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JOB DESCRIPTION
Antioch College invites applications for a tenure-track position
in chemistry, with contract beginning summer 2011. A Ph.D. in
organic chemistry/biochemistry is required. Experience in a post-
doc position and/or teaching experience preferred. The successful
candidate will teach chemistry in the core curriculum, advanced
courses in organic chemistry and biochemistry, and provide lead-
ership, with others, in the development of student designed ma –
jors within the areas of environmental science and health science.
The successful candidate’s experience will determine rank and salary.
An appreciation for and/or experience with Antioch College’s
unique educational model that includes liberal arts study, work
and community (shared) governance is highly valued.
Antioch College is searching this year for its first tenure-track
appointments (as well as some visiting and adjunct faculty) as it
seeks to admit its first small starting class in fall 2011, on the way
to becoming a liberal arts college of 600 students. These first six
tenure-track positions are in organic chemistry, philosophy, Span-
ish, anthropology, 3-D arts and literature. From among the tenure
track faculty, at the president’s discretion, one person may be in –
vited to serve also as interim academic dean. Qualifications to be
dean are not a part of the requirements for the teaching position.
WORKING AT ANTIOCH COLLEGE
A private, independent nonprofit college in Yellow Springs, Ohio,
Antioch College proposes to offer a four-year, undergraduate resi-
dential college experience. The Antioch College curriculum puts
equal emphasis on rigorous liberal arts learning and work experi –
ences. Upon graduation, students will have completed an indi –
vidualized major based on one of 11 concentrations as well as a
language minor. The institution, originally founded in 1850, now
operates independent of Antioch University, the multi-campus
system it founded.
Antioch College plans to award the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor
of Science degrees. As a liberal arts institution, the College will
require students to complete substantial introductory coursework
in disciplines within four academic divisions: Arts, Humanities,
Science and Social Sciences. Then, with their advisors, students
will propose a major that may be either disciplinary or interdisci-
plinary, based on the 11 areas of concentrations supported by the
college within those four divisions.
Another important element of the academic experience at An –
tioch College is the introduction of Global Seminars that focus on
important human issues surrounding energy, food, governance,
health, and water. Designed as mini-courses, the Global Seminars
will be taught by distinguished visiting faculty, as well as other
subject-matter experts. They provide an academic link between
on-campus study terms and off-campus work terms.
For 90 years, a critical component of the Antioch College educa –
tion has been the cooperative work program (Co-op) established
by former President Arthur E. Morgan. In addition to completing
nine on-campus study terms, students will complete six terms of
full-time, paid work assignments in local, national and interna –
tional settings. The off-campus work program allows students to
connect academic knowledge with the professional world of work.
The Antioch College work program expands learning experiences
through paid employment in a supervised, educational work set –
ting often related to the student’s coursework. In addition to on-
the-job-learning, a high value is placed on the learning students
do off-the-job in the communities in which they live while on
Co-op. That value leads the college to provide second language
instruction from the very first term, and including every term, on
and off campus, culminating in a final two-quarter international
work placement where the student’s second language capability
will be put to substantial use. Our objective is to prepare schol –
ars and adaptable critical thinkers with the creative capacity and
ethical bearing needed to invent solutions to the problems facing
humankind now and in the future.
Antioch College is committed to the goal of achieving equal op –
portunity for all and, accordingly, does not discriminate on the
basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, expres-
sion and characteristics, age, religion, national or ethnic origin,
visible or invisible disability. The College complies with federal
and state legislation and regulations regarding nondiscrimination.
This policy applies to faculty and staff, applicants for faculty and
staff positions, students and applicants for educational programs
and activities. Inquiries concerning this policy should be ad –
dressed to the Office of the President.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Submit a curriculum vitae, transcript, statement of teaching phi –
losophy and how applicant might contribute to Antioch’s educa –
tional goals, and three letters of recommendation. Send electronic
applications (preferred) to nwilburn@antiochcollege.org or mail
to Antioch College Faculty Recruitment, c/o Nancy Wilburn,
South Hall, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH 45387.
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Tenure-Track Position in Chemistry
EMPLOYMENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Visit www.antiochcollege.org and www.insidehighered.com/profiles/antioch_college for more information.
