Professor, Fashion

As a fashion professor, you'll join a team of professionals who are well-versed in every aspect of the industry — and have collaborated with renowned brands from Alexander McQueen and Calvin Klein to Saks Fifth Avenue and more. You'll prepare talented students for creative careers in a professional, positive, and engaging classroom environment, guiding them to master new markets, technologies, and trends to become leaders in the world of fashion.

As a professor, you’ll:
• Plan and prepare for teaching
• Maintain an active and engaged classroom environment
• Syllabus design, submission, and approval
• Hold office hours and midterm grade reviews to provide feedback to students
• Provide students with extra help sessions, extended learning opportunities, and field trips

To support the university’s mission of preparing talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment, you’ll:
• Conduct course- and program-level assessments
• Model professionalism
• Fulfill grading and academic documentation requirements
• Record attendance
• Follow academic policies and regulations and support academic assessment and institutional effectiveness efforts

Additionally, you’ll attend on-ground and virtual events including:
• Faculty councils
• Admission events
• Curriculum assessment and development
• Institutional effectiveness and accreditation support
• Exhibitions or other publicity assignments

Minimum qualifications:     
• Terminal degree in fashion or a relevant field
• Academic and professional credentials to teach in fashion
• Two years of work experience in a related profession or post-secondary teaching experience

Travel required:  
• Less than 10%

Required application documents: 
• Current résumé and/or CV 
• Cover letter 
• Portfolio or its equivalent 
• Unofficial academic transcripts 

Work hours: As noted in the Employment Agreement.

ADA tag: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements and minimum qualifications listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and/or meet the minimum qualifications.