Employment Opportunities
Currently, there is one job opening:
Assistant Professor for Graphic Design
The Department of Art at Mississippi State University seeks to hire one full-time tenure track Assistant Professor in Graphic Design to begin in Fall 2009. Salary commensurate with experience. Duties include teaching courses in Graphic Design, Typography, Advertising Design, Print Production, and Graphic Design History. Duties also include student advising, committee service, and the pursuit of an active body of research. Candidates required to have an MFA/terminal degree in graphic design or related field. Teaching experience required. Professional experience preferred. Candidates should be proficient with design applications including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Knowledge of Flash and Dreamweaver a plus. Information about the position is available on our website at http://www.msstate.edu/web/employment.html.
The Department of Art is located in the College of Architecture, Art, and Design. It has 300 Art majors, 20 full-time faculty and offers the BFA degree with emphasis areas in graphic design, ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. The department is accredited by NASAD. Information about the department is available at http://www.caad.msstate.edu. Mississippi State University, a land-grant and sea-grant institution, founded in 1878, is a Carnegie Doctoral/Research-extensive Institution located in Starkville, Mississippi, a city of 20,000 residents.
Review process will begin in the late fall of 2008 and applications will be accepted until position is filled. Send letter of application, list of three references with contact information, vita, unofficial transcripts, artist's statement, statement of teaching philosophy, CD of personal work and CD of student work along with SASE to Graphic Design Search Committee, Department of Art, P.O. Box 5182, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762.
MSU IS AN AA/EOE

