The Department of Computer Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago seeks qualified candidates for an appointment as Lecturer beginning Fall 2025. The department is based at Loyola's Lake Shore Campus and has 17 full-time faculty members serving approximately 500 undergraduate majors and minors and 120 master's students, and nine PhD students enrolled in computer science, cybersecurity, information technology, and software engineering degree programs. For more information about the department, please visit its website at https://www.luc.edu/cs and for more information about the Loyola Center for Cybersecurity, please visit its website at https://www.luc.edu/ccpc.
We welcome candidates with strong teaching profiles in introductory and advanced cybersecurity courses.
This search is part of a College-wide, multiyear hiring initiative designed to hire outstanding teachers and researchers who are reflective of our diverse student body, committed to interdisciplinarity, dedicated to the pursuit of external grants, and appreciative of a Jesuit, Catholic education. As a University that is situated in the world-class, multicultural City of Chicago and dedicated to mentoring a diverse student body, many of whom come from underrepresented and underserved populations, we especially encourage applications from candidates from underrepresented groups.
This position involves teaching three to four cybersecurity and privacy courses per semester at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Topics courses and development of new courses are encouraged. The successful candidate will also engage in professional development activities as well as service at the department level or above. The successful candidate is expected to be involved in the cybersecurity club and the Loyola Center for Cybersecurity, and to mentor students participating in regional and national cybersecurity competitions.
Minimum Education and/or Work Experience:
The candidate will have a PhD in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field at the time of appointment. Candidates for the position must demonstrate clear potential for excellence in teaching and student mentorship. The candidate must be willing to support the mission of Loyola University Chicago and the goals of a Jesuit, Catholic education.
Loyola University Chicago, a private university founded in 1870 as St. Ignatius College, is one of the nation's largest Jesuit, Catholic Universities and the only one located in Chicago. Loyola University Chicago is comprised of four campuses: Lake Shore (LSC), Water Tower (WTC), Health Sciences (HSC), and the John Felice Rome Center in Italy, and is home to ten schools and colleges: arts and sciences, business administration, communication, education, graduate studies, law, medicine, nursing, continuing and professional studies, and social work. Loyola also features course locations in Beijing, China; Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Vernon Hills, Illinois (Cuneo Mansion and Gardens); and a Retreat and Ecology Campus in Woodstock, Illinois. Recognizing Loyola's excellence in education, U.S.News and World Report has ranked Loyola consistently among the "top national universities" in its annual publications. Loyola is among a select group of universities recognized for community service and engagement by prestigious national organizations like the Carnegie Foundation and the Corporation for National and Community Service.