[Zbrafish] tenure track positions in biology

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The Department of Biology at The College of New Jersey will be 
conducting three searches for tenure-track faculty, as outlined below:

THREE TENURE-TRACK BIOLOGY FACULTY POSITIONS

Organismal Biology, Genetics, and Biology Education/Pedagogy

The Department of Biology at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) invites 
outstanding applicants for three tenure-track faculty positions, 
starting August 2009. Teaching and research are mutually supportive 
activities at TCNJ. Candidates should be strongly committed to the 
teacher-scholar model in a primarily undergraduate, residential 
institution and to maintaining both high quality teaching and an active 
and productive research program involving highly motivated 
undergraduates. Faculty members also serve as academic advisors and have 
service responsibilities within the College. A research laboratory and 
competitive start-up funds will be provided. The Biology Department is 
housed in a modern biology building that offers state-of-the-art 
teaching and research facilities and instrumentation. For further 
information about our program, please visit: 
http://www.tcnj.edu/~biology/ <http://www.tcnj.edu/%7Ebiology/>.

We seek broadly trained candidates who also have potential to contribute 
collaboratively to interdisciplinary curricular and scholarly efforts 
within the School of Science and at the College. In addition to the 
courses listed below, teaching responsibilities may include rotation 
through either majors and/or non-majors introductory courses.

1) *Organismal Biology *(Assistant Professor) – to teach a 
junior/senior-level course that fulfills the
department’s organismal-level biology requirement, an upper-level course 
in area of specialty, and
one of our core courses. Research in any area of animal organismal 
biology will be considered.

2) *Genetics *(Assistant Professor) –* *to teach our core course in 
genetics and an upper-level course(s) in area of specialty. Research in 
any area of genetics will be considered.

3) *Biology Education/Pedagogy *(Assistant or Associate Professor) – to 
teach an interdisciplinary science course to elementary education 
majors, a methods course to science majors preparing for secondary 
teacher certification, and potentially a biology course in area of 
specialty; conduct research in the area of biology education/pedagogy; 
and provide leadership in emerging science education initiatives and 
funding opportunities.

TCNJ is a highly selective, public institution that has earned national 
recognition for its commitment to excellence. TCNJ emphasizes the 
residential experience for its 5,900 undergraduate students, who benefit 
from a 12-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio and an average class size of 
only 20 students. TCNJ is one of only five public institutions included 
on /Barron//’//s Profiles of American Colleges/ list of the 75 “most 
competitive” colleges and universities in the United States, and of 
those five, TCNJ is the only primarily undergraduate institution 
included. TCNJ’s campus encompasses 289 beautiful tree-lined acres in 
suburban Ewing, NJ, which is located between Trenton and Princeton in 
the historic Delaware Valley, and is convenient to Philadelphia, New 
York, the Jersey shore, and the Pocono Mountains.

Candidates should have a Ph.D. (or equivalent in education, content 
pedagogy, or a related field for the Education position) and 
post-doctoral experience is preferred (or appropriate experience at the 
P-20 level for Education position); however, meritorious ABD candidates 
will be considered. To apply, send a letter of application; current 
curriculum vitae; statement of teaching philosophy; statement of 
research interests and goals; representative publications; all graduate 
and undergraduate transcripts; and three letters of recommendation to: 
Faculty Search (indicate position), Department of Biology, The College 
of New Jersey, P.O. Box 7718, Ewing, NJ 08628. All materials must be 
received as hard copies. Review of applications will begin September 15, 
2008 and will continue until the positions are filled.

To enrich education through diversity, TCNJ is an Affirmative Action 
/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and members of underrepresented 
groups are encouraged to apply.


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