Job Opening: Asst Prof., Child Development, California State U., Hayward

[Jiansheng Guo]

				CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, HAYWARD
	          Position Openings for 2001-2002:  Assistant Professor, child
development


Inquiries regarding application deadline and application package should
be addressed to the department noted, at the following address:
California State University, Hayward, 25800 Carlos Bee Blvd., Hayward,
CA 94542.
http://www.csuhayward.edu

Discipline: Social Sciences

Assistant Professor, child development,  Dept. of Human Development:
01-02 HDEV-CHILDDEVELOP-TT.

Duties: The successful candidate will teach existing courses on child
development and the child in the family and community. S/he will work to
strengthen the department's Child Development Option by revising,
updating, and integrating the child development curriculum, and creating
and teaching new courses. In addition, s/he will participate in
interdisciplinary team-teaching in the Human Development core program.
Qualifications: Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree in an appropriate
discipline. The successful candidate will have expertise in the
socialization, enculturation, or social development of children. S/he
will have demonstrated research interests and scholarly achievement in
the study of African-American, Hispanic, Native-American, and/or
Asian-American children. S/he must also demonstrate a strong commitment
to team-teaching, interdisciplinary dialogue, and working with adult
students of all ages and diverse cultural and educational backgrounds.
S/he must show a record of successful teaching, preferably including the
use of collaborative learning and small-group dynamics. Applicants with
expertise in the use of emerging instructional technologies will receive
special consideration.

THE UNIVERSITY: California State University, Hayward occupies 342 acres
in the Hayward hills, affording a panoramic view of nearly the entire
San Francisco Bay Area.  Cal State Hayward's proximity to the major Bay
Area cities provides unique cultural opportunities including museums,
art galleries, aquariums, planetariums, plays, musicals, sports events,
and concerts. Its nearness to the Pacific Ocean and Sierra Nevada
Mountains offers recreational diversion as well as excellent
laboratories for educational studies. The nine major buildings contain
150 classrooms and teaching laboratories, 177 specialized instructional
rooms, numerous student oriented computer labs and a library which
contains a collection of over one million items accessible through
HAYSTAC, its on-line catalog. The University has an enrollment of
approximately 13,000 students with 600 faculty. CSUH is organized into
four schools: Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences; Business and
Economics; Education and Allied Studies; and Science. The University
offers bachelor's degrees in 41 fields and master's degrees in 28 (in
addition to Special Majors). Other programs lead to teaching,
specialist, pupil personnel services, and administrative services
credentials. CSUH also operates the Contra Costa Campus, a branch center
in Concord, which provides full instructional support for over 1,600
upper division and graduate students.