Academic Programs and Community Engagement Non Tenure-track Pool

Overview

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’s-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.

The Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs supports academic programming that serves the needs of students outside of their majors and the general education offered by academic departments. This includes, for example, early start academic programming in the Viking Launch program and first-year experience academic programs such as the Navigational Seminars for first-generation students. With the support of the Faculty Director of Academic First-year Programs and collaborating faculty from other academic departments, the office supports curriculum that supports equity and success for new students.

The division of Academic Affairs supports 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 Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs invites applications for non-tenure-track teaching opportunities in the first-year academic and community-based programs at Western Washington University. These opportunities include teaching seminar courses in a single quarter, and/or year-long seminar courses. Applicants should have a strong interest in utilizing effective strategies that foster student academic success specifically, in the classroom beyond the classroom curriculum, to include community-based and experiential learning approaches.

The First-Year cluster and seminar topics expand across a range of disciplines; applicants are encouraged to share innovative and interdisciplinary course topic ideas.

Required Qualifications

• Graduate degree in field relevant to area of teaching responsibilities or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Experience teaching at the college level in the relevant field of study.
• Demonstrated commitment to effectively promoting accessibility, diversity, equity and inclusion.

Preferred Qualifications

• Terminal degree (Ed.D., J.D., Ph.D. or M.F.A.) in field relevant to area of teaching responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience in programs that promote accessibility, diversity, equity and inclusion.