculum development and other departmental and/or divisional activities and projects, and contribute to the vibrancy of the intellectual life of the college.
For information about base pay for this position, please refer to Article XII “Salaries” (p. 19-22) in the Faculty Association Collective Bargaining Contract 2022-2025. The contract indicates the minimum base salary for each rank.
https://careers.risd.edu/postings/2360
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