Assistant Professor of Environmental Sustainability, Earlham College, (Richmond, IN)

Earlham College invites applications for a full-time, tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning August 2016. This is a new position that will be located in a reconfigured program that is the result of the merger of existing majors in Environmental Science and Environmental Studies. Studying the environment at Earlham is intentionally collaborative and multidisciplinary, designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary for engagement with both current and future environmental problems and problem solving. New institutional support for this program, alongside the recent development of a significant college-wide interdisciplinary effort in Global Leadership that includes a focus on sustainability, makes this an exciting time to be teaching about the environment at Earlham.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

The faculty member occupying this position will be asked to teach courses supporting this new program, including: introduction courses in both environmental science and environmental studies; the senior capstone experience; and, an interdisciplinary and team-taught environmental problem-solving course.

The faculty member will also be asked to contribute at least one course in a natural science major, plus additional upper level environmental science courses. Research plans that include undergraduates are highly desirable.