Assistant Teaching Professor – Explore

Description

Explore, an academic unit within University College at ASU, seeks a full-time Assistant Teaching Professor for the 2025-2026 academic year. This role supports Exploratory major students in identifying their strengths, interests, and goals to shape their ASU experience and future careers. The position contributes to the unit’s goal of guiding students to select their next major after Exploratory, ensuring their educational path aligns with their aspirations. Explore courses use the Life by Design model to help students explore their interests, values, and skills for academic, career, and personal growth. By applying design thinking, Life by Design equips students with tools and mindsets that foster identity, belonging, agency, and purpose, leading to meaningful work, fulfilling relationships, and overall well-being.

The ideal candidate prioritizes student development and success through teaching, research, and service while fostering an inclusive, supportive learning environment. This expertise can come from various backgrounds, including but not limited to education, psychology, counseling, and human development, as well as skills and experiences in facilitation, storytelling, design thinking, and college student success. 

As part of the Explore team that focuses on holistic support of learners and their success, this role will have an active and pivotal role in student success, persistence, and retention initiatives by working closely with Explore’s student services team and leadership. Additionally, the Assistant Teaching Professor will contribute to the curricular efforts of the Explore program. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Teach courses across the Explore portfolio, inclusive of ASU 101, ASU 230, UNI 250, UNI 270, and a variety of UNI 194 sections. Courses guide students in exploring their interests, values, and skills to support their academic, career, and personal growth.
• Engage in research and service activities that align with the goals and needs of the Explore unit and the University College design goals and principles.
• Foster a supportive learning environment that encourages exploration, innovation, and reflection among students.
• Support developing and implementing strategic initiatives within the Explore unit and University College.

The successful candidate should have excellent facilitation skills, strong curriculum development skills, and be passionate about working with college learners. These courses feature facilitated activities and experiences rather than a lecture-based approach; an interactive pedagogical approach is required. 

Explore leadership will determine course load; however, up to 20% of ATP’s load will be designated to service, including curriculum development, research, committee work, faculty professional development, and other service to the unit, college, or university. This is a full-time, benefits-eligible, non-tenure-eligible position renewable on an academic year basis contingent upon satisfactory performance, availability of resources, and the needs of the unit and university. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. The candidate must reside in Arizona or be willing to relocate. 

To best support the exploring student, Explore is evolving with a focus on serving learners in a variety of modalities, empowering them to design their ASU journey and helping them connect their experience at ASU to their goals post-graduation. University College as a whole, is focused on broadening its offerings for all learners from every major and at any stage of their academic journey. University College’s goal is to disrupt the 20th-century model of higher education by:

1. Designing personalized learning experiences to end achievement disparities for students of all backgrounds.
2. Designing for an integrated work and learning future.
3. Designing services to support learners at scale by using design thinking, analytics, automation, and intelligent systems.
4. University College is guided by 5 key design principles: learners first, be bold, simplify, personalize, and collaborate. A wide range of new programs and services are currently under development.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Terminal degree, at time of appointment, in education or related fields including but not limited to: psychology, counseling, human development.
• Three years evidence of teaching at a post-secondary institution, with preferred teaching experience at the undergraduate level.
• Demonstrated skills, experiences, or expertise in one or more of the following or related areas: facilitation, storytelling, design thinking, life design, and college student success.
• Experience with curriculum development.

Desired Qualifications:

• Work with students from multicultural, transnational, multiple groups, various communities, varied backgrounds and cultures, variety /various academic backgrounds, from first-year to graduating seniors, in various course formats (online, in-person, hybrid).
• Knowledge of the higher education landscape, college student trends and/or student success strategies.
• Demonstrate a proficient level of understanding or experience with career development and/or career training/employment trends.
• Experience supporting learners in assessment of their interests, values, skills and qualifications related to career decision making and life design.
• Experience with designing and implementing interactive and inquiry-based learning experiences.
• Experience developing and leading peer pedagogical workshops.
• Demonstrated success in working collaboratively in a team environment.
• Excellent and effective English written and spoken communication skills.

Application Instructions

The application deadline is March 10, 2025. Applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis for a reserve pool. Applications in the reserve pool may then be reviewed in the order in which they were received until the position is filled. To apply, visit https://universitycollege.asu.edu/jobs/faculty and select “Apply” next to the corresponding position. Candidates will be asked to create or use an existing Interfolio Dossier to submit the following:

• A letter of application addressing required and desired qualifications
• Current curriculum vitae
• One-page teaching statement detailing your pedagogical approach and how you can contribute to student exploration
• Evidence of effective facilitation/teaching/student support – e.g., student evaluations, peer observation, annual evaluations, etc.
• Unofficial graduate transcripts
• Information for three professional references (their position, title, e-mail, phone number)

Official Transcripts are required prior to the first day of employment. A background check is required prior to employment. For position-related questions, contact Raquel Fong (rfong@asu.edu). 

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

A background check is required for employment. Arizona State University is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.

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