Assistant Professor, Government, Geography, and History

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Title:Assistant Professor, Government, Geography, and World History

Department: Liberal Arts, Social Sciences

Reports to: Dean of Liberal Arts

Date: October 22, 2026

General

Summary:

The World History and Government full-time faculty member is a creative, learner-centered, flexible, and knowledgeable individual who teaches courses in the Social Sciences Department to a diverse student body. The faculty will be teaching courses to general education students, History, Politics, and Global Studies majors as well as students in other specific degree programs. The faculty member will work with LAD division administration and faculty to develop student learning outcomes and assessment strategies, and will participate in college service and student advisement.

The faculty member must be committed to inclusive excellence and diversity, and continuous professional improvement.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Teach courses in Geography, Government, and World History.
• Apply current discipline standards and practices in the classroom, emphasizing where course material intersects with and affects current society.
• Develop and apply a variety of student-centered instructional methods that engage a diverse student body of varying learning styles, backgrounds, and abilities, and promote critical thinking and other employability skills.
• Develop instructional material consistent with course, program, and institutional student learning outcomes, applying innovative instructional approaches to achieve stated course objectives.
• Develop and apply assessment strategies that maximize the learning process and measure student learning outcomes at the course, department, and institutional level.
• Develop and apply technology in and out of the classroom.
• Incorporate high-impact practices such as learning communities, undergraduate research, service learning, and collaborative projects into pedagogical practice.
• Participate in ongoing curriculum review, assessment, and development.
• Participate in Social Science department initiatives and division and college committees and activities.
• Work collegially with faculty from all disciplines.
• Advise students majoring in History, Politics, and Global Studies
• Fulfill terms of the faculty contract as set out in the Agreement between the Board of Higher Education and the Massachusetts Community College Council/Massachusetts Teachers Association.

• Master's degree in Geography, Political Science/Government, or History
• Successful academic classroom teaching experience in Geography, World History, or Government/Political Science.
• Ability to apply innovative instructional approaches, in order to achieve stated course objectives and student learning outcomes
• Experience with technology and software in college-level social science classes
• Commitment to continuous professional improvement.
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