
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><a href="https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/westminstercollege/jobs/2175625/assistant-professor-in-honors-geology">https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/westminstercollege/jobs/2175625/assistant-professor-in-honors-geology</a><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah invites applications for a full-time, joint teaching position at the rank of Assistant Professor to work with high-achieving students in its nationally-recognized <a href="http://www.westminstercollege.edu/honors/?parent=261" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none">Honors college</a> and in its growing Geology program. The teaching load consists of 24 credit hours per year, split evenly between Geology and Honors. One of those course responsibilities includes playing a leadership and teaching role in the Geology program's summer field camp. In addition to summer field teaching in Geology, we are particularly seeking a colleague who can teach some combination of Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, Structural Geology, and Geology of the American West. Teaching responsibilities in Honors may include the team-taught seminars Science as Knowledge, Science, Power & Diversity, Environments and the Space of Art, and Data/Society/Decision-Making. The faculty member may also develop special topics Honors seminars and new courses in Geology. The successful applicant will be expected to mentor students outside the classroom, participate in co-curricular activities, and serve on college-wide committees.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"> <br style="box-sizing:border-box">Westminster's Honors college has a thirty-year history of serving students who want to challenge themselves in an alternative general education program consisting entirely of interdisciplinary, team-taught seminars that employ primary texts and a conversation-based pedagogy. 230 students are currently enrolled in the Honors college, though that number is growing as Honors embarks on a $13 million fundraising campaign. Honors students come from all majors across campus, are academically successful (92% first-year retention rate the past three years), and go on to <a href="http://www.westminstercollege.edu/honors/?parent=261&detail=17408&content=17410" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none">successful careers</a> in law, medicine, higher education, and business.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"> <br style="box-sizing:border-box">Westminster's Geology program takes advantage of the college's location, where the Colorado Plateau meets the Great Basin, to offer students a uniquely field-intensive liberal arts geology experience, culminating in a six-week summer field camp. The program currently has approximately 25 students, two full-time faculty members with expertise in volcanic geochemistry and invertebrate paleontology, and a staff member who provides logistical support to the field camp. In recent years our students have presented their original research at GSA, AGU, and NCUR conferences.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Appointment date: 1 August 2019</span></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/westminstercollege/jobs/2175625/assistant-professor-in-honors-geology">https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/westminstercollege/jobs/2175625/assistant-professor-in-honors-geology</a><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div>Maura Hahnenberger, PhD</div><div><br></div><div>Geosciences Department</div><div>Salt Lake Community College</div><div><br></div>Sent from a mobile device<div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>