Adjunct Faculty - Department of Biology
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content.
We need to parse the posting.
Key info:
- Working Title: Adjunct Faculty - Department of Biology
- State Role Title: Instructional Faculty - Part Time
- Position Type: Adjunct Faculty
- Position Status: Part-Time
- FLSA Status: Exempt: Not Eligible for Overtime
- College/Division: College of Science and Mathematics
- Department: 100006 - Biology Department
- Pay Band: N/A
- Pay Rate: Commensurate with Experience
- Beginning Review Date: 10/19/2026
- About JMU Mission etc (general info)
- General Information: Department of Biology invites applications for part-time Adjunct Instructors to teach Introductory Biology, Anatomy, and Physiology labs. Seek instructors committed to hands-on learning, lab safety, high-quality undergraduate instruction. Introductory Biology labs core requirements for Biology majors; Anatomy and Physiology labs serve multiple majors. Program uses standardized curriculum and syllabus. Course materials and lab experimental procedures provided. Each lab section meets for 2 (Physiology) or 3 hours (Introductory Biology, Anatomy), including a pre-lab lecture. Compensation varies depending on number of hours the lab meets per week.
- Duties And Responsibilities: Teaching & Course Delivery (list bullet points), Student Engagement & Assessment, Professional Expectations.
- Qualifications: Candidates must have: Master's or Doctoral degree in Biology, Physiology, Anatomy, or related field. Ability to teach undergraduate Introductory Biology, Anatomy, and/or Physiology. Commitment to following common laboratory curriculum and schedule. Strong professional communication skills and commitment to laboratory safety.
- Additional Posting Information: Applications reviewed rolling basis beginning 10/19/2026. Please complete online application and submit cover letter, CV. Questions may be directed to JMU Biology Department Academic Unit Head at seiferkx@jmu.edu. JMU’s Dual Career and Community Resources Program is available for candidates that will be relocating. Conditions of Employment: contingent upon criminal background check. E-Verify notice. EEO statement etc. Reasonable accommodation.
We need to remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. So we should remove the EEO statement, reasonable accommodation, conditions of employment? The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we should remove EEO statement, reasonable accommodation, conditions of employment (maybe considered legal). Also remove application instructions like "Please complete the online application and submit the following documents: Cover letter Curriculum Vitae All materials should be submitted through the online application." That's application instructions, so remove. Also remove contact email? Might be considered application instruction; but maybe we keep contact as part of "About the role"? The instruction says remove application instructions. The email is for questions; could be considered contact info, but it's part of application instructions. Safer to remove it. Also remove "JMU’s Dual Career and Community Resources Program is available..." maybe not boilerplate but could be considered benefit? It's a resource; could be considered a benefit. But it's not explicitly Pay/Benefits/Schedule. Might be considered a benefit. However we need to include Benefits section only if posting actually states them. This is a benefit (dual career resources). Might be considered a benefit. But we need to decide if we include a Benefits section. The posting mentions "JMU’s Dual Career and Community Resources Program is available for candidates that will be relocating to the area." That's a benefit. So we could include a Benefits section with that.
Pay: "Compensation varies depending on the number of hours the lab meets per week." Also earlier: Pay Rate: Commensurate with Experience. Pay Band: N/A. So we have some pay info but it's vague: "Commencement with Experience" and "Compensation varies depending on number of hours". The instruction says: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Also never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD"). So we cannot create a Pay section if the content is just "Commensurate with Experience" or "varies". That's considered filler/placeholder. So we should omit Pay section.
Schedule: The posting mentions each lab section meets for 2 (Physiology) or 3 hours (Introductory Biology, Anatomy), including a pre-lab lecture. That's schedule info. So we could include a Schedule section with that detail. It's specific: 2 or 3 hours per week, including pre-lab lecture. That's not filler. So include Schedule.
Benefits: Dual career resources. That's specific enough. So include Benefits.
About the role: We can summarize the general information about the role: part-time adjunct instructors to teach labs, etc. That's substantive.
Responsibilities: Duties And Responsibilities section with bullet points.
Requirements: Might be similar to Qualifications? The instruction lists possible headings: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to decide which to use. The posting has "Qualifications" heading. So we can use Qualifications
and list the qualifications. Could also include Requirements but we can just use Qualifications.
Skills: Not explicitly listed; maybe we can omit.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Schedule.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. For prose, use
.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details like: teach Introductory Biology, Anatomy, Physiology labs; hands-on learning, lab safety; standardized curriculum; course materials provided; each lab section meets for 2 (Physiology) or 3 hours (Introductory Biology, Anatomy), including pre-lab lecture; compensation varies depending on number of hours per week.
Duties: bullet points under Teaching & Course Delivery, Student Engagement & Assessment, Professional Expectations. We need to capture each bullet.
