College of the Environment-Western on the Peninsulas Locations - Non-Tenure Track Instructor Vacancy Pool

Non-Tenure Track Instructor Vacancy Pool

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.

WWU College of the Environment
- Western on the Peninsulas programs provide off-campus degree programs designed with a flexible schedule (evening hours) for working adults and offers three bachelor's degrees as follows: BA in Environmental Studies (emphasis either in Geographic Information Systems or in Environmental Science); BA in Natural Resource Management; and BS in Environmental Science. Classes in the degree programs are held during evening hours (after 5:00 p.m.).

The classrooms are networked across two sites at Port Angeles and Poulsbo. A class held at any of these sites is connected via Interactive Teleconferencing to the two other sites. Hence any single cohort/class of our students is typically spread across three sites.

WWU College of the Environment
- Western on the Peninsulas programs are home to diverse faculty and students who are committed to interdisciplinary environmental problem solving. This program encourages interdisciplinary thinking, though programs maintain a strong disciplinary identity.

WWU College of the Environment
- Western on the Peninsulas programs support WWU's mission, which asserts our commitment 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.

WWU College of the Environment
- Western on the Peninsulas programs maintain a vacancy pool of qualified persons interested in temporary, non-tenure track teaching positions with the program. In anticipation of possible openings throughout the academic year, applications are accepted continuously for temporary, non-tenure track teaching positions (typically part-time appointments). Positions may become available at any time and are typically filled on a quarterly basis.

This position is limited-term (non-tenure track) at the rank of Instructor for the duration of each assigned courses and/or labs specified. There is no expectation of continued employment. 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; to provide students with feedback on their course work and examinations;

and to be available & responsive to students. The instructor is required to have the students evaluate the course(s) using the standard WWU evaluation forms and to make those evaluations available to the dept. chair and faculty for annual review.

Masters, JD, or PhD in related field OR Bachelors degree plus 10 years work experience in related field. In some cases, professional and/or applied experience may substitute for higher education. The applicant should document and explain how such experiences demonstrate "expertise, original intellectual contribution, recognition by professional communities, duration and depth of involvement, or the independence of professional judgment."

Demonstrated abilities in planning and policy history, methods, applications, and theory and related planning and policy fields. Demonstrated continued learning of current and advanced knowledge and practices in planning and policy fields. Current engagement in the disciplines, for example via professional activity,…