ROLE TITLE: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience/Psychology
POSITION REPORTS TO: Neuroscience Program and Psychology Department
Summary of Position
The Neuroscience Program and Psychology Department invite applicants for a tenure track assistant professor position beginning August 2025.
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Experience and Qualifications
A Doctoral degree in Neuroscience, Psychology, or a closely-related discipline is required by the start date. The hired candidate must demonstrate: (1) a commitment to (a) undergraduate teaching, (b) the active involvement of undergraduate students in research, and (c) diversity, equity, and inclusion, and (2) expertise in systems neuroscience research. The candidate’s research should make use of a rat or human model. Teaching load is typically 6 courses per academic year, which may vary depending on advising of senior research projects, and should include introductory-level courses that support the Psychology and Neuroscience programs (e.g., Sensation & Perception), along with upper-level courses in the candidate’s area of expertise (e.g., Systems Neuroscience). All faculty are expected to participate in delivering college-wide first-year/sophomore speaking and writing seminars. The successful candidate will provide evidence of excellence in teaching, ongoing scholarship, and professional development.
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YOUR FUTURE TEAM
Excellent teaching and research facilities are available, as are start-up funds. Allegheny College is a highly selective private liberal arts college in NW Pennsylvania with an increasingly diverse student body and a dedicated faculty of teacher-scholars. It is one of the nation’s oldest liberal arts colleges and is one of the few colleges in the country that requires students to choose both a major and minor. Allegheny is often rated as one of the top schools for undergraduate teaching, research, community service, and employment. Allegheny students and employees are committed to creating an inclusive, respectful, and safe residential learning community that will actively confront and challenge racism, sexism, heterosexism, religious bigotry, and other forms of harassment and discrimination. We encourage individual growth by promoting a free exchange of ideas in a setting that values diversity, trust, and equality. Allegheny affirms its commitment to the principles of freedom of speech and inquiry and the responsibility and accountability in exercising these freedoms.
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THE HIRING PROCESS
Please submit the following in PDF form by October 25, 2024 to employment@allegheny.edu : (a) letter of application, (b) CV, (c) teaching statement that includes a list and description of courses of interest, (d) research statement, (e) a statement describing how you have or plan to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion into your teaching, research, and/or service. Letters of recommendation from three professional references will be required at the interview stage.
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ALLEGHENY COLLEGE
Allegheny College, founded in 1815, is one of the nation’s oldest and most innovative four-year colleges where multidisciplinary learning breaks the conventional mold. It is one of the few colleges in the United States with a unique requirement to choose both a major and minor for graduation, to provide students with a cross-disciplinary path in the sciences and humanities for educational depth and intellectual growth. Located in Meadville, Pennsylvania, Allegheny College is one of 44 colleges featured in Loren Pope’s “Colleges That Change Lives.” In its 2022 rankings, U.S. News & World Report recognized Allegheny College as one of the country’s top 100 national liberal arts colleges — and one of the top 25 best for undergraduate teaching. Allegheny was honored as the top baccalaureate college in the nation for undergraduate research in the Council of Undergraduate Research’s inaugural Award for Undergraduate Research Accomplishment (AURA). Allegheny’s undergraduate residential education prepares students for successful, meaningful lives by promoting students’ intellectual, moral, and social development and encouraging personal and civic responsibility. Allegheny’s faculty and staff combine high academic standards and a commitment to the exchange of knowledge with a supportive approach to learning. Graduates are equipped to think critically and creatively, write clearly, speak persuasively, and meet challenges in a diverse, interconnected world.
Allegheny College is deeply committed to creating an inclusive community that actively challenges racism, sexism, heterosexism, religious bigotry, and other forms of bias (see Allegheny College Statement of Community).
Allegheny College is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity. Women, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and members of other underrepresented groups are highly encouraged to apply. Allegheny does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, or national origin.
Allegheny College is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact the Director of Human Resources
Visit the Allegheny College Web Site at www.allegheny.edu
Visit the Neuroscience Program webpage at Neuroscience Program
Visit the Psychology Departments webpage at Psychology Department
posted 9/18/2024