WASEDA UNIVERSITY JOB ADVERTISEMENT
(Courtesy Job Information Center section of JALT's The Language Teacher, December 2000, page 55)

TOKYO-TO--The School of Literature, Waseda University, is seeking candidates for a full-time, tenured faculty position to begin April 2002. QUALIFICATIONS: PhD in EFL, applied linguistics, or similar area of study. Solid and ongoing high-quality research and publication. Teaching and research interests in one ormore of the following areas: CALL, langage testing and evaluation, curriculum development. Converstation abilty in Japnaese would be an advantage. DUTIES: perform departmental and university teaching and other duties in line with with appionted, tenured position. SALARY & BENEFITS: competititve salary and other allowances. APPLICATION MATERIALS: CV/Resume, cover letter, names and addresses of three referees who will provide recommendations. DEADLINE: February 15, 2001. CONTACT: EFL Position, Department of English, School of Literature, Waseda University, 1-24-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8644....

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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:50:21 +0900 (JST)
Subject: website; greenlist
From: vicky@mn.waseda.ac.jp (VICTORIA MUEHLEISEN)
To: debito@debito.org

Hi Dave,

Your web page is certainly interesting, and controversial, of course.

(snip) I would like to nominate Waseda University for the
Greenlist. They have pretty much eliminated the gaikojin kyouin position
(except for a few people who already had a position under that title
and wished to keep it) and instead have merged it with the kyakuin
positions, contract positions offered to both foreigners and Japanese.

I teach at the School of Law. Out of 109 tenured faculty, there are
7 foreigners. (All of them are language teachers or liberal arts
teachers, but in general, they are more liberal than the law teachers.
The law teachers include no foreigners and only one woman.)

There are also 7 kyakuin faculty, with specific rank determined largely
by academic degree and publications. There are 5 kyakuin kyouju (3 Japanese,
and 2 foreigners) and 2 kyakuin koushi (both foreigners).

I don't have statistics handy for other schools within the university,
but I know of tenured foreign faculty in several of the other schools,
and I know that the School of Literature, for example, was recently
recruiting for a tenured position with advertisements in English as
well as in Japanese.

At Waseda, the basic requirements for tenured positions seem to be
: 1) at least an MA, and almost certainly a PhD these days; 2) publications,
especially in 'good quality' journals;
3) an ability to speak and read Japanese well enough to handle administratitive
duties.

I was hired even though I am still pretty weak in areas 2 and 3, I
think mostly because people liked what I had been doing in the classes
I had taught as a gaikokujin koushi and then as a kyakuin jokyouj
u. But when they hired me, it was made clear that I would not get
any breaks! Like any new faculty, I wouldn't have to serve on to
o many inter-university committees for the first few years, but af
ter that, I would. And I'm expected to keep doing research.

Anyway, as I said, I like the fact that you have a greenlist as we
ll as a blacklist, and I hope that you will add Waseda to it.


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VICTORIA MUEHLEISEN

vicky@mn.waseda.ac.jp