Assistant Professor Of Educational Leadership

The Department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Counseling in the College of Education at Texas Tech University invites applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure-track Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership position to begin September 1, 2024.

In line with TTU's strategic priorities to engage and empower a diverse student body, enable innovative research and creative activities, and transform lives and communities through outreach and engaged scholarship, applicants should have experience working with diverse student populations at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels within individual or across the areas of teaching, research/creative activity, and service.

Specific required qualifications are:

• A completed doctorate in Educational Leadership or a related field by August 2024. ED-12 teaching and administrative experiences. Licensure (or license eligible) as Principal and Superintendent in the state of Texas. Experience in campus administration as principal or assistant principal. A track record of leading collaborative school improvement. Demonstrated ability and/or potential for conducting meaningful research focused on ED-12 school improvement. Demonstrated track record and/or potential for obtaining external funding. A commitment to serving diverse, high-need populations.

Preferred Qualifications: In addition to the required qualifications, individuals with the following preferred qualifications are strongly encouraged to apply:

• Earned doctorate in Educational Leadership from a Carnegie R1 institution by August 2024. Experience working with school improvement teams in EC-12 schools and school districts. Evidence (or strong potential) of effective teaching in higher education. Experience teaching online distance education courses. Evidence (or strong potential) of mentoring and advising doctoral students. Evidence (or strong potential) of maintaining a rigorous research agenda in school improvement. Experience writing for extramural grant funding.

About the University, College, and Department

Established in 1923, Texas Tech University is a Carnegie R1 (very high research activity) Doctoral/Research-Extensive, Hispanic Serving, and state-assisted institution. Located on a beautiful 1,850-acre campus in Lubbock, a city in West Texas with a growing metropolitan-area population of over 300,000, the university enrolls over 40,000 students with 33,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students. As the primary research institution in the western two-thirds of the state, Texas Tech University is home to 10 colleges, the Schools of Law and Veterinary Medicine, and the Graduate School.  The flagship of the Texas Tech University System, Texas Tech is dedicated to student success by preparing learners to be ethical leaders for a diverse and globally competitive workforce. It is committed to enhancing the cultural and economic development of the state, nation, and world.

The Texas Tech University College of Education, with over 2,000 students, offers a nationally recognized undergraduate teacher preparation program and 21 graduate degrees that prepare students for professional or academic positions in education. We are a diverse community of scholars, researchers, and educators with a commitment to excellence in teaching and serving ED-12 public schools and beyond. We collaborate with local, regional, state, national, and global partners to address complex problems facing individuals and communicates. In recognition of its extraordinary community outreach efforts, the college received a 2018 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU).

The Department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Counseling offers competitive graduate programs that are growing both nationally and internationally. The Educational Leadership (EDLD) “School Leadership” Program offers graduate academic and professional certification preparation programs at both the masters and doctoral levels. The EDLD School Leadership Program offers two degrees and two certification choices. The EdD degree is a 66-hour program that includes superintendency certification preparation. The Med degree offers two 36-hour routes both offering principal certification. The traditional master’s program, TechLEAD, is a two-year option for teachers still in the classroom. The master’s residency program, Principal Fellows, is a 15-month, job-embedded internship that requires district partnerships with Texas Education Agency grant funding and intensive EDLD full-time faculty time/effort commitments in terms of mentoring and field supervision of Principal Fellow cohort students. The EDLD EdD program, EDLD “Executive EdD for School District Leaders” Program is grounded in Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) program design principle and fully integrates superintendent certificate preparation into its three-and-a-half year cohort curriculum.

We are seeking highly qualified applicants with expertise in change agent leadership for EC-12 school and district improvement with research emphases in urban and/or rural school district environments. Applicants should demonstrate potential for collaboration with College of Education faculty from at least one other area, including curriculum and instruction, teacher education, special education, etc. Candidates from underrepresented groups in higher education faculty or those with experience working in culturally and linguistically diverse settings are strongly encouraged to apply. In addition, candidates who have strong records of scholarship and who have the proven capacity or clear potential to bring externally sponsored research to Texas Tech University are encouraged to apply. The salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Responsibilities of the successful candidate:

1. Conduct research that contributes to the improvement of practice and the field. Actively collaborate with Educational Leadership faculty team members to deliver cohort-based, online and hybrid ED-12 educational leadership masters and doctoral-level programs. Teach distance-delivered graduate educational leadership courses in EDLD masters and doctoral-level cohort program tracks in areas of expertise. Work collaboratively with EDLD School Leadership faculty in the College of Education and program level grant-supported school improvement projects. Participate in on-site mentoring of cohort students enrolled in EDLD School Leadership Med/principal and EdD/superintendent program tracks. Participate in serving on dissertation committees and advising doctoral students on school/district improvement projects. Recruit, advise, and mentor master’s and doctoral students. Apply for and manage external funding to support school improvement research that results in the improvement of practice. Contribute to the advancement of specialization and program goals through service, particularly through partnering with schools and/or agencies to ensure meaningful collaborative research, teaching, and practice. Service duties include-building, as well as a commitment to extra-curricular activities. Service to the department, college, and the university is expected.