Mount Holyoke College
Department of Psychology and Education
Announcement of Three Visiting Faculty Positions
The Department of Psychology and Education at Mount Holyoke College is seeking candidates
for three full-time visiting faculty positions to begin in the fall of 2018. Two of the
positions are one-year visiting lecturers in the following areas: 1) Cognitive Psychology
and 2) Educational Psychology. The third position we are seeking is a three-year visiting
lecturer in Clinical Psychology (with the ability to offer courses in the areas of
Personality or Abnormal Psychology). These positions cover faculty leaves and are not
renewable. The Department offers programs in psychology, an interdisciplinary major in
psychology and education, and contributes to an interdisciplinary program in neuroscience
and behavior. The teaching load for these positions is five courses per year. Instructors
on multiple year contracts are expected to supervise student research projects in their
areas of expertise.
Qualifications include a doctorate and demonstrated interest and plan for scholarly work.
The successful candidate will also have a demonstrated record of strong teaching at the
undergraduate level and experience mentoring students who are broadly diverse with regard
to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, nationality, sexual orientation and
religion.
Mount Holyoke is an undergraduate research liberal arts college for women with 2200
students and 220 faculty. Over half the faculty are women; one-fourth are persons of
color. Mount Holyoke College is located about 90 miles west of Boston in the Connecticut
River valley, and is a member of the Five College Consortium consisting of Amherst,
Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts.
Mount Holyoke College is committed to enriching the educational experience it offers
through the diversity of its faculty, administration, and staff members. Mount Holyoke
seeks to recruit and support a broadly diverse faculty who will contribute to the
college's academic excellence, diversity of viewpoints and experiences, and relevance
in a global society. In furtherance of academic excellence, the College encourages
applications from individuals from underrepresented groups in the professoriate, including
faculty of color, faculty with diverse gender identities, first generation college
students, individuals who have followed non-traditional pathways to college due to
exceptional talent and motivation in the face of adversity, such as societal, economic or
academic disadvantages, and individuals with a demonstrated commitment to applying and
including diverse backgrounds and perspectives to learning, scholarship, service, and
leadership in the academy.
Applications are online only at
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Please submit a CV and the following statements/documents: (1) teaching philosophy, (2)
research interests and plans, and (3) ideas for mentoring a diverse student body.
Applicants should also arrange to have three letters of reference submitted on their
behalf. To be assured full consideration applications must be complete by March 2, 2018.
We recommend early submission because electronic prompts to referees will be generated
automatically (and letters of reference accepted) only after the completed application has
been submitted.