Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Womens Leadership 2013-2016

Position Announcement
I. Position Description Mills College invites nominations and applications for the appointment of the Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Womens Leadership. This appointment honors Congresswoman Lee, a Mills alumna, for her leadership, conviction, and courage in her national and international career. Our goal in this endowed position is to promote intellectual and ethical leadership, creativity, and commitment to gender, ethnic, racial, spiritual, and class diversity. The Barbara Lee Chair is multidisciplinary in scope and is intended to enrich the broad life of the college community. The Chair will be held by a leader in her/his field on a two to three-year non-renewable basis. Its holder will be a person of national or international standing who is also a recognized scholar or social activist. Nestled in the foothills of Oakland, California, Mills College is a nationally renowned, independent liberal arts college offering a dynamic progressive education that fosters leadership, social responsibility, and creativity in approximately 950 undergraduate women and more than 600 graduate women and men. The College ranks as one of the Best 376 Colleges in the country and one of the greenest colleges in the nation by The Princeton Review. US News & World Report ranked Mills one of the top-tier regional universities in the country and lists it among the top colleges and universities in the West in the Great Schools, Great Prices category. For more information, visit www.mills.edu. II. Qualifications

The holder of the Chair is expected to be an intellectual leader and/or recognized activist , focusing on Latin American countries and/or transnational/borderlands studies of Latin American issues in one or more of the following fields: healthcare, environmental policy, public policy, gender, economic development, womens health, humanities, the arts, technology, ethnic studies, and diaspora studies. Candidates must be committed to quality teaching and research and to the advancement of womens education. The successful candidate should have an earned doctorate or equivalent professional experience, and a strong record of accomplishment and leadership. Experience in a senior public sector or public policy making position is valuable, although not a requirement. This is a senior position and the candidate is expected to meet the standards for appointment at the academic rank of a visiting full professor.

The College requires diversity in its faculty, staff and student body and welcomes and encourages nominations of persons from historically underrepresented groups. III. Duties The holder of the Chair will engage in the following activities:

Teach one undergraduate or graduate course per semester; Serve as a mentor to junior scholars and students; Give an informed and engaging Annual Address to the Mills Community on leadership,
community service, or social engagement; Expand the role and engagement of Mills in discussions and debates on community, national, and international affairs; Participate in Mills collaboration in the Women in Public Service Project, working in collaboration with other womens colleges and the Woodrow Wilson Center; Provide curricular oversight and leadership for the Mills 2015 Women in Public Service Institute on Latin America: http://www.mills.edu/womeninpublicserviceproject. Nominations for this position should be sent to: The Barbara Lee Chair Search Committee, Office of the Provost, Mills College, 5000MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA 94613, and should include a letter describing the applicants interests in and qualifications. Applications should include a cover letter submitted with a curriculum vitae or resume submitted electronically to:
http://mills.interviewexchange.com/candapply.jsp?JOBID=35649

Review will begin on November 15, 2012. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Mills College does not permit discrimination based on pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, race, religious creed, color, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, age, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity. For more information on Mills non-discrimination policy, pleased go to http://www.mills.edu/administration/administrative_offices/policies/nondiscrimination.php.