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Sherry H. Penney Endowed Professorship of Leadership at UMass Boston

  • 1.  Sherry H. Penney Endowed Professorship of Leadership at UMass Boston

    Posted 01-24-2015 09:14
    Dear colleagues,

    We have just started a search for the Sherry H. Penney Endowed Professorship of Leadership in our College of Management - please see link and description below. We've recently launched a PhD track in Organizations and Social Change, and we're looking for someone who combines excellent academics with public outreach for the Center for Collaborative Leadership.


    http://umb.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp;jsessionid=8B7A33058204A6095460947A0B150266?JOBID=55672

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    Sherry H. Penney Endowed Professorship of Leadership


    Job Description:

    The College of Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston has initiated a search for the holder of the Sherry H. Penney Endowed Professorship of Leadership.

    For the next holder of the distinguished professorship, the college seeks a dynamic, innovative, and experienced individual with an outstanding academic record of scholarship and teaching, and one who is dedicated to advancing the interdisciplinary academic field of leadership. The successful candidate will hold a faculty position in 1 of the 3 academic departments in the College of Management (http://www.umb.edu/academics/cm) with shared teaching, research, publishing and service responsibilities in the Center for Collaborative Leadership (www.leaders.umb.edu<http: www.leaders.umb.edu="">).

    Requirements:

    Requirements for the holder of the endowed professorship include an earned terminal degree, extensive university teaching experience, and a record of scholarly or professional intellectual contributions in the field of leadership that would either have the candidate already tenured or positioned for immediate tenure consideration.

    Additional Information:

    The professorship is named in honor of Sherry H. Penney, who has retired from UMass Boston. Professor Penney served as the UMass Boston chancellor for twelve years, including one year when she also served as interim president of the University of Massachusetts system. Upon retiring from this role, she became the first holder of the College of Management's Endowed Professorship of Leadership, and founding director of the Center for Collaborative Leadership.

    The University of Massachusetts Boston is an urban public research high university, located on Dorchester Bay on the harbor in Boston. The campus shares the site with the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. UMass Boston opened in 1965 and currently has nearly 17,000 undergraduate and graduate students.

    The College of Management, one of eleven UMass Boston colleges and schools, offers bachelor's degrees in management and in information technology, the MBA, four specialized master's degree programs, and a PhD in business administration.

    Application Instructions:

    To apply, please submit a cover letter, CV and contact information for 3 letters of reference online.

    The search committee will begin its review of applications immediately.

    UMass Boston provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment.
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    Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Ph.D.
    Graduate Program Director, Organizations and Social Change Doctoral Program
    Assistant Professor of Management
    College of Management
    University of Massachusetts, Boston
    Tel: 617-287-7754

    Associate Editor, New England Journal of Entrepreneurship
    http://works.bepress.com/banu_ozkazancpan/
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