Full-Time Faculty Position in Social Sciences- Economics, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Job Description:

The Social Sciences Department seeks a full-time faculty member in Economics. The successful candidate must demonstrate a commitment to curricular innovation and program growth; contribute to a coherently articulated program of instruction in Economics across varying levels of competency; design, prepare, implement and evaluate syllabi; assist with the development and administration of assessment instruments; participate in professional development programs, mentor students; and engage in departmental and college service.

The successful candidate should demonstrate an accomplished record of scholarship, excellence in teaching, and engagement in departmental and college service.

Requirements:

Specific Competencies :
Successful candidates will excel in the following areas:

Globalism

• Demonstrate an awareness of global economic issues and their impact on the economics discipline.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the international connections within the local and regional community.
• Demonstrate the ability to work effectively in global settings with international colleagues from multicultural backgrounds.
• Demonstrate appreciation for cultural diversity and have a positive approach to cultural differences.
• Demonstrate the ability to work within, support, and maintain productive relationships in multicultural environments and models of inclusive behaviors for students.
• Demonstrate awareness and sensitivity to all multicultural groups and incorporate this understanding into instructional and learning experiences.
• Demonstrate the ability to recognize and balance differing world views based on the depth and breadth of knowledge and awareness of other people, countries, cultures and beliefs.
• Incorporate the values of sustainability and ecology into the learning process.

Instructional Design

• Design and deliver course content that reflects a balance between classic traditional thought, contemporary practice, and the state of the art in one's field.
• Design and deliver coursework in a manner that links learning objectives across disciplines and reflects how work is performed in industry.
• Integrate course concepts with related curricula, disciplines, and professional practice.
• Design and deliver coursework that integrates knowledge in the context of an art and design school educational background.
• Balance both theory and the practical application of knowledge, inclusive of building skills that are required for professional success.
• Create a learning experience that requires collaborative exercises, real world problem solving, and a skills-based approach to learning.
• Adapt course content to adjust to changing and emerging industry, global, and consumer trends while respecting local issues and challenges.
• Design classroom and other learning experiences that foster and cultivate critical thinking, problem solving, information literacy skills, and creativity.
• Utilize instructional variety in order to accommodate students of different learning styles, abilities, demographics, or diversity.
• Maintain industry relevance that allows integration of professional practice with classroom learning.

Learning Enrichment

• Demonstrate the ability to utilize a variety of instructional delivery methods to enhance student learning.
• Embrace and utilize emerging forms of pedagogy in economics, where appropriate, such as team teaching, online teaching, interdisciplinary methods, active learning, etc.
• Teach students how to integrate, synthesize, and utilize information in the economics discipline.
• Develop students' information literacy skills and provide instruction in identifying, locating, selecting, organizing, evaluating, and presenting information appropriately.
• Facilitate and foster the development of students' critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills, as well as critical analysis and thoughtful skepticism.
• Encourage student interaction, collaboration, teamwork and cooperation in the learning process and environment.
• Demonstrate the ability to inspire student interest, curiosity, imagination, creativity, and love of learning.
• Demonstrate the ability to support different student learning styles and abilities.
• Embrace the emerging roles of faculty as facilitators, mentors, integrators, and decipherers of information and knowledge.

Professionalism

• Demonstrate understanding and mastery of established and emerging economic practices and their importance and relevance to FIT students.
• Demonstrate currency and active engagement in the economics discipline.
• Engage in creative/scholarly activities in the economics discipline.
• Model professional behavior that prepares students for entry into the field of economics.
• Develop and maintain a network of alumni and industry experts who can be called upon as resources for course and curriculum development, focus groups, guest speakers, internships, and career placement opportunities for students.
• Maintain positive, helpful, supportive, respectful, collegial and collaborative relationships with colleagues and professionals.
• Support FIT, its mission, goals, and initiatives through both classroom and non-classroom activities.

