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Position Information Posting Number: F260055P Open Date: 03012026 Close Date: 04302026 Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor Title: Assistant Professor of Education of Physical Education-Teacher Education Salary: 71000 Annual Benefits: This position is eligible for health, dental, life insurance, and other benefits through Chicago State University. Click here for a complete list of benefits: http://csu.edu/humanresources/benefits.htm Is Tenured: Tenure Track Yes Full-time: Part-time Full-time Job Description Summary
Chicago State University (CSU) is the oldest public university in the Chicago metropolitan area. Chicago State University is Illinois only four-year U.S. Department of Education-designated Predominantly Black Institution (PBI). CSU serves over 1500 undergraduate students and nearly 900 graduate students. The university is a nationally accredited university with five colleges in Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Health Sciences, and Pharmacy, and proudly supports a diverse and non-traditional student population that hails from 28 countries and 36 states. Discover the latest advancements and milestones achieved by CSU in our Annual Report: https://www.csu.edu/president/annual_report.htm.
All faculty positions are governed by the tenets of a collective bargaining agreement. Faculty are hired, evaluated, retained, promoted, and tenured on the basis of conditions covered in the union contract. Primary duties include teaching and related activities assigned during a 9-month year. It is expected that each faculty member engages in all three activities of teaching, research, creative activities, and service.
Teaching Faculty members are expected to teach 6 to 8 3-credit courses per year. Major responsibilities include the development of syllabi, teaching materials related to courses taught, and collaborate with other faculty in the development of new courses and/or programs. The faculty member will be expected to teach theoretical and activity courses in the area of health and physical education, supervise students in clinical and internship placements, advise and mentor undergraduate physical education majors and graduate thesis or capstone projects, assist with recruitment, retention, and graduation of students, assist with curriculum development, accreditation, and program planning.
Some disciplines require discipline-specific certifications and/or licensure in the field for practice or functioning within the State of Illinois, degree-specific course work, and/or graduate degrees in the discipline. In addition, faculty must have the ability to use technology in teaching and student advising, participate in professional development activities, as well as engage in assessment activities related to accreditation and program evaluation.
Research Faculty members are expected to engage in research and/or creative activity germane to health and physical education, which results in submissions and material as works in refereed professional and/or general readership publications, submit and receive externally awarded grants, submit proposals for presentations at academic and professional conferences, or engage in creative pursuits if in a creative performing or theatrical arts discipline.
Service Faculty members are expected to serve on committees, programs, and/or special task forces at the department, college, university, professional, and community levels, including state and national professional organizations, assume leadership roles over time and as they increase in rank. These activities are not for compensation and have a relationship to the employees assigned responsibilities and to the university.
Required Education and Experience
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Experience having presentations accepted at the regional, national, and/or international level • Evidence of a commitment to excellence in teaching and advising, including online environments and other uses of cutting-edge technologies • Experience advising students enrolled in the undergraduate and graduate programs • Experience working collegially with individuals from culturally diverse and ethnic backgrounds, including colleagues from other programs, community leaders, policy-making bodies, and/or physical education professional associations • At least 3 years of experience teaching physical education and health in public PreK-12 school settings
Preferred Qualifications
• An earned doctorate from an accredited university in Physical Education Teacher Education or a closely-related field of study by date of appointment • Experience teaching online, face-to-face, and hybrid courses in a higher education setting • Experience teaching with technology • Record of submitted as well as receipt of competitive grants or externally awarded funding • Demonstrated record of scholarly research, published work related to the field of physical education • Evidence of three years or more of successful teaching/administrative experience in a higher education and/or physical education setting as evidenced in evaluations • Experience working in a predominantly black institution in a large metropolitan area
Special Requirements
• Instructor Certification in Aquatics • Driver Education Instructor Certification • American Red Cross Instructor Certification • First Aid/CPR/AED
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