Department of Ethnic Studies Non-tenure Track Faculty Pool

Overview

Position Title:

Ethnic Studies Non-tenure Track Faculty Vacancy Pool

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. 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 excellence through inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western supports an inclusive governance structure and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive. Employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships among diverse populations and to operationalize sustainability concepts in job duties.

The College of Humanities & Social Sciences and the Department of Ethnic Studies support Western’s mission to make a positive impact in the state and the world with a 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 diverse experiences.

The Ethnic Studies Department centers the histories, epistemologies and lived experiences of minoritized peoples and Indigenous Nations. Our approach is intersectional and transnational, highlighting the perspectives and knowledges of Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and other minoritized communities. Our courses challenge systems of power and oppression and advance liberation, emancipation, and self-determining futures.

For more information about the department, see the website at (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

The Department of Ethnic Studies maintains a vacancy pool of qualified persons interested in temporary teaching positions. Applications are accepted continuously for temporary non-tenure-track positions on a part-time basis. Positions may become available at any time and are typically filled on a quarterly basis.

The department is particularly interested in faculty who can teach existing courses that satisfy General University Requirements (GUR) and serve the majors and minors. These include 100 introductory Ethnic Studies courses, as well as introductory courses in at least one of the following areas:
Black, Latinx, Indigenous, or Arab-American Studies. Faculty who can offer advanced Ethnic Studies courses that align with core major themes—Indigeneity, abolition, decolonization, emancipation, resistance, diaspora, migration, borders—are encouraged to apply. Visit the departmental website for more information on curricular vision and current offerings.

As a department that values teaching, we expect you to be an exemplary teacher; to be current in your discipline; to engage students actively in learning, including discussion, writing, and analysis; and to maintain high standards regarding course content. You will be expected to provide students with feedback on coursework and examinations, and to be available to students through regularly scheduled office hours.

You will be expected to have students evaluate your courses using university evaluation forms and to make those evaluations available to the department chair and faculty for annual review.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree or bachelor’s degree with extensive teaching experience
• Demonstrated ability to teach an interdisciplinary curriculum
• Experience with teaching methods which promote active, participatory learning
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with diverse students and cultivate learning environments…