The Chemistry Department at Berea College invites applicants for a tenure-track position in Analytical Chemistry or Analytical Geochemistry beginning in the Fall of 2025. The ideal candidate will have a PhD in analytical chemistry, geochemistry, environmental chemistry, or a closely related field. Post-doctoral research and teaching experience are highly desirable. Teaching responsibilities include general chemistry, analytical chemistry, an upper division advanced laboratory, and two courses in environmental science and/or geology with lab. The successful candidate will be expected to develop and maintain a research agenda that will actively involve undergraduate students. We seek candidates who demonstrate a strong commitment to undergraduate teaching in a liberal arts context and who can create an inclusive learning environment using evidence-based, student-centered teaching. Successful candidates will, through their teaching, research, or service, demonstrate that they can contribute to the diversity and excellence of our community.

The Chemistry Department includes five full-time faculty members and graduates an average of 10-15 majors per year. The faculty at Berea College are dedicated to excellent undergraduate teaching and robust research, particularly with students. Facilities include a 500 MHz NMR, FT-IR, luminescence spectrometer, UV/Vis spectrometer, electrospray mass spec, GCs with mass spec detector and TCD detector, HPLC, flame atomic absorption spectrometer, a CHNS/O elemental analyzer, and benchtop SEM with EDS detector.

Interested applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, letter of interest, graduate and undergraduate academic transcripts, a statement of teaching philosophy, a description of a research program that could be pursued with undergraduates and contact information for three references to https://tinyurl.com/p9a2bp8z. Review of applications will begin October 1st, 2024 and continue until the position is filled.

Founded in 1855, Berea College is nationally recognized as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstanding commitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis on service to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls more than 1,500 students from 46 states and U.S. territories and more than 70 countries. Berea College admits students who are unable to afford tuition and provides all of them with a no-tuition promise, valued at more than $204,000. Berea’s students excel in the College’s supportive yet demanding academic environment, and most are the first in their families to attend college. As one of only nine federally recognized Work Colleges, all Berea students are expected to work 10-12 hours weekly in various positions across campus. Berea College is listed #20 in overall ranking in the U.S. by the Wall Street Journal/College Pulse college rankings, 2023. The Washington Monthly ranks Berea College #2 Best Liberal Arts College and #1 in Social Mobility, 2023. Money Magazine ranks Berea #20 Best Overall College and #10 for Best in the South, 2023. Berea College is also the only institution in Kentucky to receive the 5-Star Rating from Money Magazine, 2023.

Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at www.berea.edu.

Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.