Professor - Respiratory Therapy

Essential Job Functions

• Work with chairs and program directors to provide leadership and direction for educational programs.
• Provide leadership and direction to faculty on matters of curriculum development and instruction.
• Ensure that, where applicable, accreditation standards are met and that best educational practices in the field are known and applied by faculty.
• Encourage, recognize, and reward educational innovation, creativity, and excellence.
• Collaborate with the Office of Institutional Effectiveness in curriculum evaluation, coordination, and reporting activities.
• Facilitate periodic surveys of students and graduates to support curricular change.
• Facilitate regular, useful course evaluations and feedback activities.
• Develop academic and faculty policies to assure consistency within the school.
• Review and oversee new program proposals and the approval process; provide guidance to SHP department chairs, program directors, and faculty as they consider new academic programs, including certificate programs.
• Collaborate with SHP departmental chairs and program directors to review curricular feedback, faculty evaluation, and student performance, and facilitate recommendations for best educational practices.
• Assist with managing the program budget and resources effectively. Assisting with recruitment, selection, and supervision of faculty and clinical instructors.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with clinical partners.
• Participate in faculty activities, including teaching, research, and service.
• Support and assist in the implementation of university-wide IPE activities.
• Serve as a resource to the SHP appointment, promotion, and tenure process and its related committees.
• Organize Academic Program Reviews for programs without accreditation requirements.
• Participate in SACS Reaffirmation activities.
• Act as liaison with IT and classroom services/academic computing for new programs, distance education, and other learning activities.
• Be familiar with system, institution, and school-wide policies and demonstrate and expect compliance with them.
• Participate in large Council of Deans meetings.
• Serve in an ex officio capacity for the SHP scholarship committee, curriculum committee, admissions committee, and others.
• Prepare reports for UTMB, UT System, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and other state and federal agencies.
• Ensure compliance with institutional and the School of Health Professions’ academic policies.
• Supervise and serve as a repository for all clinical affiliation contracts and MOUs, articulation agreements, and other partnership collaborations within the programs/departments in the SHP, both domestic and international; seek contract renewals when needed.
• Encourage and demonstrate the importance of positive cooperation, collaboration, and teamwork in effective school-wide administration.
• Actively participate in school-wide strategic planning and governance.
• Demonstrate leadership by example in service to the school, university, and community.
• Other duties as assigned by the Dean of the School of Health Professions.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

Eligible for an appointment at the Associate Professor or Professor level; PhD degree or equivalent (from an accredited institution in a relevant field).

Preferred Qualifications

Record of at least three years of administrative responsibilities, evidence of extramural funding, evidence of supervisory abilities, evidence of leadership roles.

Salary

Commensurate with experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity

UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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