Honors College - Non-Tenure Track Faculty Vacancy Pool

WWU College of Business & Economics; Bellingham (WA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Western Washington University’s Honors College maintains a vacancy pool of qualified persons for temporary, non-tenure track teaching appointments across general education courses in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Applications are accepted at any time, with positions potentially becoming available during the academic year.

Instructors are expected to stay current, engage students, provide extensive feedback, and maintain regular office hours. A Ph.D.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. or terminal degree in the faculty member’s discipline.
• Demonstrated successful teaching experience at the college or university level.
• Demonstrated commitment to cultivating learning environments that are equitable and inclusive of students with diverse identities.

Responsibilities

• Instruct general education classes in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
• Encourage student participation and provide extensive feedback and timely office hours.
• Classes evaluated using standard university student evaluation forms and shared with the program.

Skills

Teaching experience

Inclusive teaching

Education

Ph.D. or terminal degree

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Honors College - Non-Tenure Track Faculty Vacancy Pool

Position Title Honors College - Non-Tenure Track Faculty Vacancy Pool

About the University

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.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive. In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

About the Department The Honors College supports 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. All are encouraged to apply, including women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

About the Position

The Honors College maintains a vacancy pool of qualified persons interested in temporary teaching positions to instruct in a variety of general education classes in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Applications are accepted at any time, and positions may become available at any time during the academic year. Positions are normally for one course during the academic year. Classes are small, limiting at 25, maximum.

The Honors College is designed for students seeking an enhanced educational experience, and though students come from a broad variety of major areas, more are in the natural sciences than any other group of fields. Students expect to be actively involved in their classes and to write, or to be involved in experimental work and research as a matter of course in their Honors classes. Faculty are expected to introduce students to the widest possible variety of approaches to subject matter typical of their fields.

Position Responsibilities: The college values and expects genuine excellence in teaching, and instructors are expected to be current in their disciplines, to encourage student participation in their educations, to demand writing or other work appropriate to the discipline, to maintain rigorous academic standards, to provide extensive commentary or other feedback on student work in a timely manner, and to be available to students through regularly scheduled office hours. Instructors must have their classes evaluated using the standard university student evaluation forms and to make those reviews available to the program.

Required Qualifications

• Ph.D. or other terminal degree in the faculty member’s discipline
• Demonstrated successful teaching experience at the college or university level
• Demonstrated commitment to cultivating learning environments that are equitable and inclusive of students with diverse social identities and backgrounds

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in interdisciplinary teaching

Conditions of Employment All employees must comply with our Immunization policies, including Proof of Rubeola Measles Immunity within 60-days of hire. Please reach out to [e-mail] if you need information regarding medical or religious exemption and applicable accommodations.

Commensurate with experience and qualifications

A cover letter and curriculum vitae are required and should address your experience related to the position responsibilities and the required and preferred qualifications.

You will be asked to provide contact information of three references.

Closing Date Notes

Applications are accepted continuously for potential NTT faculty openings; please apply at your earliest convenience. Vacancy pool closes no later than October 31, 2027.

Western Washington University (WWU) is an equal opportunity employer. In compliance with applicable laws, WWU does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, national origin, age, citizenship or immigration status, pregnancy, use of protective leave, genetic status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, creed, religion, veteran or military status, disability or the use of a trained guide dog or service animal (including a service animal in training) by a person with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, in its programs or activities, including employment, admissions, and educational programs. See WWU’s Policies on Prohibiting Discrimination Based on A Protected Class and Prohibiting Discrimination Based on Sex . Inquiries may be directed to the Office of Civil Rights and Title IX Compliance, Title IX and ADA Coordinator, Western Washington University, Old Main 126 (MS 9021), 516 High Street, Bellingham, WA 98225; 360.650.3307 (voice) or 711 (Washington Relay); [e-mail]

WWU is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. To request this document in an alternate format or to request an accommodation, please contact Human Resources Disability Services , 360.650.3751 or 711 (Washington Relay).

Annual Security and Fire Safety Report: This report is provided pursuant to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act ("The Clery Act"). It includes statistics for the previous three calendar years concerning reported crimes that occurred on Western's campus; in certain off-campus buildings or property owned or controlled by Western; and on public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from, the campus. The report also includes institutional policies concerning campus security, such as policies concerning alcohol and drug use, crime prevention, the reporting of crimes, sexual assault, and other matters. You can obtain a copy of this report in printed or alternate formats by contacting the Office of Student Life at [e-mail] . The report can be found at: Annual Security and Fire Safety Report .

All new employees must comply with the immunization policy and show employment eligibility verification as required by the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Service before beginning work at WWU. A thorough background check will be conducted on all new hires and rehires, which includes a sexual misconduct background check .