Head Search Department of Speech and Hearing Science College of Applied Health Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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1 Head Search Department f Speech and Hearing Science Cllege f Applied Health Sciences University f Illinis at Urbana-Champaign Brief Summary f Psitin The Department f Speech and Hearing Science is seeking an experienced leader with the ability t shape, guide and enact a departmental visin, the ability t fster cntinued departmental grwth that will bth sustain cre disciplinary missins and push the bundaries f the field thrugh innvative interdisciplinary research. Candidates shuld be utstanding schlars with an established recrd f cntributin t the field r related disciplines, and have a cmpelling visin fr the future f cmmunicatin sciences and disrders. We believe this is an exciting pprtunity fr an individual with visin t lead the Department f Speech and Hearing Science, an expanding department in a vibrant cllege at a majr research university, and t help shape the future fr the field f cmmunicatin sciences and disrders. Department f Speech and Hearing Science (SHS) Missin: The Department f SHS fcuses the university s trifld missin f research, teaching, and service n understanding the entire spectrum f human cmmunicatin, with a particular emphasis n cmmunicatin disrders assciated with speech, language, and hearing impairments. T meet this cre missin, the department: a) educates students in cmmunicatin sciences and disrders; b) serves cmmunities by develping and implementing methds t prevent, identify, assess, and treat cmmunicatin disrders and by preparing speech-language pathlgists and audilgists fr clinical careers; c) cntributes t ur understandings f the bilgical, cgnitive and scial aspects f cmmunicatin abilities and disabilities thrugh faculty research prgrams and by preparing the next generatin f researchers in the brad field f cmmunicatin sciences and disrders. In additin, SHS cntributes t the educatinal and schlarly effrts f the campus thrugh general educatin curse fferings, research that spans multiple disciplines and engagement bth acrss campus and within the lcal, reginal, state and natinal cmmunities. Highlights: The University f Illinis Speech Clinic, which perated within the Department f Speech Cmmunicatin in the late 1930s, was ne f the first prgrams f its kind in the cuntry. The Department f Speech and Hearing Science, frmally established in 1973, currently has ver 40 faculty and academic staff, including 19 full-time tenure track faculty, with a student bdy f abut 300 undergraduate majrs and 70 graduate students each year. Hused in tw buildings, the department ffers fur degrees (BS, MA, AuD, and PhD), including tw ASHA-CAA accredited pre-service training prgrams (fr audilgists and speech-language pathlgists), and a series f American Sign Language (ASL) curses that meet the university s freign language requirements.

2 Curriculum: The undergraduate curriculum is designed t prvide a brad backgrund in the theretical, basic, and applied aspects f bilgical, behaviral, linguistic, and scial fundatins f human cmmunicatin, and educates students wh intend t pursue careers and graduate study in fields related t cmmunicatin, educatin, health, and medicine. The graduate prgrams fcus n research and clinical educatin in cmmunicatin, its disrders, and the treatment and preventin f cmmunicative disabilities, with curses, practicum, and research pprtunities designed t prepare students fr clinical and research careers. The mst recent U.S. News and Wrld Reprt Departmental Rankings listed the clinical master s prgram fr speech-language pathlgists as 11 th and the clinical dctrate fr audilgists as 29 th in the cuntry. Graduates f the PhD prgram have accepted pst-dctral fellwships, and faculty and administrative psitins in institutins arund the wrld. Structure and Budget: The Department f SHS perates under the directin f a Department Head in cnsultatin with faculty, including prfessrs, assciate and assistant prfessrs, instructrs, lecturers and academic staff. Cnsistent with the shared gvernance plicies f the University f Illinis, the SHS bylaws utline departmental administrative rganizatin and prcedures, which serve t supplement the Bylaws f the Cllege f Applied Health Sciences, the Statutes f the University f Illinis, and specific actins f the Bard f