Department of Ethnic Studies Non-tenure Track Faculty Pool

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Position Title Ethnic Studies Non-tenure Track Faculty Vacancy Pool

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Western Washington University, with over 15,000 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 has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master
-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

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 Humanities & Social Sciences and the Department of Ethnic Studies 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.

The Ethnic Studies Department at Western Washington University centers the histories, epistemologies and lived experiences of minoritized peoples and Indigenous Nations. Our approach is intersectional and transnational while highlighting the unique perspectives, contributions, and knowledges of Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and other minoritized communities. Our courses challenge systems of power and oppression, and advance liberation, emancipation, and self-determining futures.

For more information about the department, see the website at (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

The Department of Ethnic Studies maintains a vacancy pool of qualified persons interested in temporary teaching positions. In anticipation of possible openings throughout the academic year, applications are accepted continuously for temporary non-tenure-track positions on a part-time basis. Positions may become available at any time and are typically filled on a quarterly basis.

The department of Ethnic Studies is particularly interested in faculty who are able to teach existing courses that satisfy General University Requirements (GUR) and serve the majors and minors. These include 100 intro-level courses in Ethnic Studies, as well as introductory courses in at least one of the following areas:
Black, Latinx, Indigenous, or Arab-American Studies. Additionally, faculty who can offer advanced Ethnic Studies courses that enhance our core major themeske Indigeneity, abolition, decolonization, emancipation, resistance, diaspora, migration, bordersre also encouraged to apply. We encourage applicants to visit our departmental website for more information on our curricular vision and current course offerings.

As a department that values teaching, we expect you to be an exemplary teacher; to be current in your discipline; to engage students actively in their own learning, including discussion, writing, and analysis; and to maintain high standards regarding course content. We expect you to provide students with feedback on their course work and examinations, and to be available to students through regularly scheduled office hours.

You will be expected to have your students evaluate your courses using the standard University evaluation forms, and to make those evaluations available to the department…