Hazel Cramer Endowed Professorship of Public Policy and Administration

California State University-Sacramento • Sacramento, CA

310d • $74,652 - $182,532

About The Position

The Department of Public Policy and Administration (PPA) at California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State) prepares diverse future leaders to address the complex issues facing California by developing leaders with robust analytical tools and a deep commitment to public service and inclusion. Our core academic program is the Master of Public Policy and Administration (MPPA). The MPPA provides professional training for graduate students-many of whom work in state or local government. PPA faculty focus on developing engaging and inclusive curricula that include project-based work applicable to California's current policy and administrative issues. We teach our courses in the evenings to accommodate students who are full-time working professionals. We invite applications from high-qualified candidates for a tenured or tenure track (open rank) faculty member with a demonstrated expertise and interest in community-engaged master's level teaching in public policy with an academic year appointment beginning in August 2025. This position offers an initial appointment as the prestigious Hazel Cramer Endowed Professorship for tenured or experienced pre-tenured faculty and provides a unique opportunity to conduct community-engaged research, teaching, and student service. The Hazel Cramer Endowed Professor will cultivate purposeful, long-term, and mutually beneficial partnerships across the region to confront systemic inequities, transform the lives of our students, and strengthen our communities. The endowed professorship comes with a reduced teaching assignment and resources to support documented summer efforts that correspond to and extend this focus. The endowed professorship is a three-year renewable term based on the documented performance of the faculty member. If the endowed professorship is not renewed, the faculty will return to their base faculty pay and regular faculty duties per the faculty workload policy at the direction of the PPA Chairperson.

Requirements

• Earned doctoral degree in public policy or a closely related field (e.g., economics or political science).
• Experience and success in teaching public policy.
• Track record of publications (in peer-reviewed and/or professional outlets) in areas related to public policy.
• A strong and demonstrated commitment to diversity, justice, equity, and inclusion, particularly in the classroom, scholarship, and community engagement.
• An expressed commitment to teaching evening classes in a primarily in-person modality to a post-baccalaureate learning community of students that is significantly part-time and professionally focused.
• Experience working with communities at the local or regional level and an expressed interest in further developing such work in the Sacramento Region.

Nice To Haves

• Teaching experience and success in public budgeting/finance, the politics of policymaking, and qualitative and/or quantitative research methods as applied to public policy.
• Experience with community-engaged teaching, scholarship, and service.
• Experience with inclusive forms of student engagement and pedagogy in the classroom.
• Experience in post-baccalaureate teaching.
• Proficient in reading, writing, and conversational Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Teach core courses in public policy.
• Teach in a manner that fosters inclusive and equitable student success, incorporates evidence-based pedagogy, and uses a community-engaged/service-learning approach.
• Engage in scholarly and professional activities related to public policy with a community-engaged focus.
• Provide service to the institution at the Department, College, and University levels.
• Provide service to the community in the area of expertise in public policy.
• Advise students in the PPA Department.

Benefits

• Reduced teaching assignment and resources to support documented summer efforts.
• Competitive salary based on rank.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Educational Services
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree