Tenure Track in Social Work Clinical Focus

The School of Social Work at the University of St. Thomas invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of Social Work position with a nine-month appointment. We seek a dynamic and engaged scholar-educator who demonstrates collaborative engagement, excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. This candidate will contribute meaningfully to our commitment of preparing ethical, competent, and culturally responsive social work professionals.

Our School offers social work degree programs at the baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral levels.

This in-person position will have primary teaching responsibilities in the clinical MSW program and may include teaching at the BSW or DSW level as needed. The successful candidate will have demonstrated training, skills, and experience to teach clinical courses. The MSW program is offered in two formats: in-person weeknights and hybrid weekends. The BSW program is offered in the traditional weekday format, and the DSW is fully online.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Teach six social work courses per year
• Teach across multiple formats (in-person weeknights and hybrid weekends)
• Student advising and mentoring
• Engage in scholarly work, research, publications, and community impact
• Contribute to curriculum development, innovation, assessment, and CSWE accreditation processes
• Participate in departmental, college, university, and community service

ABOUT THE SCHOOL AND COLLEGE

The School of Social Work mission is: Grounded in social justice and inspired by Catholic social thought, we educate and engage students to learn, grow and develop their professional skills as they prepare for social work practice in support of health, wellbeing and the common good.

We recently celebrated its 50th anniversary as an accredited school. Our faculty and staff are committed to helping students develop a strong clinical social work identity, grounded in social work values and ethics; the skills to actively engage diverse client populations; a strong knowledge base with critical thinking and reflective practice skills; the capacity for leadership; and the capacity to assess and improve social work practice.

Our MSW program has special expertise and programming in integrated behavioral health, practice with older adults, practice with immigrants and refugees, and addiction and co-occurring disorders.

The School of Social Work is part of the Morrison Family College of Health. We invite candidates who will work to advance the missions of both the School and the College, the latter being, to prepare highly skilled and caring professionals who are culturally responsive, practice with ingenuity, and proactively advance health equity and social justice.

ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS

The University of St. Thomas is a dynamic, mission-driven, urban university. Located in a residential neighborhood with easy access to two downtown metropolitan centers, we are Minnesota’s largest private university with eight schools and colleges, 150+ undergraduate majors/minors, and 55 graduate programs. To learn more about life as a faculty member mas, please see .

The University of St. Thomas embraces belonging and equal opportunity for all. Our convictions of dignity, diversity and personal attention call us to embody and champion an inclusive environment. The University is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer (EEO). All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, status as a protected veteran, or other protected characteristic.

This commitment to inclusion and equal opportunity is consistent with our mission:
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