Let's extract bullet points:
Teaching & Course Delivery:
- Teach assigned laboratory sections under the supervision of the Academic Unit Head and Lab Coordinators.
- Maintain alignment with the shared curriculum and weekly lab schedule.
- Create an engaging, student-centered learning environment that supports both conceptual understanding and experimental technique.
- Meet weekly for lab prep meetings.
Student Engagement & Assessment:
- Provide timely, constructive, rubric-based feedback.
- Submit final grades on time and issue student success alerts when appropriate.
- Collaborating with the Laboratory Coordinator and Department Chair to strengthen safety culture.
Professional Expectations:
- Communicate regularly with Laboratory Coordinator.
- Maintain current subject-matter expertise and best practices in laboratory instruction.
- Uphold professional conduct, ethics, and all University policies.
- Coordinate instructional needs with the Laboratory Coordinator (lab setup and breakdown are handled by staff).
Qualifications:
- A Master's degree or Doctoral degree in Biology, Physiology, Anatomy, or a related field.
- Ability to teach undergraduate Introductory Biology, Anatomy, and/or Physiology.
- Commitment to following the common laboratory curriculum and schedule.
- Strong professional communication skills and commitment to laboratory safety.
Benefits:
- JMU’s Dual Career and Community Resources Program is available for candidates that will be relocating to the area.
Schedule:
- Each lab section meets for 2 hours (Physiology) or 3 hours (Introductory Biology, Anatomy), including a pre-lab lecture.
- Compensation varies depending on the number of hours the lab meets per week. (But compensation is pay; we might not include pay. However schedule section could mention the hours; compensation note maybe not needed for schedule. But we could include schedule only about hours. The compensation note is pay; we can omit as filler.)
About the role: We need to capture the substantive info: Department of Biology invites applications for part-time Adjunct Instructors to teach Introductory Biology, Anatomy, and Physiology labs. Seek instructors committed to hands-on learning, laboratory safety, and high-quality undergraduate instruction. Introductory Biology labs are core requirements for Biology majors; Anatomy and Physiology labs serve multiple majors and programs. Program uses standardized curriculum and syllabus to ensure consistency and fairness across all sections. Course materials and laboratory experimental procedures will be provided to help guide instructors.
We could also mention that the position is part-time adjunct faculty, etc. But we should not repeat job title as heading. The About the role section can be a paragraph.
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for each section heading. Use
for prose. Use
- for lists.
We must not include any empty sections.
Let's craft:
About the role
The Department of Biology at James Madison University invites applications for part‑time Adjunct Instructors to teach Introductory Biology, Anatomy, and Physiology laboratories. The role seeks instructors committed to hands‑on learning, laboratory safety, and high‑quality undergraduate instruction. Introductory Biology labs are core requirements for Biology majors, while Anatomy and Physiology labs serve multiple majors and programs. The program uses a standardized curriculum and syllabus to ensure consistency across sections, and course materials plus laboratory experimental procedures are provided to guide instructors.
Responsibilities
- Teach assigned laboratory sections under the supervision of the Academic Unit Head and Lab Coordinators.
- Maintain alignment with the shared curriculum and weekly lab schedule.
- Create an engaging, student‑centered learning environment that supports both conceptual understanding and experimental technique.
- Meet weekly for lab prep meetings.
- Provide timely, constructive, rubric‑based feedback.
- Submit final grades on time and issue student success alerts when appropriate.
- Collaborate with the Laboratory Coordinator and Department Chair to strengthen safety culture.
- Communicate regularly with the Laboratory Coordinator.
- Maintain current subject‑matter expertise and best practices in laboratory instruction.
- Uphold professional conduct, ethics, and all University policies.
- Coordinate instructional needs with the Laboratory Coordinator (lab setup and breakdown are handled by staff).
Qualifications
- A Master's degree or Doctoral degree in Biology, Physiology, Anatomy, or a related field.
- Ability to teach undergraduate Introductory Biology, Anatomy, and/or Physiology.
- Commitment to following the common laboratory curriculum and schedule.
- Strong professional communication skills and commitment to laboratory safety.
Benefits
- JMU’s Dual Career and Community Resources Program is available for candidates who will be relocating to the area.
Schedule
- Each laboratory section meets for 2 hours (Physiology) or 3 hours (Introductory Biology, Anatomy) per week, including a pre‑lab lecture.
We should not include Pay section. Also we omitted the "Compensation varies depending on the number of hours the lab meets per week." That's pay info; we omitted as per rule not to create Pay section with filler. Could we include it under Schedule? It's about compensation, not schedule. Better to omit.
Check for any duplicated lines: we have not duplicated.
Check for any boilerplate: we removed EEO, reasonable accommodation, conditions of employment, application instructions, contact email, etc.
