Dept of Acct and Info Mgt- Fa 25 Asst/Assoc Professor of Information Management

Description

The Department of Accounting and Information Management (AIM) in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), is accepting applications for a full-time, tenure track position for an assistant/associate professor in Information Management to begin August 1, 2025. The Department of AIM at UTK offers a diverse and intellectually stimulating environment.  We are at an exciting juncture, as we broaden and deepen our research programs and our information systems education (including our new graduate program in business cybersecurity). We seek a creative, energetic, forward-thinking scholar to help catalyze this growth. Applicants should have a strong commitment to excellence in research, teaching, and service.

About UT Knoxville and the Haslam College of Business
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville https://www.utk.edu/ is the state’s flagship university with approximately 30,000 students currently enrolled on the main campus in Knoxville.   Rocky Top on the Rise video 

The Haslam College of Business https://haslam.utk.edu/ with over 10,000 students and 208 full time faculty, is housed in the 174,000 square-foot, $40 million, James A. Haslam II Business Building. After nearly a decade of exponential growth in the business student population, we are breaking ground on a second building, a new, state-of-the-art 300,000-square-foot facility will house classrooms, centers, labs, graduate and executive education, and meeting and office spaces. In U.S. News and World Report 2023, UTK's Haslam College of Business undergraduate business program was ranked 26th among public institutions. Both our graduate and undergraduate programs are highly ranked in a variety of publications.  For a listing of Haslam College of Business program rankings, please visit https://haslam.utk.edu/rankings.

Knoxville, nestled in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, has a metropolitan statistical area population of approximately 900,000 people. This moderate-sized city has a vibrant nightlife that includes numerous theaters and museums, traditional bluegrass music, world-class restaurants, many cultural festivals, and a downtown market square to name a few examples. Surrounded by lakes and the Tennessee River, the Knoxville area boasts wonderful year-round water activities, including boating, fishing, and swimming that make for scenic and breathtaking views of the area.   More about Knoxville

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Qualifications

Potential candidates must hold a doctoral degree with a specialization in information systems or other comparable degree by time of appointment and should demonstrate excellent teaching potential and have an ongoing program of substantive research in information systems. The ideal candidate will have a strong pipeline of research projects in process and/or an established record of top-tier publications and proficiency in teaching information systems topics (e.g., database systems, programming, analytics, systems controls, technologies used to support business processes, etc.).

Following are the qualifications that define associate and assistant professor designations at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville:

Associate professors are expected to

1-hold the doctorate or other terminal degree of the discipline, or to present equivalent training and experience as appropriate to the particular appointment
2-be good teachers
3-have achieved and to maintain a recognized record in disciplinary research / scholarship /creative activity/ engaged scholarship
4-have achieved and to maintain a record of institutional, disciplinary, and/or professional service or outreach engagement
5-have normally served as an assistant professor for at least five years
6-have demonstrated that they work well with colleagues and students in performing their university responsibilities

Assistant professors are expected to

1    1-hold the doctorate or other terminal degree of the discipline, or to present equivalent training and experience as appropriate to the particular appointment
2-show promise as teachers
3-show promise of developing a pr