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Visiting Assistant Professor of Education

Employer
Bowdoin College
Location
Maine, United States
Salary
Salary Not Specified
Date posted
Oct 10, 2022

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Title Visiting Assistant Professor of Education Posting Number F00202JP Department Education Position Summary
The Bowdoin College Education Department invites applications for a visiting assistant professor position to begin July 1, 2023. This position, pending administrative approval, is full-time with a teaching load of two courses per semester. It is a one-year position, with the possibility of a second year upon successful review and reappointment. While the area of specialization is open, the committee has a particular interest in candidates specializing in middle school or high school literacies, learning in adolescence, culturally-competent teaching, approaches to meeting the educational needs of diverse communities (especially immigrant and refugee populations), math education, and/or secondary teacher education. PhD preferred; ABD considered. Experience teaching or otherwise working closely with secondary-level students is highly desirable.
Bowdoin College’s Education Department frequently partners with the Portland, ME public schools where 25% of students are designated English Language Learners and nearly 50% of students identify as students of color. As a refugee resettlement community, Portland offers a unique opportunity to study topics such as trauma-informed practices and to research the experiences of Muslim students and their families.
Successful candidates will demonstrate a strong commitment to undergraduate liberal arts education and to inclusive excellence in undergraduate teaching. For a description of inclusive excellence, please consult the following resource: Williams, et. al., Toward a Model of Inclusive Excellence .

Bowdoin is a learning community that warmly welcomes people of all backgrounds. We encourage applications from candidates committed to the instruction and support of a diverse student population and from those who will enrich and contribute to the College’s multifaceted diversity. We especially encourage people from historically excluded groups to apply. Bowdoin College offers opportunities for professional development, including annual conference travel support, mentoring programming, and grants to support scholarly research.
Bowdoin accepts only electronic applications. Please submit a c.v., a cover letter, teaching evaluations, and the names and contact information for three references who have agreed to provide letters of recommendation. Letter writers will be automatically contacted upon submission of your application.
Review of applications will begin on November 20, 2022 and continue until the position is filled.
Founded in 1794 on the Maine coast, Bowdoin is one of the oldest and most selective coeducational, residential liberal arts colleges in the country. Located in Brunswick, a 30-minute drive north of Portland, the College is in an area rich with natural beauty and year-round outdoor activities. Bowdoin’s reputation rests on the excellence of its faculty and students, intimate size, strong sense of community, and commitment to diversity (40% students of color, 7% international students and approximately 17% first generation college students). Bowdoin College complies with applicable provisions of federal and state laws that prohibit unlawful discrimination in employment, admission, or access to its educational or extracurricular programs, activities, or facilities based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry and national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, marital status, place of birth, genetic predisposition, veteran status, or against qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities on the basis of disability, or any other legally protected statuses. For further information about the College and our department, please visit our website: htt p://www.bowdoin.edu. Posting Date 10/10/2022 Applications Accepted Until Open Until Filled Yes Special Instructions to Applicants
At the time of application, you will be required to include information for a minimum of three references, including name, title, email address, phone number and how you know the reference.

Once you have provided the required reference information and submitted your application, the reference providers will receive an email which is generated automatically from the application system. The email will provide them a link within which to upload a confidential reference letter on your behalf.

You will not be able to view the reference letters but will be able to see how many have been submitted on your behalf. Employment Category Full Time Year Round Job Start Date 07/01/2023 Job End Date Job Type Faculty Background Check Package Requirements Faculty/Administrative Applicant Documents
Required Documents
  1. Resume / Curriculum Vitae
  2. Cover Letter
  3. Teaching Evaluations
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Company

Bowdoin College

Bowdoin (rhymes with explodin') is a private, selective, liberal arts college, founded and endowed to benefit the common good. Our historic residential campus, located in Brunswick, Maine, is home to just over 1,800 students from all over the world.

Academic life at Bowdoin spans thirty-three departments, and is cooperative, not competitive: so we tend to attract students who like brainstorming with faculty, working in teams, and welcoming big, new, difficult questions.

We value kindness, diversity, creativity, and hard work.

There’s a lot to love about Maine. And this state is very much at the heart of the College. We simply wouldn’t be Bowdoin anywhere else.

According to one of our colleagues, “To teach at Bowdoin is to help train and educate future leaders—an unalloyed privilege in my experience and a rare one.”

We feel fortunate to live here and to be able to experience everything there is to see and do. Maine is renowned for its beauty—its iconic seaside fishing villages and beachesmountain vistas, and pristine forests. But the appeal is also very much about the people—their culture, sense of community, way of life, and welcoming, inquisitive, and energized spirit.

We’re not going to try to list all that Maine has to offer. But we will try to lead you in a few directions from which you can navigate your own journey of discovery—a very Maine thing to do too!

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