Position: Director of the Montreat College Honors Program and Assistant/Associate Professor in a Humanities discipline
Location: Montreat, North Carolina (residential undergraduate)
Start Date: August 2026
Summary: The School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) at Montreat College seeks a full-time faculty member to serve as Director of the Honors Program and teach courses in the Humanities in our Christ- centered traditional residential undergraduate setting. The Director will be an outstanding teaching, scholar, and academic leader with commensurate program management ability and experience.
Working closely with the Provost, Faculty Directors, and Chairs, this position provides interdisciplinary leadership across all academic programs, as students of any major are eligible to be selected for the Honors Program. The Program has grown and flourished over the past 10 years, and has been instrumental in the college achieving record enrollment in 10 of the past 11 years. The Honors Program is a primary contributor to the College’s traditional residential curricular and co-curricular culture and success.
Qualifications: Successful candidate will be a leader in Honors and Humanities and will affirm and support the Mission, Vision, Statement of Faith, and Community Life Covenant of Montreat College as found here: https://www.montreat.edu/about/mission/. The successful candidate will also demonstrate support for Christian liberal arts education across the arts and sciences and the specific ability to integrate faith with the disciplines in a compelling, thoughtful manner. Teaching excellence and a willingness to serve the broader college community through service and committee work are also expected.
Additional specific qualifications and expectations include:
- Earned terminal degree in a Humanities field;
- Strong Christian faith with a deep commitment to the life of the mind and its practical expression in everyday life;
- Working knowledge of the contributions of the Reformed Christian tradition to Christian Higher Education and willingness to work within that framework broadly understood (the College is not denominationally owned or governed);
- Commitment to the Christian Liberal Arts (both arts and sciences) and its vocational relevance
to our students’ lives;
- Experience teaching in Christian higher education, preferably in honors education or an interdisciplinary setting;
- Experience in director, chair, or dean-level academic admin;
- Strong teaching experience, in both teaching classic texts and authors and in new course development;
- High level of organization with ability to maintain and improve existing initiatives while continuing to build;
- Proven reputation for collaboration with faculty and staff across departments and disciplines;
- Commitment to faculty and staff professional development.
Duties:
- FTE of 50% teaching and 50% administrative/leadership (FT at Montreat College is 24 academic load hours per academic year). Director portion is an 11-month assignment.
- Provides vision for the Honors Program and its various initiatives which currently includes oversight and direction for curriculum planning and collaboration, a visiting speakers series, a first-year student mentoring program and the honors living learning community.
- Plans honors curriculum in collaboration with faculty stakeholders. (Recruits faculty to teach in honors; plans new honors courses; teaches significantly in honors).
- Co-organizes annual honors scholarship and recruitment day each February with Admissions (Receives, reads, tabulates and decides on all honors written applications).
- Supervises the honors student worker.
- Co-supervises the Honors Residence Director and Program Coordinator on the Honors LLC programming alongside Residence Life.
- Supervises the honors-related work of the Honors Liaison in Admissions.
- Maintains strong and collaborative working relationships with faculty chairs, Admissions, the
Registrar’s Office, the Thrive Center, Advancement and Residence Life.
- Speaks at most college visit days.
- Oversees Honors Program budget.
- Collaborates with the Dean of Spiritual Formation on Visiting Speaker events.
- Collaborates with honors faculty on honors-specific visiting speaker events.
- Advises half of the honors students as a secondary advisor in addition to advising in the home academic department.
- Maintains a strong relational presence towards honors students, including meeting individually with each first-year honors student during their first semester.
- Reports to and meets with the Provost and serves on the Provost’s SAS Executive Committee.
- Serves on one other SAS committee.
- Other duties as assigned by the Provost within the scope of the Faculty Handbook.
Supervision:
Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs
Application Requirements/How to Apply:
Please click the link below to provide the required application materials. Choose supervisor Mark Hijleh from the drop-down list. https://forms.montreat.edu/jobs/
- Letter of Application
- Curriculum Vitae
- Transcripts of Undergraduate and Graduate Work (unofficial transcripts are acceptable for initial screening; official transcripts required prior to employment)
- Statement of Faith
- Statement of Philosophy of Christian Higher Education
- List of Three References with Contact Information
About Montreat College:
Montreat College is a Christian liberal arts college accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to offer masters, bachelors, and associates degrees. The main campus is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains fifteen miles east of Asheville, North Carolina, a region recognized as one of the most attractive living environments in the United States. The College is committed to Christ-centered teaching and learning and is a member of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities.