Part-time Faculty, First Year Student Services - Student Success
Location
Multiple Locations
Job Type
Part-time Faculty
Job Number
202500245
Division
Academic Affairs
Department
Student Success
Opening Date
12/12/2025
Closing Date
12/12/2026 11:59 PM Eastern
Bargaining Unit Status
Excluded from Any Bargaining Unit
Salary Grade
PF
Additional Information
Part-time faculty are pooled positions; appointments are made on an as-needed/rolling basis
Summary of Position
Teaches YSU 1500: Success Seminar. Provides a range of direct student support services including instruction, programs, mentoring, intervention, and personal support to a caseload of first-year students each year in both the fall and spring semesters.
Excellent interpersonal skills and a student-first attitude; ability to work independently, collaboratively, and cooperatively as a team member; strong attention to detail; strong time management skills that ensure the ability to manage a caseload of advisees.
Position Information
Plans, organizes, teaches, and provides feedback to promote and direct student success. Responds to students in a timely manner. Communicates with students, departments, and university officials via university provided tools and resources.
An Institution of Opportunity: YSU inspires individuals, enhances futures, and enriches lives.
As a student-centered university, Youngstown State University's mission is to provide innovative lifelong learning opportunities that will inspire individuals, enhance futures, and enrich lives. YSU inspires individuals by cultivating a curiosity for life-long learning; enhances the futures of our students by empowering them to discover, disseminate and apply their knowledge; and enriches the region by fostering collaboration and the advancement of civic, scientific, and technological development. YSU's culture of enrichment flourishes in our intellectually diverse, accessible, and quality education.
Work Schedule: Typically, Monday through Friday. Teaching assignments may be remote or at various locations.
Primary Location: Youngstown
Qualifications and Competencies
Required Certifications, Training, and/or Licensures: None
Sponsorship and/or Work Authorization Status: Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Minimum Qualifications: At least a master's degree from an accredited college or university, or currently enrolled in a Master's degree program in any field and one year of experience in a student services role on a college or university campus; or at least an earned bachelor's degree and at least five years of experience as an academic advisor, academic support professional, or related activity in lieu of the master's degree. Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Preferred Qualifications: Master's degree in Higher Education/Student Affairs or related field; experience working with programs focused on developing grit, growth mindset, mental resilience, or other persistence-based interventions; direct experience with students in transition; experience using Banner Student Information System; proficiency with Microsoft Office suite; ability to use different avenues of communication. Experience teaching at the college level.
Physical Requirements: In accordance with the U.S. Department of Labor physical demands strength ratings, this position will perform sedentary work.
Sedentary: work involves exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally or a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs may be defined as Sedentary when walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other Sedentary criteria are met.
Supplemental Information
Please upload all transcripts as one PDF file.
At time of hire, all candidates must provide official transcripts. Official transcripts must be provided in an unopened, sealed envelope and must bear the embossed or raised college seal, date and Registrar's signature.
This position is not eligible for benefits.
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Do you have at least a masters degree from an accredited college or university, or are you currently enrolled in a masters degree program in any field and have one year of experience in a student services role on a college or university campus; or do you have at least an earned bachelors degree and at least five years of experience as an academic advisor, academic support professional, or related activity in lieu of the masters degree?
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What is the highest level of education that you have attained?
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Please describe your related experience, including information describing how you meet the minimum qualifications for this position.
Required Question
Employer Youngstown State University (OH)
Address 1 Tressel Way
Youngstown, Ohio, 44555
Phone 330-941-1508
Website http://www.ysu.edu