Department/Organization
209301 - Online Learning

Rank
Instructor

Position Summary
The University of Alabama Online invites applications for a Legends 101/201 (First Year Compass Course) Instructor position beginning in the Spring 2025 semester. This twelve-month, non-tenure earning position is renewable annually depending on need, funding, and performance. This position will work with all incoming undergraduate students enrolling in UA Online.

Detailed Position Information
The University of Alabama Online invites applications for a Legends 101/201 (First Year Compass Course) Instructor position beginning in the Spring 2025 semester. This twelve-month, non-tenure earning position is renewable annually depending on need, funding, and performance. This position will work with all incoming undergraduate students enrolling in UA Online.

Beginning in Fall 2025, The University of Alabama’s Built by Bama General Education curriculum requires all new incoming students to complete Legends 101 (freshmen) or Legends 201 (transfers), a one-hour, graded course that introduces students to a big idea, engages students in critical thinking, and facilitates community building. The online courses will be taught using an interdisciplinary approach to a topic. The course will also introduce students to campus resources, career and major exploration, time management, and financial management. All content will be tailored to meet the needs of adult and non-traditional students and will be delivered over the course of the academic semester (fall, spring and summer semesters). UA Online admits 500-600 new undergraduate students annually who will be required to complete this course.


Responsibilities include the following:

● Serve in a full-time instructor capacity (work a minimum of 38.75 hours per week)

● Teach the semester-long, 1 credit, distance Legends 101 course to distance learning students

● Prepare each distance Legends 101 section by creating course schedules, updating course links, adding users, and revising Blackboard content to fit each section

● Actively participate in the online course five days per week

● Hold variety of afternoon and evening office hours three days per week

● Create weekly video announcements and host live Zoom sessions periodically during the semester

● Collaborate with Instructional Designers during the course development process, which includes creating and revising course content (assignments, rubrics, and tutorial videos) during the course revision process

We seek a talented and innovative instructor who can work with groups of adult and non-traditional online learners. As a community of knowledge builders, we are looking for a productive and creative colleague who, through teaching, will bring new perspectives to the delivery of an online course and online instructional practices.

Minimum Qualifications
Applicants must have an earned master’s degree. Candidates must have a strong record of excellent teaching and communication skills and experience teaching. This position requires flexibility to work days, nights, and weekends.

Preferred Qualifications
Applicants with an earned Ed.D. or Ph.D. in their field of study. Degrees in secondary education, adult education, higher education, or instructional technology from an accredited institution and a minimum of 1-year online teaching experience in Blackboard Learn will be given extra consideration.

About the Division/College/School
The University of Alabama Online enrolls over 6,000 students annually in over 100 academic undergraduate and graduate degree programs. UA Online consistently ranks among the best online programs in the nation. UA Online provides non-traditional and adult students flexible and innovative instruction allowing them to earn their University of Alabama degree from where they are. The undergraduate students enrolled in UA Online are typically non-traditional adult students.

About the University
The University of Alabama is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, named one of Travel + Leisure’s 25 Best College Towns and Cities in the U.S. As one of the nation’s premier universities, UA offers bachelor’s, master's and doctoral degrees in nearly 200 fields of study. With more than 1,400 acres of tree-lined academic core campus and over 300 state-of-the art facilities, UA has been ranked among the most beautiful and most impressive college campuses in the South, in the state of Alabama and in the nation.

In Fall 2023, the Capstone set a new enrollment record with more than 39,000 students, including more than 8,200 in the freshman class. The current enrollment includes students from every county in Alabama, every state in the nation and 92 countries around the world. More than 1,100 National Merit Scholars are currently enrolled, making UA one of the largest enrolling institutions of the scholars in the country.

UA was recently recognized as a Top Producing Institution of Fulbright U.S. students for the seventh time in nine years, as well as a Top Producing Institution of Fulbright U.S. Scholars for the first time. UA is one of only 12 universities in the nation to receive both honors.

For reasons like this, the University made the Forbes List of America’s Top Colleges for 2023 and Time magazine’s list of Top 50 Best Colleges for Future Leaders. It also made Princeton Review’s list of Top Value Colleges.

UA is also designated among the top doctoral research universities in the United States in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. One of the fastest-growing major research institutions in the nation, UA saw a 21% increase in sponsored awards in the 2023 fiscal year.

Since 2015, UA has invested over $1.1 billion in the physical campus, adding more than 2.55 million gross square feet of space, over 150 new research-intensive faculty, signature research areas (e.g., “The Alabama Research Institutes”), and a growing number of partnerships with industry and with state and federal agencies.

The University employs nearly 2,100 faculty and over 4,500 staff, with 52 UA researchers included in the National Academy of Inventors. An additional 40 current faculty have received the NSF CAREER Award, the nation’s most prestigious recognition of top-performing young scientists in disciplines ranging from nanoscience and engineering to biological sciences.

Background Investigation and EEO Statement
Prior to hiring, the final candidate(s) must successfully pass a pre-employment background investigation and information obtained from social media and other internet sources. A prior conviction reported as a result of the background investigation DOES NOT automatically disqualify a candidate from consideration for this position. A candidate with a prior conviction or negative behavioral red flags will receive an individualized review of the prior conviction or negative behavioral red flags before a hiring decision is made.

The University of Alabama is an Equal Employment/Equal Educational Opportunity Institution. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against because of their protected status. Applicants to and employees of this institution are protected under Federal law from discrimination on several bases. Follow the link below to find out more. "EEO is the Law" https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf