Job description
Position Number: FV0001
Location
Morehouse College – Atlanta GA
Position Summary
The Department of Biology at Morehouse College seeks broadly trained candidates for a
one-year Visiting Assistant Professor position to begin in August 1,2025. The ideal candidates will have earned a PhD, but a Master of Science may be considered, with appropriate experience. Undergraduate teaching experience in one or more of the following areas of specialization is preferable: physiology, neurobiology, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, immunology or ecology.
Candidates will be expected to teach in-person introductory and advanced undergraduate biology courses, with associated laboratories, and must be prepared to teach introductory courses, including courses for non-science majors.
Morehouse College is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Morehouse College complies with applicable provisions of federal and state laws that prohibit discrimination in employment, admission, or access to its educational or extracurricular programs, activities, or facilities based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, marital status, place of birth, veteran status, or against individuals with disabilities.
Required Qualifications
- Master’s degree in a field of Biology
- Undergraduate teaching experience in biology lecture and lab courses in-person
Preferred Qualifications
- PhD in physiology, neurobiology, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, immunology or ecology.
- Undergraduate teaching experience in biology lecture and lab courses in-person
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Content knowledge in any field of Biology
- Pedagogical skills prioritizing student engagement
- Laboratory instruction
- Laboratory assignment creation, dissemination, grading
- Quality feedback on student lab research projects
- Lecture assignment generation, dissemination, grading
- Writing learning objectives, creating activities and writing assignments, exams, quizzes to evaluate student competency in achieving objectives
- Meeting with students to troubleshoot and advise on course progress
- Meeting with department colleagues and staff to ensure student success
Essential Duties/Responsibilities
- Content knowledge in any field of Biology
- Pedagogical skills prioritizing student engagement
- Laboratory instruction
- Laboratory assignment creation, dissemination, grading
- Quality feedback on student lab research projects
- Lecture assignment generation, dissemination, grading
- Writing learning objectives, creating activities and writing assignments, exams, quizzes to evaluate student competency in achieving objectives
- Meeting with students to troubleshoot and advise on course progress
- Meeting with department colleagues and staff to ensure student success
Posting Number: F180P
EEO Statement Summary
Morehouse College is an equal opportunity employer. No employee or applicant will be discriminated against in any condition of employment because of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
How to apply
A complete application consists of a current CV, unofficial graduate transcript, statement of teaching philosophy, list of prior teaching experiences, and the names and contact information of three professional references. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.
For additional information on this position, contact Contact Ms. Mabel Swinney,[email protected] for questions about this posting. Applications will be reviewed as they are received until the position is filled.
