Assistant Professor, Psychology
Job Description
Department
Psychology Department
Position Category
Faculty
About CCRI
The Community College of Rhode Island is New England’s largest community college, and a nationally-recognized leader in catalyzing student success and achievement for recent high school graduates and returning adults alike.
We provide affordable, open access to higher education, and we deliver on our mission to offer all students the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for intellectual, professional and personal growth.
Diversity is our strength. We champion equity, and we celebrate, support and thrive on the diverse experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives that are represented across our four campuses.
Diversity is our strength. We champion equity, and we celebrate, support and thrive on the diverse experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives that are represented across our four campuses.
We strive to hire and retain culturally competent faculty and staff whose demographics are reflective of our diverse student body. To learn more about our employees’ values and what it means to work here, learn about our Guiding Principles here.
Job Summary
The Psychology department comprises 12 full-time faculty members and 30 adjuncts who teach a broad set of foundation courses in psychology that support CCRI’s general education, transfer, and career programs. Our focus is on student success via excellence in teaching, learning, and engagement.
The Community College of Rhode Island seeks a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Psychology to teach General Psychology, Foundations of Psychological Research and other psychology courses as needed over the academic year (Personal Adjustment, Social Psychology, Theories of Personality, Health Psychology, Educational Psychology or Developmental Psychology). The Assistant Professor will be expected to participate in curriculum development and serve on departmental and college committees.
The Community College of Rhode Island seeks a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Psychology to teach General Psychology, Foundations of Psychological Research and other psychology courses as needed over the academic year (Personal Adjustment, Social Psychology, Theories of Personality, Health Psychology, Educational Psychology or Developmental Psychology). The Assistant Professor will be expected to participate in curriculum development and serve on departmental and college committees.
Duties and Responsibilities
Commitment to CCRI’s Mission:
- Demonstrate a commitment to the philosophy and mission of a comprehensive community college.
Communication Skills, Teamwork, and Relationship Building:
- Practice excellence in oral and written communications with peers and students across a variety of platforms.
- Work collaboratively in a diverse, inclusive, and student-centered environment, with students of various cultures, identities, and life-experiences.
- Manage conflict effectively in both classroom situations and with respect to relationships with faculty, staff, and administrators.
Disciplinary Expertise:
- Plan, develop, present, and modify Psychology courses from proposal, to syllabus, to delivery (classroom, hybrid, or online), to assessment, to evaluation.
- Convey knowledge and skills effectively to students.
- Create new psychology courses.
- Continue professional development as a psychologist and science educator.
Instructional Skills:
- Teach Foundations of Psychological Research and other core psychology courses.
- Use advanced technologies to expand student resources and learning opportunities.
- Assess student learning according to APA best practices in measuring mastering of student performance objectives and outcomes.
- Demonstrate creativity and flexibility in pedagogical approaches to a diverse population of students and peers.
Service to the College:
- Attend and actively participate in departmental meetings and sub-committees.
- Collaborate with peers on curriculum development and assessment.
- Practice a collegial approach to self-and peer evaluations using a developmental perspective.
- Travel and teach at multi-campus locations, as required by department need.
- Actively participate in college governance, college-wide task forces, and/or student organizations (including Psychology Club and Psi Beta Honor Society)
- Other duties as required.
Minimum Requirements
- Master’s Degree in Psychology is required
- At least 18 graduate hours in the core content areas of psychology essential (i.e., biopsychology, developmental, cognitive, learning, social, and individual differences (personality and/or abnormal) is required.
- College level classroom teaching experience in psychology including General Psychology (within the last five years) is required.
- Willingness to work on multiple campuses required.
Competencies and Desired Qualifications
- An earned Doctorate Degree or Doctoral Candidacy in Psychology preferred
- Community College classroom teaching experience preferred.
- Experience teaching Research Methods preferred.
- Experience teaching Personal Adjustment, Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology or Personal Adjustment preferred.
- Experience with a wide range of delivery systems (lecture, discussion, online, web-based course support or hybrid, independent study, and other alternative methods of instruction) preferred.
- Experience with curriculum development, student learning outcomes, and effective assessments to measure them preferred.
- Experience with Blackboard or other learning management systems preferred.
- Specialization/expertise in area complementing existing faculty preferred.
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