We’re hiring for a tenure-track faculty member in Statistics! Are you interested in teaching at a beautiful small liberal arts college in Maine? Are you looking for academic positions that value a balance of teaching & research — and provide resources to support you in both regards? Not to mention a competitive salary, good benefits, and all four seasons in a small New England town? Please do apply, and reach out to me with any questions, or share the ad with anyone you know who might be a good fit:
https://www.colby.edu/statistics/faculty-searches/
https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/21000
We will start reviewing applications on October 24 and continue until the position is filled.
(And if you’re not just a solo statistician, but you are working on a two-body problem with a computationally-focused partner, then let me also note that both our Davis AI Institute and our CS department are hiring too this year.)
Some new developments since last time we had a faculty search in Statistics:
- We have our own Department of Statistics — still quite rare among liberal arts colleges
- We are working with Colby’s Davis Institute of Artificial Intelligence — the first such AI Institute at a liberal arts college;
- In addition to our Data Science minor, we are close to approving a Data Science major in collaboration with Colby’s departments of Mathematics and of Computer Science
In terms of research, there are generous startup funds (more than I’ve been able to use so far) and plenty of other support for research materials, conference travel, etc.
The teaching load is 9 courses every 2 years. That comes out to 2 courses most semesters, and 3 every fourth semester. While we provide regular offerings of Intro Stats, Statistical Modeling, and other core courses, in a typical year each of us also gets to teach a favorite elective or two. For example, I have gotten to work on some great partnerships by planning Survey Sampling or Data Visualization courses with our Civic Engagement office. My students have shown care, respect, and insight as they help our local homeless shelter study what resources improve housing outcomes; or help our town fire department to survey citizens and local businesses to inform its five-year plan.
And frankly, it’s just plain fun to work across disciplines. I’ve help a Government major figure out how to collect & analyze a random sample of news articles for a project on public transport in Central America. I’ve helped a Biology professor figure out how to bootstrap an imbalanced experiment on amoebas, and I’ve learned nifty nuggets of data visualization history from an English professor.
Long story short: I really do enjoy teaching statistics in the liberal arts college environment. If you think you would too, come join us!