Trustees. Faculty are invlved in departmental administratin thrugh the faculty-elected Advisry cmmittee, fur appinted standing cmmittees (Admissins, Educatin Plicy, Prgram Plicy, and Research and Grant Writing), and adhc cmmittees as needed. Daily peratins are managed by the Department Head, the Assciate Head, the Prgram directr, and by departmental and cllege supprt staff. The department head stewards a general perating budget f apprximately $2,000,000 per year based upn tuitin revenue frm majrs and curse enrllments, with additinal targeted funding brught in thrugh external grants, endwments and unrestricted gifts, and clinical revenues. SHS Faculty Research and Prfessinal Activities Research Labs, Funding, Interdisciplinary Cllabratins: SHS faculty are invlved in a brad range f research prgrams including physilgical research int speech, swallwing, and hearing prcesses in humans and nn-human animals; behaviral research examining human sensry-mtr, linguistic and cgnitive develpment in bth typical and atypical ppulatins; and scicultural research examining issues f ethnic and linguistic diversity and everyday cmmunicative practices f individuals with cmmunicatin disrders. T accmmdate the diverse needs f different research prgrams, research labs fr SHS faculty are hused arund campus, including in the SHS building, Huff Hall, Beckman Institute, and Engineering. Faculty research is funded thrugh internal mechanisms (e.g., Campus Research Bard), and cmpetitive grants frm majr fundatins (e.g., Autism Speaks; ASHA) and federal agencies (e.g., NIH; NSF; Department f Educatin; Department f Defense). SHS faculty are actively invlved in interdisciplinary cllabratins and research prjects with faculty frm ther departments (e.g., Engineering, Linguistics, Kinesilgy, Psychlgy, Special Educatin, English) and hld affiliate appintments with ther units and prgrams n campus (e.g., Psychlgy,

3 Beckman Institute fr Advanced Science and Technlgy, Graduate Prgram in Neurscience). Clinical Prgrams, Outreach, and Research: SHS clinical instructrs, wh hld ASHA certificatin in audilgy r speech-language pathlgy, prvide pre-service practicum pprtunities fr graduate students by maintaining clinical caselads within the department s audilgy and speech-language pathlgy n-site clinics, and by arranging external placements with cperating clinicians at ver 50 institutins lcally and acrss the cuntry. Thrugh the Audilgy Clinic, instructrs and graduate students prvide diagnstic and rehabilitatin services t children and adults, including assessing, fitting and dispensing hearing aids and assistive listening devices. The Speech-Language Pathlgy Clinic is lcated in Research Park, the University s startup and innvatin incubatr. Instructrs and students prvide a wide range f n-site diagnstic and individual and grup therapy services, and cntract services in area schls. Bth clinical sites have been recently remdeled with state-f-the art facilities and equipment designed t meet clinical and research gals. Awards, Recgnitins and Prfessinal Activities: Curses in Speech and Hearing Science are taught by members f the faculty wh bring their expertise and persnal cmmitment t the classrm creating a learning envirnment where student initiative is encuraged. Semester ratings by students place the curses and instructrs in the department well abve campus averages. SHS faculty and instructrs have been recgnized with AHS Cllege and Campus Awards fr Excellence in Teaching, the Campus Award fr Excellence in Public Engagement, and received Prvst's Initiative n Teaching Advancement (PITA) funding t supprt curse develpment. SHS faculty have been awarded Graduate Cllege Fcal Pint Grants fr prjects designed t stimulate intellectual cmmunities f faculty and graduate students arund imprtant issues and prblems f ur times, and have been recgnized by ASHA fr cntributins t the field. SHS faculty als serves n editrial bards fr prfessinal jurnals and n natinal review panels. Cllege f Applied Health Sciences The Department f Speech and Hearing Science is ne f three departments situated within the Cllege f Applied Health Sciences (AHS), In additin, the Cllege f AHS huses the Divisin f Disability Resurces and Educatinal Services (DRES), the Center n Health, Aging, and Disability, and the newly appinted Center fr Wunded Veterans in Higher Educatin. Cllege supprts fr individual units include undergraduate advising, IT supprt, web develpment, grant and cntract services, pilt grant funding, a Teaching Academy, and cllabrative crss-departmental research pprtunities. All units within the cllege are fcused n empwering individuals with disabilities t live full and independent lives, prmting the develpment f healthy cmmunities, and imprving the quality f life f peple f all ages and cultures. The cllege is a campus leader in develping interdisciplinary prgrams. It currently ffers an interdisciplinary

