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Environmental Studies Non-Tenure Track Instructor Pool |
| About the University |
Western Washington University, with over 16,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia. Western is the highest-ranking public, master's-granting university in the Pacific Northwest, according to the 2022 U.S. News & World Report rankings. Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive. In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties. |
| About the Department |
The College of the Environment and the Environmental Studies Department support Western's mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.
Environmental Studies students, faculty, and staff work together to understand and to reflect the complexity of human-environment systems. We aim to engage meaningfully, collaboratively, and respectfully with diverse communities in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world. Many of our graduates go on to the environmental careers for which they trained, while others continue their studies in education, law, natural resource management, public administration, and urban planning and sustainable development.
Students, faculty, and staff in the Department of Environmental Studies examine interacting social and natural systems. Our curriculum, which creates direct dialogue among the social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities, is designed to help students make the intellectual connections and gain the practical skills necessary for building socially and environmentally sustainable futures.
Through the integration of the natural sciences, social sciences, and allied professions, the Department of Environmental Studies at the College of the Environment endeavors to educate problem solvers who are able to meet the environmental challenges of our times. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.
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| About the Position |
The Environmental Studies Department maintains a vacancy pool of qualified persons interested in temporary non-tenure teaching positions. Positions may become available at any time and are typically filled on a quarterly basis throughout the academic year and summer sessions. Under the directions of the department chair, successful candidates will teach credit courses for undergraduate and/or graduate students, which may include face-to-face, online, and/or hybrid modalities. |
| Required Qualifications |
- Masters, PhD or JD in a related field from an accredited institution
- In some cases, professional and/or applied experience may substitute for higher education. The applicant should document and explain how such experiences demonstrate “expertise, original intellectual contribution, recognition by professional communities, duration and depth of involvement, or the independence of professional judgment.” Examples include but are not limited to, technical services, consulting work, community designs, models, exhibitions, curricular innovations, communication products, development and applications of theory, community service learning, translations of technical material, community facilitation, public policies implementation, technical documents, and other applied works.
- Current engagement in the disciplines, for example via professional activity, scholarly publications, conference presentations or attendance, or participation in relevant associations.
- Demonstrated ability to cultivate learning environments that are equitable and inclusive of students with diverse social identities and backgrounds and ability and commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion within the department.
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| Preferred Qualifications |
- Successful teaching experience in higher education in current discipline
- Successful teaching experience via distance education (web-based instruction)
- Successful teaching experience using a learning management system, such as Canvas
- Record of supporting the success of diverse students or professionals traditionally underrepresented in the field.
- Familiarity with education, mentoring and preparation of students for work in their field
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| Additional Preferred Qualifications for Applicants teaching Environmental Education courses |
- Teaching, researching, and developing environmental education with a social/environmental justice orientation, at higher education and other levels
- Skill in experiential and critical pedagogies suitable to classroom and field settings
- Competence in one or more media or venues of environmental communication
- Ability to manage field practicum logistics and planning, including with community partner organizations or other entities.
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| Conditions of Employment |
All employees must comply with our Immunization policies, including Proof of Rubeola Measles Immunity within 60-days of hire. Please reach out to HR@wwu.edu if you need information regarding medical or religious exemption and applicable accommodations. |
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Salary
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Commensurate with experience and qualifications
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| Benefits Information |
Benefits Overview for Faculty Positions |
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Bargaining Unit
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United Faculty of Western Washington
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Application Instructions
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Following materials are required:
- A letter of application addressing the above qualifications. Please ensure your letter specifically addresses your ability, record, and commitment to cultivate learning environments that are equitable and inclusive of students with diverse social identities and backgrounds.
- Current curriculum vitae
- Names and contact information for three references
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Required Supplemental Materials
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- Verification of highest degree (unofficial transcript is acceptable and may be scanned for electronic application and email purposes)
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| Closing Date Notes |
Applications are accepted continuously for potential NTT faculty openings; please apply at your earliest convenience. The current vacancy pool will close December 31, 2024. (The pool will be purged and refreshed every 12 months on Dec 31.)
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