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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333">UNC Charlotte invites applications for our new Multicultural Postdoctoral Fellowship program (</span><a href="http://www.diversitypostdoc.uncc.edu"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">www.diversitypostdoc.uncc.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333">)
to support its commitment to diversity, inclusion, and building a strong intellectual community of scholars from different backgrounds. The purpose of the Multicultural Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is to support the early development of scholars who show
promise of distinguished research careers and who are from historically underrepresented groups.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333">Postdoctoral fellows will be engaged full-time in research and may teach up to two courses per academic year as part of their appointment. Fellows are required to be in-residence each semester during their appointment.
The postdoctoral fellow will receive extensive university and program mentoring throughout their appointment.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333;background:white">Applications for study in any discipline represented on campus are welcome. STEM applications are strongly encouraged. Please specify your discipline of interest when applying.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333">Applicants must have completed their doctoral degree within the past five years and no later than July 1st of the current year. The primary criterion for selection is evidence of scholarship
potentially competitive for tenure track appointments at a research university. A critical secondary criterion is the support of prospective departments.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333">All applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents at the time of application; The University of North Carolina at Charlotte strongly encourages applications from
African American, Native American and Hispanic scholars. Selection is contingent on the availability of an appropriate mentoring environment.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333">Please include the following materials with your application: curriculum vitae; a statement of research plans (1-3 pages) (this should describe your commitment to pursuing an academic career); graduate transcripts;
a personal statement on why you should be selected for this program (1-3 pages); Writing samples (e.g. publications and/or dissertation chapters); three letters of recommendation. One letter should be from the applicant’s dissertation advisor or faculty mentor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333;background:white">Applications are taken on-line at
</span><a href="http://jobs.uncc.edu"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";background:white">http://jobs.uncc.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333;background:white">, position #POST40.The application deadline
is <b>December 1, 2014 at 5:00 PM EST</b>. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Please contact Dr. Shawn D. Long at
</span><a href="mailto:shawn.long@uncc.edu"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">shawn.long@uncc.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> or 704-687-0783 if you have any questions.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">UNC Charlotte is North Carolina's urban research university and has an enrollment of approximately 26,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Located in the state's largest metropolitan
area, UNC Charlotte is among the fastest growing universities in the UNC system.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is an EOE/AA employer and an ADVANCE Institution that strives to create an academic climate in which the dignity of all individuals
is respected and maintained. Therefore, we celebrate diversity that includes, but is not limited to ability/disability, age, culture, ethnicity, gender, language, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status.
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Applicants are subject to criminal background check.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Shawn D. Long, PhD
<b>| </b>Professor and Chair, Department of Communication Studies<b>|<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Professor, Organizational Science
<b>|</b> Provost Faculty Fellow<b>| <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">University of North Carolina at Charlotte<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Department of Communication Studies-Colvard 5008<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">9201 University City Blvd.
<b>| </b>Charlotte, NC 28223<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Phone: 704-687-0783
<b>| </b>Fax: 704-687-5286<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:shawn.long@uncc.edu">shawn.long@uncc.edu</a>
<b>| </b><a href="http://www.gradcomm.uncc.edu/">http://www.uncc.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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or other use of any of the information in this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify me immediately by reply e-mail or by telephone at 704-687-3900. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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