College Environment-Western Peninsulas Locations - Non-Tenure Track Instructor Va

About the University

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.

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. A full list of degrees/certificates is listed online.

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. The B.A in Environmental Studies/Natural Resource Management faculty are typically trained in geography, GIS, environmental economics, natural resource management, urban and regional planning, law, political science, professional writing, and related fields.

The B.S Environmental Science faculty typically have advanced degrees in water resources, marine science, fisheries science, biodiversity studies, bio-regional studies, geology, oceanography, climatology, geography, toxicology, and ecology. Find out more on the WWU College of the Environment webpage.

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…