Assistant Professor Job at Howard University
The Talent Acquisition department hires qualified candidates to fill positions which contribute to the overall strategic success of Howard University. Hiring staff “for fit” makes significant contributions to Howard University’s overall mission.
Job Description
BASIC FUNCTION:
The mission of Howard University includes the provision of quality education for any student, but with emphasis upon the provision of educational opportunities for those students who may not otherwise have an opportunity to acquire an education of the type provided at Howard.
Howard University's ability to maintain or exceed its present academic reputation depends on the recruitment of outstanding faculty who are willing to give their best efforts to:
Engage in effective teaching
Make scholarly contributions in research or creative works
Exhibit evidence of professional development
Render service to the university, the profession, and the community.
SUPERVISORY ACCOUNTABILITY:
Involves no responsibility or authority for the direction of others.
NATURE AND SCOPE
Appointment as assistant professor is accorded to a person who has completed the final earned degree or other professional certification relevant to the discipline and who has given evidence of superior potential for developing academic stature.
Appointment in this rank provides a period during which an individual has an opportunity to confirm his/her own interest and motivation as being appropriate to the broad scope of university faculty responsibilities, and also one in which senior faculty may assess the promise and the competence of the faculty member's performance.
Assistant professors may receive temporary appointments or probationary tenure track appointments. Only in unusual, extraordinary situations is tenure awarded to faculty holding the rank of assistant professor.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
Appointment to the faculty of Howard University carries with it responsibilities for excellence in teaching, the intellectual growth of students, high scholarship, and the improvement of society.
In addition, faculty members have a responsibility to participate in the life and operation of the university and particularly the department and school or college of their appointment.
Faculty are essential to the university's general educational policy and in determining the shape and character of the university as an educational institution.
Professional Ethics: As members of a learned profession and as officers of an educational institution, the special position of faculty in this community imposes special ethical obligations.
These ethical standards are the repository of what experience has revealed as to how scholars can live together to the best advantage.
Teaching: The faculty members' pursuit of teaching excellence is a life-long commitment and includes the following specific responsibilities:
To have a firm command of their subjects and to keep abreast of new developments.
To select teaching strategies that facilitate the learning process and to communicate their subjects effectively.
To instruct classes at the scheduled time and place, in a manner consistent with the course content and course credit approved by the appropriate faculty body.
When the faculty member is unable to meet a class, the department office must be notified and arrangements made for substitute instruction or for the class to be notified concerning cancellation.
Make-up classes shall be rescheduled at a time reasonably convenient for students.
To design and evaluate conscientiously all student work with impartiality; and to complete grading in a timely fashion according to the schedule of due dates announced by the Office of the Registrar.
Moreover, students will be given an opportunity to receive an explanation of the grade assigned.
To provide each student with a written syllabus or course guide summarizing the objectives and requirements of their courses, the textbooks or other sources to be used, and the applicable attendance and grading rules.
To avoid unacceptable discriminatory conduct based on such factors as race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability or handicap, age, or political beliefs.
Accordingly, faculty members must be sensitive to the harmful consequences of professorial or student conduct or comments in classroom discussions or elsewhere that perpetuate stereotypes or prejudices involving such factors.
Conference Hours: Faculty members shall be available to counsel students about academic matters throughout the academic year by means of regularly scheduled office hours or appointments.
In performing this function, the faculty member should make every reasonable effort to ensure that the information they transmit is timely and accurate.
Faculty members will be reasonably available to colleagues for purposes of discussing teaching methods, content of courses, possible topics of scholarship, scholarly work in progress, and related matters.
Scholarly Activities: Since teaching responsibilities allow for a flexible scheduling of time and an opportunity to pursue intellectual interests relatively free from distraction, faculty members are obligated to make the best and fullest use of that freedom to fulfill their scholarly responsibilities.
Accordingly, the university requires all faculty members, including tenured and probationary, to continue their professional development through research, scholarly writing, advanced study, or original creative production as appropriate to their disciplines.
Such activities derive their importance both from the contributions they make to classroom performance and to the fact that one of the major roles of any university is the discovery of new knowledge, the synthesis of ideas, and other creative activities.
University and Community Service: Although many duties within the university are assumed by professional administrators, the faculty retains substantial collective responsibility and authority to provide institutional leadership.
Thus individual faculty have a responsibility to assume a fair share of that leadership, including participation in departmental and school faculty meetings and service on departmental, school, and university committees.
In discharging their academic, committee, and other assignments, faculty members are obligated to complete each in a professional, timely, and responsible manner.
Faculty also are expected to serve the academic, professional, and civic communities with their expertise.
Attendance at University Ceremonies: Attendance at Opening Convocation, Charter Day, and the Commencement.
Convocations is expected from the full-time faculty. Absence from these ceremonies should be arranged with the dean of the school. Faculty members should participate in other major departmental, school, college, and university activities.
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