Assistant/Associate Professor - QME Educational Statistics - Military Veterans

Position Overview

The Department of Educational Psychology in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota seeks to fill a tenure-track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor position. This individual will contribute to research, teaching, and service with a primary affiliation within the Quantitative Methods in Education program. We seek a scholar who is well-versed in the development and application of statistical methods in education research.

We are particularly interested in a scholar with evidence of, or the potential to develop, a nationally recognized research program that contributes to the interdisciplinary research environment of the Department, College, and University. Further, we seek an individual who has demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, particularly as it relates to ensuring equitable opportunities for those who have been historically marginalized to learn, grow, and thrive across their lifespans.

This is a 9-month, full-time appointment located on the Minneapolis campus with a target start date of August 25, 2025.

Job Responsibilities

This position will be responsible to:

Research (40%)

• Develop and sustain a strong and coherent record of scholarship, pertinent to the development and application of statistical methods in educational settings.
• Maintain a commitment to securing external funds in support of their scholarly inquiry.
• Graduate Advising and

• Mentor and advise graduate students.
• Teach undergraduate courses and graduate-level courses on topics such as multivariate statistics, Bayesian methods, causal modeling, quasi-experimental research designs, latent variable models, and/or statistical computing. Course assignment(s) will build on the individual's areas of expertise and research, with the department chair's discretion to assign.
• Develop and deliver courses in ways that effectively account for a variety of diverse backgrounds, communities, identities, and abilities.

• Participate in Department, College, University, and other outreach and public engagement activities, including service on internal committees or task forces, and making presentations to external constituencies.
• Participate in the activities of relevant professional organizations in quantitative methods in education.

• An earned doctorate in educational psychology, psychology, statistics or a related field with emphasis in quantitative methods.
• Experience or demonstrated ability in teaching graduate courses in applied statistics.
• Preparation, training, and experience focused on the development and application of statistical methods in educational research or other related settings (e.g., nonprofit organizations, think tanks, industry).
• Experience and/or interest in working with diverse student populations or doing work in diverse communities.

• Evidence of a strong and well-established programmatic line of research and resultant research productivity in the form of peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations and other relevant research products (e.g., book chapters).
• Established record of securing external sponsored funds.
• Evidence of leadership in the field (for example, serving on editorial boards of methodological journals, national/international professional committees, sponsored grant review panels).
• Experience mentoring and advising students at the graduate level.

• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and collegially in Department, College, University, and community service and governance.
• Demonstrated ability to engage in interdisciplinary research.
• Experience seeking and/or securing external sponsored funds.
• Experience mentoring and advising students at the graduate level.

• Strong record of teaching, mentoring and advising at the graduate level.
• Research in educational settings