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Entrepreneurship Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor for the

School of Economics & Business Administration

Saint Mary's College of California invites applications for a tenure-track (at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank) faculty member in Entrepreneurship, starting in July 2017.

Founded in 1863, Saint Mary's College of California is situated in the economically vibrant, culturally rich, and scenic San Francisco Bay Area and at the gateway to the fast-growing Asian economies. Saint Mary's College of California is a private, Catholic, comprehensive and co-educational university that engages students in rigorous critical thinking, promotes social justice, and educates for human fulfillment. The De La Salle Christian Brothers, the largest teaching order of the Roman Catholic Church, guide the spiritual and academic character of the College. An outstanding, committed faculty and staff that value shared inquiry, integrative learning and student interaction bring Saint Mary's heritage as a liberal arts, Catholic and Lasallian institution to life. Located on a stunning 420 acre campus in the Moraga Hills outside of San Francisco, Saint Mary's is known for both its rigorous liberal arts education and its high quality graduate programs, including business, education and leadership. Saint Mary's currently enrolls over 4,000 highly diverse students, reflecting the College's commitment to achieving inclusive excellence by creating a community in which all are valued, respected, and supported. For more information about Saint Mary's mission and history, see:

http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/about-smc/our-mission

Responsibilities 

The faculty member will teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in entrepreneurship with opportunities to teach in other management areas.  Teaching may also include participation in college-wide programs such as Collegiate Seminar and January Term. The successful candidate will join a collegial community that values and supports cutting-edge research and scholarly contributions. Teaching assignments at Saint Mary's College of California include courses on the main campus in Moraga and may include teaching at off-site locations in Silicon Valley, and San Ramon. All Saint Mary's faculty are expected to advise students and to contribute to the mission of the College, which is informed, animated, and expressed through its Catholic, Lasallian, and liberal arts traditions.

The School of Economics and Business Administration has a center that is dedicated to the study and practice of entrepreneurship and to supporting our students in starting their own ventures. We have partnerships within the investor community as well as industry, in addition to student organizations such as Net Impact to support our curricular and co-curricular activities in the area of entrepreneurship such as pitch competitions, social enterprise, and mentoring programs.

Qualifications

The successful candidate must have an earned doctorate in entrepreneurship or a closely related field, before commencing this academic appointment. The candidate must demonstrate the ability or potential to conduct and publish high quality research in respected academic journals and to teach, advise, and mentor a culturally and educationally diverse student body, including undergraduate, MBA, and Executive MBA students; appreciate and respect an inclusive learning/teaching environment and the students, staff, and faculty who comprise it and be willing to become a stakeholder in the Lasallian commitment to that environment; demonstrate commitment and success working in a diverse and multicultural community. Candidates who also have demonstrated research or teaching interests in innovation, responsible leadership, and/or global business are highly encouraged to apply. Candidates with professional business/entrepreneurial experience will be preferred.

Successful candidates will also need to show how their teaching, research, and prior service reflect the core values and mission of Saint Mary's college.

To Apply

Candidates should submit a letter of application, a current vita, graduate transcripts, student evaluations, and contact information for three academic references. Candidates who submit names of references should expect that, should they be chosen for a phone interview, their references will be contacted, in confidence, by the College and that credentials will be confirmed prior to hire. Candidates who become finalists will be expected to sign a consent authorizing a broader inquiry.

All applicants must apply online at: https://apply.interfolio.com/37793

Please submit application inquiries to search chair: Berna Aksu, Ph.D., bp4@stmarys-ca.edu

Deadline

Consideration and review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.  Please submit all applications by November 15, 2016. Application materials, nominations, and inquiries will be held in strictest confidence.

 For more information about Saint Mary's mission and history go to:

 http://stmarys-ca.edu/print.php?url=http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/about/mission_history/mission/index.html

Saint Mary's College of California is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.  In compliance with applicable law and its own policy, Saint Mary's College of California is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty, staff and student population and does not discriminate in its admission of students, hiring of faculty and staff, or in the provision of its employment benefits to its faculty and staff and its educational programs, activities, benefits and services to its students, including but not limited to scholarship and loan programs, on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex/gender, marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, medical condition or physical or mental disability.