"Assistant Professor or Instructor, Sport Management Department"

Position Information

Budget Title: Assistant Professor

Campus Title: Assistant Professor or Instructor, Sport Management Department

School/Division: Academic Affairs, Division of

Department: Sport Management

Salary Level: A6

Salary Range: $64,000+ depending on experience (DOE) (Assistant Professor)/$58,000+ depending on experience (DOE) (Instructor)

Position Effort: Full-Time

Position Summary:

SUNY Cortland is accepting applications for a tenure-track assistant professor or instructor in the Sport Management Department. Job title is dependent on terminal degree status. The teaching requirement for an assistant professor is 3/3 while an instructor is on a 4/3 load. Both roles are eligible for continuing appointment.

SUNY Cortland is an engaged learning community that is committed to promoting a diversity of thought and experience. We believe that an equitable, inclusive and diverse campus and curriculum are critical to our educational mission. Tenure track faculty contribute to the college’s values of inclusive excellence through outstanding teaching, research and/or scholarship, service to the department and college, and by providing academic advisement and mentoring to/for all students. Faculty are expected to maintain a routine presence on campus to support our Campus Values of Focusing on the Students, Integrity, and Intellectual Life and serve our Campus Priorities of Academic Excellence, Transformational Education, Well-being, and the Maximization of Resources.

Major Responsibilities

Department Profile: SUNY Cortland offers the largest and oldest sport management program in the SUNY system. The department’s mission focuses on high-impact practices and career-driven outcomes for students. High-impact practices include fieldwork, internships, study abroad, applied classes, and more. Students may choose from five concentrations within the major (event management, media & I.T., sales, international sport, and intercollegiate sport). The department also houses a fully online Master’s program.

The department features a unique range of elective classes in areas such as streaming media production, videography, social media, sport analytics, international sport management, entrepreneurship, sport tourism, disability and sport, video games, fantasy sports, and more. All undergraduate students are required to work one semester with SUNY Cortland’s Athletic Department and complete a full-time, 15-credit senior internship. The undergraduate SPMG program has approximately 500 students, and the graduate program has approximately 60 students.

Teaching:

• Teach undergraduate and/or graduate sport management courses.

Scholarship/Research:

• Engage in scholarly work and activities that involve undergraduates or graduate students as appropriate to the application and receipt of tenure.

Service:

• Advise and mentor students in sport management.
• Provide service to the department, the University, and professional organizations.

Required Qualifications

Assistant Professor Rank:

• Terminal degree or Ph.D. or doctoral candidate who is all but dissertation (ABD) with degree conferral by September 2026 in sport management or related field.

Instructor Rank:

• Master’s degree in sport management or a related field, and at least five years of sport industry experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience and evidence of university-level teaching.
• Experience in delivering undergraduate and/or graduate coursework in sport management.