Employment

Current Academic/Faculty Openings

July 8, 2025
Lecturer of Neuroscience
One-year position
Start date: Aug. 27, 2025

As of June 3, 2025
New tenure-track and full-time positions for start dates of July 1, 2026 will be posted later this summer.

Equity & Inclusion

Smith College is an equal opportunity employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.  Please review our EEO Policy Statement. If you’d like more information on your EEO rights under the law, you can review the details on the EEO is the Law poster, as well as the supplemental EEO is the Law document.

Smith College is an EO/AA/Vet/Disability Employer. Women, underrepresented racial groups, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Smith College endeavors to make smith.edu accessible to any and all users.  If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact Kim Kenney-Rockwal, Director of Talent Acquisition (Human Resources) at 413-585-2260 or the Recruiting team at recruiting-u@smith.edu. This contact information is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

Applicants are invited to submit along with all other required materials a statement reflecting on and regarding diversity, equity and inclusion. Guidelines on the purpose of the statement and what it might include are provided in the adjacent accordion block.

Smith College is dedicated to promoting learning, teaching, scholarship, discovery, creativity and critical thought. In addition, the college is committed to creating an inclusive, equitable, and accessible educational community founded on the free and open exchange of ideas. In service of our mission, we are called to reflect on our past and present to build a more just and inclusive future. Our Policy on Tenure and Promotion states, “Excellent teaching includes a commitment to fostering an equitable and inclusive community of learners,” and service valued by the college may include “building equitable and inclusive intellectual community in other ways both formal and informal.”

This statement is your opportunity to show how you will be able to work with Smith students. The total undergraduate student enrollment in fall 2024 was 2549 of which 33% identify as domestic students of color, 14% are international, 17% are first-generation, and 60% receive need-based aid. Students are also diverse in terms of age, ability and disability, religion, and veteran status, among other dimensions of identity.

Please respond to, at least, the first question. You may also respond to the second.

  • Describe your pedagogical practices that foster an inclusive learning environment for diverse student populations. You may define teaching broadly to include curriculum, pedagogy, or climate, and teaching that occurs inside and/or outside the classroom setting.
  • In what ways have your experiences shaped your perspectives, behaviors or actions about or towards others, and what did you learn from these experiences?

Thank you for taking the time to provide this information.

Searches & Appointments

For more information on searches and appointments, consult the following policies and procedures: