Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

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Assistant Professor

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Title:

Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

School/Division: Academic Affairs, Division of

Department: Biological Sciences

Faculty Sub-Type: FT Faculty

Salary Level: A5

Salary Range: $67,200 + depending on experience (DOE)

Position Effort: Full-Time

Is this a temporary position?: No

SUNY Cortland is an engaged learning community that is committed to promoting diversity of thought and experience. We believe that an equitable, inclusive and diverse campus and curriculum are critical to our educational mission. Tenure-track faculty contribute to the University's values of inclusive excellence through outstanding teaching, research and/or scholarship, service to the department and university, and by providing academic advisement and mentoring to/for all students.

Faculty are expected to maintain a routine presence on campus to support our campus values of focusing on the students, integrity, and intellectual life and serve our campus priorities of academic excellence, transformational education, well-being, and the maximization of resources.

The Biological Sciences Department at SUNY Cortland seeks applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor to begin August 2027. We are a large and diverse department that offers four undergraduate majors:
Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Conservation Biology and Adolescence Education in Biology. Our faculty contribute to the University’s values of inclusive excellence through (1) innovative teaching, (2) research and/or scholarship that engages undergraduates, and (3) service to the department and university.

$67,200 + depending on experience ( DOE)

• Our positions provide predictable salary progressions, and many offer permanency.
• Generous benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance, various retirement program options, paid family leave and/or parental leaves, flexible spending and dependent care accounts, long term disability and tuition reimbursement.
• SUNY Cortland prioritizes work-life balance and well-being in all forms. The university's state-of-the-art Student Life Center is free for employees to use, with membership options for families. Alternate work schedules are available with a supervisor's approval.
• Professional development opportunities exist through training, continuing education programs, tuition reimbursement and conference travel, based on funding.
• Cortland County and surrounding areas offer easy access to arts, entertainment, outdoor recreation and much more. Experience Cortland dives deep into the region’s offerings

• Teach majors-level introductory organismal biology (BIO
  212 Fundamentals of Organismal Biology) and upper-level electives in organismal biology with laboratory sections that complements existing courses and faculty expertise. Upper-level electives could include but are not limited to Plant Biology, Wildlife Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Vertebrate Biology (or subdiscipline such as ichthyology, herpetology, ornithology, ormammalogy), Entomology, Mycology, Field Biology, Animal Behavior or other organismal elective in the candidate’s area of expertise.
• Maintain an active research program in an area of organismal biology that involves undergraduates and has the potential for external funding.
• Provide service to the department and university that includes advisement and mentorship of students with diverse backgrounds.

• Assistant professors will mentor undergraduate students in research, supervise internships, participate in service activities for the department and campus community, and advise students in the Biological Sciences.
• Faculty…