Assistant or Associate Professor, Multilingual Education / Dual Language - Tenure Track Multiple Positions

Position Title Assistant or Associate Professor, Multilingual Education / Dual Language - Tenure Track Multiple Positions About the University

Western Washington University, with over 16,000 students across four locations, includes seven colleges and the graduate school. It is nationally and regionally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The largest campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, but this program is located in Everett, Washington, a coastal community of 112,000 overlooking Puget Sound, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 30 miles north of Seattle in Snohomish County, with a mix of rural and urban communities and 15 school districts. Faculty in the Multilingual Education program will work together across the 3 sites.

Western is the highest-ranking public, master's-granting university in the Pacific Northwest, according to the 2022 U.S. News & World Report rankings.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive. In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

About the Department

Woodring College of Education supports Western's mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. WWU’s commitment to institutionalizing inclusive practices seeks to ensure that we welcome and celebrate the intrinsic worth of all members of our community. We will become an even stronger university as we enhance equity at every level of our institution. We encourage applications from women, BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

About the Position Woodring College of Education invites individuals with dual language / multilingual education experience and a demonstrated commitment to social justice to apply for tenure-track appointment as an Assistant or Associate Professor in the Multilingual Education (MLE) Program. We are seeking 2 MLE tenure track faculty members who will serve in the new Everett Multilingual Elementary Education Residency program. We are seeking faculty members with complementary expertise to join with current MLE faculty and school partners across our 3 locations to collaboratively expand our dual language residency programs supporting paraeducators to become teachers. These are unique faculty positions for teacher- scholars who have the ability and desire to partner with schools to develop teachers who come from the communities in which they will teach. This collaboration between the university and schools is intended to simultaneously enhance the quality of education for multilingual learners while also developing multilingual teachers. We are seeking applicants with varied expertise in multilingual education to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders in culturally and linguistically diverse communities and schools. We strongly encourage applications from members of groups who have been, and still are underrepresented in university faculty positions. The 2 positions are for nine-month appointments with opportunities for summer employment, and are anticipated to begin September, 2025. Candidates hired into the associate professor rank (pre-tenure) may have an expedited timeline to tenure.

Washington State’s Superintendent of Public Instruction has established the goal of ensuring “statewide access to dual language education to all students by 2040.” The Multilingual Education (MLE) Program at Western Washington University is responding to this call to grow capacity for dual language education in the State through innovative, residency-based, Grow-your-own (GYO) programming. We invite you to be part of recruiting, preparing, and supporting - in active collaboration with our partner school districts and Educational Service Districts (ESD) - a diverse generation of multilingual, equity-centered teachers prepa