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Adjunct Faculty- School of Business

The School of Business is seeking adjunct faculty in the following areas to teach face-to-face courses in the spring of 2019.

- Financial Accounting, CPA required
- Managerial Accounting, CPA required
- Financial Management, CPA preferred
- Excel for Business

Responsibilities and Duties:

  • Provide instruction for all sessions utilizing the college philosophy of connected learning.
  • Provide a syllabus and course outline to students that clearly communicates course content and requirements.
  • Maintain 1 office hour each week on campus. Incorporate Canvas (online learning management system) into the course
  • Keep accurate and timely records of student progress (grades) and complete mid-semester and final grade reports (on Canvas)

Qualifications:
CPA required for Accounting courses; MBA or other appropriate graduate business degree required for other courses with appropriate certifications, when required. CANVAS platform experience and online teaching experience a plus.

Sample Course Descriptions:

Financial Accounting
This course provides students with the fundamentals of accounting processes and procedures used in business. Students learn how to identify and record business transactions. In addition, students learn how to create financial statements and how to become intelligent users of financial information.

Excel for Business
This course introduces students to basic Microsoft Excel skills. This introductory course will provide students with information and skills needed to create basic workbooks and worksheets, create simple formulas, copy and move data, format data and cells, work in large spreadsheets and with data series, create pivot tables, and more. Students are also introduced to Income Statements, Balance Sheets, Statement of Cash Flows, Ratios, and the Basic Accounting Cycle.

Managerial Accounting
In this course, students gain experience in the development and use of information within an organization. Course topics include: cost terms; production costing; cost allocation for planning and control; cost behavior patterns; cost-volume-profit relationships; budgeting; inventory planning and control; pricing decisions; and aspects of investment decisions.

Financial Management
This course introduces the fundamental concepts of finance. Various techniques of analysis that reveal the relationships of risk, return, and value are demonstrated. Topics include: financial reporting; long- and short-term forecasting; managing working capital; capital budgeting; and the nature of corporate securities and debt-equity mix.

Interested candidates should upload a cover letter, resume, philosophy of teaching,  and the information of three (3) references using the forms on our website.

Review of candidates' submitted materials begin immediately; applications are accepted until the position is filled.

Given Lasell's commitment to fostering an intellectually enriching and inclusive educational environment, our expectation is that the successful candidate will demonstrate competence and sensitivity in leading, managing, and advising employees and students who are broadly diverse with regard to various aspects of identity, such as race, ethnicity, ability status, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, nationality, and religion.

We seek faculty and staff who appreciate the value diversity brings to a campus community and are eager to foster an inclusive environment here at Lasell. Employees who represent the various areas of diversity of our student body are key contributors to our strategic vision.

Lasell University is committed to equal opportunity in every aspect of hiring and employment. Lasell proactively reviews its policies and practices to assure that decisions with respect to every dimension of employment are made without regard to age, color of skin, disability, gender expression and identity, genetic predisposition, marital status, national origin, race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran's status, status as a victim of domestic violence, and all other protected groups and classes under Federal and State Laws and executive orders.