Land Trust Intern - Fall 2009

Work with a nonprofit land conservation group and get important professional experience. The area’s leading organization, Central New York Land Trust, holds 2,503 acres of land, mostly in Onondaga County, and has hundreds of members but continues to grow and develop. Students can earn 3-6 credits, by individual arrangement, and capstone/ thesis projects can be developed. Required: responsible, hard-working, self-starter, good references. Preferred: grad student, previous work experience, access to a vehicle, knowledge of software including GIS. Responsibilities may include: Develop public presentations, visit properties and inspect/ troubleshoot various conservation management issues, work with prospective donors, update files and databases, prepare website materials, and help write grant proposals. Research best practices of land trusts, draft memos regarding issues and problems, attend meetings, and support executive director in related tasks. If interested, please send your resume to Prof. Sharon Moran (tel. 470.6690).

Visiting Faculty: Technology, Environment, Resource Conflict

The Clarkson University Department of Humanities and Social Sciences invites applications for a two-year appointment as a Visiting Assistant Professor beginning fall 2009. We seek a colleague with a PhD in geography, anthropology/archeology or sociology whose work is focused on issues of technology, environment and/or resource conflict in an historical context.

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences is a multi-disciplinary department of eighteen faculty members with disciplinary degree programs in History, Political Science as well as four Interdisciplinary degree programs including American Studies. The department has multi-disciplinary strengths in environment, war studies, and science and medicine.

The ordinary teaching load for the Department is four courses per semester. The position involves teaching a required course, the Clarkson Seminar, a writing intensive course for first year students. The faculty member joining the department will teach four 20 student sections (one preparation, 80 students) of the Clarkson Seminar in the fall semester. The spring teaching load will comprise two preparations of classes that complement the department's offerings.

Applicants should send a C.V., three letters of recommendation, and a detailed letter on the courses they might teach, and teaching philosophy to Search Committee, School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Box 5750, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York 13699-5750. ABDs will be considered. Clarkson is an AA/EOE university. The committee will begin reviewing applications on July 13, 2009.

Contact Info:
Search Committee
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Box 5750, Clarkson University
Potsdam, New York 13699-5750
Website: http://www.clarkson.edu/humanities-ss/index.html