Assistant Teaching Professor

Posting Number: 20260028F

Location
Villanova, PA

Work Schedule: full-time/12-months

Department: 151-Augustine and Culture Seminar Program

Position Summary

Why work at Villanova?

• Join a mission-driven organization. Since Villanova University's founding in 1842, we have been inspired by the values of truth, unity, and love, and are a community dedicated to service to others.
• Villanova has been included among the nation's best colleges and universities. VU's inclusion again in U.S. News & World Report's 2026 "Best Colleges" rankings is another indication of the University's continued prominence and forward momentum.
• Villanova's most precious asset is our people. As an employee, you will receive a holistic benefits package, generous paid time off, a competitive retirement savings plan, flexible work options, wellness programs including gym membership, professional development, tuition assistance, and more.

Villanova University's first-year seminar program, the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program (ACSP), seeks one full-time continuing non-tenure track (CNT) faculty members to teach its two-semester humanities seminar. With a reading list grounded in the Augustinian, Catholic, and liberal arts traditions, the Augustine and Culture Seminar (ACS) is reading-and-writing-intensive and also facilitates student engagement in the intellectual, cultural, and artistic life of the University and the greater Philadelphia area. Students from all four colleges (Liberal Arts & Sciences, Nursing, Engineering, and Business) take the two courses (1000 Ancients and 1001 Moderns) in this collegial program taught by 20+ full-time faculty from a wide range of disciplines. A signature feature of the first-year experience at Villanova is the Communitas: First-Year Learning Community program that is a result of the coordinated effort between ACSP and the Division of Student Life.

In addition to teaching in ACSP, this faculty position will also be scheduled for 20 hours per week in the Writing Center. This professional tutor will be assigned to work primarily with Villanova undergraduate students, but may also work with graduate students or faculty members.

Villanova is a Catholic university sponsored by the Augustinian Order. The University is an equal opportunity employer and seeks candidates who understand, respect, and can contribute to the University's mission and values.

Duties and Responsibilities

The position is a renewable 12-month academic appointment at the rank of assistant teaching professor with a 2/2 teaching load (classes capped at 16).The successful candidate will provide evidence of teaching effectiveness or potential and demonstrate a willingness to explore and teach the Augustinian and Catholic intellectual traditions as well as texts in and outside of one's discipline and areas of expertise. The position is primarily and essentially a teaching position, and ACSP cultivates a cooperative community of teacher-scholars dedicated to meeting the perennial and the changing needs of our students through an ongoing program of faculty development activities.

Service for this faculty position includes 12-month availability to the Writing Center. The Writing Center aids students in a collaborative effort of creating their ideal texts and producing their best quality work. The Writing Center encourages multiple, independent visits for all types of students, in all stages of their writing, and seeks to produce better writers, not better texts.

Specific Writing Center duties include:

• Provide one-to-one consultations with Villanova students, staff, and faculty
• Engage in a collaborative effort to help writers create their best quality work and improve writing skills
• Complete online reports after each session
• Attend brief team meetings concerning workshops, professional development opportunities, etc.
• Support outreach efforts and secondary projects such as running workshops, providing in-class presentations, etc.
• Perform other duties and assist with projects as assigned

CNT faculty in ACSP are expected to engage in service to the program, college, and university. CNT faculty at Villanova are eligible for promotion. Villanova offers a competitive benefits package to all full-time faculty.

Minimum Qualifications

Formal Education:

• A terminal degree (e.g. Ph.D., MFA) in a fine art, humanities discipline, or social science at the time of application.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated (potential for) effective, innovative, student-centered pedagogy.
• Experience teaching writing to undergraduates or working in an academic writing center.

Special Message to Applicants

Applicants must apply on-line at http://jobs.villanova.edu. All materials must be received by April 20, 2026. Questions about the position can be directed to Dr. Gregory Hoskins, Director of the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program at Gregory.hoskins@villanova.edu or Mary Beth Simmons, Senior Director of the Writing Center at mary.beth.simmons@villanova.edu

For more information about ACSP and about Communitas: First-Year Learning Community, please see the respective websites:

https://www1.villanova.edu/university/liberal-a rts-sciences/programs/acs.html

https://www1.villanova.edu/university/residence-life/communitas.html
https://www.villanova.edu/univer sity/academic-enterprise/student-support/writing-center.html

Applications must include:

• A cover letter
• Current and complete curriculum vitae.
• Contact information for three references.
• Unofficial undergraduate and graduate transcripts.

Candidates invited to interview must provide:

• Three letters of reference.
• Statement on the candidate's Contribution to the University Mission and Enduring Commitments:
• Official undergraduate and graduate transcripts.

Closing Date (11:59pm ET)
04/24/2026

Salary Posting Information

Competitive