Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Faculty Position in Economics (Microeconomics)
 College of the Holy Cross | |
 United States, Massachusetts, Worcester | |
| 1 College Street (Show on map) | |
 Oct 20, 2024 | |
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Faculty Position in Economics (Microeconomics) Description The Department of Economics and Accounting at the College of the Holy Cross invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in microeconomic theory and/or behavioral economics to begin in August 2025. The successful candidate will teach elective courses related to their research, contribute to teaching core courses, pursue quality scholarship, supervise student research, and be engaged members of the department and College communities. This position carries a 3-2 teaching load with a research leave prior to tenure review of either a full year at 80% salary or a semester at full salary, and generous sabbatical and fellowship leaves for tenured faculty. To enable a smooth transition to Holy Cross, new full-time tenure-track Assistant Professors receive start-up funding to support their research and professional development and have a one-course reduction in their first year of teaching (i.e., 2-2). All full-time appointments offer competitive salaries and full benefits. Faculty at the College cultivate a richly diverse academic community, pursue innovative teaching, and create high-impact scholarship. To learn more about faculty life at the College & the Worcester area, candidates are encouraged to visit our Prospective Faculty page. Qualifications Candidates must demonstrate excellence in scholarship and a commitment to effective undergraduate teaching in the context of a liberal arts college. Ph.D. is required by the beginning of the appointment. Application Instructions Please submit a cover letter addressing the position requirements listed above, a current curriculum vitae, job market paper, unofficial undergraduate and graduate transcripts, a statement on teaching, and three confidential letters of recommendation. In your cover letter and statement on teaching, in addition to describing your research and teaching interests, please address how your scholarship, teaching, mentoring, and/or service might support the College's mission as a Jesuit, undergraduate liberal arts college and its core commitment to diversity and inclusion. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The College of the Holy Cross uses Interfolio to collect all faculty job applications. Please submit all application materials only through this platform to: https://apply.interfolio.com/152484. Materials submitted through any other means will not be considered. For full consideration, applications should be submitted by November 18, 2024. Initial interviews of selected applicants will take place in mid-December via Zoom, and campus visits for selected applicants will take place in the second half of January. Questions about this search may be directed to Professor Melissa Boyle (mboyle@holycross.edu). To apply, visit https://apply.interfolio.com/152484 The College of the Holy Cross is a highly selective Catholic liberal arts college in the Jesuit tradition. It enrolls about 3,000 students and is located in a medium-sized city 45 miles west of Boston. The College seeks faculty members whose scholarship, teaching, advising, and on- and off-campus service demonstrate commitment to the educational benefits of a richly diverse community. Holy Cross aspires to meet the needs of dual-career couples, in part through its membership in Higher Education Consortium of Central Massachusetts (http://www.heccma.org) and the New England Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (https://new-england.hercjobs.org/)jeid-c322318c75975a4085fd03cee2feca0f | |