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The University of Wisconsin-Parkside is committed to access, diversity, engagement, and academic excellence. It currently enrolls approximately 5,100 students, many of whom are first generation and nontraditional students. UW-Parkside benefits from the ethnic and racial diversity of the communities it serves in Kenosha, Racine and Walworth Counties. Located in northern Kenosha County in the Chicago-Milwaukee urban corridor, much of the university’s 700-acre campus has been preserved in its natural wooded and prairie state. UW-Parkside is strongly committed to creating and maintaining a multicultural, pluralistic campus environment.

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Lecturer, Economics

The University of Wisconsin-Parkside Economics Department invites applications for a full-time Lecturer for one-year with possibility of renewal, in applied economics, specifically financial economics, industrial organization, health economics, and urban economics, beginning August 18, 2009.

Qualifications

Required: Applicants must either have a Ph.D. in economics or be a Ph.D. candidate in economics (i.e., “all but dissertation”). Primary fields of interest are financial economics, industrial organization, and health economics (a global perspective is preferred). Applicants must be committed to teaching excellence.

Preferred: Secondary field of interest is urban and regional economics. Teaching experience in principles of microeconomics, principles of macroeconomics, and applied economics (in particular, financial economics and industrial organization) is preferred. The department encourages applications from individuals who will bring to campus diverse cultural and ethnic perspectives or experiences.

Responsibilities
This lecturer will be expected to teach four classes each semester (usually one upper-level undergraduate course and three economic principles courses). In addition to teaching principles courses, this lecturer professor will play an integral role in teaching the curriculum of the monetary and financial economics concentration of the economics major. Upper level courses will include ECON 360: Industrial Organization and Regulation and ECON 367: Financial Institutions and Markets. This lecturer may be requested to assist with the Department’s academic assessment efforts and to engage in community-based learning projects.

Salary
Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. The University of Wisconsin System provides a liberal benefits package, including participation in a state pension plan.

To Apply
Applicants must submit a cover letter, vita, three letters of reference, a statement of teaching philosophy, and evidence of excellent teaching (such as student evaluations, if available). Applications received by May 15, 2009, are ensured full consideration; the position remains open until filled. Application materials should be submitted to:

Dennis A. Kaufman, Search & Screen Chair
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Parkside
900 Wood Road
Kenosha, WI 53144

Via Email: kaufman@uwp.edu