Brooklyn Law School
Visiting Assistant Professor, Academic Success Program
Brooklyn Law School seeks candidates for a Visiting Assistant Professor of its Academic Success Program. We anticipate this individual starting employment no later than August 2019 but are willing to entertain earlier start dates. Reporting to the Director, the Visiting Assistant Professor will:
• Oversee and teach skills and intervention courses and programs for both first-year and upper-division students;
• Teach pre-orientation programs for entering students, including the Summer Legal Process Program;
• Serve a student population composed of accelerated 2-year, traditional 3-year, extended 4-year JD students, and internationally-trained LLM students;
• Assess the efficacy of academic support efforts and inform the faculty and greater law school community on initiatives to promote better learning outcomes, including bar exam success;
• Assist the Director and Assistant Director in overall management of the Academic Success Program.
Applicants must articulate a clear vision for the future of Brooklyn Law School’s efforts to build foundational skills in students that will serve them throughout law school and on the bar exam. The Visiting Assistant Professor must stay abreast of developments in the national academic support field and have a critical eye for selecting strategic partners and personnel to contribute to the Academic Success Program’s initiatives. Applicants must meaningfully contribute to a supportive, innovative, and thoughtfully structured team environment in Academic Success. The Visiting Assistant Professor also advises the faculty and administration as to student engagement and skills development and is expected to create and to participate in collaborative initiatives across all parts of the faculty to create better learning environments.
Most notably, the Visiting Assistant Professor must have a keen understanding of the academic engagement challenges within the current generation of law students and a viable, thoughtful strategy for addressing them. Moreover, the Visiting Assistant Professor must demonstrate genuine enthusiasm for working with students who seek or require academic enhancement. Accordingly, the Visiting Assistant Professor must possess the ability to build meaningful learning relationships with all students.
The salary of the Visiting Assistant Professor of the Academic Success Program will be commensurate with experience. At a minimum, candidates must possess a J.D. degree from an ABA-accredited law school; bar admission in New York (or a state bar with an equivalent Multistate Bar Exam cutoff); and, at least one year of law teaching experience, preferably in an in-school bar preparation or academic success program (as academic success faculty, staff, and/or as peer educator). This is a one-year faculty appointment, with the possibility of subsequent yearly reappointments and potential eligibility to apply for an appointment on a long-term contract track. We are especially interested in candidates who will enhance the diversity of our faculty.
The deadline for applications is April 30, 2019. However, we encourage applicants to forward their materials as early as possible to ensure full consideration by the hiring committee. We will conduct initial screening interviews for qualified candidates on a rolling basis. Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and list of at least three (3) professional references who can attest to an applicant’s teaching ability and potential for future teaching excellence. Please send applications to Shane Dizon, Associate Professor of Academic Success, at shane.dizon@brooklaw.edu.
It is the policy of Brooklyn Law School not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local law. It is also the policy of Brooklyn Law School to take affirmative action to employ, and to advance in employment, all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status, and to base all employment decisions on legitimate job requirements.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Academic Success Program, Brooklyn Law School
Disclosure Form
1. The position advertised: _X_ a. is a full-time appointment. ___ b. is a part-time appointment.
2. The position advertised: ___ a. is a tenure-track appointment. _X_ b. may lead to successive long-term contracts of five or more years. _X_ c. may lead to successive short-term contracts of one to four years. ___ d. has an upper-limit on the number of years a teacher may be appointed. ___ e. is part of a fellowship program for one or two years. ___ f. is an adjunct appointment. ___ g. is a year-to-year appointment. _X_ h. is a one-year visitorship. ___ i. is for at will employment.
Additional information, question 2: The initial appointment is a decanal appointment for one year. Individual may receive successive one-year decanal reappointments and may be eligible to apply for long-term contracts.
3. The person hired: ___ a. will be permitted to vote on all matters at faculty meetings. ___ b. will be permitted to vote in faculty meetings on matters except those pertaining to hiring, tenure, and promotion. _X_ c. will not be permitted to vote in faculty meetings.
Additional information, question 3: Upon initial appointment, the individual will not attend faculty meetings. If, after successive one-year appointments, the individual is appointed to a long-term contract-eligible track, that individual may vote on all matters on which long-term contract-eligible faculty may vote. If the individual ultimately obtains long-term contract faculty status, that individual may vote on all matters on which other long-term contract faculty may vote.
4. The school anticipates paying an annual academic year base compensation in the range checked below. (A base compensation does not include stipends for coaching moot court teams, teaching other courses, or teaching in summer school; a base compensation does not include conference travel or other professional development funds.) ___ a. over $120,000. ___ b. $110,000 – $119,999. ___ c. $100,000 – $109,999. _X_ d. $90,000 – $99,999. _X_ e. $80,000 – $89,999. _X_ f. $70,000 – $79,999. ___ g. $60,000 – $69,999. ___ h. $50,000 – $59,999. ___ i. $40,000 – $49,999. ___ j. $10,000 – $39,000. ___ k. less than $10,000.
5. The person hired will have the title of: ___ a. Associate Dean (including Dean of Students). ___ b. Assistant Dean. ___ c. Director. ___ d. Associate Director. ___ e. Assistant Director. ___ f. Professor – Full, Associate, or Assistant (tenure track). ___ g. Professor – Full, Associate, or Assistant (clinical tenure track or its equivalent). _X_ h. Professor – Full, Associate, or Assistant (neither tenure track nor clinical tenure track). ___ i. no title.
Additional information, question 5: This position is a Visiting Assistant Professor position. It is a decanal appointment. See answers to question 2 regarding promotion and status.
6. Job responsibilities include (please check all that apply): _X_ a. working with students whose predictors (LSAT and University GPA) suggest they will struggle to excel in law school. _X_ b. working with students who performed relatively poorly on their law school examinations or other assessments. _X_ c. working with diverse students. _X_ d. managing orientation. _X_ e. teaching ASP-related classes (case briefing, synthesis, analysis, etc.). ___ f. teaching bar-exam related classes. _X_ g. working with students on an individual basis. ___ h. teaching other law school courses.
Additional information, question 6: If programmatic needs change, the individual’s responsibilities may shift to include item (f); however, the job as currently structured contemplates the vast majority of work in 1L and 2L classes.
7. The person hired will be present in the office: ___ a. 9-10 month appointment. _X_ b. Year round appointment (works regularly in the summer months).
Additional information, question 7: This person will teach workshops aimed at 1L students and will teach some combination of sections of the 2L intervention course (fall/spring) and the 1L intervention course (spring). This person will be expected to teach and to oversee the Summer Legal Process class for entering 1Ls (currently held in August; subject to change) and teach several modules during the standard 1L orientation session. This individual will have extended time off in other parts of the year (e.g. May, June, July) to compensate for the responsibilities of the position.
8. The person hired is required to publish, in some form, in order to maintain employment. ___ a. Yes. _X_ b. No.
Additional information, question 8: Publishing is not required during initial appointment but is required if individual wishes to be eligible to apply for a long-term contract.
9. The person hired will report to: ___ a. the Dean of the Law School. ___ b. an Associate Dean. _X_ c. the Director of the Academic Support Department. ___ d. a Faculty Committee.
