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Location: Oswego, NY Category: Academic / Faculty Posted On: Tue Dec 16 2025 Job Description:

Description of Department:

The Interdisciplinary Studies Department houses a vibrant, interdisciplinary group of faculty whose teaching, scholarship, and outreach centers on addressing challenges that cross disciplinary boundaries across multiple scales. Successful candidates will be collaborative team players who can contribute to developing and teaching high-quality online, hybrid, and in-person courses, who are student-centered, and who are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The Interdisciplinary Studies Department at the State University of New York at Oswego invites applications to fill a full-time tenure track Assistant Professor position in Integrative Professional Studies.

Posting Date: December 16, 2025

Review Date: Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.

Compensation: Base salary range ( begins at $62,000 commensurate with experience plus full New York State benefits package.

Benefit Information: The State University of New York provides an excellent benefit package. Click here ( for more information on benefits for full-time United University Professions (UUP) faculty.

Date of Appointment: As soon as possible (or for Faculty will be date of obligation)

Description of Responsibilities:

SUNY Oswego seeks a tenure-track faculty member to support its Integrative Professional Studies (IPS) program, which serves adult learners with prior college, work, or military credit seeking a bachelor's degree. The IPS program offers BA and BS degrees with five focus areas and embedded micro credentials, catering to individual needs and optimizing transfer and prior learning credit. Ideal candidates will be passionate about serving adult learners, understand their unique needs, and have experience in advising, mentoring, and advocating for credit for prior learning. They will expand professional development pathways (including partnerships), serve the division, university, professional associations, and community, contribute to application courses aligned with prior learning assessment, and collaborate on program strengthening.

SUNY Oswego works continuously to create an inclusive environment which respects, embraces, and promotes cultural safety, belonging, civil discourse, cultural humility, and other values and goals outlined in SUNY Oswego's Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Plan ( . As such, the incumbent is expected to contribute to these efforts and possess communication and interpersonal skills necessary to engage effectively with an increasingly diverse community of students and colleagues.

Job Requirements:

Required Qualifications:

• A terminal degree in a field relevant to the IPS program (social sciences, communication, organizational or vocational development, business, education, etc.).

• Experience teaching adult undergraduate and/or graduate-level university courses online.

• Experience working with, teaching, and/or mentoring diverse groups or students.

• Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with a team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience or research in adult learning and professional studies

• Experience developing online undergraduate and/or graduate level university courses.

• Demonstrated ability to create partnerships and work with external partners.

• Ability to contribute to multidisciplinary curriculum development.

• Potential for or demonstrated appropriate academic leadership experiences.

At SUNY Oswego we value the diversity found in each member of our campus community and strive to create a community where that diversity is embraced and enhanced. Recognizing the strength of diversity, our mission is to foster an environment which respects, embraces and promotes cultural competence, civil discourse and active engagement in developing an inclusive and vibrant community of scholars who act as transformational agents of change and responsible citizens of the world. For more information see SUNY Oswego's Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Plan ( .

As a candidate seeking consideration you are asked to submit a separate statement specifically addressing how your commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion has been evidenced in your career experience and professional activity, and/or community service (volunteer work, etc.), and/or professional development. (Please see Application Instructions)

Additional Information:

Oswego is committed to enhancing its diversity. SUNY Oswego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and is actively engaged in recruiting, supporting, and fostering a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff and students. We encourage applications from qualified applicants regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, familial status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim SUNY status, or criminal conviction. Please click here ( to see our full non-discrimination policy.

In accordance with USCIS regulations, successful applicants must be legally able to work in the United States per the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

Requests for reasonable accommodations of a disability during the application and/or interview process should be made to Dr. Starr Wheeler, ADA/504 Compliance Officer at [email protected] or 315-312-3872

For Campus Safety information, please click here ( to see the Annual Security and Fire Report (Clery).

SUNY Oswego is a smoke free/tobacco/e-cigarette free campus. Click here ( smoke\ free\ policy\ final.pdf) for further policy details, including education and cessation resources.

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at [email protected].

Search Chair:

Lisa Glidden, [email protected]

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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