Faculty, Life Science

Overview

North West Arkansas Community College (NWACC) provides quality and affordable higher education to empower lives and strengthen communities within Northwest Arkansas and surrounding areas. As the largest community college in Arkansas, NWACC is recognized as a leader in education. NWACC offers a full range of associate degrees, certificates and workforce training programs that prepare students for rewarding futures and careers. NWACC employees are dedicated to fostering a diverse educational community and cultural learning environment that supports student success.

Faculty members serve multiple roles as teachers, mentors, colleagues, and scholars. Full‑time faculty are expected not only to excel in classroom instruction but also to fulfill various responsibilities as active members of the college and the northwest Arkansas community.

• Teach 15 teaching load hours per semester during the nine‑month employment period (12‑month faculty teach 12 hours in the summer for a total of 42 hours annually). Include class preparation, evaluations, and alternative delivery methods as needed.
• Provide effective instruction, facilitate student learning, and perform evaluations of student learning for all assigned classes, using each course's standard course outline as a guide.
• Conduct class‑related office hours, offer general student development services, and participate in weekly committee work (including club sponsorship, advisory boards, tutoring, etc.) to fulfill a total of 15 teaching load hours.
• Develop course curriculum, handouts, lectures, labs, and presentations.
• Participate in program‑level learning assessment, including articulating learning outcomes, administering measures, evaluating student performance, and suggesting improvements.
• Collaborate with other faculty and administrators in developing program curriculum, standards, and policies, and review and participate in the textbook selection process when appropriate.
• Schedule, supervise, debrief, and evaluate students in clinical, internship, observation, field‑experience, and similar settings as appropriate for the course or program.
• Be available to meet with students; communicate hours of availability in the course syllabus each semester.
• Assign grades, maintain course and student records in accordance with FERPA regulations, and submit grades and records by established deadlines.
• Attend all classes and other scheduled responsibilities, including office hours and meetings at the designated times, and inform the supervisor if a class cannot be met on time.
• Teach courses by alternative delivery methods as needed, which may include teaching at other facilities in Benton or Washington County, evenings, or weekends.
• Tutor at facilities in both Benton and Washington Counties in the daytime, afternoon, night, or weekend.
• Attend departmental, divisional, and college‑wide meetings.
• Engage in professional development, such as participating in faculty evaluation processes, remaining current in academic disciplines (attending conferences, maintaining licensure, certification, or continuing education), and receiving training in technological or pedagogical advances that promote student learning.
• Provide service to the college by serving on standing and ad‑hoc committees, programmatic advisory boards, hiring committees, the faculty senate, or by acting as a liaison for Early College Experience faculty; attend local, regional, state, or national meetings; mentor and/or assist in orienting new faculty; and perform other academically related duties as assigned by the instructor's supervisor.
• Participate in community and other educational activities outside the college to promote and market NWACC, its programs, and its students and graduates.
• Accept additional duties assigned as necessary to support the goals and objectives of the department and college.

• Master's Degree or higher in Biology, Environmental Biology, Botany, Plant Science, Plant/Animal Physiology, Horticulture, Plant Pathology, Ecology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Zoology, Entomology, Microbiology, or Agronomy.
• Minimum of one year experience…