Honors - Assistant Professor/Associate Professor – Renewable Contract - Spring'26 - 528575

Department/Organization
216141 - University Honors Program

Rank
Assistant Professor

Position Summary
Guided by a newly implemented strategic plan, Honors Forward, the College seeks an innovative teacher-scholar with experience working across, between, and especially beyond disciplinary boundaries. Honors Forward encapsulates the College’s mission to cultivate students who are exceptional thinkers, citizens, and leaders.

Detailed Position Information
Guided by a newly implemented strategic plan, Honors Forward, the College seeks an innovative teacher-scholar with experience working across, between, and especially beyond disciplinary boundaries. Honors Forward encapsulates the College’s mission to cultivate students who are exceptional thinkers, citizens, and leaders. With an emphasis on smaller classes and one-on-one interactions with faculty, a first-year experience, experiential and community-engaged learning, and research/creative activity that culminates in a signature project, Honors Forward is designed to help students chart their own path to academic excellence. This faculty search is one of several hiring initiatives for the College, designed to expand resources and enhance the Honors experience for the College’s 7,000+ students.
The successful applicant will have a demonstrated track record of excellence in teaching and a commitment to undergraduate mentorship and research or creative activity. They will engage in service/academic citizenship and research/creative activity appropriate to the scholarship of honors education and/or their academic discipline. The successful candidate will be expected to teach a variety of honors classes and will have opportunities to develop and teach seminar classes based on their area of specialty.

Minimum Qualifications
Include (1) an earned doctorate or other terminal degree appropriate to their discipline and (2) teaching experience at the college/university level. The successful candidate should be able to build creative, transdisciplinary syllabi, foster dialog among students, and help individual students hone their skills as critical and creative thinkers, citizens, and leaders. Honors faculty are expected to have skills and techniques necessary to manage highly collaborative, student-centered, and ideologically diverse conversations both in and out of the classroom.

Preferred Qualifications
We especially welcome applications from candidates with a background in any one or more of the following areas: the first-year experience, experiential education, research/creative development, leadership studies, and transdisciplinary methods. In addition, candidates with experience mentoring students through extracurricular and/or co-curricular programming are encouraged to apply.

Instructions and Required Materials for Application
Applicants should submit a cover letter expressing their interest in the position, teaching philosophy statement, CV, contact information for three academic references, and one to three recent teaching evaluations (if available). Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Applicants should submit a cover letter expressing their interest in the position, teaching philosophy statement, CV, contact information for three academic references, and one to three recent teaching evaluations (if available). Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. To receive best consideration, apply by March 11, 2026. Questions may be addressed to the search chair, Prof. Dana Patton, at dana.patton@ua.edu. Questions may be addressed to the search chair, Prof. Dana Patton, at dana.patton@ua.edu.

About the Division/College/School
The Honors College is the home to more than 7,000 high-performing and high-potential students at The University of Alabama. It is our mission to recruit, retain and actively engage them within a diverse community of scholars. Our goal is to shape our students into critical and creative thinkers, ethical and empathetic citizens and collaborative and inclusive leaders. Rather than offering specific degrees, the Honors College enhances UA’s undergraduate curriculum through experiential learning and co-curricular opportunities.

The University of Alabama Honors College offers eight distinctive honors programs and one minor across numerous disciplines. From the establishment of the Honors College in 2003, the College has housed three of these programs: the University Honors Program, the Randall Research Scholars Program and the University Fellows Experience. The four-year University Honors Program develops students as creative