Assistant​/Associate Professor of Counselor Education -State University Faculty

## Assistant/Associate Professor of Counselor Education
-State University Faculty Apply:
St. Cloud:
Full time:
Posted Today:
End Date:
November 30, 2026 (30+ days left to apply):
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* Working Title:

** Assistant/Associate Professor of Counselor Education
-State University Faculty
** Institution:
** St. Cloud State University
** Classification

Title:

** State University Faculty
** Bargaining Unit / Union:
** 209:
Inter Faculty Organization
** City:
** St. Cloud
** FLSA:
** Job Exempt
** Full Time / Part Time:
** Full time
** Employment Condition:
** Unclassified - Unlimited Academic
** Salary Range:**$64,963.00 - $  
** Job Description
** Minnesota needs clinical mental health counselors and school counselors, and this program prepares them.  We are looking for a counselor educator who wants real influence over how that happens.
The Clinical Mental Health Counseling and School Counseling programs ud State University invite applications for a tenure-track
** Assistant or Associate
** Professor of Counselor Education, beginning
** August 16th, 2027.
** We are a small faculty running daytime cohort programs with our own on-campus training clinic, live supervision, and a set of community partnerships that are already operating and open to a new colleague’s ideas.  Because the faculty is small, your voice on curriculum, clinical training, and program direction will matter from your first semester – not your seventh year.

** We are open on specialty.
** We are seeking an excellent counselor who can contribute broadly across the CACREP core curriculum, not a candidate in any single subfield. Your particular clinical and scholarly expertise – whatever it is – will help determine what we build next.  
** How teaching works here.*
* ** A 3/3 graduate load**. Graduate courses are weighted at 4 credits in the 24-credit IFO academic year-some clinical courses at five -, so a full graduate load is 6 courses per year rather than 8.  
** Daytime only.
** Our programs run on a cohort model with daytime classes.  Students know their full schedule from admission to graduation, and so do you. In counselor education, where evening teaching is the norm, this is unusual.  
** No faculty member owns a course.
** Faculty submit teaching preferences annually. If you want to teach a course several years running to develop it, you can.  If you want to move into something new, you can. We deliberately distribute the first-year content sequence – the heaviest teaching in the program, with intensive skills feedback and the beginning of gatekeeping – across the whole faculty rather than concentrating it on newer colleagues.

** You follow a cohort through its full three-year life cycle.
** You teach students in their first year, again in practicum, and through internship to graduation.  Most programs don’t work this way, and it takes some getting used to. We do it because when you make a gatekeeping decision or write a recommendation, you’re drawing on three years of watching someone develop rather than one semester’s impression.
A cohort’s first year typically includes Introduction to the profession, Ethics, Assessment in Counseling, Multicultural Counseling, and Counseling Procedures/Skills and either diagnosis and treatment planning or child/adolescent counseling.  
** Summer is optional,*
* ** and it’s yours.
** We poll students at orientation about which electives they want, and together with our advisory board build a 3-year summer rotation from that data.  Faculty teach in their own areas of interest, so this is where specialization lives – the core curriculum is taught by everyone, and the summer sequence is where your expertise becomes…