Associate/Full Professor of Finance

Description

The Fowler College of Business (FCB) at San Diego State University (SDSU) is seeking an accomplished scholar with a proven track record of high impact research, effective teaching, and service excellence to join its Finance department as an Associate/Full Professor of Finance beginning in Fall 2025. FCB is among the nation’s oldest and largest AACSB accredited business schools and prides itself on a highly ranked undergraduate program and a growing online undergraduate degree completion program. The Finance department is strongly committed to excellence in research and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels and to continuing its promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The department is also building connections to the business community through its business advisory board in service of its students. There are approximately 2,000 undergraduate students majoring in Finance, Financial Service and Real Estate in addition to students in graduate programs in M.S. Finance and Financial and Tax Planning. The department offers courses for approximately 9,000 business students. There are currently 18 tenured/tenure-track faculty and approximately 30 lecturers in Finance department, which is home to the Financial Markets Lab and related activities.

We seek to hire at the Associate or Full Professor level. A named professorship will accompany the appointment. The applicant must hold a Ph.D. in Finance, or a closely related discipline at the time of the appointment. The applicant should have an established program of research and teaching excellence, in addition to experience in effective service. The applicant should possess strong mentoring, leadership, interpersonal skills, and the ability to promote collegiality and consensus building. The successful candidate is expected to promote an atmosphere of inclusion, tolerance, and appreciation of success and respect for all, maintain a continuous appreciation for diversity, work effectively in a multicultural campus and community setting, and build connections with the business community.

 

Qualifications

The minimum requirements are:

 

• Earned PhD in Finance or a closely related discipline.

• Tenured faculty with a distinguished record of scholarship, teaching, and other professional activity. Demonstrated commitment to research and teaching.

• Record of mentoring junior faculty and strong leadership, interpersonal skills.

• Demonstrated commitment to shared governance, transparency, and collegiality.

• Ability to work effectively in a multicultural campus and community setting.

• Record of fostering connections and working with the business community. Leading department/college/university/professional organizational initiatives.

• Demonstrated commitment to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• Experience in supervising and collaborating with professional and technical staff.

 

We are seeking applicants with demonstrated experience in and/or commitment to teaching and working effectively with individuals from diverse backgrounds and members of underrepresented groups. Candidates must satisfy at least three of the eight Building on Inclusive Excellence (BIE) criteria. Candidates that meet BIE criteria: (a) are committed to engaging in service with underrepresented populations within the discipline, (b) have demonstrated knowledge of barriers for underrepresented students and faculty within the discipline, (c) have experience or have demonstrated commitment to teaching and mentoring underrepresented students, (d) have experience or have demonstrated commitment to integrating understanding of underrepresented populations and communities into research, (e) have experience in or have demonstrated commitment to extending knowledge of opportunities and challenges in achieving artistic/scholarly success to members of an underrepresented group, (f) have experience in or have demonstrated commitment to research that engages underrepresented communities, (g) have expertise or demonstrated commitment to developing expertise in cross-cultural communication and collaboration, and/or (h) have research interests that contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in higher education. Please indicate in a separate diversity statement how you meet at least three (3) of these criteria. Additional guidance on our BIE program for applicants is here.

SDSU is the oldest institution of higher education in the San Diego region, with a campus in San Diego serving more than 38,000 undergraduate and graduate students and additional locations in Southern California’s Imperial Valley and Tbilisi in the Republic of Georgia. Established in 1897, SDSU offers bachelor degrees in 97 areas, masters in 84 and doctor