Assistant Clinical Lecturer or Assistant Clinical Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics

Position Title:

Assistant Clinical Lecturer or Assistant Clinical Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics

Compensation:

$60,000 - $65,000

Department:

Dept of Nutrition & Health Science

Start Date:

08/16/2027

About this opportunity:

The Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences welcomes applications for a non-tenure line vacancy, Assistant Clinical Lecturer/Assistant Clinical Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics.

Candidates for searches must have current authorization to be employed in the U.S. without employer sponsorship.

Rank will be at the Assistant Clinical Lecturer level. For candidates who hold a doctorate in a related area, appointment can be considered at the Assistant Clinical Professor rank.

Faculty are expected to be regularly present on campus to engage with students, colleagues, and community. Position begins August 01, 2027. Classes begin Monday, August 23, 2027.

As the College of Health celebrates a decade of academic achievements within Ball State University, Nutrition and Health Science, its youngest department, seeks dynamic new faculty to help shape the future of healthcare, through teaching, research and service.

Ball State University is one of just 11 institutions in the country, and the only one in Indiana to hold Carnegie’s “Triple Crown of classifications, i.e., named an Opportunity College and University, designated a Doctoral University with High Research Activity (R2), and earned the 2026 Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement. Together, these recognitions reflect the University’s commitment to student success, academic excellence, and real-world impact.

At the Ball State University College of Health, we graduate health professionals who are clinically knowledgeable, and ready to collaborate on interprofessional teams. Our research embraces interdisciplinarity, laboratory science, clinical science, data science, and community engagement.

We invite applications for Assistant Clinical Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics in the Department of Nutrition and Health Science to join us in preparing today’s nutrition, public health and health services workforce.

• THE DEPARTMENT OF NUTRITION AND HEALTH SCIENCES:
• The Department houses accredited undergraduate majors in dietetics, public health, respiratory therapy and radiography, minors in public health, nutrition, and workplace wellness, graduate programs in Nutrition and Dietetics, and Health Science with a track in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, and an accredited Dietetic Internship. Our programs serve 280 degree-seeking students and are supported by 35 full- and part-time faculty. Additionally, the Department developed and offers classes in a Health Data Analytics concentration in the Data Analytics undergraduate major in the College of Sciences and Humanities.

The Department also offers popular courses on health and nutrition issues that extend our reach well beyond majors and drive total students instructed to among the top 3 departments in the university. We embrace this extraordinary opportunity to educate and improve health of all Ball State University undergraduates. Our undergraduate dietetics program includes training in state-of-the-art simulation facilities, located throughout two floors of the Health Professions Building.

Our undergraduate public health program provides a unique opportunity for students to fully engage in the regional community and beyond as they intern at a public health agency full time during their final semester. These and other activities help us contribute to the greater university goal 1 undergraduate excellence and innovation, strategic priorities D, “Our core curriculum incorporates innovative pedagogy, transdisciplinary approaches to learning and problem-solving, and the development of cultural competencies, global awareness, and transferable skills so that our graduates are prepared for a fulfilling career and a meaningful life in the 21st century; goal 3D, “We collaborate with external partners to implement a regional plan to improve population health and wellbeing” in the university strategic plan (Destination 2040, Our Flight Path), and align with the state’s Health First Indiana initiative which seeks improvement in health through these core public health services: Tobacco and Vaping Prevention and Cessation, Maternal and Child Health, Trauma and Injury Prevention, Access to and Linkage to Clinical Care, Chronic Disease Prevention and Lead Case Management.

Faculty and student mentees also have access to research laboratories in the Interprofessional Community Clinics and the Health Professions building with space devoted to assessment, sample collection, processing, storage and analytics. The department also has a designated demonstration kitchen with attached classroom. The department office suite houses a small tech hub for faculty and student teams to collect data and analyze using NDSR, NVivo, Cardiovascular Suite, and also includes statistical analysis and data visualization software. The Welcome Home Suite, available for all faculty projects in the College of Health, is equipped with food preparation facilities, and feeding, resting and sample collection spaces. Faculty facilitate interprofessional education through collaborations with the College of Health Healthy Lifestyle Center and Simulation and Skills Laboratories.

• THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH
• A vital resource for Indiana to prepare health professionals, the College of Health offers 32 academic programs in 7 units: Departments of Counseling Psychology, Social Psychology, and Counseling; Military Science; Nutrition and Health Science; Speech Pathology and Audiology; and Social Work and the Schools of Nursing and Kinesiology. More than 200 faculty and staff serve 3,100 student majors. We partner with regional communities for immersive learning and research. Our Health Professions Building, which opened in 2019, is LEED Gold certified and houses state-of-the-art Simulation and Skills Laboratories. Other facilities include the Health and Physical Activity Complex, and Ball Gymnasium.

We are committed to serving the community through student training, health services and research. Over the past year, our Interprofessional Community Clinics offered a range of health, speech-language pathology, audiology, and mental health services delivered by over 390 student clinicians supervised by 40 faculty practitioners to more than 2400 community members, with more than 16,800 patient visits. In addition, students attended, hosted or sponsored more than 466 community outreach events delivering health education and screenings to an estimated 2668 people of all ages through the Clinics and the Healthy Lifestyle Center.

Our faculty and students contribute to the evidence base for their respective disciplines. As of the start of this academic year (FY27), the college has 38 active grant awards, totaling over $7.8M. Our research footprint includes the academic departments and our centers and labs, including the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Center for Substance Use Research and Community Initiatives, Human Performance Lab, the Biomechanics Lab, the Nutrition and Cardiometabolic Health and Obesity Lab and BEACH Lab, and other research labs. Faculty also hold leadership roles within national professional organizations. We are committed to excellence in all we do and aspire to contribute to an increasingly diverse health professional workforce to help decrease health care disparities.

• THE COMMUNITY
• BSU enjoys a close relationship with the City of Muncie that bridges the town-gown divide often present in many college towns. Our employees extol the virtues of living in this Midwestern town of 70,000 people, including the friendliness of residents; variation and affordability of neighborhoods; and, ease of commute. Ball State enjoys a pivotal relationship with the Muncie Community Schools. The university is also home to the Burris Laboratory School and the