Part-Time Faculty in Adult & Continuing Education (ACE) Program

Roosevelt University; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

Roosevelt University is seeking part-time faculty for its Adult & Continuing Education program to teach essential courses for adult learners. The position involves designing an engaging curriculum that promotes social justice and civic engagement, delivering content online, and supporting students in their academic journeys.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of teaching experience required.
• Expertise in asynchronous course delivery needed.
• Experience with at-risk or first-generation college students preferred.

Responsibilities

• Teach online asynchronous courses for ACE program.
• Facilitate adult students' integration into the university community.
• Evaluate and provide feedback on students' academic work.

Skills

Teaching online courses

Communication

Feedback

Research

Education

Master's Degree

Tools

Learning Management Systems

Zoom

Job description

Part-Time Faculty in Adult & Continuing Education (ACE) Program

Position Title Part-Time Faculty in Adult & Continuing Education (ACE) Program

Category

Category Adjunct

Posting Number

Posting Number T000157

Location

Location Chicago

Open Date

Open Date 06/11/2025

Close Date

Open Until Filled? Yes

Job Type

Job Type Part-Time

Working Hours

Position Summary

Reflecting the ideals of its founders in 1945, Roosevelt University is a private, nonsectarian community of educators, scholars and learners committed to academic, creative and service excellence, who value differences in personal experiences and perspectives; ask difficult questions; and promote mutual understanding, inclusion, social consciousness and action toward social justice. Recognizing that difference broadens perspectives, Roosevelt University seeks and serves a diverse, promising student body from metropolitan Chicago and around the world. We invite you to contribute your talents to our community.

This is an online asynchronous course.

The Adult & Continuing Education Program seeks to hire adjunct faculty for the BA in Interdisciplinary Studies. Multiple positions are possible, teaching online asynchronous courses for ACE 110 – Return to Learning, ACE 300 – Civic Engagement in the Community, Workplace, and World, ACE 301 – Reflective Learning, and ACE 302 – Senior Seminar (course descriptions below).

ACE 110, 300, 301, and 302 are Roosevelt Adult and Continuing Education core requirements for adult students entering Roosevelt after being away from college for some time. The ACE core curriculum contains required classes and experiences for all Interdisciplinary Studies Majors that are designed to help you develop the knowledge & skills that will allow you to become a socially conscious leader in your career and community.

ACE 110 – Return to Learning Course Description: Return to Learning is a 3 credit fully online course designed to facilitate adult students’ integration into the Roosevelt University community. This course helps adult students connect with Roosevelt’s mission, build supportive relationships, reflect on their learning process, engage with campus resources, and coordinate their academic and professional goals. The course focuses on four elements: (1) acquiring key tools needed to be a successful student at RU; (2) engaging the core practices of interdisciplinary studies central to the ACE program; (3) utilizing the ACE program’s credit for prior learning ( CPL ) portfolio model; and 4) aligning academic and professional goals with the program’s requirements and options.

ACE 300 – Civic Engagement in the Community, Workplace, and World Course Description: As members of communities, we are engaged in a vast range of activities, at different levels, working to make a difference in public life (e.g., electoral politics, volunteer tutoring, local community clean-ups, etc.). Across the globe, there are increased levels of civic engagement, with citizens actively participating in organizations and engaging other members of our communities and workplaces to make them better places. Roosevelt University (RU) has a strong mission and history related to social engagement. RU emerged as an institution to reject discriminatory practices toward specific student populations at a time when education began to be viewed as a public good and central to civic functioning. Over its history, RU’s mission has adapted to the evolving nature of civic engagement in 20th and 21st centuries. This course links students’ education to RU’s mission, and their own lives. The purpose of the class is to engage students in the history of global civic engagement and reflect on their interrelated identities as members of their communities and as professionals in their fields. The course plan involves students engaging in reading about civic engagement across various spaces and reflecting on their own experiences and engagement activities and interacting with peers to build knowledge and practical skills to enhance civic engagement. Students will present ideas from readings to relate the material to their lives, working with peers to discuss topics and discover connections between their lives and the material, and creating a final project that focuses on their how to leverage community assets to enact positive change and grow as individuals. The design and execution of the final reflection paper in this course could serve as a guide for the ACE program’s capstone project in ACE 302.

