Determined by iSchool Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

The School of Information Studies at Syracuse University (the iSchool, ischool.syr.edu) invites applications to fill a Professor of Practice faculty position to start in Fall 2025 with an initial contract for 3 years.

The iSchool MSLIS faculty are well-known for a broad range of expertise: cultural heritage preservation, epistemicide, librarianship as a design profession, library value and impact, learning assessment and analytics, metadata, and other aspects of ensuring information quality, organization, and access. As a school, we have been accredited by the American Library Association (ALA) since 1927, an acknowledgement of the merit of degree programs in library and information science (LIS) for training future librarians, archivists, and other information professionals. In recent years, the online version of that degree program has grown rapidly, which has expanded our pedagogical reach into new populations across the country and the world. The iSchool MSLIS program focuses on research and pedagogical offerings in cultural informatics by hiring new faculty with expertise in emergent and innovative areas within the field of library and information science. We also leverage the expertise of our LIS faculty to strengthen the identity of the iSchool as a leading voice regarding the critical intersection(s) of information literacy, information justice and equity, and emerging technologies-at the individual, community, and societal levels.

We are seeking applicants with interests in library and information science (position 82473). We are particularly interested in a faculty member who will bring expertise in school media and/or children and youth library services.

Successful candidates will demonstrate a strong interest and ability in teaching in the Library and Information Science field and will contribute to the development of students and courses in our Master of Science in library and information science (MLIS) program. Our highly collegial environment values interdisciplinary collaboration among our school's faculty and with other members of the university and beyond. Information Justice, Equity, and Community Engagement (INJECT) have been identified as the themes of the MSLIS program. We seek applicants whose teaching and/or work experience and skills adopt the themes, and who can speak to overlapping areas within the school.

The Professor of Practice will be a full-time, non-tenure track faculty member, based in Syracuse. The faculty member is expected to have special knowledge, skills, and professional accomplishments in their expertise areas and provide unique contributions to the School in teaching, service, and creative or written work while maintaining their involvement in the professional world. Teaching both in person and online classes is expected. The teaching load will be 3:3 or the equivalent for online teaching. The faculty member is expected to spend 60% of their effort in teaching (3:3 load), 20% in service, and 20% in practice.