Graduate Instructor/Adjunct Faculty

Position Title: Graduate Instructor/Adjunct Faculty
Number of openings: 5
Department/Program: Writing Center 45000
Work Location Authorization: Hybrid
Work Location: Arapahoe Campus
Reports to: NWC director
FLSA Classification: Exempt/Salaried
FTE: 15% (6 hrs/week)
Compensation: $2,573.72 - $3,431.55 depending on prior Naropa experience

 Application Deadline: 4/30 or until filled

Job Summary: The Naropa Writing Center (NWC) & Jack Kerouac School (JKS) seek to hire Naropa JKS MFA graduate instructors or recent Naropa JKS MFA graduates as adjunct faculty to teach in first-year writing and the JKS gateway course for the Fall 2025 semester.

Course Descriptions:
COR110, COR110e & COR210E Writing Thinking & Being: This first-year writing seminar is designed to meet you where you are and stretch your writing and thinking in new directions using mindful, present moment practices. We focus on the creative alongside the critical, the embodied next to the academic within a contemplative landscape. We employ several generative writing experiments to discover and develop ideas, while considering how our social locations might intersect dialogic arguments and discourse communities. The workshop also cultivates research writing through first-person inquiry as we practice the art of scholarly investigation. Finally, we explore radical revision as we become active readers who collaborate in a supportive manner.

WRI210 Experimental and Activist Literatures: This course introduces Black Mountain Poets, the Beats, New York School, Black Arts Movement, Language Poets, New Narrative, and Jack Kerouac School faculty work—poetic movements and writers that continue to influence Naropa's writing landscape, innovations, aesthetics, and activism. By exploring experimental lineages, Naropa archives, as well as contemporary trends influencing the Kerouac School milieu, we participate as readers/writers/activists and invoke critical/creative awareness that informs the writing process. This creative reading and writing workshop invokes a vital space of active experimentation and culminates in a creative portfolio.

Job Duties:
• Teach a 3-credit writing course (descriptions above).
• Develop and teach lessons with a professional level of preparedness for 3 hours per week for the duration of the 15 week semester, including experiential, collaborative, and contemplative activities.
• Facilitate the workshopping of writing assignments with the whole class and with small groups.
• Prepare a course syllabus according to the Academic Affairs syllabi instructions and submit the syllabus to the Office of Academic Affairs by the established deadline.
• Grade all assignments and provide feedback to students in a timely manner, and submit final grades by the deadline established by the Registrar.
• Attend all instructor meetings.
• Provide one hour of office hours each week plus availability to students by appointment
through meetings, phone, e-mail, zoom, as needed.
• Meet with students for mid-semester check-ins.
• Obtain permission from the copyright owner for any copyrighted material to be used in
sourcebooks.
• Complete any and all faculty and staff trainings as required by the Human Resources office or the Office of Academic Affairs within the time period set for completion by those
departments.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Naropa Master’s degree candidate with a minimum of 9 credits of graduate work; or Naropa University Master’s degree in Creative Writing, English Literature, or a related field.
• Successfully passed WRI700: Writing Pedagogy Seminar with a grade of A- or better.
• Advanced writing abilities.
• Potential for/compatibility with constructivist, contemplative, experiential, and process-
based pedagogies.
• Advanced teaching and lesson planning abilities.
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative work skills, attention to detail, and initiative to teach a college-level writing course.
• An understanding of the dynamics of privilege and oppression, and the impact these have on equity, access, and opportunity in higher education/the workplace.
• Commitment to co-create an inclusive community and actively participate in related professional development, including openness to feedback and ongoing self-examination.
Preferred Qualifications:
1. Previous teaching experience.
2. Previous training in the following areas: learning disabilities, multilingual speakers, diversity-equity-inclusivity pedagogical practices, research writing, and MLA/APA/CMS.

Physical Requirements & Environmental Conditions:
In the classrooms and on campus may experience: interruptions, distractions, heat, cold, dust and/or dampness. As a graduate assistant, you may spend extended periods time with any of the following:
•Reading academic texts and materials, student papers, etc.
•Operating personal computer and audio-visual equipment.
•Standing or sitting for hours at a time.
•Moving around campus for classes and meetings.

Naropa recognizes the following holidays throughout the year: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Fall Break, 4th Thursday and Friday in November, and Winter Break, the last two weeks in December encompassing the Christmas holiday as well as New Year’s.

Naropa’s health and welfare benefits include the following: medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-paid life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment, an employer-sponsored pre-tax retirement savings plan, which includes up to 2.5% employer matching, and a variety of voluntary, employee-paid supplemental insurance plans.

A comprehensive benefits package is available to full-time employees who work a minimum of 30 hours each week. Employees who work 20 – 29 hours each week are eligible for only the employer-paid short-term & long-term disability, employer-paid life insurance & accidental death and dismemberment, and the retirement plan, which includes up to 2.5% employer matching.

Employees who work fewer than 20 hours per week are eligible to participate in Naropa’s retirement plan only, which includes up to 2.5% employer matching.

All regular full-time and part-time faculty and staff, including student workers, accrue sick leave benefits. Full-time and part-time staff positions accrue vacation and personal time. All leave accrual rates vary based on the position, hours worked, and years of service.

The University recognizes the importance of including its employees in its organizational mission and values and welcomes employees into the classroom to “touch the magic.” Specifically, regular employees are provided generous tuition remission opportunities for themselves and their family members.

Naropa University participates in the Council of Independent Colleges Tuition Exchange Program (CIC-TEP). CIC-TEP is a network of CIC colleges and universities willing to accept, tuition-free, students from families of full-time employees of other CIC participating institutions (full-time as designated by the employer/institution). Additional information can be found here: https://www.cic.edu/member-services/tuition-exchange-program. 

Naropa University is an equal opportunity, non-discriminatory employer and Title IX is a federal civil rights law that prohibits gender discrimination, sexual harassment, sexual and relationship violence. This law applies to all students, faculty, and staff.