Check for any placeholder text: we avoided
. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details like: teach Introductory Biology, Anatomy, Physiology labs; hands-on learning, lab safety; standardized curriculum; course materials provided; each lab section meets for 2 (Physiology) or 3 hours (Introductory Biology, Anatomy), including pre-lab lecture; compensation varies depending on number of hours per week. Duties: bullet points under Teaching & Course Delivery, Student Engagement & Assessment, Professional Expectations. We need to capture each bullet. Let's extract bullet points: Teaching & Course Delivery: - Teach assigned laboratory sections under the supervision of the Academic Unit Head and Lab Coordinators. - Maintain alignment with the shared curriculum and weekly lab schedule. - Create an engaging, student-centered learning environment that supports both conceptual understanding and experimental technique. - Meet weekly for lab prep meetings. Student Engagement & Assessment: - Provide timely, constructive, rubric-based feedback. - Submit final grades on time and issue student success alerts when appropriate. - Collaborating with the Laboratory Coordinator and Department Chair to strengthen safety culture. Professional Expectations: - Communicate regularly with Laboratory Coordinator. - Maintain current subject-matter expertise and best practices in laboratory instruction. - Uphold professional conduct, ethics, and all University policies. - Coordinate instructional needs with the Laboratory Coordinator (lab setup and breakdown are handled by staff). Qualifications: - A Master's degree or Doctoral degree in Biology, Physiology, Anatomy, or a related field. - Ability to teach undergraduate Introductory Biology, Anatomy, and/or Physiology. - Commitment to following the common laboratory curriculum and schedule. - Strong professional communication skills and commitment to laboratory safety. Benefits: - JMU’s Dual Career and Community Resources Program is available for candidates that will be relocating to the area. Schedule: - Each lab section meets for 2 hours (Physiology) or 3 hours (Introductory Biology, Anatomy), including a pre-lab lecture. - Compensation varies depending on the number of hours the lab meets per week. (But compensation is pay; we might not include pay. However schedule section could mention the hours; compensation note maybe not needed for schedule. But we could include schedule only about hours. The compensation note is pay; we can omit as filler.) About the role: We need to capture the substantive info: Department of Biology invites applications for part-time Adjunct Instructors to teach Introductory Biology, Anatomy, and Physiology labs. Seek instructors committed to hands-on learning, laboratory safety, and high-quality undergraduate instruction. Introductory Biology labs are core requirements for Biology majors; Anatomy and Physiology labs serve multiple majors and programs. Program uses standardized curriculum and syllabus to ensure consistency and fairness across all sections. Course materials and laboratory experimental procedures will be provided to help guide instructors. We could also mention that the position is part-time adjunct faculty, etc. But we should not repeat job title as heading. The About the role section can be a paragraph. Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no /. Use
for each section heading. Use
for prose. Use
- for lists.
We must not include any empty sections.
Let's craft:
About the role
The Department of Biology at James Madison University invites applications for part‑time Adjunct Instructors to teach Introductory Biology, Anatomy, and Physiology laboratories. The role seeks instructors committed to hands‑on learning, laboratory safety, and high‑quality undergraduate instruction. Introductory Biology labs are core requirements for Biology majors, while Anatomy and Physiology labs serve multiple majors and programs. The program uses a standardized curriculum and syllabus to ensure consistency across sections, and course materials plus laboratory experimental procedures are provided to guide instructors.
Responsibilities
- Teach assigned laboratory sections under the supervision of the Academic Unit Head and Lab Coordinators.
- Maintain alignment with the shared curriculum and weekly lab schedule.
- Create an engaging, student‑centered learning environment that supports both conceptual understanding and experimental technique.
- Meet weekly for lab prep meetings.
- Provide timely, constructive, rubric‑based feedback.
- Submit final grades on time and issue student success alerts when appropriate.
- Collaborate with the Laboratory Coordinator and Department Chair to strengthen safety culture.
- Communicate regularly with the Laboratory Coordinator.
- Maintain current subject‑matter expertise and best practices in laboratory instruction.
- Uphold professional conduct, ethics, and all University policies.
- Coordinate instructional needs with the Laboratory Coordinator (lab setup and breakdown are handled by staff).
Qualifications
- A Master's degree or Doctoral degree in Biology, Physiology, Anatomy, or a related field.
- Ability to teach undergraduate Introductory Biology, Anatomy, and/or Physiology.
- Commitment to following the common laboratory curriculum and schedule.
- Strong professional communication skills and commitment to laboratory safety.
Benefits
- JMU’s Dual Career and Community Resources Program is available for candidates who will be relocating to the area.
Schedule
- Each laboratory section meets for 2 hours (Physiology) or 3 hours (Introductory Biology, Anatomy) per week, including a pre‑lab lecture.