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University of Wisconsin Colleges
University of Wisconsin – Fox Valley
Assistant Professor of Business, Tenure-Track
Do you love to teach? Do you wish to be at a university where excellence in the classroom is directly related to excellence as a scholar, and vice-versa? Where the classes are small and you learn the names of all your students? Where the campus is more of a family than simply a place of employment? Live in a community with quality affordable housing? This tenure-track position offers these things and more.
The Department of Business and Economics invites applications for the tenure track position of Assistant Professor of Business at the UW-Fox Valley campus. Additional information about the department can be found at www.uwc.edu/dept/BusEcon.
Qualifications
A Masters in Business with a CPA and/or CMA or equivalent degree is required. Preferences will be given to candidates with graduate levels courses in Management Information Systems and/or Business Communications and those who evidence successful college teaching including Business Communications and/or Management Information Systems. Experience in undergraduate education and engagement of students within and beyond the traditional classroom is highly desirable.
Responsibilities
- Candidates must have a strong commitment to undergraduate education, and must be willing to engage students beyond the walls of the traditional classroom.
- Evidence of successful teaching on the college level is preferred.
- Teach 24 credit hours per year from among
- Introduction to Business
- Personal Finance
- Introductory Accounting
- Managerial Accounting
- Business Communication
- Management Information Systems
- Introduction to E-Commerce
- Possibly one or more of the courses to be developed as interdisciplinary courses and to be taught in the second and subsequent years of appointment, at least once per year
- Possibly one or more of the course should be adapted as an online, accelerated or hybrid course
- Possibly participate in first year experience courses and/or learning communities.
- Participate in campus and departmental assessment of student learning.
- Continued commitment to scholarly activity in the discipline and/or the scholarship of teaching
- Participate in campus, institutional and community service, and the shared governance structure.
- Advise new and continuing students.
To receive tenure in the UW Colleges, faculty members are expected to establish a record of excellence in teaching, a strong record of professional scholarly development appropriate for a 2-year liberal arts transfer institution, and to provide institutional and community service.
Brief description of institution, campus and area
The University of Wisconsin Colleges is the freshman-sophomore transfer institution within the world-renowned UW System. UW Colleges functions as a unit comprised of thirteen campuses around Wisconsin, each of which offers an excellent liberal arts and pre-professional education for students beginning work toward a bachelor's degree. UW-Fox Valley, located in Menasha, is the second largest of the thirteen campuses with 1,830 students. Menasha is part of the “Fox Cities,” a thriving economic and cultural center of increasing ethnic diversity. The Fox Cities are approximately ninety minutes north of Milwaukee and two hours from Madison. Nearby are Appleton, Green Bay, Oshkosh and Fond du Lac. The campus is also near Wisconsin's beautiful Door Peninsula, Lake Michigan, and the Northwoods of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. Additional information about the campus can be found at www.uwfox.uwc.edu.
Starting date
August 27, 2012
Salary
Starting salary is $48,000. Additional compensation for summer and/or Winterim instruction may be a possibility as needed. Details of the excellent benefits package may be found at www.uwsa.edu/hr/benefits.
Applications
Please submit electronically the following materials: a letter of application describing your qualifications with reference to our needs, a one-page statement of teaching philosophy and professional goals, a curriculum vitae (include contact information for references), three letters of reference from those familiar with your teaching, and unofficial transcripts of all university studies. To be assured consideration applications must be received by January 23, 2012. Send to faculty.positions@uwc.edu. Queries may be made to UW-Fox Valley Campus Associate Dean Bill Bultman (bill.bultman@uwc.edu) or UW Colleges Department of Business and Economics Chair Carolyn Polodna (carolyn.polodna@uwc.edu). Additional information about the institution may be found at www.uwc.edu.
Confidentiality of application can only be maintained until the candidate is determined to be a finalist.
The University of Wisconsin Colleges is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action institution committed to diversity and inclusiveness among its employees and in its programs, and actively seeks and encourages applications from underrepresented groups.
A criminal records review will be conducted for final candidates.