Working/Functional Title

Professor, Guyer Seevers Endowed Chair

Position Summary

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

Professor, Guyer Seevers Endowed Chair in Natural Resources Conservation

Department of Community Sustainability

Michigan State University

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The Department of Community Sustainability (CSUS) in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) at Michigan State University invites applications for the Guyer-Seevers Endowed Chair in Natural Resources Conservation, a tenure system position at the level of full professor. This position is named after three people who devoted their careers to natural resources conservation: the late Dr. Gordon Guyer, the late Mrs. Norma Guyer, and Dr. Gary L. Seevers. We seek a colleague with a clear vision of establishing an integrated program of research, Extension and teaching who embraces the Department's core value of community engagement.

We seek candidates who address conservation at the intersections of different spaces, including the physical connectedness of different types of natural resources across the landscape and the overlay of social and political organization at multiple scales. Such a candidate would have the ability to work across boundaries. They would have particular insight on both the importance and challenges of bringing together stakeholders across jurisdictions to tackle landscape-level conservation challenges such as water, climate, biodiversity and environmental justice.

Position duties:

The Guyer-Seevers Chair will be expected to build a nationally prominent, globally relevant program of scholarship with an emphasis on natural resources conservation issues in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region, supporting the Department's focus on sustainability. The position assignment will be 40% research, 30% Extension/outreach, and 30% teaching.

The Chair will:

• Develop and maintain an active record of high-quality publications and competitive grants.

   

• Design and deliver high-quality classroom instruction.

   

• Collaborate with stakeholders on initiatives designed to address critical natural resources issues.

   

• Cultivate leadership in organizational and civic environments.

   

• Promote an ethic of sustainability in natural resources policy making and management.

   

• Influence the development of future natural resources conservation practitioners and academicians.

   

• Administer the Guyer Public Policy Internship endowed scholarship program.

   

Department: The Department of Community Sustainability is a vibrant, interdisciplinary community of scholars who engage with colleagues, students, stakeholders, and communities to address sustainability challenges within many environmental, economic, and cultural contexts. We do this by:

• Focusing on sustainability engagement that embraces the decisions inherent in the transition to a more sustainable future;

   

• Creating and supporting a faculty working on sustainability-related issues;

   

• Incorporating a systems-thinking view of sustainability into curricula at the undergraduate, graduate, and lifelong learner levels; and

   

• Conducting sustainability scholarship that has value in international, national, regional, and local contexts.

   

As scholar-practitioners working within an interdisciplinary department, we address critical issues at the interface of natural resources, protected areas, agriculture, recr