[ES_JOBS_NET] Assistant Professor Geology at Westminster College

[Maura Hahnenberger]

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/westminstercollege/jobs/2175625/assistant-professor-in-honors-geology


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 Honors
college <http://www.westminstercollege.edu/honors/?parent=261> 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.

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 successful careers
<http://www.westminstercollege.edu/honors/?parent=261&detail=17408&content=17410>
in
law, medicine, higher education, and business.

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.

Appointment date: 1 August 2019

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/westminstercollege/jobs/2175625/assistant-professor-in-honors-geology

Maura Hahnenberger, PhD

Geosciences Department
Salt Lake Community College

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