Graduate InstructorAdjunct Faculty

Naropa University; Boulder (CO); Hybrid; USD 13,202 - 15,813; Part time

Job summary

Naropa University seeks a Graduate Instructor/Adjunct Faculty for the Writing Center, focused on first-year writing and related courses. This role requires a Naropa JKS MFA degree with advanced writing skills and experience in teaching. Responsibilities include developing lesson plans, grading assignments, and facilitating workshops. The position allows for hybrid work at the Arapahoe Campus and offers a chance for professional development in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Naropa Master’s degree candidate with a minimum of 9 credits of graduate work.
• Advanced teaching and lesson planning abilities.
• Understanding of privilege and oppression dynamics.

Responsibilities

• Teach a 3-credit writing course as described.
• Develop and teach lessons with preparedness.
• Prepare and submit course syllabus to Academic Affairs.

Skills

Advanced writing abilities

Interpersonal skills

Collaborative work skills

Attention to detail

Initiative in teaching

Education

Naropa University Master’s degree in Creative Writing

Minimum of 9 credits of graduate work

Job description

• Position Title: Graduate Instructor/Adjunct Faculty
• Number of openings: 4
• Department/Program: Writing Center 45000
• Work Location Authorization: Hybrid
• Work Location: Arapahoe Campus
• Reports to: NWC director
• FLSA Classification: Exempt/Salaried
• FTE: 15% (6 hrs/week)
• Compensation: $1,300 Undergrad

Application Deadline: 7/1 or until filled

Job Summary

The Naropa Writing Center (NWC) & Jack Kerouac School (JKS) seek to hire Naropa JKS MFA graduate instructors or recent Naropa JKS MFA graduates as adjunct faculty to teach in first‑year writing and the JKS gateway course.

Course Descriptions

COR110, COR110e & COR210E Writing Thinking & Being: This first‑year writing seminar is designed to meet you where you are and stretch your writing and thinking in new directions using mindful, present‑moment practices. We focus on the creative alongside the critical, the embodied next to the academic within a contemplative landscape. We employ several generative writing experiments to discover and develop ideas, while considering how our social locations might intersect dialogic arguments and discourse communities. The workshop also cultivates research writing through first‑person inquiry as we practice the art of scholarly investigation. Finally, we explore radical revision as we become active readers who collaborate in a supportive manner.

WRI210 Experimental and Activist Literatures: This course introduces Black Mountain Poets, the Beats, New York School, Black Arts Movement, Language Poets, New Narrative, and Jack Kerouac School faculty work—poetic movements and writers that continue to influence Naropa’s writing landscape, innovations, aesthetics, and activism. By exploring experimental lineages, Naropa archives, as well as contemporary trends influencing the Kerouac School milieu, we participate as readers/writers/activists and invoke critical/creative awareness that informs the writing process. This creative reading and writing workshop invokes a vital space of active experimentation and culminates in a creative portfolio.

Job Duties

• Teach a 3‑credit writing course (descriptions above).
• Develop and teach lessons with a professional level of preparedness for 3 hours per week for the duration of the 15‑week semester, including experiential, collaborative, and contemplative activities.
• Facilitate the workshopping of writing assignments with the whole class and with small groups.
• Prepare a course syllabus according to the Academic Affairs syllabi instructions and submit the syllabus to the Office of Academic Affairs by the established deadline.
• Grade all assignments and provide feedback to students in a timely manner, and submit final grades by the deadline established by the Registrar.
• Attend all instructor meetings.
• Provide one hour of office hours each week plus availability to students by appointment through meetings, phone, e‑mail, zoom, as needed.
• Meet with students for mid‑semester check‑ins.
• Obtain permission from the copyright owner for any copyrighted material to be used in sourcebooks.
• Complete any and all faculty and staff trainings as required by the Human Resources office or the Office of Academic Affairs within the time period set for completion by those departments.
• Position may include increased teaching credit hours to work as a professional consultant in the Naropa Writing Center. Duties include but are not limited to:
  • 2 hours per week per additional credit hour consulting in the NWC
  • Remote and residential consulting on a set schedule
  • Attend staff meetings and professional development opportunities
  • Answer emails and perform admin tasks as assigned
  • Support the NWC with classroom visits to UG and graduate courses as scheduled.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Naropa Master’s degree candidate with a minimum of 9 credits of graduate work; or Naropa University Master’s degree in Creative Writing, English Literature, or a related field.
• Successfully passed WRI700: Writing Pedagogy Seminar with a grade of A‑ or better.
• Advanced writing abilities.
• Potential for/compatibility with constructivist, contemplative, experiential, and process‑based pedagogies.
• Advanced teaching and lesson planning abilities.
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative work skills, attention to detail, and initiative to teach a college‑level writing course.
• An understanding of the dynamics of privilege and oppression, and the impact these have on equity, access, and opportunity in higher education/the workplace.
• Commitment to co‑create an inclusive community and actively participate in related professional development, including openness to feedback and ongoing self‑examination.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous teaching experience.
• Previous training in the following areas: learning disabilities, multilingual speakers, diversity‑equity‑inclusivity pedagogical practices, research writing, and MLA/APA/CMS.

Physical Requirements & Environmental Conditions

• Reading academic texts and materials, student papers, etc.
• Operating personal computer and audio‑visual equipment.
• Standing or sitting for hours at a time.
• Moving around campus for classes and meetings.

Naropa University is an equal‑opportunity, non‑discriminatory employer and Title IX is a federal civil rights law that prohibits gender discrimination, sexual harassment, sexual and relationship violence. This law applies to all students, faculty, and staff.