RESPONSIBILITIES: The lecturer will teach 3-4 sections of undergraduate courses and supporting laboratory courses in hospitality management and culinary science each semester. Courses may include Culinary Fundamentals, Advanced Culinary Arts, Baking and Patisserie, and Global Gastronomy. The lecturer will also assist the program with undergraduate academic advising. The successful applicant will participate in the formation of School policies related to the undergraduate curriculum but would not participate in decisions regarding promotion and tenure, graduate faculty membership, or policies unrelated to the curriculum except as they directly affect the lecturer’s role. The lecturer will be dedicated entirely to teaching and will not be required to develop, pursue, or maintain an independent research agenda. This assignment will allow a high level of dedication to effective teaching. The lecturer will be reviewed annually by the School Head. Based on the College and School guidelines, the lecturer will be eligible for promotion to Senior Lecturer.
SETTING: This interdisciplinary School is housed in the College of Human Sciences at Auburn University. The School offers bachelors, masters, and doctoral degree options that include campus-based programming as well as a master’s degree distance education options. The Hospitality Management Program’s undergraduate enrollment is approximately 385 students. Program faculty are intent upon increasing enrollment to approximately 550 students over the next 5 years across all three study options including Hotel and Restaurant Management, Event Management and Culinary Science. All programming is delivered in the Tony and Libba Rane Culinary Science Center, which was completed in the summer of 2022. This 142,000 square-foot education center houses six floors of state-of-the-art hospitality teaching classrooms and hands-on learning laboratories. The center has several food production laboratories, a commercial food production kitchen, student training restaurant (1856 Restaurant), a bakery and coffee roasting facility, microbrewery, wine and distilled spirits education laboratories, spa, roof top garden and event center, and an ultra-luxury training hotel (The Laurel). The center also features a very interactive food hall encompassing two business incubation units. Auburn University is a comprehensive, multi-cultural university and land-grant institution located in Auburn, Alabama, enrolling 30,000 students. See
http://humsci.auburn.edu/hosp/ for more information about the Hospitality Management Program at Auburn University.
