What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Professor of Business Administration position at Westminster College - Fulton, MO?
Description
At Westminster College, we believe in immersive and enriching experiences that inspire creative thinking and problem solving. We believe in creating opportunities for several different paths to success over a lifetime and the potential to make an impact from wherever you are. For our students, we do this by providing real-world, hands-on learning opportunities, small class sizes, and talented professors dedicated to the individual. Our employees often remark that our tight-knit community creates an atmosphere fostering campus involvement that adapts to all interests. As a result, Westminster continues to be recognized for its excellence in higher education as one of the best small liberal arts colleges in the Midwest.
Westminster College is seeking applications for a fulltime tenure-track faculty position in Business Administration at the rank of Assistant Professor to start in August 2024. We are seeking a broadly trained and educated individual who has a demonstrated passion about teaching in a primarily residential, undergraduate, liberal arts institution.
The successful candidate will teach lower- and upper-level courses across the business disciplines. The successful candidate may also teach courses periodically for Westminster Online. We are especially interested in applicants whose research interests and pedagogy will connect and integrate business with other academic disciplines, and who have the potential to collaboratively contribute to interdisciplinary curricular and scholarly efforts within the department as well as across the entire College. In addition, the faculty member will participate in academic advising, new course development, and other departmental functions.
Requirements
Essential Functions:
- Teach a wide variety of upper and lower-level courses across the Business disciplines
- Collaboratively contribute to interdisciplinary curricular and scholarly efforts within the department as well as across the entire College
- Work with students as academic advisor
- Develop new courses in the Business Department and as part of Westminster’s Breakthrough general education requirements
- Contribute to departmental program development
- Participate in departmental administrative activities such as assessment, budgeting, course scheduling, etc.
- Participate in faculty governance and committee service
- Maintain regular office hours
- Teach courses in the Westminster’s First Year Experience
- Maintain an agenda for scholarly, professional, and/or creative activity
- Participate in enrollment and recruitment activities by meeting with prospective students, preparing recruitment materials, and other activities as requested
Job Requirements:
Education: Doctorate (or ABD) or Masters degree in Business or related discipline. Masters degree in a different discipline with either an earned 18 hours of graduate coursework in Business OR at least five years of professional industry experience.
Experience: The applicant should also demonstrate an understanding of teaching at a liberal arts institution, a desire to work with undergraduate students, and a willingness to be a member of a collaborative and collegial faculty.
Application Documents:
1) Cover letter
2) Current curriculum vitae
3) Statement of teaching philosophy and research direction
4) Unofficial graduate transcripts
5) Three letters of recommendation
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision options
- Health Savings Account and/or Flex Spending Account
- Supplemental options: Short-term disability, Hospitalization, Accident, and Critical Illness
- Stand-alone EAP program
- Life, AD&D, and long-term disability
- Retirement 403(b) plan
- Tuition remission or exchange programs
- Sick and Vacation time
- Paid Holidays (15 each year)
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled or the search is closed.
Westminster College encourages and gives full consideration to all applicants for admission, financial aid, and employment. The College is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. The College does not discriminate in access to, treatment of, or employment in, its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, veteran status, marital status, disability, or genetic information.
Inquiries about compliance with this prohibition should be directed to:
Associate Vice President & Chief HR Officer/Title IX Coordinator
501 Westminster Ave, Washington West, 2nd floor
Fulton, MO 65251
HR@Westminster-mo.edu
573-592-5226
