Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor

About the Opportunity

About Northeastern

Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locations—in Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern’s comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs— in a variety of on-campus and online formats—lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

The Bouvé College of Health Sciences has over 200 faculty members, with approximately 2,000 undergraduate and 2,400 graduate students. It is the leading national model for education and research in the health, psychosocial and biomedical sciences and supports the University’s mission of educating students for a life of fulfillment and accomplishment and creating and translating knowledge to meet global and societal needs.

The Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders at Northeastern University offers minors, a Bachelor of Science, and a Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology (MS-SLP) on the Boston campus. The Boston MS-SLP program is an ASHA accredited program which offers a 60-credit degree.

About the Opportunity

The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders within the Bouvé College of Health Sciences is seeking five Visiting Assistant Clinical Professors for a 52-week full-time non-tenure track faculty positions for the Masters of Speech Language Pathology (MS-SLP) program at the Center for Health Sciences campus in Charlotte, North Carolina. Faculty in this role will report to the CSD Assistant Program Director in Charlotte and will work closely and collaboratively with the MS-SLP Program Director and the CSD Department Chair based in Boston.

Responsibilities

Teaching and advising responsibilities for this position will include, but are not limited to: teaching courses for the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, supervising of students during the process of provision of clinical services, including reviewing of documentation, debriefings, and ongoing meetings; participating in assigned University, College, and Departmental committees and related Departmental activities; participating in professional organization activities and conferences.

Qualifications

• PhD, EdD, PhD, ScD and/or Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology by appointment start date.

• ASHA Certification by appointment start date.

• North Carolina State License by appointment start date.

• Minimum of 7-10 years’ clinical experience 

• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience providing clinical supervision  

Preferred Qualifications

• 3-5 years of administrative experience preferred 

• Teaching experience in higher education preferred.

• Leadership experience preferred

• Preferred qualification of a terminal degree in education or related field to SLP and rehabilitation sciences (e.g. EdD, PhD, ScD).

Additional Information

Interested candidates should apply here with a curriculum vita that includes a list of publications, statements addressing the prompts below, and at least three reference letters.

Successful faculty at Northeastern will be dynamic and innovative scholars with a record of research and teaching excellence and a commitment to contributing to improved equity, diversity, and inclusion. Thus, strong candidates for this faculty position will have the experiences, knowledge, and skills to build their research, pedagogy, and curriculum in ways that reflect and enhance this commitment. Please indicate how your experience, knowledge, and skills have prepared you to contribute to this work with written statements addressing the following prompts:

Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity statement:

Please provide an example of a time when you altered or changed your approach to research, teaching, or service because of the diversity of the group you were working with or your awareness of marginalized populations. What changes did you make? Did they have the effects that you hoped for at the time? What did you learn from this situation? How would you expect to apply what you learned from this situation as a faculty member in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences? We are interested in how you handled and learned from a past situation, not the identities of the people involved, so please only disclose what you are comfortable with.

At Northeastern University, we embrace a culture of respect, where each person is valued for their contribution and is treated fairly. We oppose all forms of racism. We support a culture that does not tolerate any form of discrimination and where each person may belong. We strive to have a diverse membership, one where each person is trained and mentored to promote their success.

Position Type

Academic

Additional Information

Northeastern University considers factors such as candidate work experience, education and skills when extending an offer.  

Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff.  Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion. 

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other  characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University’s commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.

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