Technology

• Incorporate instructional technology into the delivery of course material and learning experiences.
• Utilize learning experiences that expose students to the uses of technology in their chosen discipline, industry, or profession.
• Utilize technology appropriately to communicate with, and engage students in learning outside of the classroom.
• Understand and appreciate the advantages and limitations of using technology for compiling, organizing, analyzing, and synthesizing information.
• Utilize technology and electronic information effectively to enhance one's professional productivity in areas that include, but not limited to communication, collaboration, research, and problem resolution, as well as enhancement of one's professional development.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Candidates should have an earned or expected PhD in Economics. Relevant college-level teaching experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A background and interest in social and economic stratification, cultural economics, and/or behavioral economics is highly desirable and consideration will be given to candidates in these areas of specialization.

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

This position will be required to continuously read and comprehend, occasionally perform calculations, constantly verbally communicate, frequently analyze, and constantly write. The working conditions for this position will be any combination of the classroom, lab, and/or office space. Certain roles may be required to handle machinery and chemicals. The physical requirement for this position will require occasional sitting, constant standing, occasional bending, frequent walking, and occasionally lifting 10 lbs. or less.

Additional Information:

This faculty position will begin Fall 2023. Review of applications will commence in September 2022 and continue until the position is filled. First consideration will be given to completed applications received by November 1, 2022. Please note a background check is required for appointment to this position.

Link to FIT Benefits for Full-Time Faculty

Collective Bargaining Salary Schedules (page 72) ; Successor Agreement (page 6)
Hiring Salary: $69,475 per year; per CBA, the salary and appointment rank will be based on education level and cumulative experience.

Application Instructions:

For consideration, please provide:

• Letter of interest clearly indicating your qualifications for the position;
• Curriculum Vitae/Resume
• Evidence of teaching effectiveness
• Statement of teaching philosophy
• A brief sample of related academic writing
• A minimum of three professional references, including names, titles, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail contact information.

Please note that due to the volume of applications, we will not be able to contact each applicant individually. Additional information about the Fashion Institute of Technology can be found at: www.fitnyc.edu .

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The College reserves the right to select one or more candidates after having been duly reviewed and presented to the President in conformance with the provisions of Article 15 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

About Fashion Institute of Technology:

The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), an internationally renowned college of art and design, business and technology, of the State University of New York, invites nominations and applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty position in the Social Sciences Department, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The Fashion Institute of Technology, a part of the State University of New York, has been a leader in career education in art, design, business, and technology for nearly 70 years. With a curriculum that provides a singular blend of hands-on, practical experience, classroom study, and a firm grounding in the liberal arts, FIT offers a wide range of outstanding programs that are relevant to today's rapidly changing industries. Internationally renowned, FIT draws on its New York City location to provide a vibrant, creative community in which to learn. The college offers more than 45 majors and grants AAS, BFA, BS, MA, MFA, and MPS degrees, preparing students for professional success and leadership in the global marketplace.

With close ties to industry, FIT draws faculty from the city's art, business, and design elite, and from the rich academic community of the region. The College continually seeks creative faculty members who are passionate about their field and demonstrate exceptional professional capability in the core competencies of instruction design, learning enrichment, globalism, and use of technology, as well as mastery of established and emerging industry practices.

The School of Liberal Arts and Sciences provides the foundation for an FIT degree, committed to providing a broad-based general education for FIT students, integrating traditional academic study with career preparation. Home to seven academic departments, thirty academic minors, and two interdisciplinary majors, our faculty prepare students to become reflective, critical, and engaged citizens of the world. Committed to scholarship, academic service and student-centered instruction, faculty members foster an understanding of diverse cultures and international perspectives as well as an appreciation for the richness and changing composition of American culture.

The Social Sciences Department seeks to create and nurture an environment of innovative, interdisciplinary learning that enables students to develop diverse and multicultural perspectives so that they will be better prepared to function in a complex and global society. Courses are offered in economics, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology. Due to this multidisciplinary composition, the Department of Social Sciences is uniquely positioned to offer many and varied courses designed to increase students' understanding and appreciation of the historical and contemporary diversity of national and global society.