Chair - Department of Art

Chair - Department of Art

The Department of Art at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) invites applications for a Chairperson to commence Fall 2025. The successful candidate will serve as the administrative and educational leader of approximately twenty full-time, tenured, or tenure-track faculty members and a staff of three. Serving nearly 600 undergraduate majors, the Department of Art offers BA programs for art education and art history, along with BA and BFA programs in studio art (ceramics, drawing, graphic design, metals, painting, printmaking and sculpture), and a minor in museum studies. Our facility in the Fox Fine Arts center includes four stories of studios (drawing, painting, graphic design, foundations, sculpture, wood shop, ceramics, metals, printmaking), classrooms, and the Glass Gallery, our departmental exhibition space. The successful candidate will have the administrative experience and organizational skills to lead the department and will bring a clear vision of the future of studio education, art history, art education, and museum studies that incorporates contemporary practices. The Chair will liaise with the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and the upper administration and work to ensure that the needs of the department are fully met. For more information about the Department of Art at UTEP, please visit our website.

Tenure, rank, and salary are commensurate with the candidate's qualifications.

Duties:

• Oversee budget, recruitment, hiring of staff, and faculty appointments
• Work with staff to oversee department functions and infrastructure
• Work with faculty to develop curricula, facilities, and scheduling
• Promote the department's future development
• Liaise effectively with the administration, college, and community
• Support and mentor the professional growth of faculty
• Course Instruction consistent with workload policies and departmental needs
• Advise departmental majors and minors and communicate with central advising: the C.L.A.S.S. Center and Academic Advising Center
• Coordinate student travel, including study abroad programming
• Use Microsoft suite of software, PeopleSoft (or similar), Faculty Success, and UTEP's learning management system
• Resolve personnel and student issues and conflicts
• Advance the collaborative relationship with our campus contemporary arts center, the Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts

Job Requirements:

• Terminal degree in studio art (M.F.A.), art history (Ph.D.), art education (Ph.D.), or a related field
• Tenure at the rank of either Associate or Full Professor or an equivalent at current institution
• Administrative or leadership experience at the Department and or College/University levels
• National or international record of scholarly or artistic achievement

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience (1-2 years) in an Assistant Chair, Chair, or Interim Chair position or in a college or university administration position
• Experience in student advising
• Working knowledge of university software platforms and learning management systems

Additional Information:
In keeping with its access, excellence, and impact mission, The University of Texas at El Paso is committed to an open, diverse, and inclusive learning and working environment that honors the talents, respects the differences, and nurtures the growth and development of all. We seek to attract faculty and staff who share our commitment.

The University of Texas at El Paso is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. The University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity in employment or the provision of services in accordance with state and federal law. Discrimination on the basis of sex includes an employee's or prospective employee's right to be free from sexual harassment under Title IX of the Higher Education Amendments of 1972. Inquiries-including the filing of a Formal Complaint or reporting an incident-about the application of Title IX may be referred to the Title IX Coordinator, who can be reached by phone at (915) 747-8358, by email at titleix@utep.edu, or by mail at 500 W. University Ave., El Paso, TX, Kelly Hall, Room 312.

For accommodation information for employees and applicants with disabilities, please contact UTEP's Equal Opportunity Office at eoaa@utep.edu.
To apply, visit http://utep.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=181601



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