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Stuart School of Business ("Stuart") at the Illinois Institute of Technology ("Illinois Tech") seeks to hire an Industry Assistant Professor of Business Economics. Candidates must have completed a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline by August 2024 and will have demonstrated potential to excel in the classroom. Ideally, candidates will have experience working in or with industry and/or the public and/or the nonprofit sectors. This includes private sector practitioners and practitioners who have managed or advised public sector clients and programs. Candidates will possess teaching and research skills that are compatible with the needs of public administration and business programs. This position provides opportunities to teach courses in business, public management, economics, program evaluation, and policy analysis. This is a teaching-track position.

Responsibilities include teaching courses at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels, maintaining currency and relevance in one's discipline including through research, participating in school and university activities, and providing service to the school and the university.

Stuart School of Business is an academic unit of the Illinois Institute of Technology, a private Ph.D.-granting university. Stuart is a global leader in bridging business and technology, offering distinctive educational programs that prepare students to become outstanding professionals in public administration, economics, finance, analytics, marketing, business, operations, and management, with a history of curricular and scholarly innovation spanning 125 years of business education at Illinois Tech. Located in Chicago with a campus downtown and in the Bronzeville neighborhood, the school offers bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and non-degree programs in those areas and is accredited by AACSB International.

Stuart faculty comprises 28 full-time distinguished scholars and practitioners, with Ph.D.s from notable institutions including Carnegie Mellon, Wharton, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Chicago, MIT, UC-Berkeley, Yale, and Duke, with several additional affiliated full-time scholars from Illinois Tech's other colleges.

Stuart's student population consists of over 1,000 graduate and undergraduate students. The Stuart community is diverse, with a large international representation at the graduate level, a large domestic representation at the undergraduate level, as well as remote students who are primarily working professionals. Further information is available at

Illinois Institute of Technology is a private Ph.D.-granting research university with world- renowned programs in engineering, architecture, the sciences, humanities, psychology, business, law, and design. Founded in 1890, Illinois Tech was born different. It was built on the promise set forth in minister Frank Wakely Gunsaulus' "Million Dollar Sermon" to provide access to higher education for students from all different backgrounds and to make a difference in the world through technology-oriented education. This guiding mission and purpose - where students, including those underrepresented in technology, could prepare for meaningful roles in a changing industrial society and achieve professional and economic advancement - remains just as relevant today. Thus, diversity and inclusion are part of the day-to-day experience at Illinois Tech and a central component of its culture. As such, Illinois Tech is home to a diverse and global student population, is committed to providing opportunities to enhance the diversity of its faculty and staff, and strongly encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply for this position, especially those underrepresented in the field.

A full application including a cover letter, curriculum vitae, evidence of research productivity, evidence of teaching effectiveness, teaching statement, a succinct statement, no longer than two pages, on the candidate's commitment to equity and inclusion in education, and the names of three references should be submitted as PDF attachments. The equity and inclusion statement should address specific past and/or potential contributions to the equitable and inclusive delivery of academic instruction and support to and research mentorship of students from a diverse background of countries, cultures and socioeconomic conditions. The review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.

All documents aside from CV and Cover letter should be submitted as a single PDF portfolio.

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