Adjunct Faculty, for Spring 2026: “Sustainable and Resilient Cities” Graduate Course - Institute for Sustainable Practice

About the role

The Institute for Sustainable Practice seeks eligible scholars and practitioners to fill an adjunct teaching role for the Spring 2026 “Sustainable and Resilient Cities” graduate course.

Responsibilities

• Create unique graduate course content
• Edit and customize current course content to the selected adjunct’s teaching style
• Teach the stated graduate sustainability course for eight, evening lecture/assessment class meetings in January-March, 2026

Requirements

• Master Current Course Content: Adjuncts will review, learn, edit, and utilize all existing, published course content in the Canvas learning management system (LMS) and course reading materials. Approximately 90 percent of the course content may be provided by the Institute.
• Create and Customize Engaging Course Content Unique to the Adjunct’s Discipline and Professional Experience and Aligned with the Course Learning Outcomes: The adjunct will develop and record unique course content, instructional aids, notices, reminders, and one local immersion experience.
• Instruct and Mentor Students: All adjunct professors in sustainability must be willing to lecture and engage graduate students in the following integrated teaching formats.

Qualifications

• Education: Required: A master of science in urban and regional planning, urban studies, engineering, master of business administration; other relevant masters degrees approved by the Institute; OR a terminal degree (JD or PhD) from a relevant sub-discipline focusing on urban sustainability and resilience.
• Experience: Required: Ten or more years’ experience in one or more of the follow areas: applied practice, business, and/or policy of urban design, construction, development, re-development, building science, community and building energy management, landscape systems, and local/regional planning, where sustainability and resilience were a focal point. A portion of this experience can be substituted with graduate education as noted above.