4 undergraduate prgram, i-health, which prepares students fr a wide range f graduate study in health-related fields, and pre-prfessinal study fr a range f bimedical careers. The cllege is in the prcess f develping an interdisciplinary PhD in Disability and Rehabilitatin Science, which fcuses n cmmn elements f disability within sciety, including the integratin and rehabilitatin f individuals with cmplex develpmental and acquired disrders. The Cllege f AHS is prud t cntinue the lng and distinguished histry f innvatin and prvisin f educatinal services at the University f Illinis at Urbana-Champaign that has enabled students with ptentially disabling cnditins t attain a wrld-class educatin in a cmprehensive number f fields. Under the leadership f Dr. Tim Nugent and driven in part by the needs f returning WWII veterans, histric breakthrughs at Illinis have included the first curb-cuts, the first public bus equipped with a wheelchair lift, the first cmpetitive sprts teams fr persns with physical impairments, the develpment f architectural accessibility standards that were later adpted natinally, and mst recently, the first campus t prvide a transitinal student drmitry fr students with severe and multiple physical needs. University f Illinis at Urbana-Champaign The University f Illinis at Urbana-Champaign is amng a handful f preeminent public universities in the natin. As ne f three campuses, the University f Illinis at Urbana- Champaign huses 16 clleges and schls and currently enrlls apprximately 46,600 students and prfessinals. The campus is a vibrant and active intellectual cmmunity as evidenced by the Office f Public Engagement, the Academy fr Entrepreneurial Leadership; varius lecture series, such as the CAS/MillerCmm Lecture Series by the Center fr Advanced Study, and universal unit representatin in the faculty Senate. In its 2012 rankings, U.S. News & Wrld Reprt's America's Best Clleges rated Illinis as the number 13 public university and the number 46 natinal university. The Times Higher Educatin ranked the University f Illinis at number 31 in the wrld. The University Library is ne f the largest public university cllectins in the wrld with 11 millin vlumes in its 37 unit libraries. Undergraduate admissin is highly selective. In the 2001 freshman class, students in the middle 50% had ACT scres between 25 and 30 and ranked between the 83rd and 96th percentiles f their high schl graduating classes. The University enrlls apprximately 11,000 graduate and prfessinal students in mre than 100 disciplines. It is amng the tp five universities in number f earned dctrates awarded annually in the United States. The campus ffers an pprtunity t cllabrate with wrld-class departments, fr example psychlgy, linguistics, neurscience, and special educatin. In additin, the Beckman Institute fr Advanced Science and Technlgy is a mdel fr interdisciplinary research, where eighteen research grups frm sixteen University departments wrk within and acrss three bradly defined themes: bilgical intelligence, human-cmputer intelligent interactin, and mlecular and electrnic nanstructures. Finally, the Institute fr Genmic Bilgy, established in 2003, is dedicated t the advancement f life sciences research and biecnmic develpment. The institute

5 includes mre than 150 faculty members and 600 students and pstdctral researchers frm 30 departments acrss the University f Illinis. The Gals f SHS and Rle f the Department Head T effectively cmmunicate the SHS visin, inspire thers t achieve it, and be an effective agent f change within campus, state, natinal, and internatinal cmmunities T identify, attract, retain, and supprt diverse and talented faculty, staff, and students T balance stewardship f departmental resurces with innvatin t advance ur departmental visin T bridge research and clinical endeavrs in a way that supprts human cmmunicative practices acrss a full spectrum f ability and age