Associate Professor
About The Position
The Associate Professor provides leadership for all academic programs, working collaboratively with the Program Coordinator and the Dean of Academics to facilitate program development, implementation, evaluation, and assessment. This role ensures the systematic review of programs to maintain quality, current course content, best practices, and adherence to regulatory standards. The Associate Professor also serves on assigned committees and reports to the relevant program coordinator. Personnel duties include participating in faculty hiring, arranging for class coverage, promoting positive departmental and campus relations, maintaining office hours for student assistance, and modeling professional behavior. The role involves participating in professional development, including a minimum of 23 continuing education hours per year, with specific requirements for nursing educators. Additionally, the Associate Professor makes recommendations for equipment and software purchases. Administrative duties encompass budget planning, faculty meetings, accreditation reviews, curriculum development and revision, and student/faculty recruitment and orientation. Committee and meeting responsibilities include participation in program committees, advisory boards, and organization-wide committees. Advising duties involve guiding students academically and personally, developing remediation plans, scheduling meetings with at-risk students, and assisting them in utilizing resources. Curricula responsibilities include implementing syllabi, suggesting changes, designing new curriculum, and ensuring curricula align with institutional philosophy, mission, current trends, and community needs. Instructional duties involve classroom management, developing syllabi, utilizing diverse teaching methods, promoting active student involvement, demonstrating subject matter expertise, considering diverse backgrounds, fostering faculty-student collaboration, providing effective course materials, and performing clinical supervision as needed. Evaluation responsibilities include assessing students in didactic and clinical courses, participating in peer evaluations, reviewing student evaluation summaries for course improvement, and participating in program planning based on feedback. The workload for full-time faculty includes a teaching load of no more than 24 academic credits per year, 2-4 office hours per week, attendance at meetings, and participation in events. Professional responsibilities include up to 104 hours per year for professional development/scholarship/clinical currency and up to 104 hours per year for service to the institution. Community relations duties involve participating in advisory boards and publicizing program information.
Requirements
- Master’s degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher learning recognized by the US Department of Education
- Must hold the appropriate terminal degree for the program of which they will be teaching in
- Professional license applicable for program of study (ie. RN, RT, Surgical Tech, etc.) required. Non-Clinical teaching, license not required.
Nice To Haves
- Certified Nurse Educator certification for nursing preferred
- Two years of teaching in a college or university preferred
Responsibilities
- Provides leadership for all academic programs
- Works with the Program Coordinator and the Dean of Academics and to facilitate appropriate program development, implementation, evaluation and assessment
- Ensures systematic review of programs to ensure quality and current course content, best practice and achievement of regulatory standards
- Performs other duties as assigned by the President, Program Coordinator and/or the Dean of Academics
- Serves on committees as assigned/approved
- Reports to the relevant program coordinator
- Participates in interviewing and makes recommendations for hiring of faculty
- Arranges for coverage of classes during absences and emergency leaves
- Promotes rapport within the department, campus, and community
- Posts and keeps a minimum of three office hours per week that are convenient to students who seek assistance with counseling, academic advising, and coursework
- Maintains punctuality in meeting assigned classes and clinical responsibilities
- Models professional behavior and standards of practice while in the workplace
- Functions as a change agent and leader by promoting innovative practices in educational environments
- Participates in professional development opportunities that increase one’s effectiveness in the role
- Participates in a minimum of 23 continuing education hours per year
- Makes recommendations regarding equipment, software purchases, and equipment maintenance contracts
- Participates in budget planning process
- Attends and participates in faculty meetings
- Participates in accreditation reviews and reports
- Participates in developing programs, evaluating and revising student policies, organizational framework and revising curricular offerings
- Participates in recruitment, orientation, and coordination of students and faculty
- Participates in the orientation and advisement of students
- Attends and participates in at least one of the program committees
- Serves as a member of the assigned program Advisory Committee
- Participates in organization-wide committees when requested
- Serves as an advisor for students
- Provides guidance in the students’ academic and personal development
- Develops remediation plans with students
- Schedules regular meetings with students who are at risk to be unsuccessful in a course or the program
- Assists students in identifying and utilizing resources that may contribute to their success
- Implements syllabi, including all course requirements and assignments, for all students
- Submits suggestions for changes in syllabi, course or program to the Curriculum Chair and the Program Coordinator
- Designs and implements new curriculum
- Participates in the evaluation of curriculum
- Ensures curricula reflects institutional philosophy, mission, current healthcare trends and community needs
- Maintains control of the classroom
- Develops assigned course and clinical syllabi to reflect the college philosophy, theoretical constructs, course description, and objectives and curriculum
- Utilizes a variety of teaching methods to accommodate the learning styles of the students
- Provides for opportunities for active student involvement through practice and application
- Demonstrates a command of the subject matter
- Demonstrates considerations for diverse cultural backgrounds
- Models and encourages a collaborative faculty-student relationship
- Provides or utilizes course materials (handouts, interactive notes, technology) that enhance student learning and follows the course syllabus
- Performs additional responsibilities for faculty performing clinical supervision in an affiliating agency including
- Participates in clinical orientation as required by the institution
- Completes validations as required by contract with clinical agencies, orients students to clinical facilities
- Participates in the development and implementation of clinical assignments for students at the clinical setting
- Supervises students in patient care area in collaboration with staff
- Conducts pre and post conferences with students
- Schedules make-up clinical as needed
- Maintains ongoing weekly evaluation of individual student progress in the clinical area
- Provides timely ongoing verbal and written feedback to students
- Provides the evaluation of students in both didactic and clinical courses
- Participates in peer evaluations when requested
- Participates in the evaluation of their peers and Program Coordinator when requested
- Reviews student evaluation summaries of assigned courses and utilizes the feedback for planning and implementing future courses
- Participates in program planning in response to student/program evaluation feedback and employer satisfaction surveys
- Full time, Part Time and Per Diem faculty have the responsibility of classroom/clinical/lab/sim responsibilities as assigned
- Faculty are also required to have 2-4 office hours per week, attend all course/faculty meetings, and participate in graduation/pinning, and special events
- Faculty also have professional responsibilities that are critical to maintaining competence as well as are integral to the functioning of the college/parent institution, such as participating in committee work, service to the institution etc
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Participate as assigned on program specific advisory boards involving the major stakeholders served by the college
- Participates in publicizing and disseminating information about the program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
