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Full Time Faculty - Surgical Technology (Tenure Track, Fall 2025)

Position Number: 6110266
Location: Glen Ellyn, IL
Position Type: Medicine - Other Medicine

Full Time Faculty - Surgical Technology (Tenure Track, Fall 2025)

Full Time Faculty - Surgical Technology (Tenure Track, Fall 2025)
The College of DuPage is a comprehensive community college located 27 miles west of downtown Chicago, vitally connected to our local area for over 50 years. We prepare students for a lifelong passion for learning on our 273-acre campus which is home to nine associate degrees and a wide variety of professional and technical certificates. Many of these credentials prepare students to seamlessly articulate into the baccalaureate programs of our higher education partner institutions.

College of DuPage is committed to student success and values an inclusive and welcoming community environment. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workforce. Our connection to the larger metropolitan area is essential to our success and provides a wealth of diverse cultural and recreational opportunities.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

College of DuPage seeks a full-time, tenure track faculty member to teach Surgical Technician courses starting in August 2025.

The Surgical Technology (SURGT) Program, prepares competent professionals in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

The SURGT curriculum incorporates the Commission of Accreditation for Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) professional standards, guidelines, and competencies needed for surgical technology employment.

We are actively seeking innovative, collaborative colleagues who regularly examine their pedagogy and practices in order to foster more equitable, accessible, and inclusive student learning.

Faculty duties include classroom instruction, assessment, curriculum development, advising students, professional inquiry, committee work and engaging with instructional technology.

Teaching assignments may include various delivery modes, such as face-to-face, on-line, hybrid and/or blended formats during days, evenings and weekends. Faculty positions may not be fully remote.

Qualifications:

Education

Be a graduate of an education program in surgical technology accredited by a nationally recognized programmatic accreditation agency

Possess a credential in the field of surgical technology through a national certification program that is accredited by the National Commission on Certifying Agencies (NCCA)

Experience

Teaching experience in Higher Education required. Teaching experience in a community college preferred.

Have a minimum total of two years of experience, either in the operating room scrub role or as an instructor in surgical technology, or a combination of both, within the past five years. Persons approved as didactic/clinical faculty and/or instructional staff under previous Standards will continue to be approved in that position at that institution.

Competitive starting salaries are dependent on education and experience. College of DuPage also offers a generous benefits plan.

To apply please submit your electronic application, unofficial transcripts, current curriculum vita, a cover letter including a list of three references, and a Teaching Statement. Applications accepted until 11:59 p.m. CST, Sunday, April 27, 2025.

The Teaching Statement must include the candidate's anticipated contributions to College of DuPage related to academic quality and student success and meet a 2-page limit.

A teaching demonstration will be required at interview.

This position requires a pre-employment background and drug screen. The College of DuPage does not sponsor employment.

Foreign Transcripts: Transcripts issued outside the United States require a course-by-course analysis with an equivalency statement from a certified transcript evaluation service verifying the degree equivalency to that of an accredited institution within the USA.

College of DuPage is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

College of DuPage does not discriminate against individuals in employment opportunities, programs and/or activities on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, veterans' status, marital status, disability, military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, or on any other basis protected by law.

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