The Economics Department at Colgate University invites applications for two tenure-stream positions in macroeconomics beginning in the fall 2025 semester. We have teaching needs in open economy macroeconomics, financial economics, and related fields; scholarship in any broadly related field is welcome. We expect to hire at the Assistant Professor level, but outstanding candidates will be considered at the Associate or Full Professor level.
The job advertisements are available at Interfolio. Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2024.
About Us
Colgate is a liberal arts university that seeks a faculty of high quality teacher-scholars. Nearly all of our approximately 3,200 students are undergraduates. Since we do not have a business school, economics is one of the most popular majors at Colgate.
The Economics Department is large relative to our liberal arts peers and even some graduate programs. We have 21 tenure-stream lines, many of which are filled by teacher-scholars who are at the early stages of their professional careers. In fact, nearly half of our faculty are currently assistant professors. Thus, we are a vibrant department.
The Economics Department's teaching efforts are exclusively devoted to undergraduate education. Department classes are small. We cap Introduction to Economics sections at 35 students; Intermediate Micro and Macro at 25; and most electives at 18-20. All economics graduates complete a capstone seminar course. Seminars are usually limited to 12 students, each of whom is expected to write a senior thesis that engages with recent economics literature and employs economic theory and/or econometrics. Many faculty use advanced undergraduates as research assistants.
We also expect our faculty to be productive scholars of high quality. The Department believes it is reasonable to expect junior faculty to demonstrate the ability to publish in top field journals in their areas of expertise and/or good general-interest economics journals. The university supports scholarship through enhanced startup packages for new hires and a four course leave after Pre-Tenure Review (which normally occurs in the third year).
Colgate also offers a very competitive benefits package, including a faculty housing loan program, mortgage interest reimbursement and a tuition assistance program for dependents. Please refer to our HR website for detailed information and to the faculty benefits brochure.
Our neighbor institution, Hamilton College, is located within 20 miles from Colgate and together we employ a total of 35 full-time tenured and tenure-track economics faculty. Both departments provide strong support to junior faculty and are among the top rated economics departments at liberal arts colleges by RePEc. The two departments share an active seminar series and brown bag workshops.
Check our department website for recent news and updates about our students and faculty!
Typical Teaching Load
Junior faculty typically teach five courses per year. The Economics Department seeks to keep the number of unique course preps low in the hope that this will grant faculty more time to devote to high quality scholarship. Recent practice has been to assign junior faculty three total course preps through the first three years at Colgate.
An economics professor’s typical five-course load for the year might include:
- Two sections of a foundational economics course (Introduction to Economics, Intermediate Macro, Statistics, or Econometrics).
- Two sections of an elective. Note that we have particular teaching needs in open economy macroeconomics, financial economics, and other macro-related courses.
- One additional course. This might be a seminar, a second elective, or a non-economics course contribution to the university.
Application Materials
Job candidates must submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, evidence of teaching experience and effectiveness, and a sample of recent scholarship through Interfolio. In the cover letter, candidates must describe their ability to work effectively with students across a wide range of identities and backgrounds.
Teaching Experience and Effectiveness
The department is looking for evidence that candidates have thought carefully about teaching and are committed to being successful teachers and scholars at a primarily undergraduate institution. A statement describing teaching philosophy, student evaluations of teaching, and other materials can be useful in providing this evidence.
Sample of Recent Scholarship
The department seeks candidates who will produce high quality scholarship. Candidates can signal their scholarly potential by providing a recent journal publication, a working paper under submission at an academic journal, or a paper nearing completion that will be submitted to a journal soon. The department will accept candidates’ solo-authored or co-authored work.
Ability to Work Effectively with Students across a Wide Range of Identities and Backgrounds
Colgate is committed to providing a supportive environment where students from diverse backgrounds can thrive. Diversity includes not only race and ethnicity, but also socioeconomic status, gender identity, and all the other things that make our students unique. Candidates should discuss their ability to work with students from diverse backgrounds in the cover letter. Candidates are welcome to discuss this further in a separate statement or in other areas of the application materials.
Location and Other Nearby Employment Opportunities
Colgate is located in idyllic Hamilton, NY — a rural village near the geographic center of New York state. The region is home to several colleges and universities. Applicants with dual-career considerations can find postings of other employment opportunities at Colgate and at other institutions of higher education in upstate New York on the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium website.
Hamilton’s closest commercial airport is in Syracuse, about a one-hour drive away. Hamilton is within a 4-5 hour drive from New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, and Montreal.
Contact
Please direct further questions to the search chair (Rich Higgins, rhiggins@colgate.edu) or department chair (Nicole Simpson, nsimpson@colgate.edu).