[AISWorld] Tenure-track Opening in Business Analytics and Director of the Center for Organizational Analytics at Love School of Business, Elon University

[Long Xia]

The Department of Management and Entrepreneurship in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business invites applications for a continuing or tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor position in Business Analytics starting fall 2021. The position may include administrative responsibilities as the Director of the Center for Organizational Analytics.  We seek candidates who are effective teachers, scholars, and mentors to teach graduate and undergraduate courses in data analytics and in Elon's Core Curriculum. We also seek candidates with extensive professional experience who are well-positioned to fulfill the Center’s mission to bring faculty, students and industry thought leaders together to promote teaching, outreach, and research in analytics. We will show preference to candidates who possess an earned doctorate in Business Analytics or a related field.

About the School: The AACSB-accredited Martha and Spencer Love School of Business has emerged from a time of dramatic growth to become a leader in business education. Our faculty are both dynamic teachers who promote engaged learning and leading scholars who publish their work in top journals. To support our teacher/scholar mission, we provide extensive teaching and research development programs, including pre-tenure sabbatical, summer and academic year research grants, course releases, and teaching workshops. The LSB is housed in the Koury Business Center and Sankey Hall, which feature state-of-the-art classrooms, multiple student engagement areas, the LaRose Digital Theatre, the Chandler Family Professional Sales Center, the Reed Finance Center, the Doherty Center for Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Organizational Analytics, the Center for Financial Literacy, and the Porter Family Professional Development Center.  We offer graduate classes on the Elon campus and in the fast-growing Research Triangle Park (RTP) area.  In 2021, Poets and Quants ranked the school’s undergraduate program #45 in the nation and, in 2016, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the part-time MBA program #1 in the state and #17 in the nation.



About the University: Elon has built a national reputation as the premier student-centered environment for experiential learning, emphasizing strong personal relationships between students and their faculty and staff mentors. Elon’s rigorous curriculum is grounded in the arts and sciences and complemented by nationally accredited professional programs. The 446 full-time faculty members teach in more than 60 undergraduate majors and nine graduate programs. Elon’s four-year graduation rate of 79 percent ranks in the top six percent in the nation. Elon’s 6,277 undergraduate and 811 graduate students come from 48 states and 47 other countries. About 24 percent are from North Carolina, with strong enrollment numbers from the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and across the country.

Elon is ranked among the top-100 National Universities by U.S. News & World Report, with a #2 ranking for excellence in undergraduate teaching and #11 for innovation. Elon is the only university in the nation recognized by U.S. News for excellence in all eight academic programs “Focused on Student Success.” Included are #1 rankings for study abroad and learning communities and #2 rankings for first-year experiences and service-learning.



To Apply: Please send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, information on teaching evaluations, and a list of three references to: buschair at elon.edu<mailto:buschair at elon.edu>(subject line: Business Analytics Opening), or to Business Analytics Faculty Search Committee, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, Elon University, 2075 Campus Box, Elon, NC 27244. Review of candidates will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.  Elon University is committed to a diverse workforce by fostering an inclusive work environment for students, faculty, and staff.  Successful candidates will demonstrate a commitment and contribution to fostering and advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion.  Elon is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

New employees paid by direct deposit only.

Elon University is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to a diverse faculty, staff and student body and welcomes all applicants.


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Long Xia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems
Department of Management and Entrepreneurship
Elon University
https://www.elon.edu/u/directory/profile/?user=lxia