Position Information
Position Type
Adjunct
Faculty Track
Non Tenure
Position Title
Adjunct Faculty - Medical Ethics for Master of Biomedical Science
Employment Status
Part Time
Months
Campus
Remote
Description
Adjunct Faculty within the College of Professional Studies ( CPS) are critical to the success of UNE’s online programs. The role of the faculty in CPS is to facilitate the learning process for online students through timely and effective instruction and communication. Instructors also serve as mentors, sharing their experience to help guide students and ensure they achieve their educational and professional goals. The faculty facilitates the retention of students through creating a positive educational environment, allowing for students to derive the maximum benefits from the program in which they are enrolled. Instructors will receive supervision, collaboration, and guidance from the UNE Online Master of Biomedical Science ( MBS) Program.
About The University of New England
UNE is Maine’s largest private university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study-abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible online offerings. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to positively impact a world full of challenges. We are the state’s top provider of health professionals and home to Maine’s only medical and dental colleges, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care programs, and nationally recognized programs in the marine sciences, the natural and social sciences, business, the humanities, and the arts.
Responsibilities
- Providing expert and graduate level knowledge in Medical Ethics
- Guiding students through their educational experience while upholding and adhering to the CPS commitment to student success
- Providing timely response to student inquiries, within 24 hours
- Facilitating class instruction by engaging in the online course portal a minimum of 5 times per week
- Hosting a minimum of one hour of virtual office hours per week
- Posting weekly announcements to enhance course content
- Having excellent collaborative and communication skills
- Willingness to analyze best practices in online education
Qualifications
- Experience teaching online in an academic setting and demonstrates expertise in ethics or a related field, with a strong commitment to student engagement and substantive feedback.
- Master’s degree in related field – PhD preferred
- A minimum of three years of teaching experience in medical ethics, bioethics, or related content within health professions education
- A desire to motivate and encourage students in academic and professional settings
- Expertise teaching online and the desire to learn and apply new technological approaches to education
- Experience using the Brightspace/D2L Learning Management system
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