Biology Guest Faculty Position Spring 2025

Sarah Lawrence College

Bronxville, NY

ID: 7284639 (Ref.No. ej-5691611)
Posted: 1 month ago

Job Description

Biology Guest Faculty Position Spring 2025
Rank: Guest Faculty
Tenure Information: Non-Tenure Track
Job Description

Sarah Lawrence College Department of Biology seeks part-time guest faculty members to teach two courses in the spring 2025 semester. We are interested in candidates who can teach one or two of the following courses: genetics; botany; plant physiology; developmental biology; immunology; neuroscience. Other courses within the candidate’s area of expertise will be considered if proposed in the cover letter.

Courses will be capped at 15 students and include a seminar class (meeting 2x/week) and biweekly meetings with individual students to develop a semester-long independent project—conference work—which typically takes the form of a substantial literature review.

Application materials must include: cover letter indicating your preferred courses and a description of any experience teaching biology at the college level; CV; contact information for three references.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an Employment Visa.

Compensation for this position is on a per-course basis, contingent on teaching experience.

Required Qualifications

Candidates should have a PhD in a relevant field or be within the final year of their doctoral program.

Preferred Qualifications
Posting Number: F00173P
Open Date:
Close Date:
Open Until Filled: Yes
Salary: $10,500 - $14,000
Special Instructions to Applicants

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.

To apply, visit https://slc.peopleadmin.com/postings/2256
Sarah Lawrence College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and has as one of its goals the recruitment and retention of a racially and culturally diverse administration, staff and faculty. To that end, every job opening is seen as an opportunity to increase diversity and every effort will be made to expand the applicant pool in accordance with these goals.
Sarah Lawrence College is located in southern Westchester County, 25 minutes by train from midtown Manhattan, NYC. For information on Sarah Lawrence College, our curriculum, teaching methods, and philosophy of education, please see our web site at https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/.

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Sarah Lawrence College is committed to sustaining a diverse and inclusive learning, working, and living community. This requires students, faculty, administration, and staff who reflect the diversity of our society; that people from different backgrounds and with different views be prepared to treat one another with mutual respect and honest curiosity so that they can engage and learn from one another; and that diversity infuse all aspects of the life and mission of the College. These conditions enable a genuine liberal arts education, in which the presence of people with different experiences and ideas, engaged in critical dialogue, overcomes ignorance and builds trust and knowledge.

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