Department of Ethnic Studies Non-tenure Track Faculty Vacancy Pool

Western Washington University with over 15000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school is nationally recognized for its educational programs students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham Washington a coastal community of 90000 overlooking Bellingham Bay the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver British Columbia. Western has additional sites in Anacortes Bremerton Everett Port Angeles and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes such as being named one of the top public masters-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success increasing our Washington impact and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship research and creative activity. Westerns greatest strength is the outstanding students faculty staff and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can pursuit of this excellence individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff faculty administration student and external constituents. Further individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic societal environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

The Ethnic Studies Department at Western Washington University centers the histories epistemologies and lived experiences of minoritized peoples and Indigenous Nations. Our approach is intersectional and transnational while highlighting the unique perspectives contributions and knowledges of Black Indigenous People of Color and other minoritized communities. Our courses challenge systems of power and oppression and advance liberation emancipation and self-determining futures.

For more information about the department see the website at the Position

The Department of Ethnic Studies maintains a vacancy pool of qualified persons interested in temporary teaching anticipation of possible openings throughout the academic year applications are accepted continuously for temporary non-tenure-track positions on a part-time basis. Positions may become available at any time and are typically filled on a quarterly basis.

The department of Ethnic Studies is particularly interested in faculty who are able to teach existing courses that satisfy General University Requirements (GUR) and serve themajors and minors. These include 100 intro-level courses in Ethnic Studies as well as introductory courses in at least one of the following areas: Black Latinx Indigenous or Arab-American Studies. Additionally faculty who can offer advanced Ethnic Studies courses that enhance our core major themesi.e. Indigeneity abolition decolonization emancipation resistance diaspora migration bordersare also encouraged to apply. We encourage applicants to visit our departmental website for more information on our curricular vision and current course offerings.

As a department that values teaching we expect you to be an exemplary teacher; to be current in your discipline; to engage students actively in their own learning including discussion writing and analysis; and to maintain high standards regarding course content. We expect you to provide students with feedback on their course work and examinations and to be available to students through regularly scheduled office hours. You will be expected to have your students evaluate your courses using the standard University evaluation forms and to make those evaluations available to the department chair and faculty for annual review.

• Masters degree or bachelors degree with extensive teaching experience
• Demonstrated ability to teach an interdisciplinary curriculum
• Experience with teaching methods which promote active participatory learning
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with diverse students and cultivate learning environments that are equitable and inclusive of students with diverse social identities and backgrounds.

• Positive teaching evaluations
• Previous teaching experience

Salary

Commensurate with experience and qualifications

Bargaining Unit

United Faculty of Western Washington

Application Instructions

Candidates should upload the following as part of a complete application:

A letter of application vita and brief description of courses you would like to teach are required. You will also be asked to provide contact information of three references.

Your cover letter and curriculum vitae should address your experience related to the position responsibilities and the required and preferred qualifications including your ability and commitmentto cultivating learning environments that are equitable and inclusive of students with diverse social identities and backgrounds. You may cut and paste or upload your materials as noted on the PageUp application.

For questions regarding the position application process or department contact Julie Moon

Applications are accepted continuously for potential NTT faculty pool closes no later than September 30 2026.

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