Assistant Professor of STEM Education

Job posting number: #7368052. Posted: August 7, 2026. Application deadline: Open until filled.

About the Role

In line with Texas Tech University’s strategic priorities to engage and empower a dynamic student body, enable innovative research and creative activities, and transform lives and communities through outreach and engaged scholarship, applicants should have experience working with a breadth of student populations at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels within individual or across the areas of teaching, research/creative activity, and service.

Responsibilities

• Maintain an active, externally funded research program focused on K-16 Mathematics Education.
• Publish in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly outlets.
• Teach graduate-level courses aligned with the candidate’s expertise.
• Advise and mentor students, including but not limited to doctoral students pursuing dissertation research.
• Contribute to collaborative initiatives within the College of Education and across the university.
• Engage in outreach and policy communication activities to ensure research informs state and national workforce priorities.

Requirements

• Ph.D. in Mathematics Education or Curriculum & Instruction with a Mathematics Education emphasis conferred by an accredited university by August 31, 2027.
• Three or more years of full-time mathematics teaching in the K-12 classroom and/or undergraduate mathematics or in mathematics education.
• Evidence of an emerging research agenda and scholarly contributions in Mathematics Education, including recent (within the past four years) peer-reviewed journal publications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Earned doctorate from an AAU institution.
• One or more years working with and/or facilitating STEM outreach.
• Evidence of a clear research agenda (refereed presentations and publications in research-focused venues) in content-specific, psychological K-16 Mathematics Education and/or applications of AI in Mathematics Education.
• Evidence of developing and/or participating in research practice partnerships, collaborative research, and/or engaged scholarship with teachers, school districts, non-profits, government agencies, and/or community/professional organizations.
• Evidence of participation in practitioner-focused professional development and/or teaching professional organizations at local, state, national, and/or international levels.
• Demonstrated experience in mentoring or a record of advising graduate students and serving on quantitative-focused doctoral dissertation and/or master’s thesis committees.
• Demonstrated experience teaching online.
• Demonstrated experience teaching graduate-level STEM education and/or mathematics education courses at the post-secondary level.
• Demonstrated experience with grant activities, either applying, receiving, and/or working off grant funding.

Location

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX (main campus and affiliated facilities).