Assistant Professor of Design
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Position: Assistant Professor of Design
Effective Date: August 18 2025 (Fall Semester)
Salary Range: The Assistant Professor (Academic Year) classification salary is $74652 to $158688/per year. The anticipated hiring range is $74652 to $105000/per year. Salary offered is commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Application Deadline: Review of applications to begin on or around February 27 2025. Position open until filled (or recruitment canceled).
California State University Long Beach CSULB is a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and an Asian American and Native American Pacific IslanderServing Institution (AANAPISI). It also earned the prestigious Seal of Excelencia in 2023 joining a distinctive group of colleges and universities who have been recognized for its commitment to Latine/x student success. CSULB is committed to serving diverse students and has established and actively supports the Black Excellence Collegium dedicated to promoting Black excellence and advancing Black Student Success and El Concilio for Latinx Success at the Beach whose mission is to build capacity and promote inclusive servingness across initiatives and efforts towards Latine/x student faculty and staff success across campus. The Presidents Equity and Change Commission is dedicated to achieving inclusive excellence in our community and culture and to interrogate disrupt and transform systemic inequities throughout the university. CSULBs Beach 2030 University Action Plans prioritize engaging all students; expanding access to higher education; promoting intellectual achievement; building community; and cultivating resilience.
The College of the Arts (COTA) at California State University Long Beach is a community. More than 3000 majors and minors study within the College of the Arts working with faculty staff and guest artists in the School of Art the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music and the departments of Cinematic Arts Dance Design and Theatre Arts. Additionally the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center and the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum are valuable resources for the campus and Greater Long Beach region and are proudly part of the College of the Arts.
This position is a general hire for the Department of Design in the combined areas of industrial design experiential design and new and emerging technologies. The Department of Design takes a holistic studentcentered approach to design education with a focus on teaching research and practice that seeks to decolonize design. Using this as a framework our faculty seeks to equip each of our graduates with the skills knowledge and confidence to engage in the dynamic and changing field of design as practitioners scholars educators and advocates while also understanding the potential of design for social change and inclusive practices. The Department of Design seeks an individual with demonstrated ability to teach advise/mentor and develop curriculum that supports and empowers the educational goals of individuals from historically marginalized backgrounds and who is committed to pedagogical practices that are inclusive antiracist and antiableist. The ideal candidate is rooted in both scholarship and communitybased practice and brings expertise in mixed ethnographic and design research methods through a range of disciplinary approaches including embodied practices. Candidates are also expected to serve in the program department college university and community including faculty governance and committee participation.
Required Qualifications:
- MID MFA MDes or related degree in industrial design experiential design or strategic design for social justice. Degree at time of application or official notification of completion of the degree by August 1 2025
- At least three years professional experience in the field of industrial design or experiential design
- Demonstrated commitment to improving the diversity equity inclusivity and accessibility of design
- Demonstrated knowledge of studio practice and communitybased design with a focus on design for equity justice and social change
- Demonstrated proficiency in industrystandard design software and new and emerging technologies
- Demonstrated experience in teaching two or more of the following: industrial design 2D and 3D design experiential design and strategic design at the university level
- Demonstrated commitment to working successfully with a diverse student population including Black/African American Latine/x Native American/Indigenous lowincome firstgeneration and minoritized students
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ph.D. in industrial design or related field. Degree at time of application or official notification of completion of the degree by August 1 2025
- Demonstrated excellence in teaching at college level: Industrial Design Rapid Visualization Drawing Industrial Design Processes and two or more of the following: Industrial Design Studio Industrial Design Methodology 2D and 3D design foundations experiential design design for social change AIincorporated design and mixed augmented and virtual reality
- Demonstrated experience employing nontraditional modes of instruction to engage students successfully and equitably in learning activities
- Demonstrated experience in elevating Black student excellence and lowering equity gaps for underrepresented student groups
- Experience of successfully working with populations demographically and/or socioeconomically similar to the CSULB student body Demographics
- Demonstrated experience with and/or potential for successfully contributing to curriculum development that centers on equity social justice and social change
- Record of academic and/or communitybased service
- Demonstrated ability to teach both lower and upperdivision undergraduate design studio courses lectures and seminars in area(s) of expertise
- Demonstrated potential to participate in ongoing applied design/theory dialogue among faculty.
- Experience mentoring or supporting students with minoritized identities or experience using inclusive and culturally relevant teaching strategies in a diverse classroom
Duties:
- Teach undergraduate and graduate level including design studio courses effectively as needed by Department. Teach undergraduate courses appropriate to the candidates specialty education and experience as well as department need. These may include but are not limited to Industrial Design Rapid Visualization Drawing Industrial Design Processes Industrial Design Studio Industrial Design Methodology and areas including industrial design 2D and 3D design foundations AIincorporated design experiential design themed entertainment design placemaking wayfinding design design for social change mixed augmented and virtual reality and/or other areas of specialization in design. Mode of instruction may include inperson hybrid online and/or any combination thereof.
- Contribute to the development of curriculum with an emphasis on design for equity justice and social change
- Mentor and advise students
- Contribute to the planning and production of physical and virtual student exhibitions
- Maintain and produce peerreviewed research scholarly and creative activities at the national/international level
- Provide significant service to the program department college university and community
CSULB seeks to recruit faculty who enthusiastically support the Universitys strong commitment to the academic success of all our students including students of color students with disabilities students who are first generation to college veterans students with diverse socioeconomic backgrounds and students of diverse sexual orientations and gender seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the People of California to maintain the excellence of the University and to offer our students a rich variety of expertise perspectives and ways of knowing and learning.
Information on excellent benefits package available to CSULB faculty is located here: CSU Employee Benefits
How to Apply Required Documentation:
- An Equity and Diversity Statement about your teaching or other experiences successes and challenges in working with a diverse student population (maximum two pages singlespaced). For further information and guidelines please visit: of application addressing the required and preferred qualifications
- CV
- Names and contact information for three references (to be contacted for confidential letters of recommendation should you reach the finalist stage
- Examples of student work (maximum 20 students)
- Examples of professional work 712 examples)
- Examples of original course materials 35 examples e.g. syllabi project briefs and handouts)
- Finalistsshould be prepared to submit an official transcript (etranscript preferred if available)
How to Apply: Click Apply Now icon to complete the CSULB online application
Requests for information and process should be addressed to:
Diane Stein Administrative Coordinator
California State University Long Beach
Department of Design
or EMail:
Requests for information about the position should be addressed to:
Wesley Woelfel Search Committee Chair
or EMail:
EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS:
A background check (including a criminal record check and telephone reference check with most recent employer) must be completed satisfactorily before any candidate can be offered a position with the CSU. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the application status of applicants or continued employment of current CSU employees who apply for the position.
The person holding this position is considered a mandated reporter under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and is required to comply with the requirements set forth in CSU Executive Order 1083 Revised July 21 2017 as a condition of employment.
Pursuant to the California State University (CSU) OutofState Employment Policy hiring employees to perform CSUrelated work outside of California is prohibited effective January 1 2022. By prohibiting employment outside of California the CSU also prohibits hiring and retaining employees working permanently from a business location outside of the United States. Exceptions to the Policy are limited to approved and documented purposes for conducting CSU business outside of California.
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