Assistant Professor of Business Information System

Systems (BIS) program that prepares students for roles in business, technology, data, and organizational decision-making across the insurance, manufacturing, healthcare, information technology, and public sectors. We seek a faculty member who can contribute to teaching and student advising and maintain an active program of scholarly and/ or professional activity cons’istent with departmental and university expectations. The successful candidate will contribute to curriculum innovation in response to rapid developments in information technology and its applications to work systems. The successful candidate may collaborate with faculty within the department and across disciplines on new courses, certificates, and other workforce-responsive programming. The successful candidate will also support experiential learning, internships, student projects and research, and career preparation consistent with the program’s applied and workforce-connected identity.

Teaching Responsibilities: The successful candidate will be expected to teach undergraduate courses in Business Information Systems. Areas of teaching need may include database management, systems analysis and design, operations management and supply chain analytics, enterprise systems and platforms, cloud technologies, business process analysis and improvement, project management, generative AI and AI-assisted decision-making and emerging areas of information systems.

The successful candidate may also contribute to the development and teaching of Liberal Arts Curriculum (ELAC) courses that situate information systems and technology within broader modes of inquiry and human experience.

boundaries. Candidates should demonstrate the capacity and intellectual fluency to teach and work effectively with students from multiple disciplines and with varying levels of technical preparation. The successful candidate should be able to make information systems and technical concepts accessible and relevant to students both within and outside of business, while connecting technology, data, organizational work systems, and decision-making to questions, problems, and applications across disciplines.

Required Qualifications, Applicants must have:

• A doctorate in Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Business

Information Systems, or a closely related field by the time of appointment;

• Evidence of, or demonstrated potential for, effective undergraduate teaching in

information systems;

• Evidence of, or demonstrated potential for, an active program of scholarship;
• The ability to teach and mentor students with diverse disciplinary backgrounds and

levels of technical experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Preference may be given to candidates with demonstrated undergraduate teaching

experience across areas of the IS 2020 curriculum; project management, supply chain and logistics analytics, and the ability to thoughtfully integrate emerging technologies, including Generative AI, across the curriculum.

The State of Connecticut and Eastern Connecticut State University are proud to offer its employees competitive wages and a wide range of fringe benefits including voluntary and supplemental benefits. Fringe benefits include: paid personal, vacation and sick leave accruals; medical, dental, and prescription plans; group life insurance; retirement; retiree health care; tuition waiver for employee and eligible dependents at any of the Connecticut State Universities (Central, Eastern, Southern or Western) as well as an array of voluntary and supplemental benefits such as Deferred Retirement Contribution plans, Dependent Care Assistance and Medical Flexible spending accounts; long and short term disability insurance plans. For more detailed information, please visit Human Resources - Eastern.

Eastern Connecticut State University is seeking a qualified candidate to fill the Assistant Professor of Business Information Systems position. Eastern is Connecticut’s Public Liberal Arts University and is located in Willimantic, Connecticut which is 1.5 hours from Boston and 2.5 hours from New York City. Eastern is one of four universities in the Connecticut State College and University System (CSCU). The position also offers substantial health and retirement benefits. The Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems invites applications from candidates who have a strong commitment to teaching excellence, creative activity and scholarship, student advisement, university and community service. ECSU is especially interested in faculty with demonstrated innovation and excellence in teaching in a liberal arts curriculum, and sensitivity to diverse populations and perspectives.