Position title:Associate or Full Professor
Salary range:The current salary range for this position is $96,500-$227,400 (9-month academic year salary), however, off-scale salary and other components of pay, which would yield compensation that is higher than this range, are offered to meet competitive conditions.
Anticipated start:July 1, 2025
Application Window
Open date:July 26, 2024
Next review date:Tuesday, Oct 1, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date:Tuesday, Oct 1, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date.
Position description
The Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning (LAEP) was established in1913 and now offers degree programs at the undergraduate, Masters, and PhD levels. As one of the founding departments in the College of Environmental Design in 1959, we share a bold interdisciplinary vision that integrates design excellence, grounded research, commitment to social equity, and rigorous pedagogies to inspire future thought leaders and creative visionaries in the allied disciplines of environmental design and beyond. Today, the department continues to redefine our field by charting new trajectories that build upon our legacy of radically anticipatory thinking and engage the contemporary imperatives of climate adaptation, environmental justice, and innovation.
LAEP at UC Berkeley is internationally recognized for its focus on design as it intersects with public engagement, environmental justice, innovation, urbanism, and ecology. We are seeking a new tenured faculty member (Associate or Full Professor) to build upon that legacy and lead contemporary design discourse on the future of public space, within the department and internationally. The design of public space is facing new pressures to increase urban density, address growing social inequities, and respond to a changing climate; necessitating a shift in professional practice and research. These shifts are occurring while public space continues to perform as an essential medium of social interaction, social inclusion, economic life, and a keystone in urban ecological systems and landscape infrastructure across scales.
Embracing these complexities, the successful candidate is expected to engage in research and design pedagogy that critically examines contemporary design, praxis, and performance issues of public space, including relevant issues of agency, equity, innovation, policy, research, funding, and political contestation. This position will allow the department to carry forward its legacy of leadership in the design of public spaces and engagement with public life. We seek a colleague who can bring to light cultural meaning, functional value, compelling aesthetic engagement, and design process, while expanding the department\’s emphasis on future cities as adaptive cultural and environmental systems. This faculty member should be well positioned to engage in cross-disciplinary discourse, teaching, and research regarding the public realm, with a track record of scholarship, public engagement, and/or built works commensurate with expectations for a tenured professor at UC Berkeley.
In addition to excellence in research and teaching, we seek a colleague with the ability to assume leadership roles within the department, college, and university shortly after appointment. This will include the ability and strong desire to serve as Department Chair within an appropriate timeframe as determined by the Dean of the College of Environmental Design. At Berkeley, the chair of LAEP is typically a three-year renewable appointment built on a shared governance model. As chair, and through other leadership roles, opportunities exist to leverage department resources – including endowments, awards, and facilities such as Blake Garden – for new initiatives in our Undergraduate and Graduate programs as well as throughout the College of Environmental Design. Applicants should have documented experience in academic leadership roles within public and peer institutions as well as a comprehensive and forward-looking vision for design discourse, research, and innovation that is reflected in their strategic approach to Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning.
We anticipate that a new faculty colleague in LAEP will help develop this vision through planning of curricula; maintenance of a department climate that is hospitable to creativity, diverse, and innovative; active recruitment of undergraduate and graduate students; selecting and evaluating both faculty and staff of the department; planning of public programs such as lecture series and exhibitions; strategic leadership; and outreach. We value transparency, shared responsibility, and mutual respect in our faculty colleagues and academic leadership.
The department is committed to addressing the family needs of faculty, including dual career couples and single parents. We are also interested in candidates who have had non-traditional career paths or who have taken time off for family reasons, or who have achieved excellence in careers outside academia. For information about potential relocation to Berkeley, or career needs of accompanying partners and spouses, please visit:http://ofew.berkeley.edu/new-faculty
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Department:https://ced.berkeley.edu/land
Qualifications
Basic qualifications(required at time of application)
Masters Degree or equivalent international degree.
Additional qualifications(required at time of start)
Leadership Experience in the Context of a Professionally Accredited Degree Program in Landscape Architecture, or equivalent discipline.
Track Record of Scholarship and/or Built Creative Works commensurate with rank.
Evidence of teaching that is innovative, inclusive, and engaged within the context of contemporary design and planning discourse.
Preferred qualifications
PhD In Landscape Architecture, or Related Field
Professional Licensure in Landscape Architecture
Certifications in Planning, Climate Adaptation, or Design, etc. that support research, practice, and leadership
Senior Leadership within Public University Systems, Professional Organizations, or Government
Application Requirements
Document requirements
All candidates will be asked to submit the required documents and names of external references. Candidates under consideration for the short list will be asked to supply additional materials including a statement on research/creative work and a statement on teaching and mentoring which also addresses service to both their university and the profession. For candidates who are approved for the short list, we will contact their references for letters.
- Curriculum Vitae – Your most recently updated C.V.
- Statement of Interest – A 2-3 page statement of interest specifying the relevance of the applicant\’s experience to the department with a description of leadership, research & creative works, and teaching in studio, lecture, and seminars.
- Statement on Contributions to Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – Statement on your contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including information about your understanding of these topics, your record of activities to date, and your specific plans and goals for advancing equity and inclusion if hired at Berkeley (for additional information go tohttps://ofew.berkeley.edu/recruitment/contributions-diversityhttps://ofew.berkeley.edu/recruitment/contributions-diversity).
- Authorization to Release Information – A reference check will be completed only if you are selected as the candidate to whom the hiring unit would like to extend a formal offer. Download, complete, sign, and upload thehttps://ofew.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/auth_release_info.pdf.
Reference requirements
- 3-5 required (contact information only)
A list of 3-5 people who can speak to your experience, character, and potential. Only contact information is required for the initial phase of this search. References will be contacted, with permission, in the final phases of the search process.
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Help contact:ced-personnel@berkeley.edu
About UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. The excellence of the institution requires an environment in which the diverse community of faculty, students, and staff are welcome and included. Successful candidates will demonstrate knowledge and skill related to ensuring equity and inclusion in the activities of their academic position (e.g., teaching, research, and service, as applicable).
The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.
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In searches when letters of reference are required all letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. Please refer potential referees, including when letters are provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service or career center), to thehttp://apo.berkeley.edu/ucb-confidentiality-policyprior to submitting their letter.
As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.
Job location
Berkeley, CA
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