Location: Oswego, NY
Category: Academic / Faculty
Job Type: Full-time
Posted On: Tue Dec 16 2025
Job Description:
Description of Department:
The SUNY Oswego Department of Art and Design aims to provide serious art students with the tools needed to create foundations for the future. The department seeks ambitious students who wish to gain knowledge through hands-on experience, combining art and design history with contemporary developments within the field to understand the past and speculate on the future. As part of the College of Communication, Media, and the Arts, we enjoy collegial relationships with Cinema and Screen Studies, Communication Studies, Theatre, and Music in state-of-the-art facilities in Hewitt and Tyler Halls, collectively known as the Arts Corridor.
By working with art and design history, studio art, graphic design, illustration, and interaction design, students are given opportunities to expand their artistic horizons, define and use current methodologies, and firmly grasp the importance of their work in multiple aspects of modern society. Students and faculty boldly explore the tangible and the rhetorical dimensions of art.
At Oswego, students can elect degree programs that include the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Fine Arts with degree areas including Studio Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, and Interaction Design. There is also the opportunity to earn a minor in various art and design-related areas. We offer a wide range of courses in multimedia, illustration, art history, ceramics, painting, interaction design, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, web design, 3D modeling, museum studies, graphic design, art therapy, and motion graphics.
Our studios place us firmly at the intersection of today's digital evolution, enabling us to dive into emerging media forms as they appear. Tyler Hall is well-equipped to support all our disciplinary areas across the fine and performing arts. The recently renovated Hewitt Hall houses state-of-the-art facilities designed to grow all digital and emerging media areas that support our established programs in graphic and interaction design, illustration, digital Media, and cinema and screen studies.
The State University of New York at Oswego is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE).
The Department of Art and Design at the State University of New York at Oswego invites applications to fill a full time Assistant Professor of Practice: Graphic Design & Digital Media.
Posting Date: December 16, 2025
Review Date: Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.
Compensation: Minimum salary $60-$62K commensurate with experience plus full New York State benefits package.
Benefit Information: The State University of New York provides an excellent benefit package. Click here for more information on benefits for full-time United University Professions (UUP) faculty.
Date of Appointment: Fall 2026 (or date of obligation)
Description of Responsibilities:
- Primary teaching responsibilities include teaching 3-4 classes per Fall and Spring semesters.
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Ability to teach in multiple areas is highly desirable. Course areas include foundation classes such as Intro to Digital Media, Typography, and Foundations of Motion and Interaction and Type and Image as well as User experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design, Motion graphics, 3-D Modeling and Animation, Illustration, Virtual Reality, Branding & Identity design, Product and packaging design, Marketing and advertising, Publication design and Capstone course for Seniors.
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Additional teaching responsibilities can include helping students understand diversity and the different historical and contemporary practices in the visual arts around the world.
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Candidates should show awareness of contemporary issues in digital media and an understanding of emerging technologies affecting the field.
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We are looking for a candidate with strong interpersonal skills, who excels at mentoring and leading others. The ability to foster a collaborative environment will be essential.
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Candidates should showcase their ability for innovative thinking in both design and visual communication.
SUNY Oswego works continuously to create an inclusive environment which respects, embraces, and promotes cultural safety, belonging, civil discourse, cultural humility, and other values and goals outlined in SUNY Oswego's Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Plan. As such, the incumbent is expected to contribute to these efforts and possess communication and interpersonal skills necessary to engage effectively with an increasingly diverse community of students and colleagues.
Job Requirements:
Required Qualifications:
- A Bachelor's or graduate Degree in graphic design, or related field
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Professional experience in the field
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Proficiency in digital technology and leading software applications used in the field.
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Documentation of projects, presentations, or exhibitions that showcase commitment to a practice is required.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with teaching, mentoring, or supervising people 2+ years
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Professional experience in the field 3+ year
At SUNY Oswego we value the diversity found in each member of our campus community and strive to create a community where that diversity is embraced and enhanced. Recognizing the strength of diversity, our mission is to foster an environment which respects, embraces and promotes cultural competence, civil discourse and active engagement in developing an inclusive and vibrant community of scholars who act as transformational agents of change and responsible citizens of the world. For more information see SUNY Oswego's Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Plan.
As a candidate seeking consideration you are asked to submit a separate statement specifically addressing how your commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion has been evidenced in your career experience and professional activity, and/or community service (volunteer work, etc.), and/or professional development. (Please see Application Instructions)
Additional Information:
Oswego is committed to enhancing its diversity. SUNY Oswego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and is actively engaged in recruiting, supporting, and fostering a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff and students. We encourage applications from qualified applicants regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, familial status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim SUNY status, or criminal conviction. Please click here to see our full non-discrimination policy.
In accordance with USCIS regulations, successful applicants must be legally able to work in the United States per the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
Requests for reasonable accommodations of a disability during the application and/or interview process should be made to Dr. Starr Wheeler, ADA/504 Compliance Officer at [email protected] or 315-312-3872
For Campus Safety information, please click here to see the Annual Security and Fire Report (Clery).
SUNY Oswego is a smoke free/tobacco/e-cigarette free campus. Click here for further policy details, including education and cessation resources.
Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at [email protected].
Search Chair:
Woody Leslie, [email protected]
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
