MGSA - Department of Dance - (Spring 2025)

Rutgers University

United States, New Jersey, New Brunswick

Nov 22, 2024

Position Details

Position Information

Recruitment/Posting Title	MGSA - Department of Dance - (Spring 2025)
Department	MGSA - Dance
Salary	Salary per Credit
Posting Summary	The Department of Dance, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University invites applications for part-time instructional and academic support for undergraduate and graduate courses. The Department seeks performers with dance teaching experience to support our robust programs. The Lecturers/Coadjutants will teach courses in ballet, modern, improvisation, repertory, and/or choreography pedagogy and other dance theory courses for multiple dance forms to undergraduates and graduates.
Position Status	Part Time
Posting Number	24FA1146
Posting Open Date	10/28/2024
Posting Close Date	06/02/2025

Qualifications

Minimum Education and Experience	Requires a minimum of a bachelor's degree in dance or dance education and relevant one year teaching experience in higher education. Graduate degree preferred. Strong pedagogical, organizational, administrative, and interpersonal skills.
Certifications/Licenses
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Equipment Utilized
Physical Demands and Work Environment	Lecturers will provide highly physically active instruction to dance students.
Overview	Mason Gross School of the Arts, a vibrant community of artists and scholars, is committed to pursuing excellence, innovation, and inclusivity. Its 1200 students reflect the diversity of New Jersey, the fourth most diverse state in the nation. In addition to its professional arts training programs, Mason Gross provides the larger community an opportunity to embrace the creative arts through its divisions of Rutgers Arts Online and Rutgers Community Arts. The school is housed within Rutgers-New Brunswick, a premier Big Ten research university that serves some 50,000 students and is the flagship campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The nation's eighth oldest institution of higher learning, Rutgers is less than an hour by train or car to New York City and the beautiful beaches of the Jersey Shore and just over an hour to Philadelphia.
Statement	Mason Gross School of the Arts is deeply committed to the pursuit of equity, diversity, inclusion, and access and especially encourages applications from women, underrepresented minorities, and other individuals who belong to groups that have been historically underrepresented or marginalized within higher education and the arts. Also see the Rutgers Non-Discrimination Statement at the following web address: http://uhr.rutgers.edu/non-discrimination-statement

Posting Details

Special Instructions to Applicants
Quick Link to Posting	https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/238703
Campus	Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Home Location Campus	Douglass (RU-New Brunswick)
City	New Brunswick
State	NJ
Location Details

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