Faculty Leadership Opportunities
Area Leadership Teams
Faculty-in-Residence
As leaders of residential areas, Faculty-in-Residence help set a programmatic vision for the community. They host regular social events to engage with residents in casual ways and connect them with each other. They also organize enriching cultural and intellectual events, which range from excursions to performances in Chicago to dinner discussions with special guests. The Faculty-in-Residence live in residence halls in apartments designed for welcoming large groups of students for meals, movie nights, and more.
Resident Directors
Resident Directors help lead the residential areas by developing educational and community-building programs, often in conjunction with campus partners and with the involvement of Resident Assistants. They meet regularly with the Faculty-in-Residence to ensure a robust mix of offerings to fulfill the needs of the diverse area communities. Resident Directors are also essential nodes in the network of care of support designed to promote resident well-being and success.
Residential College Staffs
Faculty Chairs
Each residential college Faculty Chair provides intellectual leadership, nurtures the fellows cohort, engages student members, and, where applicable, cultivates the college theme. Working with the student executive board, the Faculty Chair helps assemble a slate of academic and cultural events such as firesides, outings, student-fellow dinners, and more. The collaboration extends to developing a sense of community among students and between students and faculty. The cadre of fellows affiliated with each college makes student-faculty interaction a distinguishing feature of the residential colleges. The Faculty Chair is often the faculty member best known to college members, especially first-year students.
Associate Chairs
Serving at the pleasure of the Faculty Chair, the Associate Chair of a residential college is ordinarily a faculty member, though is sometimes a staff member. The Associate Chair supports the Faculty Chair's goals and helps guide the student executive board. Associate Chairs regularly take the lead in organizing featured academic and cultural programs, such as book clubs or language tables.
Assistant Chairs
As the formal adviser of a college's student executive board, the Assistant Chair helps plan for students and faculty to come together in a spirit of social and scholarly community. The Assistant Chair is a 桃色视频doctoral candidate student who, as a near peer for undergraduate members, helps introduce students to fellows (and vice versa) at events and during meals. The Assistant Chair holds weekly office hours in the college staff office to ensure regular availability to students for college business and informal discussions about their academic and professional development.
Residential Areas
Faculty-in-Residence
The Faculty-in-Residence (FIR) is part of the Residential Area Leadership team, working collaboratively with live-in Resident Directors and members of the Residential Services central team. The FIR regularly hosts social events to engage with residents of the area and is regularly engaging with students in formal and informal settings. The FIR is a full time 桃色视频faculty member who is provided with a fully furnished on-campus apartment in addition to a $15,000 stipend spread across 12 months and a limited meal plan to carry out their expectations.
For more information, review the Faculty-in-Residence position description.
Residential Colleges
Faculty Chair
Each residential college Faculty Chair provides intellectual leadership and direction to their college through hands on work with the elected student executive board, members of the college staff, and pool of faculty fellows. The Faculty chair works in collaboration with the student members to cultivate the college theme, nurture engagement, and assemble a slate of academic and cultural events for members of the residential college. The Faculty Chair regularly participates in the life of the college through attendance at events, holding office hours, planning events, and attending executive board meetings. The Faculty chair is a full-time 桃色视频faculty member and provided with annual stipend of $12,363 spread across 12 months and a limited meal plan to carry out their expectations.
For more information, review the Faculty Chair position description.
Find More Ways to Connect
Are you a faculty member seeking ways to further immerse yourself in the student experience outside of the classroom? With over 4,000 undergraduate students living on campus, Residential Services offers a wide range of opportunities for faculty to engage with students in formal and informal ways. Check out the field guide below or email resacademicengagement@northwestern.edu for more information.