Experience in digital media is a plus. Law is half the academic responsibility. Other teaching interests are important. The Department of Journalism and Mass Communications seeks applications for a tenure-track appointment at the assistant professor level, to begin in Fall 2002.
Primary responsibilities are in communications law.
Greatly preferred are a terminal degree and experience in the newsroom, with the Internet, in teaching and in use of instruction technology. Washington and Lee is a highly competitive liberal arts college in the Valley of Virginia. The department has eight faculty members and graduates about 40 majors a year. The total renovation of the department's facilities will enable us to increase our emphasis on the furtherance of democracy through the use of the latest information technologies. The ideal candidate will be able to contribute to the university's diversity efforts.