Grove City College announces a faculty opening in Social Work beginning in July 2013. An MSW from a CSWE accredited institution plus experience as a practitioner is required. Some college teaching experience and/or a doctoral degree is an asset. Responsibilities include establishing and overseeing a new Social Work minor within the Department of Sociology, teaching courses such as Introduction to Social Work, Human Behavior in the Social Environment, Social Work Practice, Social Policy/Social Welfare, Multicultural Perspectives, plus establishing and overseeing field placements.
Candidates must evidence a strong record of classroom teaching, scholarship within their field, and a commitment to instructing highly motivated students. Rank and salary are commensurate with qualifications. Grove City College is a nationally recognized, truly independent, highly selective college of liberal arts, sciences, and engineering where intellectual inquiry remains open to the questions religion raises and affirms the answers Christianity offers.
Send letter of application, vita, transcripts, names of four references (three professional and one pastoral), a brief statement of how you would engage undergraduates in your research plans, and a four to five paragraph essay relating your philosophy of a liberal arts education and teaching Social Work and Sociology to the College’s mission (see www.gcc.edu [4]) to: William P. Anderson, Jr.; Ph.D., Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Grove City College, 100 Campus Drive, Grove City, PA 16127-2104 or electronically to laklaiber@gcc.edu [5]. Review of applications commences immediately. In a continuing effort to enrich its academic and social environment, the college actively encourages applications from members of all ethnic groups.
Grove City College is a private educational institution noted for its academic excellence where scholarship is informed by Christian principles. It does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, creed, sex, marital status, disability, or national or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other college-administrative programs.