Employer
Location
81231, Gunnison
Salary
$52,000-$57,000 base salary for Assistant Professor and $61,000-$65,000 for Associate Professor
Start date
Jan 26, 2024
Position Type
Faculty Positions, Social & Behavioral Sciences
Employment Level
Employment Type
POSITION Western Colorado University invites operations for a term- track full time faculty position( Assistant or Associate Professor position) in the Behavioral and Social lores department. We seek a coworker who’s a professed council educator with experience in academic program development, public health and/ or internal health- informed approaches to the felonious justice system, and uniting with rudiments of the felonious justice system. tutoring liabilities will be substantially in Sociology( courses may include Intro to Criminal Justice, medicines and Society, Juvenile Delinquency, Corrections, preamble to Sociology, and Sociology of Health, Illness, and Medicine) and digressively in the Psychology program( occasional courses may include Dependences and Social Work). Other courses could be included in the tutoring cargo grounded on need and qualifications. In addition to undergraduate instruction and university service, the successful aspirant will unite with original and indigenous law enforcement associations to concentrate on indifferent treatment of persons with behavioral health issues and experimental disabilities. This entails espousing some new classes emphasizing health and disability services in the justice system,re-entry and recidivism, and perfecting public health and safety. This obligation aligns with Sociology’s longstanding focus on indifferent practices and felonious justice reform, and it’s intended to consolidate scholars ’ understanding of how internal health, disabilities, and felonious justice intersect. Some new courses may be demanded(e.g., Crime Prevention and Public Health; Behavioral Health in the Justice System; Equitable Practices in Policing and Corrections; Deflection and Diversion), and the successful aspirant will work alongside current Western faculty members to develop these. This position is meant to ameliorate Western’s capability to serve indigenous requirements and to enhance the behavioral health pool by engaging with the felonious justice system. Strong commitment to effective tutoring, advising, mentoring, service, and professional development is anticipated.
Our department provides a probative, compassionate, andmulti-disciplinary terrain for devoted professionals who are committed to living in the pastoral Rocky Mountains. The successful aspirant will help to nurture an interdisciplinary culture in the Behavioral & Social lores department and will contribute to Western’s charge, which includes promoting internal health for all, pupil mentorship, inclusive and interdisciplinary tutoring, professional pathways, and growing registration. The position also will allow Western to heed the Colorado Governor’s call for universities to help in adding and diversifying the state’s behavioral health pool.
The Sociology program( within Western’s Behavioral and Social lores department) has roughly 65 majors. scholars have the occasion to earn a standardB.A. degree in Sociology, which can include an accelerated pathway to a Master’s degree( MBS) in Rural Community Health. A maturity of undergraduate Sociology scholars choose to complete the Felonious Justice Emphasis within the major. For further information on the Sociology program https//western.edu/program/sociology/.
QUALIFICATIONS A terminal doctoral degree(e.g.,Ph.D.) in Criminology, Felonious Justice, Sociology, Justice Studies, Social Psychology, Law, Sociology of Law, Public Health, or affiliated field is needed. aspirants who are ABD must be demonstrably on track to complete their terminal degree before the hire/ launch date. aspirants must give substantiation of their commitment to undergraduate education, excellence in tutoring, and amenability to be sensitive to the educational requirements of a different pupil population.
Payment/ BENEFITS$ 52,000-$ 57,000 base payment for Assistant Professor and$ 61,000-$ 65,000 for Associate Professor, commensurable with qualifications and experience. This position’s starting payment receives fresh support from a entitlement- funded periodic paycheck( with eventuality for a 5- time renewal) of$ 16,700 for the community
collaboration duties, which equals to$ 68,700-$ 73,700 for Assistant Professor, and$ 77,700-$ 81,700 for Associate Professor, independently. Western offers an excellent benefits package including participated decorations for a comprehensive health insurance plan, dental insurance, withdrawal plan, life insurance, and other insurance options. After one time of employment, Western provides free education for dependents enrolled full time in undergraduate programs for over to four times. Western has acquired original rental agreements for recently hired workers moving to the Gunnison Valley. We anticipate several new units to be available, on a first come first served base, with subsidized plats as “ ground ” casing for over to one time, while new workers detect long term lodgment in the area. Upon hire, contact information for casing openings will be handed by the Human coffers department.
launch DATE July 1, 2024
operation Apply online atwww.western.edu/jobs. needed attachments to the operation include letter of operation( cover letter or statement of interest), class vitae, reiterations, tutoring evaluations, statement of tutoring gospel, diversity statement, and a reference list containing contact information of three references.
