Salary/Position Classification

• $50,000 9-month contract, Exempt
• 40 hours per week
• This position will work onsite in Grand Forks, ND

Purpose of Position

The Honors Program invites applications for a full-time time 9-month, non-tenure track Teaching Assistant Professor. The successful candidate will be teaching Honors courses with emphases on both social sciences and humanities with a start date of August 16, 2025.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to teach undergraduate coursework with a theme-based, multi- and interdisciplinary approach, incorporating high impact practices and a variety of assignment types that encourage curiosity, intellectual engagement, and both critical and creative thinking.

The Honors Program serves motivated, accomplished students by nurturing creativity, critical thinking, and scholarship beyond the usual academic frameworks. Through interdisciplinary seminars, co-curricular activities, service projects and advisement, the Honors Program creates a learning community that emphasizes intellectual exploration.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Honors Teaching Assistant Professor will teach 8 courses per year. Courses to include multiple sections of the cornerstone class, HON 101 with a Humanities emphasis, and topics courses with a Social Sciences emphasis. Preference for additional ability to teach courses that include Humanities and/or Sciences. Classes will be primarily on campus, in person teaching, with the possibility of one online class per semester.

The incumbent will participate in Honors Program recruitment events and will assist in attending and developing student engagement and community building activities within the Honors Program, in addition to serving on the Senate Honors Committee, and other service as needed.

The incumbent will have an allotted percentage in contract to pursue research and/or creative activities. 

Required Competencies

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to teach, inspire, and mentor students.
• Ability to establish great rapport with and inspire students to think creatively and critically.
• Effective interpersonal skills, including the ability and willingness to collaborate effectively with faculty, staff, and students.
• Ability and willingness to work with and engage students and colleagues from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds within and outside the Honors Program.
• Intersectional awareness and an ability to address issues of diversity, broadly, in all courses taught.

Minimum Requirements

• Master’s degree in Social Sciences or Humanities discipline.
• Experience and expertise teaching social sciences-based courses and/or interdisciplinary courses.
  Successful completion of a Criminal History Background Check

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the US and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. This position does not support visa sponsorship for continued employment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Terminal degree in the field of specialty, e.g., M.F.A. or Ph.D.
• Experience and expertise teaching in a social sciences discipline, ideally in an Honors context.
• Expertise in teaching research skills to undergraduates, e.g. writing and presenting, as well as a record of teaching from primary texts.
• Experience or evidenced strong interest in teaching interdisciplinary courses, especially those which bridge the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
• A record of implementing innovative pedagogy and high impact practices in the classroom to foster active student learning and critical engagement around current issues.
  
  

To Apply

To assure full consideration, applications must be received by 5/30/2025 and include the following materials:

• Updated CV,
• Cover letter of interest in the position,
• Teaching philosophy statement,
• List with contact information for 3 references,
• Two sample syllabi, and
• Unofficial transcripts. Please note that the selected candidate will be required to submit official transcripts upon hire.

Position is open until filled.

Questions can be directed to the Honors Program Director, Merie Kirby, at merie.kirby@und.edu.