Community College of Rhode Island, Social Sciences

Assistant Professor, Social Sciences

About CCRI

The Community College of Rhode Island is the state’s only public comprehensive associate degree-granting institution. We provide affordable open access to higher education at locations throughout the state. Our primary mission is to offer recent high school graduates and returning adults the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for intellectual, professional and personal growth through an array of academic, career and lifelong learning programs.

At CCRI, we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse campus community. We strive to hire and retain culturally competent faculty and staff members who reflect the demographics of our state and our increasingly diverse student population.

We believe that our diversity is our strength. We celebrate, support and thrive on the diverse experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives that are represented across our four campuses.

We are OneCCRI, working together to prepare learners to achieve their highest potential.

To learn about what employees value at CCRI and what it means to work here, please read about our Guiding Principles and watch videos of our employees doing what they do best: https://www.ccri.edu/equity/culture/guidingprinciples.html

 

CCRI’s Social Sciences department comprises 18 full-time faculty members teaching Economics, History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology. We are a service department supporting CCRI’s general education curriculum and degree programs across the college.
 

Job Summary

The Community College of Rhode Island seeks a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of History to teach the following undergraduate courses: World Civilizations and courses related to an area of regional specialty in Latin America, Africa, Asia, or the Middle East. The Assistant Professor will join a dynamic, diverse, and collegial department, participate in curriculum development, and serve on departmental and college committees.

This position’s start date is in January 2023 (non-deferrable and non-negotiable).

Commitment to CCRI’s Mission:

• Demonstrate a commitment to the philosophy and mission of a comprehensive community college.

Communication Skills, Teamwork, and Relationship Management

• Practice excellence in oral and written communications with peers and students across a variety of platforms.
• Work collaboratively with others in a diverse, inclusive, and student-centered environment, with students of various cultures, identities, and life experiences.
• Manage conflict effectively in both classroom situations and relationships with faculty and administrative peers.

Disciplinary Expertise:

• Plan, develop, present, and modify History courses from proposal to syllabus, to classroom, to assessment, to evaluation.
• Convey knowledge effectively to students.
• Create new history courses.
• Continue professional growth as a historian.

Instructional Skills:

• Teach World Civilizations and courses related to an area of regional expertise: Latin America, Africa, or the Middle East.
• Use advanced technologies to expand student resources and learning opportunities.
• Assess student learning according to demonstrated mastery of student learning objectives.
• Demonstrate creativity and flexibility in pedagogical approaches to a diverse population of students and peers.

Service to the College:

• Attend and actively participate in departmental meetings.
• Collaborate with peers on curriculum development and assessment.
• Practice a collegial approach to self- and peer evaluations.
• Travel and teach at multi-campus locations, as required by the department.
• Actively participate in college governance, college-wide task forces, and/or student organizations.

Minimum Requirements: 

• A Master’s Degree in History with at least 12 graduate hours focused on Latin America, Africa, or the Middle East, is required.
• A minimum of one (1) year of independent teaching experience, is required.

The most suitably qualified candidate will possess the following:

• An earned Doctorate Degree is required.
• Experience teaching at the collegiate level, especially community college.
• Experience teaching courses in World Civilizations and an area of regional specialty.
• Experience teaching online and hybrid courses.
• Experience with curriculum development, student learning outcomes, and effective assessments to measure them.
• Experience with Blackboard or other learning management systems.