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The Evergreen State College Public Administration - Tenure-Track Faculty Member in Olympia, Washington
Position Information Position Title Public Administration - Tenure-Track Faculty Member Job Summary The Evergreen State College is seeking a regular ( i.e. tenure-track equivalent) full-time faculty member to teach in its school of Professional and Continuing Education (PaCE). We seek a candidate with broad knowledge and professional experience in public administration. The school for Professional and Continuing Education provides transformative education for part time students, working adults, and lifelong learners. Drawing on Evergreen's tradition of innovative curricular design and collaborative learning communities, it offers bachelor's degree curriculum and certificates that combine theory with practice to help students achieve academic goals, advance their careers, and create a better world. The successful candidate will participate in teaching one or more or more of the following certificate programs: Nonprofit Administration Health Administration: Policy and Organization Health Administration: Finance and Quality Management Governmental Accounting Financial Management Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Supervision Working with the PaCE faculty team, this faculty member will engage in developing new certificate programs, courses, and interdisciplinary team-taught offerings. Topics will depend on the candidate's area of expertise but could include: Public policy analysis State and local government Tribal Governance Qualitative and quantitative research methods Human resource management Organization theory Public economics Public law Candidates should demonstrate experience teaching quantitative literacy in concert with their area of expertise. Due to our campus' interdisciplinary nature, faculty should be prepared to address broad social themes along with ongoing curriculum to explore transcendent pedagogical approaches and interdisciplinary offerings for students. Evergreen's school of Professional and Continuing Education provides transformative education for part-time students, working adults, and lifelong learners. The curriculum combines theory with practice and is offered during evenings and weekends in multiple teaching modes. Accordingly, we seek highly collaborative colleagues who are interested in career-connected learning and creative online instruction for diverse learners. *Regular Faculty is equivalent to Tenure Track Faculty Job Expectations Curriculum in the school for Professional and Continuing Education (PaCE) is based on stackable certificates and related bachelor's degree curriculum comprised of 4-credit and 8-credit offerings, normally planned at a 25:1 student to faculty ratio, and capstone work including undergraduate research or internships and individual study. Faculty appointed to the school for PaCE will teach a mixture of those types of offerings, with a planned full-time workload equivalent to 25 full-time (16-credit) student FTE (for example: two 8-credit classes with 25 students each or other such combinations). Courses and programs are offered online, in-person, or in low residency hybrid formats with both remote and in-person elements. Most synchronous instruction would be taught in the evenings or weekends, with some flexibility to offer instruction in the day if there is demonstrated demand or if teaching during daylight hours is an important part of the pedagogy (such as for field work). In the first year of the contract faculty will have the opportunity for partial release from teaching to help with the design and development of new certificates and curriculum in the school for Professional and Continuing education. Faculty will be provided with opportunities to increase their skill in online curriculum development. Evergreen uses narrative evaluations in lieu of grades and faculty are generally responsible for evaluating 25 student