Assistant Professor – History (Tenure-track or Tenured)

Job ID

27797

Location

Guttman Community College

Full/Part Time

Full-Time

Regular/Temporary

Regular

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FACULTY VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Stella and Charles Guttman Community College, City University of New York, seeks an accomplished practitioner-educator in History to serve on the faculty and support the culture of teaching and learning across the institution.

This full-time, tenured/tenure-track Assistant Professor position will begin in Fall 2024. Full-time faculty are required to teach a 24-hour course load across Guttman’s two 12-week Fall and Spring semesters and 6-week Fall II intersession (visit the Guttman Academic calendar online for dates). Faculty are expected to teach in person but they may also have opportunities to teach online or in a hybrid format. Faculty on tenure-track appointments are expected to pursue scholarship and develop a record of scholarly production. Scholarship, whether in the faculty member's disciplinary field or in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, is required for tenure and promotion.

For this position, the successful candidate will be an interdisciplinary educator with expertise in History and Education for teaching courses within the Secondary Education Social Studies program as well as other history courses in the Liberal Arts program. Centered on social justice, Guttman’s education program emphasizes the importance of relationships, equity, and critical knowledge through liberal arts courses with a focus on history and education courses. The program will prepare students to be reflective, knowledgeable, and vocal advocates, and future teachers and community members. Faculty will enact this by teaching students how to think across disciplinary boundaries.

Candidates in this position will also teach the American Studies courses (“Introduction to Social Justice” and “Civic Engagement in a Global Society”) that constitute Guttman’s unique, required first-year seminar. The successful candidate will join an innovative and interdisciplinary group of scholars from the humanities and social sciences with complementary interests in social justice and secondary education. The Introduction to Social Justice course is linked with Composition I and involves collaboration across disciplines through participation on an instructional team.

Guttman faculty are also active members of the College Community through participation in collaborative service work initiatives that advance the goals of the College and University.

ABOUT GUTTMAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE

The Stella and Charles Guttman Community College is a beacon of innovation and knowledge creation in higher education, a two-year college where evidence-based high-impact practices in curriculum design and delivery permeate the educational model and have yielded graduation rates that are the highest in CUNY’s community college sector and above the national average. Located in midtown Manhattan, Guttman draws a culturally diverse student body from across New York City and is a federally designated Hispanic Serving Institution.

The College is committed to using a range of innovative approaches to achieve its goals and to improve student persistence, retention, completion, and transfer. The centerpiece of Guttman’s educational model is an integrated first-year core curriculum, where students examine current world issues and use New York City as a living text and laboratory. Thus, connecting information and concepts across multiple disciplines, contexts, and perspectives. This immersive approach equips Guttman students with the foundation of knowledge and skills essential to their intellectual, social, civic, and professional endeavors in and beyond the classroom. The College admitted its first cohort of 300 students in August 2012 and has established an enrolment target of approximately 5,000 students in the coming years. Before applying, candidates are strongly encouraged to visit the Stella and Charles Guttman Community College website ( www.guttman.cuny.edu ) to learn more about the institution

QUALIFICATIONS

Ph.D. in History or related discipline (awarded by start of fall, 2023-24 academic year); and at least one year of successful teaching experience in a college setting (full-time or part-time) required. Due to the interdisciplinary organization of the college, the ability to collaborate well with others in academics, student services, and administration is expected.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of one year documented successful teaching in a community college in history, interdisciplinary studies, or education

• Experience with/interest in pedagogical practices central to Guttman's educational model such as learning communities, project-based learning, experiential education, and embedded remediation.

• Demonstrated capacity to use a diverse range of effective instructional strategies and openness to adopting new practices

• Ability to work in a highly collaborative, interdisciplinary environment

• Experience teaching students of diverse racial, ethnic, linguistic, and educational backgrounds

• An understanding of community college students’ assets and challenges

• Experience using of current technology as it supports teaching and learning

We are particularly looking for candidates to address the following specialized experience and demonstrated knowledge in their application materials:

• Guttman is a minority-serving institution composed of more than 85% African American and Latinx students of color. Candidates should demonstrate a strong understanding of the literacy experiences of Latinx students and students of color as they engage, confront, master and critque the English-dominated rhetoric of Academic Writing, and should share Guttman’s commitment to creating learning environments that foster equity, inclusion, and belonging.

• As a college committed to access and success for all students, faculty should understand the body normativity and disability labeling that often goes unquestioned in the college classroom. Candidates should have demonstrated experience with or interest in applying the principles of universal design for learning to meet the needs of all learners proactively and with flexibility

COMPENSATION

$52,267 - $90,375; Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

CUNY offers faculty a competitive compensation and benefits package covering health insurance, pension and retirement benefits, paid parental leave, and savings programs. We also provide mentoring and support for research, scholarship, and publication as part of our commitment to ongoing faculty professional development.

HOW TO APPLY

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Applications should include, as one combined document, the following:

• A cover letter addressing how you embody the Guttman values. For more information please visit: https://guttman.cuny.edu/faculty-staff/human-resources/prospective-employees/why-work-at-guttman/

• A curriculum vitae/resume

• Statement of teaching philosophy

• Statement of scholarly interests

• An equity statement. For more information about the questions that must be addressed please visit: https://guttman.cuny.edu/faculty-staff/human-resources/prospective-employees/apply-interview/#1562783751506-67588d88-651b

CLOSING DATE

Open until filled with review of applications starting December 29, 2023.

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CUNY encourages people with disabilities, minorities, veterans and women to apply. At CUNY, Italian Americans are also included among our protected groups. Applicants and employees will not be discriminated against on the basis of any legally protected category, including sexual orientation or gender identity. EEO/AA/Vet/Disability Employer.