UW Colleges Human Resources
Assistant Professor of Physics
UW-Sheboygan
Do you like to teach? Are you interested in a university environment that allows you to interact with your students in small classes? How about a campus where colleagues work closely and enjoy the opportunity to develop interdisciplinary courses?
UW-Sheboygan is a culturally diverse commuter campus with an enrollment of around 900, including full- and part-time students with a mix of traditional and returning adult students. For more information about the campus, please visit www.sheboygan.uwc.edu.
The UW-Sheboygan campus is located in eastern Wisconsin less than an hour north of the Milwaukee metro area and an hour south of Green Bay. The campus is nestled on 70 acres of rolling wooded hills just east of I-43 and close to the downtown Sheboygan area and Lake Michigan. Abundant cultural activities can be found in the Sheboygan area, along with recreational opportunities typical of the Great Lakes region. For more information on the Sheboygan County area, visit www.sheboygan.org.
Position:
The Department of Computer Science, Engineering, Physics and Astronomy (CSEPA) and the Department of Mathematics of the University of Wisconsin Colleges invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in Physics and Mathematics at the UW-Sheboygan County campus.
Title:
Assistant Professor of Physics
Required Qualifications:
A Ph.D. in physics or closely related field and evidence of scholarly activity in physics is required. Eighteen graduate credits in mathematics or mathematically intensive science, engineering or computing courses required.
Preferred Qualifications:
Preference will be given to candidates with successful college teaching experience, experience in interdisciplinary or collaborative teaching, and teaching with instructional technology or distance education teaching.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities will include a teaching load of 12 to 14 contact hours per semester in a combination of lecture and laboratory sections. The curriculum includes, but is not limited to, college algebra-based and/or calculus-based physics, introductory physics for the health sciences, introductory to physics, quantitative reasoning, and basic applications focused calculus. As a tenure-track position, additional responsibilities include scholarly activity directed at either disciplinary research or research related to teaching within the discipline. Institutional service, community service, and student advising are also required.
Institution and Campus:
The UW Colleges is the freshman-sophomore transfer institution within the UW System. UW Colleges functions as a unit that comprises thirteen two-year campuses, each of which offers an excellent liberal arts and pre-professional education for students beginning work toward a bachelor’s degree.
UW Sheboygan provides a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering in collaboration with UW Platteville and is planning an Engineering Technology degree with UW Stout in electrical, mechanical, and plastics.
For more information on the UW Colleges please see http://www.uwc.edu and for UW-Sheboygan County see http://www.sheboygan.uwc.edu.
Application:
Applications must include a letter of interest, current curriculum vita, a one-page statement of teaching philosophy and professional goals, unofficial transcripts, and three current letters of recommendation. Those applicants with teaching experience are welcome also to send evidence of teaching success. Electronic submission of materials is required; send to faculty.positions@uwc.edu. In the subject line of your email, please reference CSPEA position #2.
Application Deadline: Applications will be accepted until January 15, 2012. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled.
Confidentiality of application can only be maintained until an applicant is deemed a finalist in the search.
For questions, please contact Dr. Christa R. James-Byrne, Department of CSEPA at christa.jamesbyrnes@uwc.edu.
Starting Date:
August 27, 2012
Salary and Benefits:
Salary is $43,000 with an excellent benefits package, please see www.uwsa.edu/hr/benefits. Summer session may offer additional opportunities for compensation.
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.