Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Position Summary

The Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Indiana University Northwest is a full-time, tenure-track, 10-month position with summer assignments and associated stipend in accordance with programmatic need. Core responsibilities include participating with and leading efforts to improve pedagogy and student success within foundational mathematics courses, conducting disciplinary research, teaching undergraduate students in face-to-face and asynchronous online modalities, teaching graduate students in the online programs, and participating in service activities. The Assistant Professor is responsible for a 12-credit-hour per semester teaching load at all levels of the undergraduate and graduate Mathematics curriculum with an expected productive program of research and scholarly publication supported by a 3-credit-hour reduction in teaching load. Active involvement in service to the department, campus, discipline, and the community is also expected. The Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science is comprised of eight full-time faculty members, whose principal research areas include Algebraic Semigroup Theory, Graph Theory, Mathematical Modeling in Medical Decision-Making, Mathematical Physics, Representation Theory, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. More details about the department can be found at . ABOUT INDIANA UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST One of seven campuses of Indiana University, IU Northwest is located in metropolitan Northwest Indiana, approximately 30 miles southeast of Chicago and 10 miles from the Indiana Dunes National Park. The campus has a diverse student population of approximately 3,500 degree-seeking students and 1,800 dual-credit students and has been recognized by the Department of Education as a minority and Hispanic serving institution. The campus offers Associate, Baccalaureate, and Master’s degrees from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Health and Human Services, the School of Business and Economics, the School of the Arts, and the School of Education. The campus is also host to IU School of Medicine-Northwest-Gary, the region’s only four-year medical doctorate program. As a student-centered campus, IU Northwest is committed to academic excellence characterized by a love of ideas and achievement in learning, discovery, creativity, research, and community engagement.