DKU is a collaborative partnership of Duke University, Wuhan University, and the Municipality of Kunshan, China (https://dukekunshan.edu.cn/). Our campus provides an innovative and robustly interdisciplinary undergraduate liberal arts experience to a student body that will number 2000 students and 200+ faculty, with an acceptance rate of <8% and a student body represented by over 70 countries. We also offer a discrete number of Master’s level graduate programs. The DKU pedagogical model draws on the best of Duke’s educational experience and resources to reimagine undergraduate instruction on an intimate campus setting. Similar to the best liberal arts colleges in the United States, DKU values dedication to teaching excellence in a liberal arts and science environment, as well as a strong commitment to successful scholarly engagement and research. This includes research with undergraduate students. As a whole, the Duke Kunshan faculty have strong commitments to teaching and research, and outstanding quality in both areas is highly valued. 

In order to meet Chinese visa requirements, prior to the position start date international (non-Chinese) candidates must have worked full-time (work experience obtained while studying full-time is not considered as full-time work experience) for at least two years in a relevant area (including post-doctoral work) after receiving their Bachelor’s degree, or begin their appointment at DKU within 12 months of obtaining their master’s degree/Ph.D. and without having work experience between graduation date on master’s degree diploma/Ph.D. diploma and position start date. 

DKU is linguistically and culturally diverse. Approximately two-thirds of our students are Chinese; the rest hail from approximately 70 different countries. These students come from diverse writing traditions and cultures of learning and, consequently, have had different levels of exposure to the types of academic English reading, writing, and inquiry they need to do at DKU. While the majority of students have significant skills in multiple languages, for approximately 85% of our students, English is not a first language, and most have had relatively limited instruction in writing before arrival at DKU. With lucid communication as one of its animating principles, the undergraduate curriculum at DKU currently includes of a mix of explicit writing requirements for first-year students, common core and divisional foundation courses with embedded writing requirements, writing electives, and capstone courses culminating in a Signature Work paper. As DKU continues to develop undergraduate writing, it seeks an academic leader with expertise in Writing across the Curriculum/Writing Within the Disciplines and success working with L2 English writers to work with faculty and other leaders on establishing and assessing undergraduate writing outcomes, ensuring verticality in the writing curriculum, and providing ongoing professional development to faculty.