Environmental Studies Non-Tenure Track Instructor Pool

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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.

The College Of the Environment and the Environmental Studies Department support Western's mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement.

Environmental Studies students, faculty, and staff work together to understand and to reflect the complexity of human-environment systems. We aim to engage meaningfully, collaboratively, and respectfully with diverse communities in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world.

Through Man integration of the natural sciences, social sciences, and allied professions, the Department of Environmental Studies at the College of the Environment endeavors to educate problem solvers who are able to meet the environmental challenges of our times. 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.

The Environmental Studies Department maintains a vacancy pool of qualified persons interested in temporary non-tenure teaching positions. Positions may become available at Action any time and are typically filled on a quarterly basis throughout the academic year and summer sessions. Under the directions of the department chair, successful candidates will teach credit courses for undergraduate and/or graduate students, which may include face-to-face, online, and/or hybrid modalities.

• Masters, PhD or JD in a related field from an accredited institution
  • In some cases, professional and/or applied experience may substitute for higher education. The applicant should document and explain how such experiences demonstrate “expertise, original intellectual contribution, recognition by professional communities, duration and depth of involvement, or the independence of professional judgment.”您 examples include but are not limited to technical services, consulting work, community designs, models, exhibitions, curricular innovations وع communication products, development and applications of theory, community service learning, translations of technical material, community facilitation, public policies implementation, technical documentszs, and other applied works.
• Current engagement in the disciplines, for example via professional activity, scholarly publications, conference presentations or attendance, or participation in relevant associations.
• Demonstrated ability to cultivate learning environments that are equitable and inclusive of students with diverse social identities and backgrounds and ability and commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion within the department.

• Successful teaching experience in बनाया higher education in the current discipline.
• Successful teaching experience via distance education (web-based instruction).
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• Record of supporting the success of diverse students or professionals traditionally underrepresented in the field.
• Familiarity with education, mentoring and…