Assistant Professor

Oregon State University
Corvallis - United States
S: Competitive

Oregon State University's commitment to student success includes hiring, retaining, and developing diverse faculty to mentor and educate our undergraduate and graduate students from entry through graduation. Our Strategic Plan (http://oregonstate.edu/leadership/strategicplan/phase3) articulates the strategies we believe critical to advancing and equalizing student success.

As part of this commitment, OSU has established a hiring initiative for 2014-15 that is designed to support these strategies. In alignment with this initiative, the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University invites applicants for a full-time (1.0 FTE), 9-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the area of Race, Gender, and Class Inequality in Education.

The new faculty will be responsible for conducting research on the impact of policies and programs (e.g., affirmative action, targeted recruiting, high impact learning) that affect student success, recruitment, retention, and economics. The faculty member will create new classes that examine issues of inequality and discrimination that include innovative pedagogical methods such as experiential learning, hybrid teaching, and social learning. The position will become part of a larger group of policy researchers interested in education and social policy in the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) and College of Education, creating a concentration of teachers, students, and scholars looking at equity and inclusion in education. The new hire may also become involved in ongoing OSU initiatives such as Latino/a and Native American studies and outreach, the Latina/o Migrations and Communities, an NSF ADVANCE Grant for women in higher education, and a new position in Rhetoric and Composition emphasizing Literacy Studies with a focus on global diversity and second language writing.

The faculty will teach and participate in the School of Public Policy, which offers Master and PhD degrees in public policy and undergraduate BA/BS degrees in Economics, Political Science, and Sociology. The hire will teach both graduate and undergraduate level courses in one or more SPP programs. Faculty at Oregon State University are committed to undergraduate and graduate student success. We seek faculty who have evidence of educating and mentoring a diverse group of learners, which may include experience with sponsoring student research or internships, developing study abroad opportunities, service learning courses, or the use of innovation pedagogies such as hybrid or online learning.

Oregon State University is one of only ten American Universities to hold the Land Grant, Sea Grant, and Space Grant designations and is a Carnegie Doctoral/Research-Extensive university.

The College of Liberal Arts is a community that includes and values the voices of all people. As such, we recognize the social barriers that have systematically marginalized and excluded people and communities based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, socioeconomic background, age, disability, national origin and religion.

We are committed to the equity of opportunities, and strive to promote and advance diverse communities. We value and proactively seek genuine participation from these historically under-represented and under-served groups, and recognize them as an essential component of creating a welcoming and rich academic, intellectual, and cultural environment for everyone.

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