Assistant Professor Of Digital Media

Job Title:Assistant Professor of Digital Media
Location: Kennesaw, Georgia
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Job ID: 265572
About Us

For more than 50 years, Kennesaw State University has been known for its entrepreneurial spirit and sense of community. A leader in innovative teaching and learning, Kennesaw State is located just north of Atlanta, and combines a suburban setting on two metro-Atlanta campuses in Kennesaw and Marietta. As one of Georgia's largest universities, Kennesaw State offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, including a growing number of doctoral programs. A member of the University System of Georgia, Kennesaw State is a Carnegie-designated doctoral research institution (R2) committed to becoming a world-class academic institution positioned to broaden its academic and research missions and expand its scope on a local, regional and national level. For more information, visit kennesaw.edu.

Location

Our Kennesaw campus is located at 1000 Chastain Road NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144. Our Marietta campus is located at 1100 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060.

Department Information

With an enrollment of over 1300 students, The Kennesaw State University School of Art and Design provides a rigorous education, offering a BFA degree in Art (concentrations in Art Education, Art History, Ceramics, Comics and Sequential Art, Graphic Communications, Illustration, Painting and Drawing, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Textiles and Surface Design), and a BFA in Digital Animation. The School offers an MA in Art and Design that is a 100% online degree with tracks in Art Education, Digital Animation, and Museum Studies.

Our facilities provide students with state-of-the-art resources. Our Chastain Pointe facility houses four large drawing and painting studios and an expansive printmaking area. 5 computer studios in the Visual Arts Building provide industry standard technology for our applied arts disciplines of Graphic Communications, Digital Animation, Illustration and Comics and Sequential Art. Textiles and Surface Design is our newest concentration in the BFA. The Textiles facilities are located on the Marietta campus and comprise approximately 8000 square feet of studio space.

Job Summary

Kennesaw State University is now accepting applications for a nine-month, tenure track Assistant Professor of Digital Media faculty position in the School of Art and Design that begins August 2024. The application deadline has been extended.

Responsibilities

• We are seeking a Multimedia designer with expertise that covers video, web, animation. Ideal candidates will possess a strong commitment to teaching a broad range of Digital art classes offered within our curriculum and have full working knowledge of the Adobe Creative Cloud software, including After Effects.
• This candidate will teach in both the undergraduate BFA program and MA in Art and Design graduate program.
• All tenure track faculty have teaching, service, and scholarship/research activity expectations.

Teaching assignments will be based on earned degrees and SACSCOC Faculty Credentials Guidelines.

Required Qualifications

A terminal degree, or the foreign equivalent, in Digital Art/Media, Animation, or related field is required at the time of appointment.

Preferred Qualifications

• The candidate should demonstrate excellent teaching and creative skills in core undergraduate graphic design coursework including motion graphics, design thinking, design systems, typography for print and web, identity design. Additional experience in emergent digital practices, animation, and digital illustration are highly desirable.
• Software skills: After Effects, Cinema4D, Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition. And Experience with Unreal Engine, X-Particles, AE Expression, and GPU renderer (Octane, RedShift, and Cycles4D) is a plus.
• Experience teaching on-line.
• Industry experience

Required Documents to Attach

1. CV
2. Cover Letter
3. Unofficial Transcripts (Official Transcripts and Official International Course-by-Course Evaluations Due Upon Hire)
4. Names, phone numbers, and email addresses of at least 3 references

Apply Before Date

Application deadline is January 31, 2024. The application deadline has been extended.

Contact Information

For questions about this faculty opening, please contact Geo Sipp, gsipp@kennesaw.edu.

For technical support or assistance completing a job application, please contact the Shared Services Center at (877) 251-2644 or oneusgsupport@usg.edu.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Kennesaw State University is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for living, work and study. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, the University prohibits harassment of or discrimination against any person because of race, color, sex (including sexual harassment, pregnancy, and medical conditions related to pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity or national origin, religion, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran or military status by any member of the KSU Community on campus, in connection with a University program or activity, or in a manner that creates a hostile environment for members of the KSU community.

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Background Check

Per the University System of Georgia background check policy, all final candidates will be required to consent to a criminal background investigation. Final candidates may be asked to disclose criminal record history during the initial screening process and prior to a conditional offer of employment. Applicants for positions of trust with screening results which confirm a disqualifying criminal history will be immediately disqualified from employment eligibility.

All applicants are required to include professional references as part of their application process. Some positions may require additional job-based screenings such as motor vehicle report, credit check, pre-employment drug screening and/or verification of academic credentials.
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