LBC Faculty Position Openings and Faculty Resources
LBC Faculty Open Positions:
Teaching Portfolio Required of 2009-10 Faculty Applicants (PDF)LBC Graduate Teaching Open Positions:
- Fall 2009 - Biology Graduate Teaching Assistant Position PDF
- Fall 2009 - Chemistry Graduate Teaching Assistant Position PDF
- Fall 2009 - HPS Graduate Teaching Assistant Position PDF
Faculty Resources
The Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives oversees the MSU Affirmative Action program for employment. The Recruitment Coordinator:
* Provides assistance on best practices in recruitment and selection of faculty, academic staff and support staff, including offering workshops and providing resources.
* Identifies additional recruitment resources to target diverse populations or by identifying potential diverse candidates for vacant positions, including our own Recruitment Resources Directory.
* Monitors individual hiring recommendations for compliance with academic or support staff hiring procedures to ensure equal opportunity, nondiscrimination, and affirmative action.
* Provides assistance on best practices in recruitment and selection of faculty, academic staff and support staff, including offering workshops and providing resources.
* Identifies additional recruitment resources to target diverse populations or by identifying potential diverse candidates for vacant positions, including our own Recruitment Resources Directory.
* Monitors individual hiring recommendations for compliance with academic or support staff hiring procedures to ensure equal opportunity, nondiscrimination, and affirmative action.
This directory is intended to help higher education institutions identify resources that can be used to extend recruitment efforts to reach a diverse pool of applicants through advertising and networking. The directory includes a database with compiled links to web sites for caucuses, committees, task forces, and special interest groups for people of varying backgrounds within professional organizations.It also identifies advertising opportunities and electronic job boards within these organizations.
Seeking, accepting, and maintaining employment often involves considerations about the career of a spouse or partner. MSU offers dual career assistance to the spouse or partner of candidates for faculty and academic staff positions. Assistance may be provided during recruitment or at any time during employment, including when retention is an issue. Assistance includes exploration of employment interests, discussion of job search strategies, and information and/or referral for employment at Michigan State as well as other Michigan universities, colleges and regional employers.
Michigan State University is committed to providing a work environment that supports employees' work and personal life. Our policies, programs, and services demonstrate our goal to recruit and retain the best workforce for the 21st century. This commitment extends to all who work at MSU and embraces individuals, their spouses, partners, immediate, blended, and extended families. We are dedicated to helping each of you successfully manage your professional and personal life in ways that allow you to be more actively engaged, productive and fulfilled in your WorkLife at MSU.
Michigan State University is guided by values that are embedded in our rich heritage as a leading land-grant university and our current position as a world-grant institution among the best universities in the world. Foremost among our values is inclusion.
Recent Hires in 2008:
- Dr. Brian O'Shea, Physics, also appointed in Physics & Astronomy
- Dr. Chris Ganchoff, Sociology of Medicine, also appointed in Sociology
- Dr. Richard Bellon, History of Science, also appointed in History
- Dr. Georgina Montgomery, History of Science also appointed in History
- Dr. Helen Veit, History of Science also appointed in History
Hires in 2007:
- Dr. Michael Nelson , Environmental Philosophy
- Dr. Matthew Stanley , History of Physical Sciences
- Dr. Janice Hironaka, Chemistry
- Dr. Igor Nazarov, Mathematics
- Dr. Mark Bauer, HPS
Hires in 2006:
- Dr. Robert Bell, Mathematics
- Dr. Kendra Cheruvelil, Biology
- Dr. John Waller, History of Science
- Dr. Maxine Davis, Chemistry
- Dr. Sharon Degraw, HPS
- Dr. Mark Waddell, HPS
- Dr. Catherine Westfall, HPS
