CBE-3658L, Lecturer in Business Excellence

Lecturer in Business Excellence
Department of Finance
College of Business and Economics
CBE-3658L

Position:
The College of Business and Economics invites applications for a non-tenure track, 9-month Lecturer position in the Business Excellence Program in the Department of Finance beginning August 2023.

Qualifications:
Master’s degree in communications, professional writing or a closely related field plus 1-3 years of college teaching experience from an accredited institution. Top notch business communication skills, both written and oral, are critical for this position as well as the ability to teach those skills.  The candidate must also be committed to meeting Towson’s mission by serving the department, college, and university.

Lecturers in the College of Business and Economics are annually reviewed by peers, which is an essential feature of effective teaching. Being flexible to the scheduling needs of the department is required. The position calls for the person hired to be able to teach at all campuses where Towson University class are offered including the main campus and the TU Northeast (TUNE) campus in Harford County.

Responsibilities:
Teaching load of 12 (face-to-face) credit hours per semester. The candidate would teach Business Communications (BUSX301) in the College of Business and Economics, which also includes teaching career preparation skills such as resume, cover letter, thank you letter drafting, and professional employment interviewing skills. A successful candidate also would provide classroom instruction, prepare for courses, continuously improve subject matter competence, create teaching and learning materials, meet with and advise students on class assignments and academic progress, review, give feedback, grade written assignments and revisions of those documents, and deliver feedback and evaluations of oral presentations. Once hired, retaining professional qualification requires evidence of continuous learning during the most recent five-year period. Lecturers who remain employed in their area of expertise are deemed to be maintaining currency. Additional responsibilities include advising of majors/minors and actively serving on committees at the department, CBE, and/ or University levels.

Towson University:
Towson University (www.towson.edu) was founded in 1866, is recognized by U. S. News and World Reports as one of the nation’s top 100 public universities. It is the second-largest university in the prestigious University System of Maryland, the 12th-largest public university system in the United States. TU is also a founding member of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities and offers employment opportunities at all levels. TU enrolls over 19,818 undergraduates and more than 3,000 graduate students across six academic colleges (business, education, fine arts, health professions, liberal arts, science & mathematics), has over 900 full-time faculty and offers 65 bachelor’s, 46 master’s, and 4 doctoral programs. Our centrally located campus sits on 330 rolling green acres and is 10 miles north of Baltimore, 45 miles north of Washington D.C., and 95 miles south of Philadelphia.

Application Process:
Review of applications begins immediately and continues until the position is filled. Electronic submissions only.

Electronic submissions should be sent to cbefinance@towson.edu with the subject line: BUSX2023.

A Criminal Background Investigation is required for the hired candidate and the results may impact employment.

The safety of our students, faculty, staff, and neighbors has been our top priority and the focus of every one of our decisions since the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the University System of Maryland (USM) has strongly encouraged full COVID vaccination and up-to-date booster shots (when eligible) for all faculty, staff, and students at all schools in the USM as both a reasonable and necessary means of protecting our health and safety.

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Towson University is an equal opportunity employer and has a strong institutional commitment to diversity, as detailed in “A More Inclusive TU: Advancing Equity and Diversity (2020 – 25).” TU is a national leader in inclusive excellence, the only institution in Maryland with zero achievement gap, and 68% growth in minority enrollment over the past 5 years. We encourage applications from a variety of (dis)abilities, cultural, ethnic, race, sex, gender identity/expressions, national origins, ages, veteran status, color, religious, socio-economic, sexual orientations and belief backgrounds.