The College of Science (COS) and the Pamplin College of Business (PCOB) seek an experienced, motivated, and resourceful individual to direct Impact: The Data Analytics Living-Learning Community at Virginia Tech, a data analytics-focused living learning community (LLC) for students.The Impact LLC's mission is to create a community of thinkers and doers passionate about using data to find solutions to humanity's complex problems with support and opportunities to transform this passion into positive change for society. The Impact LLC provides students the opportunity to gain insights into the transdisciplinary world of data analytics and data science and its application to real world problems and enables them to interact and learn from Virginia Tech faculty and community partners with expertise in the area of data analytics.The Impact LLC is open to undergraduate students majoring in business, science, and other majors at Virginia Tech. The close-knit community encourages creativity, leadership, responsibility, inclusivity and diversity, building strong relationships, and is committed to a productive environment for student growth, and student inclusiveness, diversity, and retention.The program director of the Impact LLC may be a Professor of Practice, Collegiate Faculty member, or an Instructor who will have their academic home in the COS with the possibility of academic affiliations in PCOB depending on expertise. The program director is a calendar-year position with a 60% academic program and 40% administrative/student life appointment. This position includes leading the day-to-day administration of the Impact LLC, and overseeing the development, teaching and assessment of its integrated curricular, cocurricular, and research programs.
Full job description is available here.
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Cliff Ragsdale
Bank of America Professor
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg VA
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