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Open Rank, Associate or Full Professor (International Relations) Political Science/College of

Employer
University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley
Location
$exchange.properties.displaystate, United States
Salary
Not Specified
Date posted
Oct 25, 2017


Scope of Job
The Department of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in International Relations to begin September 1, 2018. The department is particularly interested in applicants with teaching interests and a research agenda that includes international relations theory, globalization, and global governance. Ability to teach US Foreign Policy and/or Western European Governments is a plus. The department is open to a wide variety of methodologies and critical theoretical perspectives. This position continues the department's effort to build an undergraduate and graduate program anchored in political science, while incorporating topics, concepts, methods, and courses that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. The successful candidate will teach upper-division and graduate level courses in their areas of substantive specialization as well as required lower-division courses in U.S. Federal Government & Politics.
UTRGV faculty are expected to demonstrate a strong commitment to student success and to advancing the university, college, and program missions, as well as a commitment to UTRGV's vision, mission and core priorities (http://www.utrgv.edu/strategic-plan/strategic-plan/index.htm).

Minimum Qualifications
1) Ph.D. in Political Science or related field from an accredited institution of higher education. 2) for tenured appointment at Associate or Full Professor level demonstrated record of research and publication appropriate for appointment and tenure at a senior rank. 3) demonstrated potential for teaching excellence for appointment at the junior level or established record of teaching excellence for appointment at the senior level.

Discipline Specific Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications
Candidates with experience and/or willingness to occasionally teach online are particularly encouraged to apply.

License or Certification Required?

Salary
Commensurate with Qualifications and Experience

Desired Start Date
09/01/2018
Posting Detail Information

EEO Statement
UTRGV is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer that strives to hire without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information or veteran status. UTRGV takes affirmative action to hire and advance women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Diversity Statement
UTRGV is a Hispanic-serving Institution dedicated to student success and building a diverse faculty committed to working in a multicultural environment. UTRGV has an NSF ADVANCE grant to increase the representation of women in STEM fields and to promote a positive, family friendly workplace for all faculty. We strongly encourage applications from women and minorities.

Open Date
10/23/2017

Close Date
01/22/2018

Additional Information
UTRGV is a distributed institution. As such and as assigned, the position may
require presence at multiple locations throughout the Rio Grande Valley. Work is
performed primarily in a general office environment. This position is security sensitive
and thereby subject to the provisions of the Texas Education Code
§51.215. The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of
Texas ( TRS ), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least
135 days in length. This position has the option to elect the Optional Retirement
Program ( ORP ) instead of TRS , subject to the position being 40 hours per week
and at least 135 days in length.

Special Instructions to Applicants
Dear Applicant,
Human Resources will not be held responsible for redacting any confidential information from the documents you attach with your application. The confidential information includes the following:
*Date of Birth
*Social Security Number
*Gender
*Ethnicity/Race
Please make sure that you omit this information prior to submission. We are advising that Human Resources will be forwarding your application to the department as per your submission.

Please Note
Texas law requires faculty members whose primary language is not English to
demonstrate proficiency in English as determined by a satisfactory paper-based
test score of 500 (computer-based of 173 or internet-based of 61) on the Test of
English as a Foreign Language ( TOEFL ) or a satisfactory test score of 6.0 on the
International English Language Testing System ( IELTS ). Incomplete applications
will not be considered.

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