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demonstrate Courageous Integrity through setting exceptional standards and acting in the best interest of our communities. We are encouraged to Be Curious about opportunities for learning, creating, discovering, and innovating, and are encouraged to learn from failure. Show Your Fire by joining our team and exhibiting your passion and pride in your work as part of our UNT System team.
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UNT and the G. Brint Ryan College of Business
The University of North Texas is a Carnegie R1 national research institution located in the vibrant and rapidly expanding Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area and is situated near DFW International Airport. University enrollment is over 45,000 students with more than 6,500 graduate students. The G. Brint Ryan College of Business is accredited by AACSB International. Please visit our website (https://cob.unt.edu) to learn more about the G. Brint Ryan College of Business and the University.
UNT’s Department of Logistics and Operations Management
The Department of Logistics and Operations Management is part of the G. Brint Ryan College of Business at the University of North Texas. The department provides students with well-rounded, state-of-the-art education in the modern principles of logistics, operations, and supply chain management. We prepare our students for rewarding careers as practitioners and academics, with the help of innovative curriculum, dynamic programs, and research labs and centers. The department consists of 12 tenured-track and 8 professional faculty and offers undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees. Our faculty is characterized by excellence in teaching, outstanding basic and applied research, and leadership in professional organizations.
UNT has a highly diverse campus with a wide range of languages spoken in addition to English. We welcome candidates who have experience with HSI/MSIs and/or who speak Spanish, Vietnamese, American Sign Language, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin and other variations), Arabic, Tagalog, Farsi, French, or/and Yoruba.
The Department of Logistics and Operations Management, at the University of North Texas G. Brint Ryan College of Business, invites applications for appointment as the G. Brint Ryan Chair in Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
The Position
This is a full-time, endowed, tenured position at the Full Professor level. The appointee is expected to have an internationally recognized research record, pursue continuing research and scholarship, and provide expertise, innovation, and leadership to the logistics and supply chain management program’s overall strategy, plans to achieve this strategy, and ultimately the program’s ability to execute to these strategic goals and objectives.
This appointee will provide leadership to advance UNT’s nationally recognized logistics and supply chain program.
The primary focus of the selected individual’s research interest would fall within logistics and supply chain management as broadly defined, with possible secondary focus in related fields. The G. Brint Ryan Chair will be an enthusiastic and motivational scholar who will work closely with our constituencies and will marshal resources to help develop a successful and recognized logistics and supply chain management program and exercise leadership in the development of graduate and undergraduate programs of study and research.
Successful Candidate
The successful candidate will demonstrate a commitment to effective teaching, research and preparing students for success in a multicultural business environment. Duties will be comprised of a balance of teaching, research and service, including the following:
Teaching logistics and supply chain management and related courses at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels on the Denton campus and off-site locations (face-to-face, online, and/or blended).
Conducting and collaborating on high quality logistics and supply chain management research and publishing in top-tier journals.
Mentoring and publishing with logistics and supply chain management doctoral students and
Working with doctoral, masters and undergraduate students to assist with career
Participating in departmental, college and university service.
Minimum Qualifications:
A doctoral degree in logistics, supply chain management, transportation or closely related field from an AACSB accredited institution.
Status as academically qualified, under both SACS and AACSB standards, to teach at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Distinguished record of research, teaching and service in logistics and supply chain management.
Preferred Qualifications
Record of leadership in logistics and supply chain teaching and
Evidence of collaborative research and publications with leading logistics and supply chain
Record of editorial positions in leading logistics and supply chain
Record of mentoring doctoral students in logistics and supply chain
Demonstrated ability to chair dissertations and place doctoral
Demonstrated leadership in mentoring and working collaboratively with
Record of professional involvement with major professional organizations in the discipline of logistics and supply chain.
Ability to work collaboratively with external organizations and stake
Ability to foster partnerships with industry professionals and corporations.
Special Instructions to Applicants
All applications must be submitted electronically, through the UNT online system.
Questions may be directed to the Search Committee Chair, Dr. Ila Manuj (Ila.Manuj@unt.edu).
About University of North Texas G. Brint Ryan College of Business
The UNT System includes the University of North Texas in Denton and Frisco, the University of North Texas at Dallas and UNT Dallas College of Law, and the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. We are the only university system based exclusively in the robust Dallas-Fort Worth region. We are growing with the North Texas region, employing more than 14,000 employees, educating a record 49,000+ students across our system, and awarding nearly 12,000 degrees each year. We are one team comprised of individuals who are committed to excellence, curiosity and innovation. We are transforming lives and creating economic opportunity through education. We champion a people-first values-based culture where We Care about each other and those we serve. We believe that we are Better Together because we foster an inclusive environment of respect, belonging, and access for all. We demonstrate Courageous Integrity through setting exceptional standards and acting in the best interest of our communities. We are encouraged to Be Curious about opportunities for learning, creating, discovering, and innovating, and are encouraged to learn from failure. Show Your Fire by joining our t...eam and exhibiting your passion and pride in your work as part of our UNT System team.
The University of North Texas is a Carnegie R1 national research institution located in the vibrant and rapidly expanding Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area and is situated near DFW International Airport. University enrollment is over 45,000 students with more than 6,500 graduate students. The G. Brint Ryan College of Business is accredited by AACSB International. Please visit our website (https://cob.unt.edu) to learn more about the G. Brint Ryan College of Business and the University.
The Department of Logistics and Operations Management is part of the G. Brint Ryan College of Business at the University of North Texas. The department provides students with well-rounded, state-of-the-art education in the modern principles of logistics, operations, and supply chain management. We prepare our students for rewarding careers as practitioners and academics, with the help of innovative curriculum, dynamic programs, and research labs and centers. The department consists of 12 tenured-track and 8 professional faculty and offers undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees. Our faculty is characterized by excellence in teaching, outstanding basic and applied research, and leadership in professional organizations. UNT has a highly diverse campus with a wide range of languages spoken in addition to English. We welcome candidates who have experience with HSI/MSIs and/or who speak Spanish, Vietnamese, American Sign Language, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin and other variations), Arabic, Tagalog, Farsi, French, or/and Yoruba.
