Accounting Faculty

POSITION OFFERED: Accounting Faculty

EMPLOYMENT DATE: August 2024 

TERM OF EMPLOYMENT: Renewable, Full-Time, 10-months

JOB DESCRIPTION: Tompkins Cortland Community College seeks a dynamic and engaging full-time tenure track faculty member with a focus on student success and retention. Position includes 15 credits per semester in Accounting courses in our Accounting AAS and Accounting AS programs. This may involve teaching students in first and second-level accounting courses including Financial, Intermediate, Cost, Managerial, and Income Taxation. Teaching may involve face-to-face, remote, day, evening, online, hybrid, and HyFlex courses. The successful candidate will collaborate with colleagues to maintain, develop, and update course curricula and work on and possibly lead initiatives for future development. Other activities will include student advising, serving on college committees, holding office hours, and outcomes assessment. This position is within the Faculty Association Union. Candidates must currently reside or be willing to relocate to New York State at the time of employment. Additionally, maintaining New York State residency will be required for the duration of employment.

Tompkins Cortland Community College’s Strategic Equity, Diversity, Justice, and Inclusion Plan works to increase the representation of historically underrepresented faculty across our campus. This work aligns with the College’s mission of serving our community by meeting educational needs and creating an environment for student success. In addition, it prepares our students and ourselves for citizenship in a global society. We value diversity in all of its contexts, including strengths, perspectives, and people. Our commitment to our Strategic Equity, Diversity, Justice, and Inclusion plan helps us work to ensure that our faculty are representative of our student body.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Master’s degree in Accounting and a CPA with teaching experience.  

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Teaching experience at a community college and advising college-level students. Ability to integrate modern instructional technology into classes and to create a student-centered and active learning environment. This position requires the ability to work supportively in a culturally diverse environment of students, faculty, staff, and the community. Candidates who have demonstrated a commitment to working with multi-lingual learners and historically under-served students and/or communities through teaching, mentoring, or administration are especially encouraged to apply. Candidates with a demonstrated ability to incorporate an intersectional framework into teaching and student engagement are encouraged to identify those experiences in the application materials.  

EXPECTED HIRING SALARY RANGE: $51,233-$76,853. Salary subject to change pending outcome of Faculty Association negotiations. Starting salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. As a College employee, this appointment includes NYS retirement benefit options with a choice of a pension or generous matches to 414H, attractive Health Care options with 80% of premiums covered by the College, post-retirement health insurance, and supportive work-life balance with holidays and sick days along with tuition assistance and ability of application to Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) in addition to other benefits offered by the College. Inquire for additional details.

Review of applicants to begin April 4, 2024, and continue until the position is filled.

Tompkins Cortland Community College is a culturally diverse campus with over two decades of strong partnerships with international colleges and universities and a commitment to preparing our students for citizenship in a global society. Tompkins Cortland Community College is accredited by the Board of Regents of the State of New York and by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and awards associate degrees in career-oriented and liberal arts/sciences programs of study. Visa sponsorship is not available. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. AA/EOE

Location: Tompkins Cortland Community College is located in the naturally beautiful and culturally rich Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, near Syracuse, Rochester, Ithaca, and Binghamton. The area is host to many colleges, including Cornell University, as well as excellent healthcare, museums, festivals, and business enterprises.