Assistant Director for the Adirondack Semester - St. Lawrence University : Job Details

The Adirondack Semester is a unique program of place-based environmental education, involving 3.5 months of residence and academic study at a base camp in the Adirondacks, two extended backcountry trips, and a variety of outdoor activities. The program situates students on the boundary between modern civilization and wild nature and encourages them to study and reflect on their relationship with each of these and on the choices, we must make to preserve natural processes. Faculty members commute to the site, an off-grid yurt village, to teach a full university semester, including cultural and natural history of the Adirondacks, philosophy of nature, land use, stewardship, and Adirondack writing. (See This is a full-time, six-month appointment beginning July 7, 2025. The Assistant Director will work under the supervision of the Director and in collaboration with one other Assistant Director and will live on site 5 days and 4 nights per week. The two Assistant Directors share the follo...Director, Assistant, Leadership, Technology, Help