Faculty Position

Telecommunication and Film Department
College of Communication and Information Sciences
University of Alabama

The Department seeks a full time, tenure-track assistant professor
beginning August 16, 2005 to teach graduate and undergraduate courses in
broadcasting/cable in two or more of the following areas: management,
programming, audience analysis, sales, economics, law/policy and to conduct
programmatic research.  Candidates should have an earned doctorate or be in
the final stages of dissertation completion and demonstrate potential for
undergraduate and graduate teaching and for developing a program of
scholarship suitable for later tenure consideration.  Salary is nationally
competitive.

Established in 1940, the Department has approximately 350 students in its
undergraduate and masters programs.  It is one of five academic units in
the College of Communication and Information Sciences, which includes an
interdepartmental doctoral program and the Institute for Communication
Research.  The College operates the professional production facilities of
the state’s Center for Public Television and Radio, award-winning Alabama
Public Radio, student radio station WVUA-FM, and Tuscaloosa’s primary
commercial television station, WVUA-7.

The University of Alabama, established in 1831 in Tuscaloosa, is currently
rated one of the top-40 public universities in the nation by US News &
World Report.  It has approximately 20,000 students, including 3,000
graduate students in 56 doctoral programs and a Carnegie classification of
“Doctoral/Research Universities—Extensive.”  Tuscaloosa is a
university-oriented community of nearly 100,000 located about fifty minutes
southwest of Birmingham, in the nation’s 40th television market.  It is a
morning’s drive from the Smokey Mountains, Gulf Coast beaches, New Orleans,
Nashville and Atlanta.  Additional information about the Department, the
College and the University, is available at

www.tcf.ua.edu

Telephone inquiries are welcome (205-348-6350).

Send application letter, vita/resume and names, addresses and phone numbers
of three references to:

Prof. Loy A. Singleton
Telecommunication and Film Department
University of Alabama
Box 870152
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0152.

Screening of applications begins November 24; however, applications will be
accepted until search is completed.

UA is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer.  Women and
minorities are especially encouraged to apply.

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