Georgia College & State University is the state's designated public liberal arts university. As a member of the prestigious Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC), Georgia College is committed to fostering a liberal arts environment that values interdisciplinary inquiry, diversity and inclusion, and academic excellence. The College enrolls approximately 7,000 students-5,800 undergraduate and 1,200 graduate students-and is prominently cited for excellence in teaching, undergraduate research, nursing education, and high-impact practices outside the classroom in a number of leading publications.

The university's beautiful and historic campus is located downtown in Milledgeville, Georgia, a charming, diverse college town of approximately 19,000 residents in Central Georgia, approximately 90 miles southeast of Atlanta. Milledgeville is also the home of noted American author and alumna, Flannery O'Connor, and the college community enjoys many exciting literary arts programs at O'Connor's former home, the Andalusia Institute, now owned by the College. Milledgeville is also located on the banks of beautiful Lake Sinclair and Lake Oconee, allowing faculty, staff, and students to take full advantage of the environmental and recreational benefits of being part of a lake community. For cultural, educational, and leisure opportunities beyond Milledgeville, Macon, Athens and Atlanta are located within easy driving distances.

Georgia College takes great pride in combining the educational experience of private liberal arts colleges with the affordability of a public university. The university's main campus is a residential learning community focused on undergraduate education and a select number of graduate programs. Faculty and staff are dedicated to engaging students through high-impact pedagogies that foster intellectual curiosity, reasoned inquiry, and critical thinking. We strive for excellence in the classroom and beyond. We nurture collaborative leadership and global citizenship, and we value diversity and inclusion in all of its forms.

Georgia College seeks faculty and administrators who understand and embrace our public liberal arts mission, who are committed to respecting and fostering diversity and inclusion inside and outside of the classroom, and who are dedicated to the advancement of knowledge through teaching, scholarship, and service. All Georgia College faculty share the responsibility of teaching our core curriculum and providing foundation courses for majors and non-majors alike. To carry out our public liberal arts mission, we seek faculty with the desire and ability to provide a first-class learning experience for our students, one that will prepare them to be competent, thoughtful, and well-rounded leaders who make transformative contributions to their communities and to the world.

Established in 2007, the Paul Coverdell Distinguished Fellow of Policy Studies honors the late Senator Paul Coverdell, who is remembered for his life of service, and his focus on a broad range of domestic and foreign public policy issues, global democracy, and peacemaking. The Coverdell Fellow recognizes Senator Coverdell's legacy in building strong communities through the development of democratic institutions and his deep commitment to international understanding and accord. The Coverdell Fellow is a focal point for the university's multifaceted initiatives in public policy studies, especially policies with international implications.

The Coverdell Fellow promotes the Georgia College liberal arts mission by engaging faculty and students, the university, and the broader community in analyzing various dimensions of domestic and international policy issues to understand the problems and the promise of a world characterized by increasing interdependence.

Georgia College is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative-Action Institution committed to cultural, racial, and multi-ethnic communities and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. It is expected that successful candidates share in this commitment.

Over the course of one semester, the Coverdell Fellow will engage in teaching, research, and educational outreach: (1) teach one upper-division course or seminar in an area of disciplinary expertise related to U.S., international or comparative public policy, ideally designed to attract students outside of the major; (2) conduct a research project, ideally using local and/or regional resources; (3) engage in a program of educational outreach (e.g., guest lectures, campus lectures, and/or community engagement. A residency proposal should detail these three areas of activity, and how the residency initiatives benefit Georgia College students and faculty, and how they advance Georgia College’s liberal arts mission.

Educational Requirements
A terminal degree in the academic discipline or extensive professional work experience in a public policy related field.

Other Required Qualifications
Must meet SACSCOC accreditation requirements stated in C.S. 3.7.1 (www.sacscoc.org (faculty credentials)

Scholars should have a desire to work at a public liberal arts institution where we expect excellence in the classroom and where faculty are expected to engage with and challenge our students in and outside the classroom, provide service to the department, college, university, community and profession, and conduct scholarship.

Additional Preferred Qualifications
Georgia College invites residency proposals from eminent scholars or practitioners with expertise in public policy and/or policy studies from all disciplinary and inter-disciplinary fields offered in the College of Arts and Sciences. Residencies should offer new perspectives, intellectual excitement, and lively engagement with students, faculty colleagues, and the campus community.

Georgia College is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution committed to cultural, racial, and ethnic communities. We promote equal employment opportunities regardless of race, religion, color, gender, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity. It is expected that successful candidates share these commitments.

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Georgia College is committed to the fundamental principle of equal opportunity and equal treatment for every prospective and current employee and strives to create a campus environment which understands, fosters, and embraces the value of diversity. No person shall, on the grounds of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or genetic information, be excluded from employment or participation in, be denied the benefits of, or otherwise be subjected to discrimination, under any program or activity conducted by Georgia College. It is the policy our institution to recruit, hire, train, promote and educate persons without regard to race, color, national or ethnical origin, age, disability, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or veteran status as required by applicable state and federal laws (including Title VI, Title VII, Title IX, Sections 503, and 504, AREA, ADA, E.O. 11246, and Rev. Proc. 75-50). Georgia College is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution.

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