Professor Data Science

Description

Job Description

Position Summary:  

The Professor will provide intellectual leadership toward achievement of the highest possible level of excellence in teaching, scholarship, service, and professional development. The Professor will teach courses within a programmatic core discipline as assigned by engaging students, offering excellent feedback, and inspiring students to achieve course and program outcomes relevant to the core discipline. Professors at the doctoral level may also participate on dissertation committees. This position works closely with other faculty within the discipline including the Department Chair, Course Lead, Academic Program Director, Assistant Dean and Dean by contributing to programmatic strategies that ensure program quality, student engagement and success.

 

Essential Functions:

Instruction

• Include multiple methods of engagement to create a positive learning environment that encourages motivation and persistence, maintaining frequent communication with students; offering opportunities for ongoing interaction to discuss feedback, addressing concerns, and plans; making accommodations to address learning styles by personalizing teaching and using appropriate tools or models of instruction.

• Apply innovative, uniquely competitive, and distinct high-performing techniques, approaches, and content knowledge in program courses. 
• Maintain the rigor, high standards and consistency of courses that attract, retain, and prepare a diverse body of students to meet workforce demands.
• Leverage adaptive and advanced technology-based educational approaches to student engagement and learning outcomes.
• Participate on dissertation committees as a Committee Chair, Subject Matter Expert, or Academic Reader.
• Ensure course and program practices are in alignment with compliance and accreditation standards, as applicable.
• Utilize effective teaching methods while encouraging higher order thinking.
  • Reinforces alignment of course activities to course and program outcomes as evidenced by announcements, discussion participation, and feedback.
  • Incorporate supplemental content in announcements, discussions, and assignment feedback to support student learning and engagement.
  • Seek out and encourage higher-order thinking through Socratic questioning, open-ended questions, multiple perspectives, and critical thinking and evaluation.
  • Consistently model good discussion practices and encourage active participation from students.
  • Establishes personal and authentic presence while sharing experience, skills, and knowledge with students.

• Reinforces meaningful connections between course content and broader concepts.
• Provides personalized, substantive, timely, and constructive feedback on assignments that empowers and encourages students to improve.
• Participates in course discussions actively and substantively.

• Provide timely, substantive communication and feedback utilizing technology tools.

• Provide and regularly reinforce available communication methods, response timelines, and office hours.
• Interact and reply to students within the introductory period, on discussion forums, and on assignment feedback.
• Posts weekly announcements providing guidelines for success and introducing weekly topics and expectations.

• Provide an inclusive learning environment that encourages student success and motivation.

• Encourage student interactions and collaboration while providing direct and indirect support.
• Consistently demonstrates awareness of the importance of inclusive practices and accessibility.
• Consistently provide support to at-risk students.

• Adhere to National University’s academic integrity policy.

 

Academic Program Director

• Those Professors who are Academic Program Directors (APD) collaborate with program faculty to develop the strategies to support the degree program. The APD acts as the primary source of information about specific programmatic strategies, needs and daily operations.
• In consultation with the program faculty, the APD implements change to assure program quality, student engagement and success. The APD serves as the primary contact for multiple stakeholders. The APD, in collaboration with program faculty and the Director of Assessment develops the assessment plan for the program.
• The APD meets regularly with the Department Chair to ensure that the program aligns with University, School/College and department goals and priorities.

 

Scholarship

• Contribute to the university's position in given areas of academic pursuit through scholarly rese