Assistant Professor​/Associate Professor & Director - Counseling

Job Title

Assistant Professor/Associate Professor & Director - Counseling

Agency

East Texas A&M University

Department

Counseling

Proposed Minimum Salary

Commensurate

Job Location

Commerce, Texas

Job Type

Faculty

Job Description

A Presidential proclamation issued on September 19, 2025, imposes a $100,000 fee on new H-1B petitions filed after September 21, 2025. Please be advised that Texas A&M University will NOT pay this fee. Therefore, if you need immigration sponsorship for your employment, we recommend that you consult with your private immigration counsel at your own expense to ascertain whether your current immigration status would make a potential offer of employment from Texas A&M University subject to this fee.

In addition, on January 27, 2026, Texas Governor Abbot issued a moratorium on the filing of any new H-1B unless approved by the Texas Workforce Commission. Accordingly, if you will now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status this moratorium may affect our ability to employ you should you be selected as the final candidate.

The Department of Counseling at East Texas A&M University - a student-ready, Doctoral University classified as R2:
High Research Activity by the Carnegie Classification - invites applications for a 9-month tenure-track Assistant Professor or tenured Associate Professor position. The successful candidate will hold the

E. Lee Doyle Endowed Professorship title and serve as the Director of East Texas A&M University’s Play Therapy & Expressive Arts Center, an Approved Center of Play Therapy Education by the Association for Play Therapy, beginning Fall 2027.

The chosen candidate will contribute to the department’s teaching, research, and service missions. Specifically, we seek a scholar with a focused research agenda; a demonstrated record of effective teaching at the graduate and/or undergraduate level; a commitment to meaningful service to the department, college, university, and profession; and an expertise in play therapy as evidenced by the candidate’s teaching, research, and service contributions.

In addition, the candidate must demonstrate professional identity in counseling/counselor education through the following: (a) sustained memberships in professional counseling organizations (e.g., APT, ACA, ACES, APT, CSI, TAAP, TCA, etc.); (b) relevant professional counseling credentials (i.e., licensed professional counselor-supervisor, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor (RPT-S)); and (c) sustained professional engagement in professional development and renewal activities, professional service and advocacy in counseling, ongoing counseling practice, and research and scholarly activity in counseling.

* Candidates being considered for a tenured appointment at the rank of Associate Professor must be evaluated against, and meet, the department’s tenure and promotion criteria as part of the hiring process.

• Develop and sustain a productive program of research/creative activity specifically in Play Therapy, leading to peer-reviewed publications, presentations, and other scholarly contributions;
• Engage in efforts to secure external funding for research appropriate to counseling and play therapy;
• Direct and serve on doctoral dissertation committees; and
• Mentor and engage both graduate and undergraduate students in research.

• Teach two courses each fall and spring semester across undergraduate and graduate levels;
• Contribute to the department’s core curriculum and develop graduate and undergraduate courses in areas of expertise;
• Deliver instruction both online, asynchronously and synchronously, and face-to-face at any of the university campuses (i.e., Commerce, Dallas, Plano);
• Demonstrate commitment to effective…