Working @ LaGrange
People who love a challenge love LaGrange College. Here, you'll find faculty and staff committed to providing the very best liberal arts and sciences educational experience.

If you'd like to join our caring community, browse the current open positions below.

LaGrange College does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race or color, or national or ethnic origin.

Available positions and notices:

COSTUME DESIGNER/COSTUME FACULTY with DESIGN experience
Assistant Professor/TENURE Track
The Department of Theatre Arts at LaGrange College invites applications for a full-time position in a vigorous B.A. program. Qualifications: MFA with preferred concentration in Costume Design. Applicants should have a strong commitment to teaching and evidence of outstanding design potential. Responsibilities include: teaching costume design, makeup, and introductory Theatre Arts courses, costume design and/or supervision of student designers for two main stage and one studio production annually, supervision of student costume crew, maintenance and supervision of the costume shop and costume storage. Scenic design opportunities as well. Faculty members are expected to contribute to the department and to the College through service to the department and commitment to teach in the CORE curriculum as well as service on faculty committees. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. Position to begin Fall 2010. U.S. News & World Report recently ranked LaGrange College among the top 10 "comprehensive colleges" in the South.

Candidates should apply electronically via email with a letter of application, a curriculum vita, a statement of educational philosophy, and three or more professional references, including e-mail addresses and phone numbers, to Michele Raphoon at mraphoon@lagrange.edu or by post to:

Michele Raphoon
Department of Theatre Arts
LaGrange College
601 Broad Street
LaGrange
Georgia 30240

Review of applications will begin immediately, and the position will remain open until filled. Persons applying for employment with LaGrange College may be required to submit to a national background check.
LaGrange College is an EO/AA employer. For more information, visit www.lagrange.edu.

Application procedure:

To guarantee consideration, application materials must be postmarked by March 1, 2010. A complete application includes: (1) a letter of application addressing the candidate's qualifications and teaching philosophy; (2) a current curriculum vitae; (3)

three letters of reference; (4) official graduate transcripts. Send all materials electronically to aplumlee@lagrange.edu or by post to:

Dr. Amanda Plumlee

Dept. of Latin American Studies & Modern Languages

LaGrange College

601 Broad St.

LaGrange, GA 30240

LaGrange College is a private comprehensive college located about one hour southwest of Atlanta. For more information about the college and the Latin American Studies and Modern Language Department, visit our Web sites at www.lagrange.edu.  LaGrange College is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Persons applying for employment with LaGrange College may be required to submit to a national background check.

Assistant Professor of English
LaGrange College seeks applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor of English to begin August 2010.

Duties will include teaching upper-level writing courses, freshman composition, interdisciplinary courses in the common Core, and graduate-level content courses in the Education department, as well as Interim (January term) courses.

The teaching load will be between twenty-one (21) and twenty-four (24) hours per academic year, as circumstances require.

The candidate should have a Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Communications, or English, with primary expertise in teaching writing, and should have at least two (2) years of college-level teaching.

Review of applications will begin immediately, and the position will remain open until filled.

Please send

• a letter of application
• a curriculum vitae
• official transcripts of all post-secondary education, and
• two (2) letters of recommendation

to awilson@lagrange.edu or by post to:

Dr. Anthony Wilson, Chair
Department of English
LaGrange College
601 Broad Street
LaGrange, GA 30240.

LaGrange College is a private comprehensive college located about one hour southwest of Atlanta.

LaGrange College is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Persons applying for employment with LaGrange College may be required to submit to a national background check.

Assistant/ Associate Professor, Education
The Education Department of LaGrange College seeks an individual with significant experience in teacher leadership to teach courses and guide research primarily in a new Ed.S. in Curriculum and Instruction program.  The Specialist in Education (Ed.S.) program, which will meet the requirements for an endorsement in teacher leadership, is designed for experienced teachers who desire to increase their content knowledge, improve their teaching skills and become teacher leaders in schools for positions such as grade level and department leaders, academic and graduation coaches. Coursework is delivered through a national and international comparative education perspective, where candidates learn how other geographic regions in the United States and countries around the globe teach their children.  The research sequence prepares candidates to become inquiry-based decision makers and to produce scholarship that investigates a particular national or international curricular practice in regards to its successful application in U.S. schools. 

Responsibilities of this tenure-track position also include advising candidates, serving on departmental and college committees, and actively contributing to the scholarship of the profession.

Suggested Qualifications:
(1) a Doctorate in Education in curriculum, pedagogy, teacher leadership, or related area (2) accomplishment in education research, preferably related to PK-12 teaching and/or comparative education (3) experience teaching in P-12 classrooms (4) experience as a teacher leader,  such as department chair, curriculum coach and/or other leadership roles. (5) Experience mentoring teachers, peer coaching, community relations, organizational change, and school advocacy. (6) National Board certification highly desired.

Candidates should apply electronically via email with a letter of application, a curriculum vita, a statement of educational philosophy, and three or more professional references, including e-mail addresses and phone numbers, to the chair of the search committee, Dr. David Cason at dcason@lagrange.edu or by post to: Dr. David Cason, Education Department, LaGrange College. 601 Broad Street, LaGrange, Georgia 30240.  Review of applications will begin immediately, and the position will remain open until filled.

About LaGrange College
LaGrange College is a private comprehensive college located about one hour southwest of Atlanta. For more information about the college and Education Department, visit our Web sites at www.lagrange.edu and www.lagrange.edu/academics/education.  LaGrange College is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Persons applying for employment with LaGrange College may be required to submit to a national background check.