"Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Communications and Visual Arts"

The Communication and Visual Arts department at Grove City College seeks to hire a full-time professor beginning July 2026. A PhD in Communication or a closely related discipline, as well as prior teaching experience, is preferred. Rank and salary are commensurate with qualifications and relevant experience.

The successful candidate for the position must be capable of teaching intercultural communication, research methods, principles of media, public relations, and media law and ethics. Other courses of interest include rhetorical criticism, organizational communication, persuasion theory, and public speaking.

The focus of the C&VA department is on preparing students for an ever-changing job market with critical thinking, analysis, and practical skills that can advance an organization’s goals and missions. Students in the C&VA department benefit from cross-disciplinary experiences in business, design, art, entrepreneurship, and more. Core curriculum includes public speaking, writing for the media, intercultural communication, research methods, and theory courses. Majors include Communication Arts and Design and Innovation. Minors are available in Communication Arts, Design, and Studio Arts.

Candidates for the position within Grove City College’s C&VA department will support and enhance our departmental missions and goals.

To be considered, please send a current curriculum vitae, names and contact information of four references (three professional and one pastoral), and a letter of interest that includes an explanation of how your Christian faith represents a strong fit with Grove City College’s unique mission as a Christian college to: Mrs. Jamie N. Kimble, Associate Director of Human Resources at employment@gcc.edu

Grove City College is a private educational institution noted for its academic excellence, where scholarship is informed by Christian principles. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, ancestry, non-job-related disability, use of a guide or support animal, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other college-administrative programs.