Grove City College announces a faculty opening in the Department of Physics beginning in August 2008. A Ph.D. in Physics or Astronomy is required. Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate physics courses and laboratories at all levels, advising students, and mentoring student research. Qualified applicants will also assist the department in expanding its course offerings in astronomy and astrophysics. Among its research facilities, the department has a new on-site observatory containing a 14" Meade RCX400 telescope, and has recently purchased a nearby observational facility housing a 20" Torus CC05 telescope.
Candidates must evidence a strong record of classroom teaching, scholarship within their field, and a commitment to instructing highly motivated students (1268/1600 average SAT for entering freshmen). Rank and salary are commensurate with qualifications. Grove City College is a nationally recognized, truly independent, highly selective college of liberal arts, sciences, and engineering where intellectual inquiry remains open to the questions religion raises and affirms the answers Christianity offers.
Send a letter of application, vita, transcripts, names of four references (three professional and one pastoral), a brief statement of how you would engage undergraduates in your research plans, and a four to five paragraph essay relating your philosophy of a liberal arts education and the teaching of physics to the College’s unique mission as a Christian college (see www.gcc.edu) to: William P. Anderson, Jr.; Ph.D., Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Grove City College, 100 Campus Drive, Grove City, PA 16127-2104 or electronically to laklaiber@gcc.edu. Review of applications commences immediately.
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 age, race, color, creed, sex, marital status, disability, or national or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other college-administrative programs