ASSISTANT PROFESSORSHIP - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Position

Tenure-track or one-year visiting professorship, with specialization in Organic Chemistry.

The College

Eureka is a small residential liberal arts college located equidistant between the cities of Peoria and Bloomington/Normal. The campus is situated on 112 wooded acres with 24 academic and residential buildings in the city of Eureka, Illinois. Focused on “excellence in learning, service, and leadership,” Eureka College has had a major impact on American life, with alumni who have had successful careers in education, business, management, the arts and community service. Eureka's most famous graduate is Ronald Reagan, Class of 1932, who went on to become the fortieth President of the United States of America. Eureka currently has over 650 students enrolled in 30 degree programs and has over 5,000 living alumni. Chartered in 1855 to provide a “non-sectarian liberal arts” education by abolitionists who were members of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Eureka was the first college in Illinois and the third in the nation to admit men and women on an equal basis (see http://www.disciples.org/ and http://www.helmdisciples.org/ for additional information about the Christian Church and the affiliation with Eureka College). 

Position Requirements

The successful candidate will be able to teach both lecture and laboratory sections of organic chemistry, quantitative analysis, second semester general chemistry, environmental chemistry, and contribute to the inorganic chemistry course.    A biochemistry course alternates yearly with the environmental chemistry course.  The Science and Mathematics division has an FTIR, HPLC, and atomic absorption spectrometer, as well as access to an NMR.   There are limited funds available for start-up equipment.  

 
Eureka College values excellent teaching at the college level that employs a variety of methods to enable all learners in the classroom. The small college reality requires professors who can be interdisciplinary and generalist in approach while still engaged in, and engaging about, their specific discipline.  Professors are expected to involve undergraduate student participation in their research projects. 

Application Materials

Submit cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching statement which addresses teaching laboratory and lecture in a liberal-arts environment, letter addressing research interests with undergraduates,  undergraduate and graduate transcripts, and three letters of reference electronically in WORD format to employment@eureka.edu  (please put Organic Chemistry in the subject line).  Written submissions may be made to: Dr. Paul Small, Eureka College, 300 E. College Ave., Eureka  IL, 61530.

Applications are due by March 25, 2008, at which time applicants will be screened for interviews.