Director, School of Interdisciplinary Forensics

Description

 

The New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University (ASU) invites applications for an inaugural Director for the School of Interdisciplinary Forensics (SIF).

The inaugural Director will help build an internationally acclaimed school that operates at the intersection of science and the law. The core mission of the School is to blend scientific rigor and training to advance the fair and effective administration of justice. Currently, the school has strengths in the behavioral and natural sciences and is anticipated to expand to include strengths in other disciplines that can contribute to the school’s mission.

About the School of Interdisciplinary Forensics

The school currently offers undergraduate programs in Forensic Science and Forensic Psychology, masters programs in Forensic Science and Forensic Psychology, and a PhD program in Law and Psychology (https://newcollege.asu.edu/sif/degrees/undergraduate). These programs are among the most popular majors at ASU, with over 2,500 students currently enrolled and over 2,000 alumni.

Degrees offered include:

•  Forensic Science (BS, both on-campus and online)

•  Forensic Psychology (BA and BS, both on-campus and online)

•  Computational Forensics (BS, on-campus)

•  Forensic Science (Professional Science Masters, online)

•  Forensic Psychology (MS, online)

•  Law and Psychology (PhD, on-campus)

 

The School is building an on-campus MS program in Forensic Science and a graduate certificate in Human Factors in Forensic Science. Beyond these programs, the School maintains several interdisciplinary partnerships with other units and programs across the university. 

Faculty in the School of Interdisciplinary Forensics are engaged in research that is crucial for addressing grand challenges facing the legal system. Current initiatives and research labs include:

•  Future of Forensic Science Initiative

•  The Law and Behavioral Science Initiative

•  Social Psychology and Law Lab

•  Crime Scene Lab

•  The Law and Cognition Lab

•  Forensic Psychology Lab

•  The Psychology and Law Lab

•  Youth and Families in Court Systems 

 

The inaugural Director of the School of Interdisciplinary Forensics must be prepared to advance the following:

□     a strategic vision that positions SIF to be the premier, future oriented school of interdisciplinary forensics that excels in both theory and practice;

□     effective education through undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral research and innovative programmatic development and funding;

□     high-quality research among a rapidly growing community of tenured and tenure-track faculty;

□     vigorous student enrollment, building on multiyear, double-digit percent growth;

□     equitable inclusion at the student and faculty level and across all aspects of the school’s operations;

□     collegiality, by developing transparent processes and clearly communicating and building consensus around shared objectives.

The School will continue to grow with new faculty hires recruited through national searches to expand and deepen program offerings and the research profile of the school. The Director will have the opportunity to build an exemplary School of Interdisciplinary Forensics located on ASU’s West Valley campus, which offers a close- knit residential setting and the opportunity for students to benefit from individual faculty mentorship and ASU’s innovative research and education environment. The new Dir