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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Title: Assistant Professor of Biology</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Appointment Date: Jan or Aug 2023</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Submit letter of interest, curriculum vita, transcripts, contact information for three references, and</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">three letters of recommendation (Dean Bonnie Warnock; bwarnock@sulross.edu).</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">*Duties: We are seeking a botany professor who will look forward to taking advantage of our geographic </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">location in the botanically diverse northern Chihuahuan Desert region, using the natural laboratory in teaching </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">and research.<span style="">
</span>We also hope that the successful applicant will be interesting in maintaining and eventually </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">directing the active Sul Ross herbarium, which currently houses an estimated 100,000 specimens.<span style="">
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">herbarium has a healthy and growing endowment.<span style="">
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Botany/Herbarium Chair, which could significantly increase the salary of a professor who holds that chair. </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">*Locations: Alpine, TX</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">*Compensation: Commensurate with education and experience; contact Dean Bonnie Warnock</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">(bwarnock@sulross.edu)</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">*Eligibility: Candidates must already be authorized to work in the U.S.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Texas Law requires a 60 day waiting period before new state employees are eligible to enroll in health</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">insurance.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Ph.D. in Plant Systematics, with training in modern DNA techniques; strongly prefer broad training in</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">botany, with commitment to teaching an array of undergraduate and graduate courses, and interests in</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">in field botany and taxonomy; ABD candidates will also be considered. ABD candidates will be hired as</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">an instructor (tenure-track) until the terminal degree is received.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Primary Responsibilities: Teach 12 semester credit hours per semester (usually three courses); course</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">reduction for active research. Courses can include, but not be limited to, General Botany, Biology for</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Majors I and II, Plants and People, Plant Systematics, Field Botany, Plant Taxonomy, and other advanced</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">courses.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Delivery of courses will be through face to face as well as distance delivery.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Establishment of an externally funded research program involving undergraduate and graduate</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">students, as well as participation in professional development, and university and community service.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Responsible for personal safety and the safety of others; must exercise due caution and practice safe</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">work habits at all times.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Position is Security Sensitive.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">This is a nine-month tenure-track position.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">The University offers an excellent benefits package to faculty members including: a free basic individual</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">health care package, the option of a state retirement through Teachers Retirement System (TRS) or</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Optional Retirement Package (ORP), traditionally available summer teaching opportunities, small class</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">sizes, and a small private liberal arts college environment rarely found in a state supported university.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">The Department of Natural Sciences offers BS and MS degrees in Biology, Geology, and Natural Resource</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Management. The graduate programs enroll approximately thirty students, primarily thesis seeking.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Although research is encouraged, excellence in classroom instruction is the first priority of the</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">It is the policy of Sul Ross State University to provide equal employment opportunity for all persons in</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">accordance with their individual, job related qualifications and without consideration of race, creed,</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">About SRSU</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Sul Ross State University, located in Alpine, Texas, is a member of the Texas State University System. It is</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and has an enrollment of approximately 2,000 students on campus in</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Alpine.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">At an elevation of 4,480 feet in the scenic Davis Mountains of Tran-s Pecos Texas, and on the periphery</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">of the Chihuahuan Desert, Alpine enjoys mild winters and cool summers. Davis Mountains State Park,</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Fort Davis National Historic Site, Big Bend National Park and Guadalupe Mountains National Park are all</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">within one to three hours’ driving distance from Alpine.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">See http://www.sulross.edu</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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