Assistant Professor, Information Design Department of Design, Faculty of Fine Arts and Communic

Department of Design, Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications

Competition No. 25.10.300

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Full‑Time Tenure‑Track Comm­mensurate with qualifications and experience. New hires will normally be placed within the first 8 steps of the Assistant Professor salary table. A review of applications will begin January 10, 2025, and continue until a suitable candidate is found.

Mac Ewan University is where caring faculty help people connect their passions to their future paths. Located in the heart of Edmonton's diverse and dynamic downtown community, and on the traditional lands of Treaty 6 First Nations and homelands of the Métis people, Mac Ewan is known for exceptional undergraduate learning. With its dedication to teaching excellence, informed by scholarly research, innovation, and creative activity, Mac Ewan provides an exceptional collaborative and supportive learning environment with a commitment to human rights, environmental sustainability, and opportunities for community engagement.

We are committed to creating an equitable, diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community for all peoples, cultures, and identities. Our comprehensive undergraduate university offers 55 programs to more than 20,000 full‑ and part‑time students in business, communications, community and human services, design, fine and performing arts, health, humanities, natural science, nursing, public safety, and social science. Through a wide array of experiential learning opportunities, and strategic relationships in the community, we partner with others to produce graduates of stature.

Along with a robust grounding in their chosen disciplines, Mac Ewan students are given durable life skills that prepare them to take on the world.

The Department of Design in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications invites applications for an entry‑level, full‑time, tenure‑track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, commencing July 1, 2026, subject to final budgetary approval.

The Department of Design has been graduating well‑respected designers for 50 years. We are the largest Bachelor of Design program in Alberta, with more than 380 students, 45 faculty, and 55 unique design courses and the only user experience design major between Vancouver and Toronto. This degree is unique in Canada, envisioning design as not just an applied art but also an applied social science.

This human‑centered approach will allow students to better understand the audience/users they are designing for, and to more effectively evaluate their design outcomes. The degree currently has six main pathways – Visual Communication Design;
Digital Experience Design;
Marketing;
Photography;
Illustration;
Video;
Visual Effects and Motion Graphics.

The Department of Design at Mac Ewan University prepares students to become the creative design leaders of tomorrow. Students are immersed in the knowledge, processes, methods and skills of the discipline: the ability to research and identify problems and provide communication solutions within a given commercial, social and environmental context; use tools of the field to give form to their concepts while recognizing the cultural significance and meaning of them;

communicate and defend solutions to team members and stakeholders; organize and manage design projects and client relations.

Responsibilities:

• Provide learning activities that stimulate student involvement and encourage critical thinking and discussion.
• Provide concrete, constructive, respectful and actionable feedback to students.
• Provide students with ways to connect information design skills and concepts to the wider visual communication design practice.
• Maintain competencies in the subject area and currency in instructional methodologies through professional associations and professional development.
• Maintain an active research and/or creative practice.
• Participate in curriculum development and implementation and provide pedagogical leadership in your area of expertise.
• In consultation with the Department of Design, create and maintain a pedagogical vision for information design courses in the Department.
• Serve on university‑wide, faculty, and…