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  Director of the African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Center   James Madison University (JMU) is seeking applicants for the Director of the African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Center. We are looking for an advanced associate or full professor appointable in any of the ten academic departments of the College of Arts and Letters, which houses the center. Field of specialization is open.   This is a 12-month tenured appointment that will begin August 25, 2022. The Director reports to the Dean of Arts and Letters and works collaboratively and inclusively with faculty and staff in the college, university, and community to advance the mission and goals of the Center. We are looking for a leader who can contribute to and support programming that is committed to racial and social justice. The Center and its affiliates value work that is transformational, inclusive, sustainable, and equitable. This visionary thinker and leader...

  Associate Provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (F1780) James Madison University (JMU) is primed for an evolved diversity, equity, and inclusion perspective. The Academic Affairs (AA) Division seeks an Associate Provost for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (AP-DEI) who will lead the division towards ensuring that all academic programs, departments, and classrooms support and sustain recruitment, retention, equity, justice, and inclusion for a diverse community of students, faculty, and staff. The AP-DEI’s office is envisioned to provide a wellspring of resources for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives across campus. The AP-DEI will manage and develop a budget and support structure and take actions built on extensive scholarly foundations including critical, historical, current and cross-disciplinary studies of social, political, and economic underpinnings of inequality and exclusionary practices. *   The...