Part-time Faculty – Studio Art

Part-time Faculty – Studio Art

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Art History, Studio Art, or a related field.
• At least 1 year of classroom teaching experience at the college-level.
• Must reside and be eligible to work in the United States.
• Ability to participate as an active team member of the team and organization and work toward a common goal.
• Accepts personal accountability, proactively seeks resolution for personal limitations head-on; and supports honesty and respect towards others, the company and oneself.
• Actively seeks to influence, build effective relationships and gain alignment with peers, functional partners and/or external partners to accomplish business objectives.
• Develops new insights into situations; questions conventional approaches; encourages new ideas and innovations; designs and implements new or cutting-edge programs/processes.
• Ability to drive towards achieving measurable and challenging goals to support organizational success.
• Work independently and foster a cooperative spirit within a large and/or small team of diverse cultures, while working in a fast-paced environment with multiple deadlines and frequently changing priorities.
• Intermediate use of computers and Microsoft Office Suite Applications such as Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook.
• Experience using Student Information System (SIS) such as SOAR/Peoplesoft systems.
• Skill in operating equipment, such as personal computer, fax, copier, phone systems.
• Ability to handle a diversity of details in order to make informed and responsive decisions on matters that impact the Part-time Professors, and students.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governing body regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Experience with the online delivery of education and the systems that support it.
• Willingness to participate in trial use of new technologies and integrate new technologies into teaching.
• Excellent communication skills: verbal and written.
• Skill in using or eagerness to learn to use multiple technologies to teach and communicate with students (learning management systems, Skype, etc.).
• Demonstrated mastery of APA style.

Responsibilities

• Teach cohorts of students within a programmatic core discipline as assigned.
• Email/record and post a welcome letter to assigned students one week prior to the start of the course, when feasible, but always within the first week of the course.
• Record and post a video introduction which will be placed in each course.
• Answer all student emails within two calendar days, likely requiring responses over weekends, except when on PTO or during holidays observed by the University.
• Communicate with students within the University learning management system (LMS), University-designated systems, and through University assigned email.
• Contact Student Services in the LMS as soon as determining a student is not actively participating in the course.
• Contact a student by email and a phone call to encourage re-engagement in the course as soon as determining a student is not actively participating in the course.
• Host no less than two one-hour synchronous office hour sessions per week, with office hours posted in each course.
• Provide quality feedback to students, including substantive content focus, sharing resources, and dialogue with students, as well as track changes of edits to proper use of mechanics and a summative statement with key observations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge, principles and practices of office management/systems within a higher education environment, preferred.