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UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY Assistant Professor, Public Lands Management / Natural Resou in MOAB, Utah
Assistant Professor, Public Lands Management / Natural Resource Governance
Requisition ID: 2024-8305
of Openings: 1
Location: US-UT-Moab Category: Faculty Position Type: Benefited Full-Time Job Classification: Faculty College: Quinney College of Natural Resourcs Department: Environment and Society Advertised Salary: Commensurate with experience and education, plus excellent benefits
Overview The Department of Environment and Society (ENVS) (https://qcnr.usu.edu/envs/), in the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources (QCNR) (https://qcnr.usu.edu/) at Utah State University (USU), invites applications for a broadly trained scholar in public lands management/natural resource governance as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are especially interested in candidates who are excited to build a robust online and hybrid teaching portfolio from the Moab Campus. We are also interested in candidates capable of supporting the evolution of the Recreation Resource Management degree within ENVS. This full-time (nine-month) faculty position is based at USU's Moab Statewide Campus (https://statewide.usu.edu/moab/) in Moab, Utah, where ENVS currently has a cluster of three other faculty. This is a faculty position with teaching (50%), research (40%), and service (10%) roles. The position starts August 2025. Review of applications begins November 1, 2024. For further information contact Dr. Jordan Smith, Search Committee Chair at jordan.smith@usu.edu.
Responsibilities The successful candidate will: * Develop and deliver educational programs from USU-Moab with the potential to capitalize on Moab's unique landscape and land use history. The teaching expectation for the position is three to four courses per year, or its equivalent. Teaching includes a potential mix of statewide delivery of online, video conferencing, and/or in-person experiential courses. * Build a community-engaged teaching and research program (://www.usu.edu/cel/). * Mentor graduate students in ENVS's MS and PhD graduate degree programs as well as in QCNR's Master of Natural Resources program. * Participate in faculty duties for USU as well as serve through professional involvement beyond USU. The successful candidate may also serve as a Faculty Fellow in the Institute of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism (https://extension.usu.edu/iort/), which provides resource management personnel, elected officials, private industries, and the general public with a better understanding of the social and economic trade-offs faced by communities who manage outdoor recreation resources and tourism destinations. The successful candidate can also apply to be a Faculty Fellow in USU's interdisciplinary Ecology Center and/or participate in the Climate Adaptation Science program, both of which involve ENVS.
Qualifications Minimum Qualifications: * Earned Ph.D. at date of hire in a field closely related to public lands management or natural resource governance (e.g., conservation social science, recreation resource management, applied geography, public policy, etc.). * Demonstrated experience, ability, and/or interest in teaching about and within the context of public lands management/natural resource... For full info follow application link.
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