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Elon University located in Elon, North Carolina cordially invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Finance. This is a tenure-track position in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business’ Department of Finance, starting in Fall 2025.

We will conduct interviews at the Financial Management Association meetings in Dallas, Texas, October 2024.

To support Elon’s teacher/scholar mission, we provide extensive research and teaching development programs, including a pre-tenure sabbatical, course releases, summer and academic year research grants, and funds for conference travel. Elon faculty have access to WRDS, Bloomberg, FactSet and other finance databases through the Reed Finance Center.

The position entails teaching courses in the finance program at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as in the Elon Core Curriculum.

The minimum requirements for the position include a Doctorate in Finance obtained prior to September 1, 2025, from an AACSB-accredited business school and evidence of teaching at least three credit hours as an instructor of record at an AACSB-accredited institution. The classes must have been related to at least one of the following: investments, corporate finance, or other finance-related courses. A clear background check is also required for this position.

About the School: The AACSB-accredited Martha and Spencer Love School of Business has emerged from a time of dramatic growth to become a leader in business education. Our faculty are both dynamic teachers who promote engaged learning and leading scholars who publish their work in top journals. To support our teacher/scholar mission, we provide extensive teaching and research development programs, including pre-tenure sabbatical, summer and academic year research grants, course releases, and teaching workshops. The LSB is housed in the Koury Business Center and Sankey Hall, which feature state-of-the-art classrooms, multiple student engagement areas, the LaRose Digital Theatre, the Chandler Family Professional Sales Center, the Reed Finance Center, the Doherty Center for Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Organizational Analytics, the Center for Financial Literacy, and the Porter Family Professional Development Center.  We offer graduate classes on the Elon campus and in the fast-growing Research Triangle Park (RTP) area.  In 2021, Poets and Quants ranked the school’s undergraduate program #45 in the nation and, in 2016, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the part-time MBA program #1 in the state and #17 in the nation.

About the University: Elon has built a national reputation as the premier student-centered environment for experiential learning, emphasizing strong personal relationships between students and their faculty and staff mentors. Elon’s rigorous curriculum is grounded in the arts and sciences and complemented by nationally accredited professional programs. The 446 full-time faculty members teach in more than 60 undergraduate majors and nine graduate programs. Elon’s four-year graduation rate of 80 percent ranks in the top six percent in the nation. Elon’s 6,337 undergraduate and 786 graduate students come from 49 states and 51 other countries. About 24 percent are from North Carolina, with strong enrollment numbers from the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and across the country.

Elon is ranked among the top-100 National Universities by U.S. News & World Report, with a #1 ranking for excellence in undergraduate teaching for both 2023 and 2024, and #13 for innovation in 2024. Elon is the only university in the nation recognized by U.S. News for excellence in all eight academic programs “Focused on Student Success.” Included are #1 rankings for learning communities and first-year experiences, #3 for service learning, and #4 for study abroad.

Elon values and celebrates the diverse backgrounds, cultures, experiences, and perspectives of our community members. As an equal opportunity employer, decisions related to hiring, compensating, training, evaluating performance, are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees. We examine our unconscious biases and take responsibility for always striving to create an inclusive environment that makes every candidate feel welcome. At Elon we strive to follow our mission, where our employees are empowered to respect human differences, have a passion for lifelong learning, an emphasis on personal integrity and an ethic of service.

Elon is a dynamic private, co- educational, comprehensive institution that is a national model for actively engaging faculty and students in teaching and learning in a liberal art based residential campus. To learn more about Elon, please visit the University web site at www.elon.edu http://www.elon.edu.

To Apply:  Please attach a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching experience and evaluations, and a list of three references to your application. Review of candidates for this position will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled, with applications received by October 1st receiving full consideration.