Assistant Professor (Urban Education Leadership & Policy Studies)

Description

The College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) at the University of Massachusetts Boston invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in Urban Education, Leadership, and Policy Studies in the Leadership in Education Department to begin September 1, 2025. We are seeking candidates with experience in supporting the success of racially minoritized students specifically in social justice and equity in education. We are interested in hiring a critical quantitative Pre-K to 12 urban education leadership scholar with expertise in one or more of the following areas: 1) justice-centered leadership preparation, 2) educational policy (e.g., policymaking, education law, policy implementation), 3) and/or school finance.

Faculty are responsible for teaching, research, and service that enhances CEHD's community engaged mission. Responsibilities include: 1) carrying out an active research agenda that makes significant contributions to the field of urban education leadership; 2) teaching graduate level courses in the Urban Education, Leadership, and Policy studies program; 3) advising doctoral students and serving on dissertation committees; 4) and contributing to service related to the university's urban mission.

Candidates must possess an earned doctorate awarded prior to September 1, 2025, in education or a related field; a record of or potential for effective graduate teaching; and a demonstrated commitment to working in and fostering equity among students, faculty, and staff. Preference will be given to candidates who demonstrate capacity for conducting research using critical quantitative methodologies. Candidates should also demonstrate a potential for external grant funding for research. Scholars who reflect the existing student population of UMass Boston, hold high expectations for minoritized students, and support and further the campus' equity efforts are strongly encouraged to apply.

The College of Education is ranked the top public college of education in the state of Massachusetts (U.S. News and World Report, 2024) and is dedicated to social justice, inclusion, equity, and eradicating all forms of discrimination, oppression, and racism. Its Department of Leadership in Education is home to cohort-based M.Ed., CAGS, PhD and EdD programs that are highly regarded in the region and nation. We provide a dynamic environment for faculty and graduate students to engage in nationally recognized research, especially in areas related to equity issues, school reform, organizational change in Pre-K to 12 and higher education, education policy, leadership, and the social contexts of urban and higher education from local, state, national and global perspectives. For more information, please visit https://education.umb.edu/about and www.umb.edu.

UMass Boston is an urban public research university with a teaching soul, whose impact is both local and global. We are the third most diverse university in the country - more than 60% of our undergraduate students come from minoritized communities and groups and more than half of our students are the first in their families to attend a college or university. Thus, our students come to us from richly diverse life experiences and backgrounds; they bring to our classrooms and research settings the robust range of perspectives growing out of the socio-cultural, economic, and historical contexts in which they have lived, along with the challenges they encounter, engage, and strive to overcome. We invite applications from candidates who reflect the diverse life experiences of our student body, who appreciate that students bring their holistic selves into the academic setting, and who recognize and articulate how their own life experiences and backgrounds have shaped their journeys, practices, and commitments as researchers, scholars, and educators.

Application instructions:

To apply, click here and upload the following: 1) a letter of interest that describes the applicant's: research agenda; teaching in urban schools or educational settings, and service experiences that contribute to the mission of the university and college in the field of urban education; 2) current curriculum vitae; 3) teaching statement indicating how the applicant's teaching philosophy fits with a practitioner-scholar focused doctoral program and with our mission; 4) at least two samples of published scholarship; and 5) names and contact information for three academic references. Inquiries may be directed to abiola.farinde@umb.edu. Application review will begin December 1st and continue until the position is filled.