Position Description:  

The Counselor Education and Supervision faculty in the Department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Counseling in the College of Education at Texas Tech University invites applications from innovative and collaborative colleagues to join our faculty at the rank of Assistant Professor in Counselor Education and Supervision.  This full-time, tenure-track position, with a nine-month academic year appointment beginning on September 1, 2025, requires on-campus presence and active engagement. Not a distance position.

About the University: 

Established in 1923, Texas Tech University is a Carnegie R1 (very high research activity) Doctoral/Research-Extensive, Hispanic Serving, and state-assisted institution. Located on a beautiful 1,850-acre campus in Lubbock, a city in West Texas with a growing metropolitan-area population of over 300,000, the university enrolls over 40,000 students with 33,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students. As the primary research institution in the western two-thirds of the state, Texas Tech University is home to 10 colleges, the Schools of Law and Veterinary Medicine, and the Graduate School.  The flagship of the Texas Tech University System, Texas Tech is dedicated to student success by preparing learners to be ethical leaders for a diverse and globally competitive workforce. It is committed to enhancing the cultural and economic development of the state, nation, and world. 

About the College: 

The Texas Tech University College of Education, with over 2,000 students, offers a nationally recognized undergraduate teacher preparation program and 21 graduate degrees that prepare students for professional or academic positions in education. We are a diverse community of scholars, researchers, and educators with a commitment to excellence in teaching and serving EC-12 public schools and beyond. We collaborate with local, regional, state, national, and global partners to address complex problems facing individuals and communities. In recognition of its extraordinary community outreach efforts, the college received a 2018 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). 
 

About the Department/School/Area: 

The Department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Counseling is renowned for its robust graduate programs, which are gaining acclaim both nationally and internationally. The Counselor Education and Supervision program is meticulously designed to equip students with comprehensive knowledge and advanced skills essential for delivering and evaluating evidence-based counseling services in various clinical and educational settings. 

Our PhD program stands as a beacon of excellence, focusing on cultivating the next generation of leaders in counselor education and supervision. It is meticulously structured to impart cutting-edge knowledge and sophisticated research skills in counselor education. Additionally, it emphasizes the provision of exceptional counselor supervision across a diverse range of environments and settings, ensuring our graduates are well-prepared to excel in their future endeavors and make meaningful contributions to the field. Our graduates are spread across the country in academia, K-12 settings, clinical practices, and non-profit outreach and service centers. 

About Lubbock: 

Referred to as the “Hub City” because it serves as the educational, cultural, economic, and health care hub of the South Plains region, Lubbock boasts a diverse population and a strong connection to community, history, and land. With a mild climate, highly rated public schools, and a low cost of living, Lubbock is a family-friendly community that is ranked as one of the best places to live in Texas. Lubbock is home to a celebrated and ever-evolving music scene, a vibrant arts community, and is within driving distance of Dallas, Austin, Santa Fe, and other major metropolitan cities. Lubbock’s Convention & Visitors Bureau provides a comprehensive overview of the Lubbock community and its resources, programs, events, and histories.  

Major/Essential Functions: 

In line with TTU’s strategic priorities to engage and empower a diverse student body, enable innovative research and creative activities, and transform lives and communities through outreach and engaged scholarship, applicants should have experience working with diverse student populations at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels within individual or across the areas of teaching, research/creative activity, and service.  Other essential functions for this position include the following:

• Teach graduate courses in person and online
• Establish and maintain a rigorous research agenda.
• Work with multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams to seek extramural funding to support research and practice.
• Advise and mentor masters and doctoral students.
• Supervise graduate student research (including serving on thesis and dissertation committees).
• Actively participate in service for the program, department, college, and university committees.
• Help the department build a strong program to be commensurate with the University’s mission as a Hispanic-serving institution.
• Collaborate and cooperate with colleagues to fulfill the needs of the department’s and college’s strategic goals.
• Develop and foster partnerships with school districts, community partners, other colleges, and universities for engaged scholarship.
• Promote a collaborative, socially just environment within the department, college, university, and community.

Required Qualifications: 

• Earned doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision from a CACREP accredited doctoral program by August 2025.
• Appropriate qualifications to be credentialed as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) or Licensed Professional Counselor Associate (LPC-Associate) in Texas within 1 year of beginning employment. Current credentials as a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC) will be considered.
• Knowledge of CACREP standards for PhD and MEd programs.
• Evidence of potential for conducting meaningful research in the field of Counselor Education and Supervision.
• Evidence of strong potential for sustainable line of scholarship and research.
• Strong potential and/or plan to seek external research funding.
• Specific active experience with outreach or service, in the counseling profession, at the local, state, regional, or national levels.

Preferred Qualifications: 

In addition to the required qualifications, individuals with the following preferred qualifications are strongly encouraged to apply: 

• Eligible for state credential to provide clinical supervision.
• Evidence of and/or strong potential to seek and secure external federal funding
• Evidence of a focused research agenda demonstrated by a record of scholastic activity which could include peer-reviewed articles in a counseling journal or a counseling related journal and peer-reviewed presentation at a counseling conference.
• Experience in teaching university level coursework as teacher of record.
• Evidence of experience conducting virtual/online/distance counseling
• Evidence of current and developing technological innovations related to counseling and counselor education.
• Specialized training and credentials to teach the following courses: Psychopharmacology, addictions counseling, assessment, or dysfunctional behavior.
• Credentials and training in the following counseling interventions: school counseling, play therapy, animal assisted therapy, marriage and family, addictions, sandtray, expressive/creative arts therapies, crisis counseling, distance counseling, licensed chemical dependency counselor, trauma informed practices, restorative justice, or EMDR.