Assistant Teaching Professor

Overview

The UMBC Department of Information Systems invites applications for a non-tenure track position at the Assistant Teaching Professor level with a start date of Fall semester 2026.

The Department has 46 full-time faculty and over 2000 students, including over 1400 undergraduate students. The department offers undergraduate degrees in Information Systems (IS) and Business Technology Administration (BTA). Graduate degree programs, MS and PhD, are offered in both Information Systems, Human-Centered Computing, and an online MS program in IS. In addition, the Department houses the Master’s in Health Information Technology and the Master’s in Software Engineering, both as professional degree programs.

We offer several accelerated BS/MS options for our students. Our faculty are actively engaged in collaborative interdisciplinary research within and across departments and institutions. Seven of our current faculty have received NSF CAREER awards. IS faculty members lead six research centers: the Center for Real-time Distributed Sensing and Autonomy (CARDS), the Interactive Systems Research Center (ISRC), NSF HDR institute for Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in the Polar Regions (iHARP), the UMBC site of the Center for Advanced Real Time Analytics (CARTA), the Center for Research in Use-Inspired Cyber-Physical Systems (CYPRESS), and Center for Scalable Data and Computational Science (Scale

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UMBC is a public research university ranked as "R1", considered to be among the best research universities in the country. UMBC is a world leader in inclusive excellence in research and teaching. UMBC is ranked #12 among all U.S. universities in undergraduate teaching and #15 for innovation (US News). To continue to advance this goal, the Faculty Development Center provides excellent support, such as classroom observation, collection and analysis of student feedback, as well as regular workshops and pedagogical demonstrations.

Our students can leverage our location near government agencies, such as NIH, NASA, NSF, NIST, DOD, NIDILRR, and USGS. UMBC’s strategic location in the Baltimore-Washington corridor puts us close to many high-tech companies and local area medical and nursing schools as well. UMBC was recognized as a top place to work in 2023 by both Modern Think and the Baltimore Sun.

The department, college, and UMBC are deeply committed to the success of all of our faculty. We offer regular and structured support for faculty to develop a thriving and successful teaching career. The campus is close to both energetic urban centers and family-friendly suburbs. Nearby cities such as Columbia and Ellicott City have been routinely ranked in the top 10 best places to live in the US by Money Magazine.

All candidates are expected to demonstrate their commitment to inclusive excellence in all aspects of the position, to include teaching, mentoring, service, or community engagement. Our Department strives to obtain an equitable and diverse scholarly environment through building an inclusive climate and culture focused on a common objective of excellence in education, research and student success. UMBC is a national model for diversity and inclusive excellence in STEM.

Examples of these are our Meyerhoff Scholar programs (), the Center for Women in Technology (CWIT: ), and PROMISE:
Maryland’s AGEP (), Cyber Scholars Program (), Scholarships for Service Federal Cyber Corps (), and McNair Scholars Program () () programs. Inclusive excellence is a hallmark of UMBC and a foundational value of our community. UMBC is the nation’s #1 producer of Black undergraduates who go on to complete a Ph.D. in the natural sciences or engineering and #1 for Black undergraduates who complete an M.D./Ph.D., based on NSF data.

The IS department is proud to support a diverse student and faculty body in terms of gender, race,…