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Job description
Job Type: Full time
Job Number: R696
Thank you for your interest in working at William Paterson University.
We invite you to join William Paterson University: a wonderful community to learn, work, grow, and thrive. William Paterson University has been named to Forbes’ prestigious “Best Employers by State” list for 2024, recognizing the institution as one of the best-ranked employers in New Jersey based on nationwide surveys. WP is one of four education institutions on the Garden State’s list this year. Here is the link to the article forbes-best-in-state-employers-new-jersey-2024. William Paterson University is among more than 40 companies and organizations that will be honored with a 2024 NJBIZ Empowering Women Award for their commitment to supporting and elevating women employees.
William Paterson University employs approximately 1000 full time employees in the state who work in a variety of positions ranging from professors to administrative assistants and administrators, physical plant operations, campus police, athletics coaches, academic advisors, and more. William Paterson University supports a remote friendly hybrid work schedule for this role. William Paterson also boasts a four-day summer work week from mid-May to mid-August (Fridays off), during which all employees participate in our award-winning Summer Learning series.
Spanning more than 400 wooded acres in suburban Wayne, New Jersey – just 20 miles from New York City – our campus is one of the most diverse in the nation and it ranks in the top 4 percent of colleges for social mobility. William Paterson is a strong proponent of employees growing their careers there. More than fifty percent of the University’s roles are filled by promotions from within. We’re not only committed to social mobility for our students, but also for our employees.
Your work as a member of our team is important to our students and to the progress of our University. What you do here matters, and we value every contribution.
William Paterson University invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Associate or Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science, which includes the opportunity to serve as Department Chair. The position begins Fall 2025. The search will prioritize candidates who specialize in Cybersecurity, Data Science, and Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence. We welcome applicants whose research explores novel methodologies and transformative applications that address real-world challenges.
The department chair opportunity includes duties such as: oversee the budget, admissions, and accreditation processes; implement administrative policies; schedule courses; hire adjunct faculty; and otherwise ensure the smooth running of all aspects of the department. This position will work directly with students, resolving their issues and concerns and advocate for the Department, and will work collaboratively with the Dean of the College of Science and Health. Reassigned time from teaching is available for chair duties.
Department overview: Our CS program is based on ACM/IEEE undergraduate curriculum guidelines and offers both a BS and most recently an MS degree which begins fall 2025. The goal of this program is to provide a high-quality curriculum that prepares students for graduate studies as well as professional careers in computing, including software development, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data science. The program is ABET accredited.. Multidisciplinary research and exceptional teaching in a highly diverse and inclusive campus community are hallmarks of the University’s mission. Faculty within Computer Science at WP are highly collaborative and pursue cutting-edge and interdisciplinary research. Read about our programs:
https://www.wpunj.edu/cosh/departments/computer-science/index.html
Chair reporting relationship: Dean, College of Science and Health.
Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Teaching and Administrative:
- Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in multiple modalities; ability to teach online or willingness to learn to teach online.
- Chair teaching requirement is at least one course a semester.
- Develop course content, objectives, and methods of student assessment; participate in formal course and program learning assessment.
- Provide students with consistent and effective support and guidance through role modeling, mentoring, and advising.
- Contribute to student success through curriculum and program development and management.
- Perform other teaching or teaching/admin duties as assigned, depending on departmental needs
- Provide leadership to the Computer Science Department in collaboration with the faculty, dean, and other university units and personnel (chair component).
Scholarship:
- Maintain an active and productive scholarly and publication record.
Service:
- Participate in department, college, and/or university-level committees and activities designed to enhance instructional processes and/or programs and services.
Required qualifications:
- Earned doctorate in Computer Science and/or related fields.
- Ability to engage as an academic leader.
- Demonstrated excellence in teaching.
- Demonstrated record of scholarly productivity.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior experience as a program director or director, Chair of CS departments.
- Knowledge of and experience with current ABET accreditation standards.
- Experience in securing NSA Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) designation for Cybersecurity programs.
Personal attributes and traits:
- Demonstrated ability to lead and influence peers in a complex and diverse environment with competing wants and needs.
- Ability to identify and prioritize activities that lead to a goal.
- Capacity to organize others in such a way that inspires trust and motivates people toward a common goal.
- Capacity to learn and understand the university system and the ABET accreditation standards, including the ability to work well within the context of established norms, rules, policies, and procedures.
How to apply
Interested candidates will be prompted to:
1. Complete an application.
2. Submit a cover letter and resume when prompted to upload your resume.
3. Provide names/contacts of three professional references.
Review of applications will commence immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Submission of all documents listed above is required for consideration.
Please email [email protected] should you have any general questions related to this search.
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