The College of Health Science and Public Health invites applications for a full-time Assistant to Associate Professor (dependent on experience and current rank at another institution), 9-month, tenure track position in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders to begin August 16, 2025. 

EWU is a regional, comprehensive university where all faculty are expected to demonstrate teaching excellence, professional growth, and service to the university, profession, and the community. Responsibilities in this position include teaching, ongoing research, and service to the university, college, and department are required for tenure-track appointments.

Eastern Washington University’s Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders emphasizes academic excellence, clinical competence, compassionate practice, and holistic care of individuals, families, and communities. We serve students by being professional role models dedicated to excellence as teachers, scholars, clinicians, and life-long learners. We believe we all learn best when actively engaged, so we strive to create a community of learning that fosters open dialogue, mutual respect, and the exchange of diverse ideas. As a regional comprehensive university, we aim to educate highly sought-after speech language pathologists to serve the people of Eastern Washington.

The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders has programs that are housed in the SIERR Building located in the University District in downtown Spokane, WA. The department offers the BA and MS in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

The college and department prepare students from all populations and communities to help meet the growing market demand in the critical fields of health care and education. The college is home to several nationally accredited undergraduate and graduate programs with an increased focus on inter-professional education (IPE), and on increasing the diversity of the healthcare fields. As a premier college serving the educational needs of the health care practitioners, CHSPH includes nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, communication sciences and disorders, public health and health administration, wellness and movement sciences, dental hygiene, and Regional Initiatives in Dental Education (RIDE).

The Spokane campus will be the primary work location, but some work time may be spent on the Cheney campus. Eastern Washington University, a regional, comprehensive public university with an enrollment of over 10,000 students, is one of six state-funded four-year institutions of higher education in Washington, each governed by its own board of trustees. EWU’s 300-acre main campus is located in Cheney, a community of 12,000 residents 16 miles southwest of Washington’s second largest city, Spokane. Eastern also offers programs in downtown Spokane at the innovative, energy-efficient Catalyst building, the SIERR building which is a hub for research, development and advancement of health sciences, and at Riverpoint, a campus shared with Washington State University. In addition, EWU programs can be found at select locations throughout the state, aligned with the needs of the community. Eastern contributes to the vitality of the region and the state through its wide array of bachelor’s and master’s degrees in over 100 fields of study, as well as applied doctorates in physical therapy and educational leadership, offering accessible pathways to career success and personal development to students of all socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds.

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate in communication sciences and disorders, speech-language pathology or closely related field at the time of appointment (PhD or EdD).
  • ABD candidates close to degree completion will be considered. PhD/EdD completed by August 16, 2025 would result in a tenure track appointment for current academic year. Otherwise, lecturer appointment. Then if PhD/EdD completed after August 16, 2025, and before May 15, 2026, would result in tenure track position in the following year.
• The candidate will be expected to teach in area of expertise. Expertise in motor speech, voice, dysphagia or child language is preferred, but other areas of expertise (e.g., phonology) will be considered.
• Established record, or evidence of potential of research agenda.
• ASHA CCC-SLP.
• Eligible for Washington state SLP licensure.
• Desire and ability to promote and support cultural competence.
• Readiness to work closely with students and faculty colleagues in community engagement, interprofessional activities and service-learning initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to apply a culturally responsive and flexible approach that is supportive to diverse needs including universal access of our students, faculty staff and the public.

Additional Required Qualifications for Associate Professor:

• Doctorate in communication sciences and disorders, speech-language pathology, or closely related field at the time of appointment (PhD or EdD)
• Rank of Associate Professor at current university
• Six (6) or more years of successful professional experience are normally required. For applicants who currently hold the rank of Associate Professor a holistic review of the candidate’s materials will be considered in this decision process.

Please direct all inquiries to the Search Committee Chair, Lesli Cleveland, PhD, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Eastern Washington University, lcleveland@ewu.edu.

To be considered for this opportunity, please submit your application materials through our online application portal located here: https://jobs.hr.ewu.edu/. Here is the link to the position: https://jobs.hr.ewu.edu/postings/12883. If you are unable to submit through the applicant portal, contact Britt Pirker at (509) 359-6931, or bpirker@ewu.edu. Applications are open and accepted until recruitment is closed. Screening of applications will begin on January 15, 2025, and will continue to be screened until recruitment is closed.

Required documentation includes all the items listed below:

• Cover Letter – please describe how you meet each of the required and preferred qualifications (if applicable).
• Curriculum Vitae – please include a list of references as the last page of your CV, including names, title, organization name, phone numbers, email addresses.
• Teaching Philosophy – maximum of two pages – include a description of your teaching philosophy and a description of your teaching interests.
• Diversity Response: As an equal opportunity employer with a multicultural staff and student population, we are interested in how your qualifications prepare you to work with diverse faculty, staff, and student populations representing various cultures and backgrounds that may be different from your own. You will be asked to attach a diversity response as part of the online application process: Please describe how you will apply an approach that is supportive to the diverse needs, including universal access, of our students, faculty, staff, and the public.
• Note: Letters of Reference are not required at this time. We reserve the right to request letters of reference at a future date, such as once we have identified interview candidates.