Honors - Assistant Professor/Associate Professor - Renewable Contract - 524742 - The University of Alabama : Job Details

Department/Organization

216141 - University Honors Program

Rank

Assistant Professor

Position Summary

The University of Alabama Honors College invites applications for a full-time faculty position at the rank of assistant professor to begin either in January 2025 or August 2025. This is a 9-month, non-tenure earning, three-year renewable position, with renewal contingent on performance, need, and funding.

Detailed Position Information

Successful candidate will be expected to teach honors classes, including seminar classes, and engage in service/academic citizenship appropriate to the scholarship of honors education.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum qualifications include (1) an earned doctorate or other terminal degree appropriate to their discipline and (2) teaching experience at the college-university level. The successful candidate must have the ability and desire to teach honors courses, including seminar courses. They should be able to build creative, transdisciplinary syllabi, foster dialog among students, and help individual students hone their skills as critical and creative thinkers, ethical and empathetic citizens, and collaborative and inclusive leaders. Honors faculty are expected to have skills and techniques necessary to manage highly collaborative, student-centered, and ideologically diverse conversations both in and out of the classroom. This is a central aspect to honors seminar courses, which also invites students to put critical and creative thinking, ethics and empathy, and collaboration and inclusivity into their own values, behaviors, and motivations.

Preferred Qualifications

Preference will be given to applicants with experience related to critical and creative thinking, ethics and empathy, collaboration and inclusive leadership, and/or experiential learning. Further preference will be given to applicants with a disciplinary background in a STEM-related field, engineering or computer science, in particular. In addition, preference will be given to applicants with administrative experience and/or experience mentoring students through extracurricular and/or co-curricular programming.

Instructions and Required Materials for Application

The University of Alabama Honors College invites applications for a full-time faculty position at the rank of assistant professor to begin either in January 2025 or August 2025. This is a 9-month, non-tenure earning, three-year renewable position, with renewal contingent on performance, need, and funding.

About the Division/College/School

The Honors College is the home to more than 7,000 high-performing and high-potential students at The University of Alabama. It is our mission to recruit, retain and actively engage them within a diverse community of scholars. Our goal is to shape our students into critical and creative thinkers, ethical and empathetic citizens and collaborative and inclusive leaders. Rather than offering specific degrees, the Honors College enhances UA's undergraduate curriculum through experiential learning and co-curricular opportunities.

The University of Alabama Honors College offers eight distinctive honors programs and one minor across numerous disciplines. From the establishment of the Honors College in 2003, the College has housed three of these programs: the University Honors Program, the Randall Research Scholars Program and the University Fellows Experience. The four-year University Honors Program develops students as creative and critical thinkers, ethical and empathetic citizens, and collaborative and inclusive leaders. The Randall Research Scholars Program is a nationally recognized undergraduate research program that pairs exceptional students directly with leading research professors and cutting-edge computing technology to complete scholarly research projects in any field of study. The University Fellows Experience is a community of elite scholars from diverse disciplines who share a similar passion to become change agents through commitment to leadership and service. The Honors College partners with the College of Arts and Sciences on the Blount Scholars Program and the McCollough Institute for Pre-Medical Scholars, with the Culverhouse College of Business on the STEM Path to the MBA and the CREATE Path to the MBA, with the College of Engineering on the EPIC Scholars Program, and with the College of Education on the Educational Studies Minor.

About the University

The University of Alabama is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, named one of Travel + Leisure's 25 Best College Towns and Cities in the U.S. As one of the nation's premier universities, UA offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in nearly 200 fields of study. With more than 1,400 acres of tree-lined academic core campus and over 300 state-of-the art facilities, UA has been ranked among the most beautiful and most impressive college campuses in the South, in the state of Alabama and in the nation.

In Fall 2023, the Capstone set a new enrollment record with more than 39,000 students, including more than 8,200 in the freshman class. The current enrollment includes students from every county in Alabama, every state in the nation and 92 countries around the world. More than 1,100 National Merit Scholars are currently enrolled, making UA one of the largest enrolling institutions of the scholars in the country.

UA was recently recognized as a Top Producing Institution of Fulbright U.S. students for the seventh time in nine years, as well as a Top Producing Institution of Fulbright U.S. Scholars for the first time. UA is one of only 12 universities in the nation to receive both honors.

For reasons like this, the University made Forbes list of America's Top Colleges for 2023 and Time magazine's list of Top 50 Best Colleges for Future Leaders. It also made Princeton Review's list of Top Value Colleges.

UA is also designated among the top doctoral research universities in the United States in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. One of the fastest growing major research institutions in the nation, UA saw a 21% increase in sponsored awards in the 2023 fiscal year.

Since 2015, UA has invested over $1.1 billion in the physical campus, adding more than 2.55 million gross square feet of space, over 150 new research-intensive faculty, signature research areas (e.g., The Alabama Research Institutes ), and a growing number of partnerships with industry and with state and federal agencies.

The University employs nearly 2,100 faculty and over 4,500 staff, with 52 UA researchers included in the National Academy of Inventors. An additional 40 current faculty have received the NSF CAREER Award, the nation's most prestigious recognition of top performing young scientists in disciplines ranging from nanoscience and engineering to biological sciences.

Background Investigation and EEO Statement

Prior to hiring, the final candidate(s) must successfully pass a pre-employment background investigation and information obtained from social media and other internet sources. A prior conviction reported as a result of the background investigation DOES NOT automatically disqualify a candidate from consideration for this position. A candidate with a prior conviction or negative behavioral red flags will receive an individualized review of the prior conviction or negative behavioral red flags before a hiring decision is made.

The University of Alabama is an Equal Employment/Equal Educational Opportunity Institution. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against because of their protected status. Applicants to and employees of this institution are protected under Federal law from discrimination on several bases. Follow the link below to find out more. EEO is the Law

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