Pool for Business Administration Department - Management and Entrepreneurship Area

Department Of Business Administration - Management and Entrepreneurship Area

 

Pool Faculty Employment Opportunity

Job# 549302

Work type: Instructional Faculty – Temporary Faculty
Location: Sonoma
Categories: Temporary, Part Time, Instructional Faculty – Temporary Faculty
Unit 3 CFA – California Faculty Association

Business Administration Department - Operations and Supply Chain Management
Temporary Faculty Position (Lecturer)

 

Our Commitment

Guided by our core values as a university: sustainability, community engagement, and adaptability, Sonoma State University (SSU) offers an education that fosters intellectual, social, and personal growth. SSU is a public liberal arts and sciences university. As the only member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges in the state of California, we are committed to preparing students for a life of active citizenship and public service. We have a vibrant campus life characterized by a lively co-curriculum that fosters broad based intellectual and artistic opportunities in which the campus as a whole is actively engaged. Faculty members are committed to facilitating spaces in which all can grow by building on our scholars’ assets as they explore new knowledge. These efforts include fostering creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, experimentation, empathy, and communication. We strive to create a diverse, equity-minded, and inclusive campus environment. Faculty are expected to collaborate thoughtfully with our staff and scholars, which means we value the full range of everyone's assets in terms of languages, abilities, cultures, and ways of knowing. We are fully committed to the rights of scholars, staff, and faculty. 

The University

Sonoma State University’s beautiful 274-acre campus is located in Sonoma County wine country, an hour north of San Francisco. The campus offers the ideal setting for teaching and learning and access to a community of rich cultural, environmental, and recreational opportunities. Founded in 1960, SSU is one of the 23 campuses of the California State University System. As members of the largest public higher educational system in the nation, we provide accessible, high-quality education. Sonoma State University is a federally-designated Hispanic Serving Institution, as such we are committed to achieving the goals of equal opportunity and endeavors to employ faculty and staff reflecting the linguistic, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region and state.

The Department

The Department of Business Administration at Sonoma State University offers high-quality, relevant education in business to aspiring and practicing professionals, managers, and entrepreneurs in the private and public sectors. It does this in a liberal arts and sciences environment in which faculty emphasize the development and continuous improvement of the skills of critical thinking, effective communication, ethical reasoning, maintaining a global perspective, and applying disciplinary tools. The department offers programs of study leading to both the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees. The BSBA program offers concentrations in accounting, finance, financial management, management, marketing, and wine business strategies. The graduate program includes a professional MBA, a wine business MBA, and an executive MBA. All of our faculty have a demonstrated commitment to teaching and advising students from diverse backgrounds and are expected to participate in the mission of building an academic community that fosters inclusive excellence for all members.  The department is structured into three Areas: (1) Management and Entrepreneurship Area, (2) Marketing, Wine Business, and Operations Management Area, and (3) Accounting, Finance, and Business Analytics Area. This lecturer pool is solely for the Management and Entrepreneurship Area. 

Prospective applicants are encouraged to visit the School of Business and Economics webpage at: https://sbe.sonoma.edu

 

Duties of the Position

Successful applicants will teach one or more graduate or undergraduate courses in business administration subjects, specifically those courses related to the Management, Entrepreneurship, or Business Law areas. When available, the course load is usually one 4-credit course per semester on an intermittent rather than continual schedule. Please note that these appointments are not guaranteed and are normally not available on a continuing semester-to-semester basis. The teaching load does not nor