Assistant Professor (Counseling)

Title: Assistant Professor (Counseling)

Employee Classification: FA - Faculty 16 and 24 (Pay)

Pay Grade: FA 01

Division: Academic and Student Affairs

Department: College of Education

Campus Location: Main Campus

General Summary

Eastern Michigan University’s Department of Leadership and Counseling in the College of Education is inviting applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in Counseling. The department offers CACREP-accredited master’s degree programs in college counseling and student affairs, school counseling, and clinical mental health counseling. These programs are committed to developing professional counselors who actively promote the well-being of individuals, institutions, and communities through the application of knowledge and skills enhancing the diversity, dignity, and development of the clients and communities they serve. We operate an in-house Counseling Training Clinic that is open to the community as well as a School-Based Counseling Training Clinic that serves several schools in the local community.

Our mission as a Counseling Program is to prepare graduates to work as professional counselors in higher education, K-12 school, and clinical mental health settings, using multiple modalities with diverse students and clients presenting with a range of concerns including addressing mental and emotional disorders. We seek to foster helping professionals who intentionally create inclusive spaces of responsiveness, respect, and appreciation for all forms of diversity, developing cultural proficiency in the service of promoting mental health and wellness to benefit local and global communities.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Teach and advise graduate students in CACREP-accredited college counseling/student affairs, school, and clinical mental health programs. Engage in scholarship and professional, community, and university service activities. These tenure-track positions require in-person, on-site engagement in teaching, service, and professional activities on campus.

Minimum Qualifications:

At a minimum, candidates must have earned a doctorate degree by August 2024 in Counseling/ Counselor Education, from a CACREP-accredited program or have experience teaching as a full time faculty member in a CACREP program. We are looking for clinicians who value ethical practice, teaching, and research simultaneously, with experience teaching across the CACREP core areas, a demonstrated commitment to social justice, equity, and inclusion, and preparing counselors from marginalized populations. Candidates should have an established research agenda. In addition, candidates must identify with the counseling profession, as evidenced by professional memberships and leadership activities and must be eligible for licensure as a professional counselor in Michigan.

Preferred Qualifications:

Position #1

A generalist with a background in clinical mental health is strongly desired. Additional desired qualifications include significant experience in counseling practice and supervision, cultural humility, understanding of trauma informed frameworks, desire for innovation, and a sense of humor. Expertise in counseling children and adolescents, gender and sexual violence, neurodiversity, working with inpatient populations, integrated behavioral health, and/or community programming would be welcomed.

Position #2

College counseling/student affairs experience is strongly desired. Additional desired qualifications include significant experience in student affairs & higher education, counseling practice and supervision, cultural humility, understanding of trauma informed frameworks, desire for innovation, and a sense of humor. Expertise in career development, counseling emerging adults, suicide prevention and education, neurodiversity, facilitating internships, and/or student affairs would be welcomed.

Special Instructions:

A competitive salary will be based on qualifications and prior experiences with a tenure-track appointment at the assistant professor rank. Eastern Michigan University will consider up to two years of credit for service at another institution. This is an eight-month appointment with summer employment contingent on departmental need. The starting date should be no later than August 15, 2024.

About Eastern Michigan University
Founded in 1849, Eastern is the second oldest public university in Michigan and the first Normal School outside of New England.  It currently serves more than 14,000 students pursuing undergraduate, graduate, specialist, doctoral and certificate degrees in the arts, sciences, education, and professions. In all, more than 300 majors, minors, and concentrations.  National publications regularly recognize EMU for its excellence, diversity, and commitment to applied education. EMU strives to serve marginalized groups. EMU was ranked #2 in Michigan for Social Mobility (U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges edition), #1 in Michigan for support of veterans to degree attainment (Military Times), and EMU has been accepted into The Center for First-generation Student Success, an initiative of NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education) and The Suder Foundation. Visit the University’s rankings and points of pride websites to learn more. For more information about Eastern Michigan University, visit the University's website . To stay up to date on University news, activities and announcements, visit EMU Today . 

EMU is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan, adjacent to Ann Arbor and 45 minutes from downtown Detroit. With many cultural and natural assets in the area and easy access to a first-class international airport, there are endless opportunities to explore close to home or far away.

Application Process

All applications must be made online at: https://careers.emich.edu.

Applicants should submit, preferably in advance of 11/15/23, a letter of interest, the names and contact information of three references, a detailed curriculum vitae, and a statement which outlines your commitment and work supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion in education. Official transcripts will be required prior to contract.  Review of applications will continue until finalists are identified.

For more information contact the search committee co-chairs: Dr. Quentin Hunter ([email protected] ) or Dr. Perry C. Francis ([email protected] ).

Eastern Michigan University takes pride in the pursuit of its affirmative action objectives and encourages qualified minorities to consider this opportunity. A diverse and culturally competent faculty is highly prized. We seek candidates who demonstrate the capacity to engage ethically in communities of practice with ethnically, racially, linguistically, and otherwise diverse populations and historically marginalized youth, families, and communities and who seek to enact such a commitment in collaboration with others in the department, college, campus, and broader community. 

Appointment Percentage:

100%