Location: Fredonia, NY Category: Part-Time Adjunct Lecturer Job Type: Part-time Posted On: Wed Aug 19 2015 Job Description:
About Fredonia's School of Music:
With over 500 undergraduate and graduate students, Fredonia's School of Music is the preeminent music program in the SUNY system. Its international reputation is reflected in Grammy and Downbeat award-winning students, faculty, and alumni, and one of the campus's highest retention rates. Our array of NASM-accredited programs includes undergraduate degrees in music education, music performance, music therapy, music composition, and sound recording technology, with graduate degrees offered in music education, music performance, music therapy, and music composition. We engage our campus and surrounding communities through initiatives such as Fredonia Ukulele, Fredonia Street Piano Project, and an annual Rockfest that includes local high school bands, music education student bands, and university faculty/staff rock bands. These are among more than 400 public events we present each year, most of which are live streamed. Our small, nurturing, and supportive campus, coupled with a comparatively large and comprehensive music school, makes Fredonia one of the best places to enter professional music training.
Fredonia is in the midst of a transformation, with a focus on self-examination and reimagination. We seek colleagues who will join a dynamic, collaborative, and collegial team of music educators with extensive backgrounds in learning, making, and teaching music in varied settings. We are committed to expanding the boundaries of music in higher education through welcoming a colleague who can help us not only innovate within existing contexts but also envision and enact new practices by leading critical dialogue and thoughtful engagement with stakeholders within and beyond the school. Our new colleagues will help us navigate the shifting landscape of higher education by generating change, taking risks, inventing new opportunities, and exploring new ideas and approaches. They will contribute to curricular revisions to enact equitable approaches to music in higher education that address well-documented disparities and that promote opportunities for all persons to engage in, around, and through music in ways they find meaningful.
Fredonia's School of Music is home to numerous faculty and staff members dedicated to providing students with engaging and meaningful classes. As part of a continuous recruitment effort for part-time Adjunct Lecturers (Adjunct Instructor, NSA6), Fredonia seeks qualified candidates to teach courses on an as-needed basis, consistent with the School of Music's operating needs.
Rewards & Benefits
Competitive compensation plus comprehensive benefits plan for benefits eligible employees (i.e. must be compensated to teach two or more courses or the equivalent per semester to be benefits eligible);
Paid leave provisions including sick leave; impressive educational benefits including one-course per semester tuition-free study plus supplemental tuition aid;
A rich array of services, programs and benefits to help employees advance in their career and enhance the quality of their personal life, including professional development programs and services, employee EAP and wellness programs, discounted membership to the on-campus fitness center, and access to the Campus and Community Child Care Center.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Reporting to the Dean, successful candidates will:
Teach course(s) and assess learning as assigned;
Maintain office hours;
May provide academic advisement to students;
May participate in committees and provide service to the department, college, university, and profession;
Provide assessment and accreditation data; and
Be aware of, know, understand, and follow all university policies.
Job Requirements:
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Master's degree;
Excellent interpersonal skills to work effectively, and in a collegial and professional manner, with students, faculty, and staff;
Demonstrated commitment and ability to work with a diverse group of students, faculty, staff and constituents in support of campus and school missions.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Demonstrated successful teaching experience;
Demonstrated experience teaching with technology.
Additional Information:
Fredonia prides itself on an outstanding workforce. To continually support organizational excellence, the university conducts background screens on applicants.
An Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer, Fredonia provides for, and promotes, equal opportunity employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment, without discrimination.
Pursuant to University policy, the University is committed to fostering a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff, and students, as well as ensuring equal educational opportunity, employment, and access to services, programs, and activities, without regard to an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, familial status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, or domestic violence victim status. Employees, students, applicants or other members of the University community (including but not limited to vendors, visitors, and guests) may not be subjected to harassment that is prohibited by law, or treated adversely or retaliated against based upon a protected characteristic.
The University's policy is in accordance with federal and state laws and regulations prohibiting unlawful discrimination and harassment. These laws include the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as Amended by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972, and the New York State Human Rights Law. These laws prohibit discrimination and harassment, including sexual harassment and sexual violence.
SUNY Fredonia is actively recruiting diverse faculty of all backgrounds. In efforts and our commitment to the goal of building a diverse workforce we are participating in PRODiG. PRODiG ("Promoting Recruitment, Opportunity, Diversity, Inclusion and Growth") aims to increase the representation of historically underrepresented faculty at SUNY including underrepresented minority ("URM") faculty in general and women faculty of all races in STEM fields ("WSTEM"). Click this link https://www.suny.edu/prodig/ to find out more about PRODiG.
