Georgia Gwinnett College (F/T renewable)

[andgo]

Job Summary/Basic Function: In anticipation of increases in enrollment for the 2012-2013 academic year, Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) invites applicants for faculty positions in Sociology starting August 1, 2012. Applicants should demonstrate significant innovations in teaching, superior service to the institution, and established research credentials. Commitment to building a new college is also essential. GGC emphasizes a student-centered learning environment. Faculty will be expected to teach lower-division courses (primarily Introduction to Sociology and Social Problems currently) in addition to upper-division courses.

Founded in 2005, GGC is the 35th institution of the University System of Georgia. GGC is a premier 21st century four-year liberal arts college accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges & Schools. With a current enrollment of over 8,000 students, GGC expects within two years to exceed 10,000 students, including both residential and commuter students. Located in the greater Atlanta metropolitan area, GGC provides a student-centered, technology-enriched learning environment. Gwinnett County (pop. 780,000+) is home to a variety of businesses, including organizations involved in health care, education, and information technology.

SALARY: Commensurate with education and experience with excellent benefits.

Due to the volume of applications, applicants may not receive a reply from the College unless an applicant is selected for an interview. Review of applications will continue until positions are filled. Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the United States and proof of eligibility will be contemporaneously required upon acceptance of an employment offer. Any resulting employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation, as determined by Georgia Gwinnett College in its sole discretion. Georgia Gwinnett College, a unit of the University System of Georgia, is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, age, disability or religion. Georgia is an open records state.

Minimum Qualifications: Ph.D.

GGC seeks applications for assistant, associate and full Professor faculty positions to begin August 1, 2012. Applicants should hold the doctorate or appropriate terminal degree in their discipline before or within the semester of the start date. GGC is an institution that values and encourages innovative teaching. In addition to teaching, applicants are expected to actively participate in scholarly activities, extensive student engagement and to contribute in the area of service to the college and community. Advising and mentoring are expected of all faculty. In accordance with Board of Regents Policy governing GGC faculty, successful applicants will be eligible to receive 5 or 3 year renewable appointments or one year traditional appointments may also be approved. For more information about our college, please visit our website at www.ggc.edu.

Preferred Qualifications: While specialization areas are open, candidates with foci in globalization or multiculturalism is preferred.

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[annn]

Just to make it clear in case it wasn't clear in the add:
there is no tenure, ever, at GGC. Appointments are always for fixed terms and renewable.

[anon]

Also, they currently don't offer a sociology major and offer only three sociology courses (intro, social problems, and family).

[anon]

They may not offer tenure, but I hear the salary is higher than most of the other schools in the state system...

[lurker]

The school is also a huge drain on the USG system and universally hated. It was a political project and a really bad idea. Now a lot of smaller schools are struggling while GGC is flush with cash. Also, they make you carry around a cell phone (they pay for it) so that your students can call you, cause apparently they can't be bothered to come to your office hours! No thanks.

[seriouslyD]

Definitely not universally hated, and definitely not a failure. They've jumped from 200 students to 8000+ in 5 years. And by carrying a cell phone, you don't have to hold office hours. I wish I could have gotten a job here.

[qweasd]

Just as an fyi based on a friend's experience in another social science area (same unit as the sociologist would be working out of):

They likely won't move on this until somewhat late in the spring semester. And part of this is that they are very much aware that this is a bottom of the barrel position, and that they likely wouldn't be able to attract anyone that had a competing offer elsewhere.

Not to be vicious about the institution, but the lack of faculty input on leadership decisions, the low salaries, and the lack of tenure means that they fully recognize that their target market are the people who are searching for renewable lectureships and the like.

And I don't know where the person who claimed that"salary is higher than most of the other schools in the state system" got their information.

Initial salary for assistants in the school of liberal arts is in the mid 40ks, which means it is actually pretty close to the salaries at georgia perimeter college (the state community college) and certainly not "higher than most of the other schools." It is lower (though not by much) than the salaries in the state's masters schools (valdosta, georgia southern).

The only reason georgia gwinett comes out ahead in terms of faculty salary surveys is because there are some faculty in the business school who have been there since the place was run by UGA as the georgia university center. These faculty have remained there when the GUC became georgia gwinnett college, retaining UGA level salaries and skew the averages upward (there are business school assistant professors there that are paid 120k, in line what the UGA business school pays). But that is not the case for new faculty in the school of liberal arts.

And while Atlanta is a a relatively cheap metro area, it is still a metro area and more expensive than the national average.

[anon]

Initial salaries in sociology are low 50s. You can look up salaries on the state database. They are well above other 4-year colleges in the state system.

They hired like 200 faculty last year, and had something like 7000 applications. This is not "bottom of the barrel" by any means.

[no]

Dec 7, 2011 21:41:14 GMT -5 anon said:

Initial salaries in sociology are low 50s. You can look up salaries on the state database. They are well above other 4-year colleges in the state system.

They hired like 200 faculty last year, and had something like 7000 applications. This is not "bottom of the barrel" by any means.

You are wrong. The faculty making over 50k are not first year ones. If you look at the salaries for faculty hired in 2009 in the school of liberal arts (where sociology is housed), their first year salaries were between 46 and 48 k a year.

As for the comparison to other institutions in the state system, salaries are obviously lower than in the 3 big ones (UGA, GA tech, Georgia State). But they are also lower than in the masters institutions (valdosta state, georgia southern, etc) and in line with some of the smaller schools, like augusta state (but in a much higher cost of living area). Add the "no tenure, ever," the language on the possibility of being dismissed due to state budgets that is in the contract, and it is most certainly bottom of the barrel.

Putting it differently, abstracting from the location, what are the institutions in the university system of georgia that are worse than this one? In terms of pay, security, ability to influence governance, ability to teach different classes, or anything like that?

[gone]

job application website says position was canceled.

[anon]

They are doing phone interviews. It must be back up.