Firm Name: University of Delaware
Firm Website: Landscape Architecture | Undergraduate Programs | University of Delaware (udel.edu)
Position Title: Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture: Horticulture & Design
Location: Newark, DE
Position Description:
The University of Delaware (UD) Department of Plant and Soil Sciences seeks outstanding candidates for a 9-month continuing track position of Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture: Horticulture and Design to begin Fall 2024. This position is 95% teaching, and 5% service.
The Continuing Track (CT) is UD’s full-time, continuing faculty line, similar to the tenure track. CT faculty enjoy contracts that increase in length over time and, like tenure-track faculty, receive full and generous benefits, including family-friendly benefits, as part of their compensation package. CT faculty with terminal degrees hold professorial rank and have a path to promotion up to full professor; CT faculty without terminal degrees are at the instructor rank and have a parallel path to promotion. All CT faculty earn sabbaticals, have opportunities to pursue research, participate in shared governance, and hold academic leadership positions. More information can be found on the CT Faculty Caucus page, , “Why Do You Want to be a CT Faculty at UD?”
This position supports the teaching of plant materials and plants and ecosystem related courses required for the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture curriculum. Students in Plant and Soil Sciences and Entomology and Wildlife Ecology also take these courses as a part of their major requirements. A successful candidate will have broad landscape architecture, horticulture and botany backgrounds and ability or proficiency to teach plant materials courses such as Spring and Fall Landscape Plants and Indigenous Woody Plants of the Eastern United States. A successful candidate will also be expected to teach core design studios at multiple Undergraduate levels and employ a range of project scales and complexities. These might include ecological planting design, landscape restoration, or plant or ecosystem-focused capstone projects. A strong background in current sustainability practices and environmental topics such as pollinator decline, invasive plants, sustainable landscape management, or ecosystem service provision in managed landscapes is preferred.
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