Assistant Professor, Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CMHC) (Tenure-track)

The Counseling program in the Leadership and Professional Studies department of the College of Education (COE) at Seattle University seeks applications for a full-time assistant professor (tenure-track) position in the CACREP-accredited Clinical Mental Health Counseling program. The position begins September 1, 2021. This faculty member will teach specialization classes in the CMHC program, as well as classes in the CACREP core areas for both CMHC and school counseling students. The counseling program at Seattle University is committed to delivering a holistic educational experience that will empower students to be social change agents within the CMHC environment. We seek a faculty colleague who is committed to working in a high-touch, practitioner-based program that provides intentional advising and mentoring of students for entry-level CMHC roles.

The program holds the distinction of being the first CACREP-accredited counseling program in the Seattle area. The individual will join a social justice-oriented counseling program of seven full-time faculty members. Seattle University’s articulated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion can be found at https://www.seattleu.edu/diversity/lift-su

Primary responsibilities including teaching, scholarship, and service to the program, the institution, and to the counseling profession. Teaching may include face-to-face, online, or hybrid courses, and community-engaged learning experiences (community-based learning/research and service-learning). Additional curricular responsibilities include: high quality academic advising, curriculum development, continuous improvement activities, direct engagement with students. Scholarship is defined broadly and may include community-based research, critical, qualitative, mixed methods, or quantitative methodologies and grant writing. We are especially interested in scholars whose scholarship focuses on the mental health needs of marginalized communities in order to expand culturally relevant and accessible approaches to mental health care. In addition, faculty are encouraged to involve students in their scholarly agendas. Ideal candidates must demonstrate quality teaching/scholarship/service, student and community engagement, a commitment to collaboration, an understanding of the mission of Jesuit higher education, and alignment with the counseling program’s social justice mission.