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You’d be teaching intro programming courses that emphasize collaboration, communication, critical thought, creativity, inclusion, and mutual support.

The intro courses are heavily hands-on: lots of in-class activities and little lecture, emphasis on software as a living craft practiced by humans and for humans (as opposed to the traditional CS checklist of concepts detached from their context).

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Course materials are already lined up (though you’d always have input; we value our visitors’ fresh perspective). Your job would be shepherding students through the complex intellectual and emotional experience of learning to create software together.

Compared to what you might imagine, it's probably a lot less “knowing all the technical academic answers” and a lot more “human caring for students and modeling problem-solving.”

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Selling points:

- The students are wonderful human beings.
- My faculty and staff colleagues are wonderful human beings.
- Pay is mediocre for tech industry, but good for teaching.
- If you’re in industry, I can almost guarantee you are not used to seeing your work visibly •mattter• to real people on a daily basis like this.

Happy to field questions. DM if curious.

Again, this position is open to industry folks •and• academics. Located in MSP.

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@cursedsql
Macalester has (in my humble opinion) a really awesome CS program! I’d put the quality of experience the students get here up against just about anywhere.

@inthehands definitely not intended as shade, I just lived next to M for years and am an uneducated fool

@cursedsql
No shade perceived! And no obligation to know all the programs at Mac. Hit me up and I'll talk about all the zillion things our CS program does that are ahead of the curve.