Assistant Professor, Interactive Media/Gaming, Miami

University of Miami
Position Announcement
Coral Gables, Florida

Assistant Professor, Interactive Media/Gaming, Tenure-Track

The School of Communication at the University of Miami invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in interactive media creation and gaming to begin in August 2012. A Ph.D. or M.F.A. is required along with a minimum of two years of teaching experience. Applicants must have a track record of accomplishments in areas such as interaction design, 2D/3D motion graphics or game prototyping. Ideal applicants should have a technical research background with associated publications and a demonstrated engagement with visual and/or narrative arts, as well as experience with the critical evaluation of interactive media. Familiarity in new mobile and game technologies, prototyping tools, engagement metrics, physical computing, game engines and the ability to write scripts within these engines is desirable. Applicants will be expected to teach courses, advise student projects and develop trans disciplinary collaborations with scholars, artists, journalists and filmmakers within the School. All faculty are involved in teaching, service, and research or creative activities.

Review of applications will begin December 1, 2011 and continue until the position is filled. Interested and qualified candidates should e-mail a letter of application, a recent curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching philosophy, internet portfolio links and the names and contact information of three references to: motionpictures@miami.edu<mailto:motionpictures@miami.edu>. Only electronic submissions please. Do not mail in materials.
The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package and is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Assistant Professor of PR – Nebraska

The University of Nebraska‐Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications invites applications from professionals and scholars for two tenure-track positions as assistant professors in public relations to start in August 2012.

Assistant Professor Tenure-Track AgComm – Illinois

Applications are invited for a full-time tenure-track assistant professor position in Agricultural Communications in the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The College of Media and the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) jointly sponsor the Agricultural Communications major. The Assistant Professor appointment will be based in the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising within the College of Media.

AAF Call for papers

Second Annual Refereed Pedagogy Poster Session

Advertising Education Practice & Research

Submission deadline for Extended Abstracts Only: Midnight Sat., Dec. 17, 2011 Email submissions to Ludmilla Wells: lwells@fgcu.edu

Celebrating Teaching Achievement

By Heidi Hennink-Kaminski

Ad Division announces new teaching award

Given the Advertising Division’s long-standing commitment to teaching excellence and student learning, we are pleased to announce the establishment of the Advertising Division’s Distinguished Teaching Award. This award is intended to encourage and recognize individual excellence in undergraduate teaching over a sustained period of time. Such teaching rises above good teaching; it incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and uses innovative methods to increase the effectiveness of learning both inside and outside the classroom. The award includes a $200 cash prize. To be eligible, a nominee must be a member of AEJMC’s Advertising Division with at least three years of teaching experience as a full-time faculty member.

Award Criteria
The Distinguished Teaching Award criteria are grounded in the four areas of emphasis highlighted in the AEJMC Teaching Committee’s Criteria and Goal Statement—curriculum; leadership; course content and teaching methods; and assessment—but expand upon those areas to encompass additional criteria for evidence of exemplary teaching.

Nomination Process
The nomination process is divided into two stages. An eligible teacher can self-nominate or can be nominated by another faculty member in the same school or college who is a member of AEJMC and has at least three years of teaching experience as a full-time faculty member. All nomination materials will be submitted electronically to the chair of the committee.

Stage One: Initial Nomination Materials
(Deadline: Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 11:59pm)

• A nominating letter (limited to 1,000 words) outlining the ways in which the nominee demonstrates excellence in any or all of the areas of emphasis outlined in the criteria.
• A brief statement from the nominee (limited to three pages) outlining why he or she should be considered for the award. In the instance of self-nomination, the nominee should request a recommendation letter from a colleague.
• A current curriculum vita
• Two letters of support from students (each limited to 500 words):
• one letter from a student currently or previously enrolled in one or more classes which the nominee has taught/is teaching.
• one letter from a student at least 2 years post graduation who had been enrolled in one or more classes taught by the candidate (limited to 500 words)

Nomination materials from Stage One will be reviewed by the selection committee, which will select no more than five nominees for further consideration. Nominators and nominees selected as finalists will be notified no later than February 1, 2012.

Stage Two: Award Finalist Materials
(Deadline: Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 11:59pm).

• Initial nomination materials.
• A “teaching portfolio” not to exceed 20 pages. Teaching portfolios/dossiers can take on a variety of formats and include a wide variety of materials chosen to highlight the candidate’s achievements in the context of the award selection criteria. The only required materials to be included in the portfolio are:
• A reflective statement by the candidate outlining their teaching philosophy, goals, objectives, experiences, not to exceed 1,000 words. This is typically included in a teaching portfolio, and will not count in the 20-page limit
• A list of courses taught in the last three years, and quantitative evaluative data (e.g., student evaluations of teaching and learning experience, grade distributions).
• The remainder of the materials in the portfolio may be chosen to best demonstrate the nominee’s achievement of the award criteria. Those materials may include but are not limited to: course syllabi; class assignments; website links/online; digital media; unsolicited student feedback; assignment rubrics; community/professional endorsements.

