Overview
About the Position:
The Department of Biology is seeking a highly qualified Assistant / Associate Professor of Genetics. The new specialized faculty member will join the program in August of 2024. This is a nine (9) month tenure-track position.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will have teaching experience and research/postdoctoral background in genetics.
They will be expected to teach introductory genetics lectures, and laboratories and develop upper division and/or graduate courses tailored to the candidate’s specific area of expertise.
The standard teaching load is 12 semester hours per semester.
In addition, providing student advisement; participating in scholarly research; serving on departmental, school, and university committees is required.
Minimum Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required for Entry:
- Teaching experience is required.
- Both a commitment to undergraduate teaching and developing a research program involving undergraduate and M.S. graduate students in research is required.
- The successful applicant will have the potential to or demonstrated ability to establish an externally funded research program in their area of expertise that will include undergraduate and M.S. graduate students.
- Ph.D. in Genetics or related field required by the start of employment.
Additional Considerations:
Preferred, not Required:
- Five (5) years’ experience teaching at a higher education institution.
About Virginia State University
Founded on March 6, 1882, Virginia State University (VSU), a public Historically Black College/University (HBCU) with an enrollment of approximately 4,700 students. VSU has been accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) since 1933. The University’s accreditation was last reaffirmed in 2008, and is currently scheduled for reaffirmation in 2018. Supported by an operating budget of $160 million, VSU offers undergraduate (32), masters (17), and doctoral (2) degree programs as well as certificate programs (5) across the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, agriculture, mathematics, engineering, and computer sciences to a diverse population of students from the US and abroad and provides opportunities for underserved students across the nation. Located in Chesterfield County, Virginia, the 236-acre campus includes a farm which was established as a living, learning laboratory for the University and its stakeholders. Inextricably bound to the communities it serves, VSU is a pre-eminent economic engine for Southside Virginia. For example, as Co-Administrator of Virginia’s Cooperative Extension Program, VSU specializes in outreach to small-acreage farmers constituency—a staple of the $70-billion agriculture and forestry industry, providing over 400,000 jobs.