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Director, School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) San José, California

Imagine the possibilities!

The San José faculty and staff at San José have built a global e-campus with a high tech, high touch, high quality teaching and learning environment. Over the past five years student enrolment has more than doubled to almost 3,000 graduate students. New degree programs have been added to the Master of Library and Information Science, including the Master of Archives and Records Administration and the Gateway PhD, a unique partnership with Queensland University of Technology. Academic and market studies are underway in other areas such as health information management. At the same time we have pioneered a balanced scorecard of quality indicators, benchmarking ourselves against both internal and external comparators.

SLIS is passionate about the professions and disciplines it serves. We educate professionals and develop leaders who contribute to the well-being of their communities. Our vision is to be recognized as a leader in graduate education, delivering innovative, high quality programs across the state, the continent and beyond. Our academic and business models are highly entrepreneurial and our strategic plan is focused with assigned responsibility and accountability. Quarterly faculty retreats guide our reviews and forward planning.

We seek a dynamic and visionary leader, comfortable in a shared governance model, to build on this foundation. We are committed to continued excellence in teaching and learning, improved scholarly productivity and quality service.

You are a national leader, committed to community building and the critical role of research and scholarship in advancing the field. You understand academic administration and business models. You will continually seek out opportunities to profile the School. You are a skilled communicator, an experienced networker and effective advocate. As a creative and critical thinker and problem-solver, you are not constrained by a culture of compliance or fiscal restraint-indeed, you may actually enjoy the ability to negotiate in the highly charged, idiosyncratic, sometimes bizarre environment of a state public university system.

If this is your profile, the University offers a competitive salary and benefits package. The successful applicant will have the requisite qualifications, experience and track record for appointment as a tenured full professor. An MLIS is preferred; a PhD or equivalent is required.

Review of applications begins January 30^th 2010.

For further information, please see: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/directorsearch.html and/or contact Dr. Linda Main.