This salary range reflects the College’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the compensation for the position at the time of the job posting. Salary decisions are dependent on several factors including but not limited to market and organizational considerations, experience, and qualifications of a selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
Required Education:
Doctorate
The Bard College Physics Program invites applications for a tenure-track position in theoretical or computationally-based physics within the Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing beginning in the fall semester of 2025.
About Bard College
Bard College is a highly selective liberal arts college with a rapidly growing Science Division and Physics Program, located 100 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River.
Qualifications
Applicants with broad intellectual interests and with interdisciplinary focus connecting state-of-the-art computational techniques to physics are encouraged to apply. A successful applicant will have the opportunity to teach throughout the physics curriculum, including laboratory courses, advanced courses, and non-majors courses, as well as disciplinary courses of their own design at all levels.
Applicants are expected to develop a research program that can involve undergraduate students, outlined in their application materials, for which start-up funds and internal resources are available. Members of the Physics Program work closely with faculty members throughout the Division and the College in research and curricular development.
Applicants should have a Ph.D. in Physics or related fields and preferably post-doctoral experience.
To Apply
To apply, send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching statement, research statement, and three letters of recommendation (at least one addressing teaching) through Interfolio at: https://apply.interfolio.com/152225.
Review of applications will begin on October 3, 2024. For more information on the Physics Program at Bard, visit https://physics.bard.edu/, or contact Professor Kontos at akontos@bard.edu.
Compensation: $88,750-$91,000
This salary range reflects the College’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the compensation for the position at the time of the job posting. Salary decisions are dependent on several factors including but not limited to market and organizational considerations, experience, and qualifications of a selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
Benefits Overview
We are pleased to offer our full-time employees an excellent benefit package which includes; multiple health insurance options; TIAA retirement plans; generous vacation, sick, and personal time; and more. To learn more about employee benefits and eligibility at Bard College, please visit https://www.bard.edu/humanresources/benefits/.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Bard College is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications from those who contribute to our diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, mental, or physical disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, familial status, veteran status, or genetic information.
Bard is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for all individuals in employment practices, services, programs, and activities.
Bard College’s main campus is in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., with 1,900 undergraduate students; the College also includes multiple graduate programs. The 1,000-acre campus sits along the Hudson River and offers the Fisher Performing Arts Center, and Hessel Museum of Art, and is the home of the Bard Prison Initiative, the largest college-degree-granting prison education program in the U.S. The Bard Network also includes several Bard High School Early Colleges across the country as well as international campuses and partnerships. The Bard Network is complex and demonstrates Bard’s priorities well in addition to the College’s emphasis on civic engagement.
Bard College is a private institution working in the public interest. Bard faculty and staff lead their students by example, building upon the existing network of boundary-breaking programs focused on rethinking who can and should be included in a liberal arts education.
Bard College offers a full package of benefits, including: a retirement plan; health, vision and dental insurance; disability insurance and more.
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