Lecturers
The COLLEGE program at Stanford University provides recent Ph.D.s with the opportunity to guide small groups of first-year students in their earliest stages of intellectual formation.
Love teaching undergraduates? COLLEGE Lecturers connect with first-year students through small seminar-style classes and discussion sections. All courses are based on a shared syllabus and teaching is highly collaborative, offering additional opportunities to hone and explore new teaching methods. Courses are interdisciplinary and lecturers come from a range of disciplines. Explore COLLEGE courses.
Where can the COLLEGE program take you?
Past lecturers have moved from the first-year requirement program to tenure-track faculty positions at R1s, community colleges, and high schools as well as to academic staff roles and industry.
Lecturer Search
Lecturers are selected each year in a competitive search that runs approximately from December-April, with a deadline in early February. The program offers a full-time, benefits-eligible position with a fixed term of three years. The initial contract is for two years and may be renewed for the third year.
Benefits to Lecturers
- Professional development funding and support
- Cohort of PhD lecturers in a team-teaching environment
- Status as full-time academic staff with health insurance and all the usual university staff benefits (see the Academic Staff Handbook on time off/leaves for academic staff)