Please direct specific questions toDr. Matt Aronsonmaronson@western.edu ph970-943-7126
Webbing of operations will begin incontinently and will continue until the position is filled. aspirants are explosively encouraged to submit their accoutrements as soon as possible.
Note If reiterations are needed for your operation, you may redact information that identifies your age, date of birth, dates of attendance, or scale from the educationalinstitution.However, sanctioned reiterations( unopened or delivered directly to HR) will be needed upon hire; clones reviews submitted during operation won’t serve the purpose of sanctioned reiterations upon hire, If a degree is needed for employment.
fresh Information about Western and Gunnison/ Crested Butte
Western Colorado University is a public institution with a pupil registration of
( graduate and undergraduate), the maturity of whom live on lot and in the community. With average class sizes of 17 scholars, faculty and staff partake a strong commitment to inclusivity and substantiated, immersive education. They’re pupil- acquainted, cordial, and engaged in the lot and community. Western is committed to continual growth in regard to diversity, equity, and inclusivity and promotes participation in similar enterprise from scholars, faculty, staff, and the community. Please see our diversity statement, and our DEI Committee charge.
The University is located in Gunnison, Colorado, a beautiful pastoral community 200 long hauls southwest of Denver and the gateway to near Crested Butte, a world class ski and out-of-door recreation area. K- 12 scholars are served by the award- winning Gunnison Watershed School District. Both communities value the trades, quality of life, community- grounded wraparound services for children and grown-ups, and continued particular growth and literacy openings. At an elevation of 7,700 bases in the Rocky Mountains, the Gunnison Valley provides exceptional time-round openings including summer trades and music carnivals, youth camps, mountain biking, skiing, kayak/ rafting, gemstone climbing, hiking and camping, all within twinkles of the lot.
Visit http//www.western.edu to learn further about the university.
An Equal occasion Employer, including disability/ stagers.
Western Colorado University believes that equity, diversity, and addition drive our success, and we encourage campaigners from all individualities, backgrounds, and capacities to apply. Western is an equal occasion employer committed to erecting inclusive, innovative work surroundings with workers who reflect our communities and madly serve them. thus, in all aspects of the employment process, we give employment openings to all good aspirants without regard to race, color, religion, coitus, disability, age, sexual exposure, gender identity or expression, gestation, medical condition related to gestation, creed, strain, public origin, connubial status, inheritable information, or military status( for state classified positions, with preference given to military stagers), or any other defended status in agreement with applicable law. Please see our diversity statement, and our DEII Committee charge.
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Western Colorado University is committed to the full addition of all good individualities. As part of this commitment, Western will help individualities who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the operation process, canvassing , completing anypre-employment testing, sharing in the hand selection process, and/ or performing essential job functions where the requested accommodation doesn’t put an overduehardship.However, please direct your inquiries to the Office of Human coffers atHR@western, If you have a disability and bear reasonable accommodation to insure you have a positive experience applying or canvassing for thisposition.edu or(970)943-3140.
WESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY IS AN EQUAL occasion EMPLOYER INCLUDING DISABILITY/ stagers
The Sociology program( within Western’s Behavioral and Social lores department) has roughly 65 majors. scholars have the occasion to earn a standardB.A. degree in Sociology, which can include an accelerated pathway to a Master’s degree( MBS) in Rural Community Health. A maturity of undergraduate Sociology scholars choose to complete the Felonious Justice Emphasis within the major. For further information on the Sociology program https//western.edu/program/sociology/.
QUALIFICATIONS A terminal doctoral degree(e.g.,Ph.D.) in Criminology, Felonious Justice, Sociology, Justice Studies, Social Psychology, Law, Sociology of Law, Public Health, or affiliated field is needed. aspirants who are ABD must be demonstrably on track to complete their terminal degree before the hire/ launch date. aspirants must give substantiation of their commitment to undergraduate education, excellence in tutoring, and amenability to be sensitive to the educational requirements of a different pupil population.