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The Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work invites applications for 2 nine-month tenure-track positions at the assistant or associate professor rank, expected to begin early August 2025.

The Institution and School

Loyola University Chicago ( LUC ) is a Jesuit Catholic University dedicated to the Ignatian heritage of faith, including a profound commitment to the poor, to issues of social responsibility and justice, and to transformative education in the Ignatian tradition of caring for students. The University endeavors to develop the lives of students, faculty, and staff in a spirit of inquiry for the development and application of knowledge for service to others. A commitment to social justice is core to both the School of Social Work ( SSW ) and University missions. The University strives for and respects healthy work-life balance and family life, including requirements for tenure and promotion.

Celebrating its 100th anniversary of MSW Accreditation in 2021, the SSW offers BSW , MSW , & PhD degrees. The BSW and MSW programs were successfully reaffirmed in 2024. The school launched the nation's first online, bilingual (Spanish) MSW program in fall 2019 and an online MSW program in 2022. The SSW provides additional opportunities for students to expand their worldview through online classes with international partner universities and a robust reciprocal immersion program focusing on refugees and immigrants in Mexico at the U.S. border. In addition, the SSW will launch a comprehensive behavioral health simulation program in 2025 and has several innovative certificate programs providing students with cutting edge training to prepare them for practice.

Faculty are mentored and supported to pursue their research and scholarship agendas, may seek summer stipends supplemental research funds, and may apply for faculty development research leaves to support their tenure track careers. Faculty and staff are committed to transformative education to serve anti-racist aims. Current curricular innovations include a week-long community immersion orientation for incoming MSW students, developing pedagogy that infuses advocacy for social justice throughout all coursework, making internship education more accessible via augmented simulation with standardized patients, and using traditional and innovative technologies in teaching and learning.

Duties and Responsibilities

Successful applicants will:

• Advance existing research agendas and records of scholarship, or have demonstrated potential to build a research agenda and record of scholarship
• Teach in-person as well as online/hybrid formats, across degree programs and across curricular domains, with attention to the following curricular areas:
  • Mezzo/macro-organizational and community practice
  • Older adults/Gero ed
  • Social work theory and practice
  • Advanced clinical practice
  • Social work policy, (e.g., abolition of child welfare)

• Contribute to service at the school, university, community, and professional levels

Minimum Education and/or Work Experience:

Minimum qualifications include an MSW degree and PhD degree in social work or a related field, two years of post- MSW practice experience, and a record of research, scholarship, and teaching appropriate for the school's requirements for the rank sought. To be considered at the Assistant Professor level, the candidate must have clear evidence of potential for excellence in research, scholarship, teaching, and service. To be considered at the rank of Associate Professor, applicants must have an established research agenda, including a strong record of scholarship and seeking funded research, as well as mentorship activities with students.

Preferred qualifications include a record of interdisciplinary research and teaching interests focused on the African American/Black diaspora, with an ability to engage in the experiences of other peoples of African descent and other communities of color. Relatedly, we seek applicants who will bring intersectional lived experience to anti-racist, abolitionist, and decolonial perspectives to teaching, research, scholarship, and service.

Job Type: Full-Time

About Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago, a private university founded in 1870 as St. Ignatius College, is one of the nation's largest Jesuit, Catholic Universities and the only one located in Chicago. Loyola University Chicago is comprised of four campuses: Lake Shore (LSC), Water Tower (WTC), Health Sciences (HSC), and the John Felice Rome Center in Italy, and is home to ten schools and colleges: arts and sciences, business administration, communication, education, graduate studies, law, medicine, nursing, continuing and professional studies, and social work. Loyola also features course locations in Beijing, China; Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Vernon Hills, Illinois (Cuneo Mansion and Gardens); and a Retreat and Ecology Campus in Woodstock, Illinois. Recognizing Loyola's excellence in education, U.S.News and World Report has ranked Loyola consistently among the "top national universities" in its annual publications. Loyola is among a select group of universities recognized for community service and engagement by prestigious national organizations like the Carnegie Foundation and the Corporation for National and Community Service.

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Full time, Work experience placement, Summer work, Internship,

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