Marine and Coastal Science Program - Non-Tenure Track Instructor

Marine and Coastal Science Program
- Non-Tenure Track Instructor

Position Title Marine and Coastal Science Program
- Non-Tenure Track Instructor

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 Marine and Coastal Science Program (MACS) is an interdisciplinary major at WWU created to help students develop into confident, thoughtful, ethical scientists who are ready to address the growing challenges affecting our marine and coastal environments. The major combines resources and expertise from the Biology Department, the Chemistry Department, the Geology Department, the Department of Environmental Sciences, and the Shannon Point Marine Center, located in Anacortes about an hour away from main campus.

The major is built around a cohort model in which students engage deeply with their peer group while learning about the tools, concepts, and context of marine science. MACS welcomes one cohort of 30 students per year, for a total of 60-90 students in the program at any given time. There are eight core faculty members in the program, numerous affiliate faculty, four additional staff members, and an academic director.

The Marine and Coastal Science Program 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 Marine and Coastal Science Program maintains a vacancy pool of qualified persons interested in temporary teaching positions. In anticipation of possible openings throughout the academic year and summer session, applications are accepted continuously for temporary, non-tenure track teaching positions on a part-time basis with occasional opportunities for temporary, full-term appointments. Positions may become available at any time and are typically filled on a quarterly basis.

This is a non-tenure track position at the rank of Instructor for the duration of each assigned courses and/or labs specified. There is no expectation of continued employment. The Program and the University value teaching and the candidate is expected to be an exemplary teacher; to be current in the discipline; to engage students actively in their own learning, including discussion, writing, and analysis;

and to provide students with feedback on their course work and examinations; and to be available to students through regularly scheduled office hours. The instructor is required to have the students evaluate the course(s) using the standard University evaluation forms and to make those evaluations available to the MACS director, academic director and faculty for annual review.

• Masters or PhD in related field, or commensurate experience
• Experience teaching university-level courses
• Demonstrated ability and commitment to cultivating learning environments that are equitable and inclusive of students with diverse social identities and backgrounds

• PhD in related field

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