"Assistant Professor (Educational Leadership) Faculty"

Job Details

APPOINTMENT: Assistant Professor (Educational Leadership)

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL: Leadership and Higher Education/School of Education

Months: 9 months

SALARY RANGE: $68,173 - $77,175

HIRING RANGE: Anticipated hiring range is near or at the minimum of the classification, commensurate with candidate's education, experience, skills, and training.

BENEFITS OVERVIEW: BROCHURE

AVAILABLE: January 2026

POSTING DATE: August 29, 2025

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Please apply by Friday, September 19, 2025, to ensure full consideration

To apply, please submit the following with your application:

• Curriculum vitae,
• an unofficial transcript,
• a cover letter that responds to the position criteria,
• a brief statement of teaching philosophy that connects the applicant’s experiences with their support of diverse students,
• and the names and contact information of three (3) people who might be contacted as professional references.

Inquiries: Questions about the position should be addressed to Maribel Cruz at Maribel_cruz@redlands.edu. Please use “Department of Leadership and Higher Education Position Search” as your subject line.

Definition of Classification:

The School of Education, University of Redlands, is excited to open a tenure-track position focused on educational justice.

We seek applications for a 9-month, full-time, assistant professor tenure-track position in the Department of Leadership and Higher Education. In this position, the successful candidate will join a committed department of colleagues to facilitate the learning of an innovative school community. This position serves across the department to provide educational leadership expertise for our P-20 educational leadership and social justice doctoral program. The successful applicant will: (a) have expertise in educational leadership, preferably in K-12 contexts and/or youth organizing (b) have broad inquiry expertise, (c) teach core courses in our doctoral program, (d) engage in efforts to support the success of our diverse students, (e) advise doctoral students in our educational leadership and social justice doctoral program, and (f) engage fully and collegially in the triumvirate of faculty responsibilities (teaching, research, and service).

Required qualifications:

• Earned doctorate in Educational Leadership or a related field.
• Ability to teach courses on educational leadership, organizational change, education finance, or education law for students who are both K-12 and higher education professionals
• Ability to advise and support dissertation students through the dissertation process as chair or committee member.
• Demonstrated evidence of successful teaching, research or service, working with disenfranchised communities.
• Ability to teach in synchronous online and face-to-face modalities.
• Evidence of an active or developing research agenda with, or leading to, refereed scholarship, professional presentations, and external funding related to educational justice.
• Evidence of methodological expertise in qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods.
• Demonstrated success or potential for working with a diverse student body.
• Strong interest in and commitment to the integration of technology.
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal skills and collegiality.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Expertise in quantitative research methods with critical quantitative perspectives.
• Successful teaching experience at the graduate level.
• Interest in providing leadership for PASC credential program.
• Involvement in state, regional, or national education accreditation entities and associations.
• Experience supervising doctoral dissertations.

The University of Redlands, a private nondenominational liberal arts university, is one of the leading private liberal arts universities for the South West region. In addition, the U.S. Department of Education has designated the University of Redlands as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), recognizing the institution’s ongoing commitment to serving Hispanic/Latinx Americans among the University’s student populations.

Since 1924, the University of Redlands School of Education has upheld a commitment to develop and mentor compassionate, influential educators and counselors who are driven to contribute to something greater than themselves. The School of Education prepares educators and counselors who are committed to social justice and who are prepared for effective practice in increasingly complex educational and clinical contexts.

Our Department of Leadership and Higher Education offers master’s degrees in school and district leadership, and higher education and student affairs, as well as the preliminary administrative credential (PASC), and a doctorate in leadership for educational justice. Departmental faculty include both experienced practitioners as well as dedicated scholars and leaders in both higher education and educational leadership. We are committed to meeting students where they are, providing opportunities for success, and working towards educational access and equity. We seek a dynamic, engaged colleague to join us serving students, university, and communities, and we look forward to welcoming additional diverse perspectives to our intellectual community.

We seek a colleague who both demonstrates and will foster in students a pluralistic notion of values and who challenges assumptions and stereotypes. The University of Redlands is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access Employer and actively encourages applications from members of underrepresented groups. The University of Redlands does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, disability, age, marital status, or sexual orientation in its programs and activities.