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Location : Youngstown, Ohio
Job Type: Part-time Faculty
Job Number: 202500218
Division: Academic Affairs
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Opening Date: 10/13/2025
Closing Date: 10/13/2026 11:59 PM Eastern
Bargaining Unit Status: Excluded from Any Bargaining Unit
Salary Grade: PF
Summary of Position
YSU Physics and Astronomy services introductory physics course requirements across a broad range of majors. Our introductory laboratory sections are offered at various times during the day and early evening hours. Each section is capped at no more than 20 students to ensure that there is time to work with all students in the lab. Initial lab set-ups (gathering of needed supplies) and maintenance of lab equipment are the responsibility of a separate lab coordinator.
Position Information
Work Schedule: Typically, Monday through Friday. Teaching assignments are located at YSU's campus.
Plans, organizes, teaches, and provides feedback to promote and direct student success. Responds to students in a timely manner. Communicates with students, departments, and university officials via university provided tools and resources.
An Institution of Opportunity: YSU inspires individuals, enhances futures, and enriches lives.
As a student-centered university, Youngstown State University's mission is to provide innovative lifelong learning opportunities that will inspire individuals, enhance futures, and enrich lives. YSU inspires individuals by cultivating a curiosity for life-long learning; enhances the futures of our students by empowering them to discover, disseminate and apply their knowledge; and enriches the region by fostering collaboration and the advancement of civic, scientific, and technological development. YSU's culture of enrichment flourishes in our intellectually diverse, accessible, and quality education.
Work Schedule: Typically, Monday through Friday. Teaching assignments are located at YSU's campus.
Primary Location: Youngstown
Qualifications and Competencies
Required Certifications, Training, and/or Licensures: None
Sponsorship and/or Work Authorization Status: Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Minimum Qualifications: At least a master's degree in a relevant field or a master's degree in another field plus at least 18 graduate credit hours in physics. Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Preferred Qualifications: Master's degree or higher in physics. Undergraduate or graduate degree programs must document the successful completion of several laboratory courses in one or more of the physical sciences, including at least two semesters of introductory physics labs.
Physical Requirements: In accordance with the U.S. Department of Labor physical demands strength ratings, this position will perform sedentary work.
Sedentary: work involves exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally or a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs may be defined as Sedentary when walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other Sedentary criteria are met.
Supplemental Information
Please upload all transcripts as one PDF file.
At time of hire, all candidates must provide official transcripts. Official transcripts must be provided in an unopened, sealed envelope and must bear the embossed or raised college seal, date and Registrar's signature.
This position is not eligible for benefits.
01
Do you have at least a master's degree in a relevant field OR a master's degree in another field plus at least 18 graduate credit hours in physics?

• Yes
• No

02
What is the highest level of education that you have attained?

• Did not complete high school.
• High school diploma/GED or equivalent
• Some college
• Associate's degree
• Bachelor's degree
• Master's degree
• Doctoral degree
• Post doctoral degree
• Juris doctor degree

03
Please describe your related experience, including information describing how you meet the minimum qualifications for this position.
Required Question