New College Franklin has two openings for faculty:

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School Profile:

Under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, New College Franklin disciples students through the Liberal Arts for wisdom, virtue, and service. New College Franklin is a four-year Christian Liberal Arts college dedicated to excellent academics and a community of discipleship. For centuries, the liberal arts, the freeing disciplines, have served as the curriculum for this holistic education. The student who encounters the Trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric), Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy), philosophy, literature, history, theology, and the arts will emerge as a clearer thinker, grounded in history and the Christian faith, with a deeper knowledge of God, ready to commit themselves with wisdom in love to God and to neighbor.

With this vision, all courses at New College Franklin examine human culture, emphasizing the basic classical scholastic approach of moral philosophy. Our students are entrenched in the moral drama of history by experiencing the great literary classics of theology, philosophy, poetics, mathematics, and science, including the resulting technological developments. We approach all disciplines with an emphasis on the Christian life. Out of this integrated understanding of God’s world every other subject and discipline is formed.

Our pedagogy begins with the relationship between students and professors. We do not position our professors before students as the source of knowledge but as experienced guides to knowledge. Professors and students learn together, side by side, and the key distinction between these two learners is that professors are farther along the path to knowledge and wisdom. Their lectures, questions, and guidance reflect their experience, but the professor’s experience is not the source of knowledge. 

New College Franklin Teaching Fellow Profile:

A New College Franklin teaching fellow is a Protestant Christian committed to the worship of God, personal virtue, and the life of the mind. We are seeking someone who is inquisitive and eager to learn, and one who is broadly read in the Western liberal arts tradition and the Great Ideas of literature, philosophy, theology, and history. This candidate will excel in asking penetrating questions of a text, listening to students, leading and encouraging extended discussion around texts and ideas, and helping students synthesize relevant information and aspects of the conversation. A New College Franklin professor’s primary calling should be to the classroom, leading students to develop intellectual and spiritual maturity. An interest in publishing, research, or academic development is encouraged but secondary to the intellectual and Christian life lived in a learning community which holds first place.
This candidate must be able to sign in good conscience our Statement of Faith and Faculty Code of Ethics be found on our application.

Open Positions

New College Franklin is currently seeking qualified applicants for the position of Teaching Fellow. Please see below for a general school profile, a profile of a Teaching Fellow, and review the descriptions of the particular openings.

Professor of Quadrivium: New College Franklin is seeking a Professor of Quadrivium.

An ideal candidate for this particular position will fit the Teaching Fellow profile above. Please review that profile carefully. In addition, a candidate for this position must have a deep familiarity with the history of science, natural philosophy, and mathematics, expertise in the hard sciences, and, preferably, background in philosophy of science and philosophy more generally. The candidate should have familiarity with the classical quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy) and its connection to theology, philosophy, and ethics; and also an interest in the broader Western great books tradition. They should be interested in leading students through a process of discovery through conversation, experimentation, practice, and analysis. They should also delight in interdisciplinary learning as a means of exploring the unity of truth. They will be expected to be able to teach outside of their discipline occasionally and to collaborate with the administration and faculty in developing and assessing our integrated course of study.

A minimum of a Master’s degree in a related field is required, but a Ph.D. is preferable. Previous teaching experience is required.

The candidate should have familiarity with significant authors and events in the history of western science and mathematics, including many of the following:

• Plato
• Aristotle
• Euclid
• Archimedes
• Ptolemy
• Nicomachus
• Iamblichus
• Hugh of St. Victor
• Cassiodorus
• Boethius
• Copernicus
• Kepler
• Galileo
• Descartes
• Newton
• Mendeleev
• Lobachevsky
• Einstein
• Heisenberg
• Bohr
• Khun
• Polanyi

Professor of Trivium: New College Franklin is seeking a Professor of Trivium.

An ideal candidate for this position will fit the Teaching Fellow profile above. Please review that profile carefully. In addition, a candidate for this position will be skilled in teaching the art of writing and rhetoric. They will also possess a deep familiarity with the Trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric), the classical liberal arts tradition and the history of western philosophy and literature. The arts form a core aspect of learning at New College Franklin and serve to integrate students into the great tradition as participants rather than just spectators. As such, we are seeking instructors who are enthusiastic about their work and who ensure that students receive timely, concrete feedback. The candidate should have a broad background in the great books of the Western tradition and be capable of teaching in other subject areas, including logic and moral philosophy, while specializing in composition and rhetoric.

A minimum of a Master’s degree in a related field is required, but a Ph.D. is preferable. Previous teaching experience is required. 

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