Assistant / Associate Professor of Management – Sustainability / Social Impact at Catawba College (North Carolina, USA)
About the Position
The Ketner School of Business at Catawba College ("Catawba") welcomes applications for the position of tenure-track Assistant / Associate Professor of Management, with a sustainability / social impact focus, beginning August 2025.
Primary job responsibilities include: excellence in teaching courses that emphasize sustainable management – including topics such as sustainable business practices, social innovation, environmental management, corporate social responsibility – as well as courses in the candidate's area of specialization (e.g., operations management, strategy, entrepreneurship, organizational behavior); advising students; scholarship (broadly defined); and participation in service for the Ketner School of Business and the College. The typical teaching load at Catawba College is 24 credits per academic year. In addition, opportunities exist for faculty to develop courses for Catawba's Honors Program and/or regularly offer a section of the First-Year Seminar as part of their teaching responsibilities.
This successful candidate will serve as a member of a strategic cluster hire aimed at embedding environmental education and sustainability across Catawba College's curriculum and co-curricular initiatives, this position will join a dynamic cohort of new campus thought leaders. Together, this interdisciplinary group will collaborate to develop innovative strategies that enhance students' environmental and sustainability literacy, fostering a deeper understanding of these critical issues. In addition, the cohort will explore and implement opportunities to utilize the campus as a living learning laboratory, creating hands-on, experiential learning experiences that reinforce classroom instruction and enrich the overall student experience. Through this collective effort, the cohort will help shape a more sustainable and environmentally conscious campus community.
About the Ketner School of Business
The Ralph W. Ketner School of Business embodies Catawba College's mission to provide an education rich in personal attention that blends the knowledge and competencies of liberal studies with career preparation. Ketner offers a broad range of undergraduate majors, an MBA program, and access to unique internship, co-curricular, and experiential education opportunities. Faculty at the Ketner School also contribute to an online BBA program targeted towards non-traditional learners. The Ketner School of Business is a member of the ClimateCAP Initiative and received a Level 4 rating from the Positive Impact Rating (PIR) association in 2024.
About Catawba College
Founded in 1851 and perennially ranked as one of the best colleges in the South, Catawba College provides an education focused on an institutional philosophy of a liberal education, which entails a broad range of knowledge, intellectual and practical skills, and individual and social responsibility fostered and developed in all academic programs. Catawba offers 70 academic majors to nearly 1,400 students hailing from 34 U.S. states and 19 foreign countries. Like the student body, the Catawba faculty, constituting nearly 100 full-time members, is broadly diverse.
Catawba College's scenic campus is located within the historic piedmont city of Salisbury, North Carolina, (pop. 36,000), part of the greater Charlotte metropolitan area. Spread out over 276 wooded acres and 41 buildings, the campus is a beautiful blend of neogothic architecture set on a shaded hillside adjacent to the Center for the Environment facility and the ecological preserve. Centrally located, it is only two hours away from the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina and four hours away from some of the best beaches on the Atlantic Coast. Salisbury is a 45-minute drive from Charlotte Douglas International Airport, one of the busiest airports in the United States (10th nationwide in passenger traffic in 2022) with links to numerous domestic and overseas destinations.
In August 2024, Catawba College received a $200 million anonymous gift to its endowment, the third transformative gift of its kind in three years. One-third of the annual distributions of this gift will provide funding for programs that support environmental education and sustainability. In the coming years, the Smokestack, a reclamation of the College's old coal power plant, will be renovated according to Living Building Challenge stands and will provide an additional 10,000 square feet of student space. A new 150-bed residence hall is scheduled for completion in August 2026 and is pursuing Passive House certification. In April 2023, the College became the 13th college campus in the United States to achieve carbon neutrality and the 1st in North Carolina.
Application Process
Applicants must submit the following materials to management25search@catawba.edu:
· A letter of application;
· Curriculum Vitae;
· A statement of teaching philosophy (including evidence of teaching effectiveness, if available);
· Evidence of scholarship (maximum of three examples); and
· Contact information for three (3) professional references; references will not be contacted until candidates have successfully advanced through the initial stages of the selection process.
Review of completed applications begins on March 24, 2025, and continues until the position is filled.
Informal enquiries about the position should be directed to Dean Imran Chowdhury, ichowdhu23@catawba.edu.
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Imran Chowdhury
Catawba College
Salisbury NC
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