The Department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Counseling at Texas Tech University invites applications from innovative and thoughtful colleagues to join our faculty at the rank of Assistant Professor in School Psychology. This full-time, tenure-track position with a nine-month academic year appointment will start on September 1, 2024.
Texas Tech University is the flagship of the Texas Tech University System and a Carnegie Tier One research university. The current enrollment is over 40,000 students. As a Hispanic-serving institution, Texas Tech University seeks to foster an environment that promotes inclusive access and attracts committed and high-achieving students. We are dedicated to recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty to educate and empower our diverse student body while serving an extremely vast and diverse state with an increasingly culturally pluralistic population. The university has also been awarded the Paul Simon Awards for Comprehensive Internationalization by NAFSA: Association of International Educators twice in the last four years.
Lubbock, Texas (Pop. 250,000) is an outstanding place to live and work. This growing city, with its college-town feel, has a remarkable history and a vital future. Lubbock is the educational, commercial, agricultural, medical, financial, and cultural hub of the South Plains. The City of Lubbock and Texas Tech University enjoy an exceptionally cooperative and supportive relationship extending from community health to cotton crop production and from wind energy to education. Lubbock is nationally recognized as an outstanding place to raise a family and offers ease of access for commuting across town, or travel across the nation. There are plenty of recreational opportunities and a wide variety of restaurants and shopping, community events and cultural activities including breweries and wine bars, a vibrant live-music scene, along with more traditional performing arts.
The Texas Tech University College of Education, with over 2,000 students, offers a nationally recognized undergraduate teacher preparation program and 21 graduate degrees that prepare students for professional or academic positions in education. We are a diverse community of scholars, researchers, and educators with a commitment to excellence in teaching and serving EC-12 public schools and beyond. We collaborate with local, regional, state, national, and global partners to address complex problems facing individuals and communities. In recognition of its extraordinary community outreach efforts, the college received a 2018 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU).
The Department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Counseling offers competitive graduate programs that are growing both nationally and internationally. The School Psychology doctoral and specialist-level programs are specializations within the Educational Psychology Program, that emphasize the design, implementation, and investigation of evidence-based prevention and intervention practices to address student learning, social-emotional development, behavioral performance, instructional methodology, school practices, and classroom management for all EC-12 students. School Psychology partners with area rural school districts to support intervention and mental health services, which offers unique opportunities for practicum and internship supervision, applied research, and support of diverse populations.
Learn more and find application instructions at the full announcement, here.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or status as a protected veteran.