Final Selection
The selection of the winner will be made by the Teaching Award Selection Committee, a new standing committee comprised of five division members:

• The editor of the Journal of Advertising Education will be an ex-officio member with all committee responsibilities and voting privileges. Alice Kendrick.
• 2 members appointed by the executive board. These members will serve staggered three-year terms. Since this is the first year of the committee, the executive board appointed George Anghelcev for a two-year term and Joel Geske for a one-year term. Joel Geske will also chair the award this year.
• 1 member elected by the division membership. This member will also serve a three-year term. Carson Wagner was elected and will begin his three-year term this year.
• The recipient of the award will serve a one-year term on the selection committee for the following year’s award. As chair of the Award development committee, Peggy Kreshel will take this position for the first year.

Special thanks to Peggy Kreshel, HalVincent, Keith Quesenberry and Heidi Hennink-Kaminski for finalizing this award.

Off-site Agency Visit Moved to Thursday

On Thursday, August 11 from 1:30 to 3:00 our division will be visiting Rogers Townsend at 1000 Clark Street, walking distance from the hotel. Please note the program will indicate the visit is scheduled on Friday, but it has been changed to Thursday.

From a two-person beginning in 1996, this agency has grown to over 100 professionals today. In 2006, Rogers Townsend became part of Omnicom, which provided them with global reach and enhanced services. Rodgers Townsend is an integrated advertising agency, offering strategic planning, mass media, one-to-one marketing, digital, corporate identity, sales support, media, and employee engagement. Clients include St. Louis Rams, AT&T, The Hartford Insurance, Scotttrade, and Anheuser-Busch.

If you would like to attend please RSVP ASAP to Scott Hamula at shamula@ithaca.edu

Register for the Pre-Conference Teaching Workshop

The Advertising Division’s first  pre-conference teaching workshop was held in 1997.  Those of you who have had the opportunity to attend any of those workshops (if not all of them) know that for many, they are the highlight of the conference.   For those of you who have never had the good fortune to attend, why not come this year? You won’t be disappointed.

The theme of this year’s workshop is Strategic Solutions at the Intersection of Content and Channel. The morning speaker, Judy Franks, will be joining us from Chicago. Judy is Founder and President of The Marketing Democracy and will be  discussing “Media: from Chaos to Clarity. Making Sense of a Messy Media World.” Judy’s 23-year career in Chicago includes a wide range of experiences in full-service, media service, and creative service agencies at places you’ll recognize: Euro RSCG, Leo Burnett, Starcom, EnergyBBDO. She teaches creative/media integration for the William Wrigley Jr. Company’s Global Marketing College, and lest I forget, she is an award-winning teacher at Northwestern’s Medill School. She founded The Marketing Democracy in 2008. Check out Judy and The Marketing Democracy at: themarketingdemocracy.com

In order to make time for those conversations we never seem to have enough time for, we’ll round out the morning with a “teaching free for all,” an open discussion about teaching. Bring your questions, and hey, bring answers too.

After lunch we’ll continue the “back to basics” theme we began at last year’s workshop. This year, Amy Faukner (Syracuse) and Michelle Nelson (Illinois) will talk to us about the challenges, concerns, controversies, and of course, the methods they use in teaching the media course in today’s chaotic media environment.  Karie Hollerbach (Southeast Missouri State), Teri Henley (Alabama) and Heidi Hennink-Kaminsky (UNC) will turn our focus to the capstone campaigns course.

If you are looking for a day rich with information, insights, teaching tips, and camaraderie,  this year’s workshop will deliver.  Why not join us?

New Issue of AdNews! Get ready for St. Louis…

Check out the Summer Issue of AdNews, complete with the Division schedule for the Annual Convention and highlights of the panels and other exciting programming planned for August. AdNewsSummer2011

JAE Best Article Award Announced

Advertising professor and long-time supporter of the Journal of Advertising Education, Brett Robbs, has gifted a $1000 prize to the Journal of Advertising Education for the Best Article of 2011-2012 (Vol. 15, No. 2 and Vol. 16, No. 1).

To be considered for the award, your article must be published in the Fall 2011 or Spring 2012 issue of JAE.  AEJMC Advertising Division members will be invited to consider all published papers at the end of the academic year and vote for the best one based on content, clarity, and contribution to the field.  The winning paper will be announced at the Ad Division members’ meeting at the AEJMC conference in August 2012 in Chicago.

The Journal of Advertising Education is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to research and commentary on instruction, curriculum and leadership in advertising education.  In addition to traditional research, the journal publishes articles and opinion pieces, teaching tips, reports and books/software reviews; all are eligible for the Award.

To be eligible for the $1000 prize, the paper must first be published in JAE.  To be considered for publication, email submissions to: Editor Jami Fullerton at jami.fullerton@okstate.edu before July 1, 2011 for the Fall issue and before January 1, 2012 for the Spring issue. 

To learn more about the journal and submission requirements visit http://www.aejmc.net/advertising/JAEWeb/Order.html

Ad Division Members in Ad Age

Dr. Jami Fullerton and Dr. Alice Kendrick’s research is discussed in a recent in Ad Age. Check it out: http://adage.com/article?article_id=114892