The Department of Landscape Architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville is seeking one to two faculty members for 9-month appointments at the rank of tenured associate professor or tenure-track assistant professor. The typical faculty teaching load is two courses each semester, which usually include a studio course and a further class offering.

Our accredited professional curriculum is centered on the agency of design and advocacy and is amplified by our faculty’s collaboration with communities and stakeholders throughout our state, region, and beyond. We integrate teaching, research, creative practice, and service informed by the faculty’s global perspectives and experiences, and we would welcome those who can contribute to this rich scope.

We seek candidates who can augment our capacities in the following areas:

•    Regenerative design and planning across scales.

•    Design-build and innovative landscape architectural construction.

•    Design technology and innovation.

About the Department of Landscape Architecture

Established nearly 50 years ago, the landscape architecture department currently has over ninety undergraduate students and a faculty with broad-based, creative, and scholarly accomplishments recognized at national and international levels. In addition to the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program, the department offers minors in urban and regional planning, design with plants, and sustainable landscape design and management, and we regularly contribute to cross- disciplinary programs within the school and across campus, with strong ties to areas such as spatial technology and geosciences. The department’s faculty direct environmental resiliency and sustainability efforts for minors and programs across the university.

As a faculty, our shared values are exemplified through our commitment to a rigorous team-taught, process- and evidence-driven design; integration of research and creative activity with teaching; critical thinking and multi-scalar facility among students; and inculcating positive student sensibilities in group work as well as recognition of, and confidence in, the individual design-voice. Our projects emphasize the agency of design, and the delivery of the common-good of social and ecological justice through design intelligence. Our students develop strong conceptual, spatial design, and technical skills through experimentation, discovery, iteration, and invention.

Our graduates have had close to 100% employment rate over the last five years at nationally and internationally recognized design firms in the USA and overseas. In this same period, our undergraduate work has been among the most successful in the Central States Region of the American Society of Landscape Architects and has also competed successfully at the National ASLA level.

Required practice-based internships located both domestically and internationally build relationships between students and potential employers and have produced sophisticated graduates capable of performing in a wide range of creative contexts. This is further supported by studio and creative projects across varying American contexts, and overseas. Our curriculum foregrounds working with real sites and stakeholders, to consider actual contexts of urban to rural settings, and address national, regional, and local policies and perspectives. A supportive professional advisory board includes successful design, planning, and non-profit leaders from across the country and assists the Department in achieving its goals and promoting the program.

Recruitment Contact Information:

Gabriel Diaz Montemayor, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, gabrield@uark.edu

All application materials must be uploaded to the University of Arkansas System Career Site 

https://uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UASYS/job/Fayetteville/Assistant-Associate-Professor_R0065668 Please do not send to listed recruitment contact.

Special Instructions to Applicants:

Completed applications received by January 30, 2025 will be assured full consideration. Late applications

will be reviewed as necessary to fill the position.

Pre-employment Screening Requirements:

Criminal Background Check, Sex Offender Registry

We Request the Following Documents in an Application

•    Cover Letter/Letter of Interest

•    Curriculum Vitae

•    Concise Teaching Statement

•    Concise Statement of Research and/or Creative Works

•    Portfolio of Work Examples and Experiences (25-page suggested maximum)

•    List of Three Professional References (name, email, business title)

Optional Documents:

•    Proof of Veteran Status

Minimum Qualifications:

•    An accredited professional degree in landscape architecture with a terminal degree in an allied discipline

•    An active or developing research, scholarship or creative activity agenda commensurate

with the rank sought.

•    Excellent writing and interpersonal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

•    Demonstrated ability to employ and contribute to the generation of best teaching practices leading studios and lectures/seminars.

•    Demonstrated ability to address issues of contemporary design-inquiry teaching studios and lectures/seminars.

•    Experience with emerging technologies, digital fabrication, BIM, VR, AI, GIS, and/or visualization.

•    Demonstrated ability to teach digitally integrated and comprehensive design studios.

•    Evidence of leading and managing externally funded projects.

•    Licensure in landscape architecture or an allied discipline (or an overseas equivalent).

•    A completed and conferred doctoral degree (ABD also considered) in an area relevant to the post.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):

•    Strong evidence of the ability to be an active, involved, and collegial member of a collaborative faculty team.

•    Documentation of, the willingness and ability to engage in, pedagogical training related to undergraduate education.

•    Ability and willingness to work collaboratively and in multi-disciplinary teams.

•    Ability and willingness to be committed to the landscape architecture and design profession and discipline and advocate for landscape architecture education.

•    Ability to contribute to the school’s post-professional degree concentrations, sustainability curriculums, and online program of environmental resiliency.

The University of Arkansas is committed to providing a safe campus community. We conduct background checks for applicants being considered for employment. Background checks include a criminal background check and a sex offender registry check. For certain positions, there may also be a financial (credit) background check, a Motor Vehicle Registry (MVR) check, and/or drug screening. Required checks are identified in the position listing. A criminal conviction or arrest pending adjudication or adverse financial history information alone shall not disqualify an applicant in the absence of a relationship to the requirements of the position. Background check information will be used in a confidential, non-discriminatory manner consistent with state and federal law.

The University of Arkansas seeks to attract, develop and retain high quality faculty, staff and administrators that consistently display practices and behaviors to advance a culture that embeds inclusion, opportunity, educational excellence and unparalleled access for all.

The University of Arkansas is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution. The University does not discriminate in its education programs or activities (including in admission and employment) on the basis of age, race, color, national origin, disability, religion, marital or parental status, protected veteran status, military service, genetic information, or sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity). Federal law prohibits the University from discriminating on these bases. Questions or concerns about the application of Title IX, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, may be sent to the University's Title IX Coordinator and to the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.

Persons must have proof of legal authority to work in the United States on the first day of employment.

All application information is subject to public disclosure under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.