This salary range reflects the College’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the compensation for the position at the time of the job posting. Salary decisions are dependent on several factors including but not limited to market and organizational considerations, experience, and qualifications of a selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
Required Education:
Doctorate
Additional Information:
2 openings available.
The Biology Program at Bard College is seeking two tenure-track colleague to join a team of teacher-scholars committed to excellence in teaching and research. We welcome applicants with expertise in any area of biology; successful applicants will add new dimensions to research and curriculum currently represented in the Biology Program. Applicants should demonstrate commitment to integrating cutting-edge research programs with undergraduate education.
The biology research laboratory, housed in the Reem-Kayden Center for Science and Computation, houses equipment including DNA and protein electrophoresis instruments, multiple imaging systems, an array of PCR/qPCR machines, multiple fluorescent microscopes, a confocal/two-photon microscope, an atomic force microscope, Oxford Nanopore Minion sequencers, a patch clamp electrophysiology set up, and a vivarium supporting a zebrafish facility. The campus also includes a field station with access to the Hudson River, and over 1200 acres of forest and old fields.
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in a biological field. Prior teaching experience is highly desirable. Bard is an institutional member of the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD), and faculty members will be supported through a formal college-wide mentoring network. Our program is committed to hiring faculty who will support inclusion initiatives through their research, teaching, mentoring, and/or lived experience. These positions are part of an ongoing expansion of Bard’s Division of Science, Mathematics and Computing.
About Bard:Bard College is a highly selective liberal arts college located 90 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River.
Application Instructions
Applicants should submit a cover letter, a CV, a description of research plans, and a teaching philosophy that highlights courses you might teach at Bard, how you plan to integrate research and teaching, and ways you create an inclusive learning environment. Additionally, please submit a list with three professional references prepared to write letters. Please submit application materials to Interfolio at https://apply.interfolio.com/163756.
Review of applications will begin March 15 and continue until the positions are filled.
Compensation: $88,750-$91,500 This salary range reflects the College’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the compensation for the position at the time of the job posting. Salary decisions are dependent on several factors including but not limited to market and organizational considerations, experience, and qualifications of a selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
Benefits Overview We are pleased to offer our full-time employees an excellent benefit package which includes; multiple health insurance options; TIAA retirement plans; generous vacation, sick, and personal time; and more. To learn more about employee benefits and eligibility at Bard College, please visit https://www.bard.edu/humanresources/benefits/.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Bard is an equal-opportunity employer, and we welcome applications from those who contribute to our diversity. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, mental, or physical disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, familial status, veteran status, or genetic information.
Bard is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for all individuals in employment practices, services, programs, and activities.
Bard College seeks to inspire curiosity, a love of learning, idealism, and a commitment to the link between higher education and civic participation. The undergraduate curriculum is designed to address central, enduring questions facing succeeding generations of students. Academic disciplines are interconnected through multidisciplinary programs; a balance in the curriculum is sought between general education and individual specialization. Students pursue a rigorous course of study reflecting diverse traditions of scholarship, research, speculation, and artistic expression. They engage philosophies of human existence, theories of human behavior and society, the making of art, and the study of the humanities, science, nature, and history.
Bard’s approach to learning focuses on the individual, primarily through small group seminars. These are structured to encourage thoughtful, critical discourse in an inclusive environment. Faculty are active in their fields and stress the connection between the contemplative life of the mind and active engagement outside the classroom. They strive to foster rigorous and free inquiry, intellectual ambition, and creativity.
Bard acts at the in...tersection of education and civil society, extending liberal arts and sciences education to communities in which it has been underdeveloped, inaccessible, or absent. Through its undergraduate college, distinctive graduate programs, commitment to the fine and performing arts, civic and public engagement programs, and network of international dual-degree partnerships, early colleges, and prison education initiatives, Bard offers unique opportunities for students and faculty to study, experience, and realize the principle that higher-education institutions can and should operate in the public interest.
