Req Id: 41679
Job Title: Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing
City: Hammond and Westville
Job Description:
Position Profile
Join an innovative, high performing team of faculty and staff who are building the future of nursing. The College of Nursing is focused on excellence through innovation, applying the best available evidence throughout the curriculum as well as in our teaching approach, and engaging the community for greater impact. The College of Nursing is a National League for Nursing Center of Excellence and is home to Indiana Center for Evidence Based Nursing Practice, a JBI Affiliate Center.
Purdue University Northwests College of Nursing invites applications for the full time academic position of Clinical Assistant Professor for an academic year appointment starting August 17, 2026.
Responsibilities
Education
Experience
University Profile
Purdue University Northwest (PNW) is a student-centered university that transforms lives through innovative education, impactful research and community engagement. Located in Northwest Indiana in the greater Chicago area and near the Indiana Dunes National Park, PNW serves approximately 9,000 core students, in a wide range of academic programs at the baccalaureate, masters and applied doctoral levels.
Purdue Northwest employs more than 1,000 faculty and staff members for operations at its main campus in Hammond, Indiana, and its branch campus in Westville, Indiana, plus additional sites in Northwest Indiana including the Gabis Arboretum near Valparaiso, Indiana. PNW"s values reflect the universitys commitment to respect, innovation, a student-centric university, and excellence.
PNW is consistently ranked among the best public regional universities in U.S. News & World Reports annual Best Colleges report and is recognized as a First Scholars institution as well an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University. With its vision to cultivate leaders, inspire excellence, and impact our world, PNW advances the socioeconomic mobility of its students and positively impacts regional development.
College Profile
The College of Nursing offers undergraduate degrees including a traditional BSN, second degree accelerated BSN, and an online RN to BSN. We offer several MSN options including two advanced practice roles (family nurse practitioner and adult-gerontology clinical nurse specialist) and two advanced online specialties (nurse educator and nurse executive). Our post-masters DNP program has a focus on translation science.
How to Apply
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until position is filled. Start date: August 17, 2026.
To apply, applicants should submit the following:
PNW offers an attractive salary and an excellent benefits package. For information regarding the benefits package, visit: www.purdue.edu/benefits
All inquiries, nominations, and applications will remain confidential; references will not be contacted without notice.
Employment is contingent upon completion of successful background check.
Purdue University Northwest is an equal opportunity/equal access university.
FLSA Status
Exempt
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Posting Start Date: 5/5/26