Description

The School of Education (SOE) at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) invites applications and nominations for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor of Critical Quantitative Research. The position will commence as early as July 1, 2025, or as negotiated.

Our Program, School, and University

The UCR SOE is a growing community serving both undergraduate and graduate students. Located in a region rich in racial, cultural, and linguistic diversity, SOE serves a majority of Students of Color with a high percentage of working-class and first-generation college students. It also boasts the most diverse faculty of a School of Education in the University of California system. Divided into “area groups” devoted to higher education, leadership and policy, social, cultural, linguistic, and racial analysis, educational psychology, school psychology, and special education, our collective mission is to advance equitable and transformative educational systems and practices that are reflective of and responsive to our local racially and economically diverse communities. https://education.ucr.edu/about/mission

This hire would have the option of placement in one or more area groups based, joining scholars who examine issues of power and in/equity in education across focal areas including, race and ethnic studies, racial ideologies and higher education policy, school psychology, counseling psychology. The scholar would be expected to teach master’s and doctoral students, and contribute to the undergraduate major.  

UCR is a member of the American Association of Universities (AAU). A Minority Serving Institution, UCR ranks among the top public universities for Making a Public Impact (No. 20, Princeton Review) and is 2nd among public universities in the U.S. for social mobility (1st from 2019-2021). UCR has several designations that underscore its commitment to inclusion, equity, and diversity. UCR is a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI). As the only public research university in diverse Inland Southern California, UCR’s School of Education is positioned to shape effective service delivery for historically and multiply marginalized young people locally and across the state.

Position Description

We are seeking to hire a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor of Critical Quantitative Methods, whose expertise and epistemic foundations critically challenge and reimagine dominant and Eurocentric approaches, described by Zuberi and Bonilla Silva (2008) as “White Logic, White Methods.” The goal of this search is to hire a quantitative methodologist/theorist who exemplifies the School of Education’s commitment to justice, anti-racism, and equity. While candidates may take on a variety of specific research directions, they must employ a critical quantitative approach to addressing educational problems of practices. We are most interested in candidates who are dedicated to advancing critical quantitative methods to explicitly engage issues of power, oppression, marginalization and/or the liberatory possibilities of education. Critical quantitative scholars from the traditions of QuantCrit and/or those utilizing a Critical Race Praxis in Educational Research are especially well suited for this position. We welcome applications with any area of research, but especially those focused on the populations we serve at UCR and in the Inland Empire. 

QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Qualifications (required at time of application):

• An earned doctorate in Education or Higher Education, Quantitative Methods, or related fields with a specialization in Education (e.g., Sociology, Psychology, Ethnic Studies, Policy studies, Public Health). Those in related fields should demonstrate sustained engagement in education.
• A successful record (if at the Associate level) or capacity (if at the Assistant level) for high-impact research and scholarly publications 
• Established record (if at the Associate level) of external research funding 
• Evidence (if at the Associate level) or capacity (if at the Assistant level) for effective teaching and advising of both undergraduate and graduate-level students  who have been historically underrepresented in the University of California, such as Black and Indigenous students, who remain underrepresented in the SOE 
• Capacity to support and guidance of dissertations using critical quantitative methods 
• Demonstrated knowledge of PK-16 educational equity issues and limiting structures
• Demonstrated commitment and approach to advancing critical quantitative methods, and equity across research, teaching, service, and public engagement

Preferred Qualifications

•  Capacity to support the development of a new quantitative methods series   
• Capacity to teach quantitative methods courses at the graduate level (could be at intro. level) 
• Contributions that address the needs of California’s culturally, linguistically, and educationally diverse population, particularly advancing critical quantitative methods relevant to learning, engagement and success of residents of the Inland Empire are particularly desirable.
• Racial literacies in advancing educational and racial justice.
• Understanding of the intersections of systemic racism, antiblackness, coloniality, cisheteropatriarchy, classism, and ableism in reproducing inequities in education.

The posted UC salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and/or step at appointment. See Table 1 for the salary ranges. “Off-scale salaries” and other components of pay, i.e., a salary that is higher than the published system-wide salary at the designated rank and step, are offered when necessary to meet competitive conditions.

Advancement through the faculty ranks at the University of California is through a series of structured, merit-based evaluations, occurring every 2-3 years, each of which includes substantial peer input. Inquiries about the position should be directed to the search committee co-chairs, Uma M. Jayakumar (umajaya@ucr.edu) and Soojin Park (soojin.park@ucr.edu).
 
Interested candidates should submit an electronic application to https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02027 that includes a cover letter describing current and proposed future areas of research, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, recent teaching evaluations, and a statement of past and/or planned contributions to advancing diversity and inclusive excellence. Additionally, applicants at the Assistant level should submit three letters of reference while applicants at the Associate level should include information for at least 4 people who can be contacted for letters of recommendation (extramural letters will be solicited by the University for the top candidate). Review of applicants will begin January 10, 2025 and may continue until the position is filled. 

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy please visit:  https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4010393/PPSM-20. 

For the University of California’s Anti-Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/Anti-Discrimination.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.