ACE 301 – Reflective Learning Course Description – This course offers undergraduate students in the ACE BA Program the opportunity to analyze and interpret their varied life experience in order to produce a well- documented portfolio of prior learning. The course provides key resources and structures a clear process to identify, analyze, interpret, assemble, and document artifacts and outcomes of prior learning experiences in a portfolio that can be assessed by faculty for possible college level credit. A portfolio template leads students to identify assumptions, expectations, and strategies used by faculty in varying subject disciplines to assign credit for college-level learning. Course materials combine theories of adult learning, practices of self-assessment, and analysis of prior learning with problem solving, critical thinking, peer review, and focused research to facilitate the assessment of prior learning and future learning goals. The course is open only to students enrolled in the RU Adult and Continuing Education ( ACE ) undergraduate degree program and approved by program advisor.

ACE 302 – Senior Seminar Course Description – The capstone course provides students with an opportunity to summarize, evaluate, and synthesize their university-level work in interdisciplinary studies and connect to their experience and goals of life-learning. The RU Adult and Continuing Education ( ACE ) program’s Interdisciplinary Studies (IS) major course focuses on interdisciplinary coursework as a function of life-long learning. Required for students graduating from the IS Program, this course asks students to create, under the mentorship of a faculty member and with feedback from peers, a final project of their own design. In the final project, students will apply theoretical concepts, scholarly sources, and varied cultural perspectives to social, economic, aesthetic, or technological issue that is important to them and that they have been working during their program of student in a final paper and presentation. Participating in workshop format, students will engage in reflection, research, and communication with others to create knowledge gained from both their program courses, lived experience, and research for their culminating projects. Workshops for students involve helping students apply and integrate what they have learned about identifying and addressing the complex issue of their choice using interdisciplinary approaches in ways that demonstrate evidence-based inquiry and meet established norms of scholarly research. This is an intense, 15-week course requiring significant research and writing from the student.

The salary rate is $3982 for the first semester with entry into the union for any subsequent semesters of employment thereafter.

Title IX Contact Information: Federal Title IX policy requires that all colleges and universities make known the contact information for the person responsible for coordinating its efforts to comply with Title IX regulations. At Roosevelt University, the Title IX Coordinator is Natasha Robinson. Her office is located in the Auditorium Building of the Chicago campus, 430 S. Michigan Avenue, AUD 476B. She can be reached at 312-281-3245 or [e-mail].

Do not contact this email address for inquiries about your job application; if you have questions, you may email [e-mail] .

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

• Expertise in teaching online, asynchronous courses
• Strong written, communication, and research skills
• Ability to provide constructive feedback on academic written and presentation-based assignments
• Proficiency with the Learning Management Systems
• Basic knowledge of creating screencasts and audio supported documents
• Understanding of how to use Zoom to meet with students

Years of Experience Required

Years of Experience Required 1

Required Education

Required Education Masters Degree

Certification/Licensure Required

Minimum Qualifications

• 1 year of teaching experience
• Experience with Learning Management Systems
• Experience working with at risk or first-generation college students
• Experience working with adult online learners

Preferred Qualifications

• 1-3 years of teaching experience
• Experience with Learning Management Systems
• Experience working with at risk or first-generation college students
• Experience working with adult online learners
• Experience creating screencasts and audio supported files
• Basic knowledge of Credit for Prior Learning ( CPL )

Equipment Operated

Desktop computer, laptop, projector, printer

Working Conditions

This is an online asynchronous course, so prospective ACE adjunct faculty may use their home office.

Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).

• Do you have an earned Masters Degree?
  • Yes
  • No
• Do you have at least 1 year of teaching experience?
  • Yes
  • No