Employment Opportunities
School Profile:
Under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, New College Franklin disciples students through the Liberal Arts for wisdom, virtue, and service. New College Franklin is a four-year Christian Liberal Arts college dedicated to excellent academics and a community of discipleship. For centuries, the liberal arts, the freeing disciplines, have served as the curriculum for this holistic education. The student who encounters the Trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric), Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy), philosophy, literature, history, theology, and the arts will emerge as a clearer thinker, grounded in history and the Christian faith, with a deeper knowledge of God, ready to commit themselves with wisdom in love to God and to neighbor.
With this vision, all courses at New College Franklin examine human culture, emphasizing the basic classical scholastic approach of moral philosophy. Our students are entrenched in the moral drama of history by experiencing the great literary classics of theology, philosophy, poetics, mathematics, and science, including the resulting technological developments. We approach all disciplines with an emphasis on the Christian life. Out of this integrated understanding of God’s world every other subject and discipline is formed.
Our pedagogy begins with the relationship between students and professors. We do not position our professors before students as the source of knowledge but as experienced guides to knowledge. Professors and students learn together, side by side, and the key distinction between these two learners is that professors are farther along the path to knowledge and wisdom. Their lectures, questions, and guidance reflect their experience, but the professor’s experience is not the source of knowledge.
New College Franklin Teaching Fellow Profile:
A New College Franklin teaching fellow is a Protestant Christian committed to the worship of God, personal virtue, and the life of the mind. We are seeking someone who is inquisitive and eager to learn, and one who is broadly read in the Western liberal arts tradition and the Great Ideas of literature, philosophy, theology, and history. This candidate will excel in asking penetrating questions of a text, listening to students, leading and encouraging extended discussion around texts and ideas, and helping students synthesize relevant information and aspects of the conversation. A New College Franklin professor’s primary calling should be to the classroom, leading students to develop intellectual and spiritual maturity. An interest in publishing, research, or academic development is encouraged but secondary to the intellectual and Christian life lived in a learning community which holds first place. This candidate must be able to sign in good conscience our Statement of Faith and Faculty Code of Ethics be found on our application.