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Professor of Practice, Business and Technology San Francisco Bay University Category: Faculty Type: Full Time Min. Experience: Some Experience Salary: $95,000 - $115,000 About San Francisco Bay University: Have you ever wondered why higher education feels stuck? Or thought, what if we could rebuild it from the ground up? Imagine a university where disciplines don't dictate the subjects, where learning is transdisciplinary, open-ended, flexible, and deeply connected to real-world needs. A place where we learn across disciplinary boundaries, work through skills that matter, and turn critical ideas into real action. If you've ever dreamed of tearing up the rulebook, of rethinking education in bold, creative, and disruptive ways, you might belong here. San Francisco Bay University is running an experiment in higher education, and we're looking for the people who will make it real. SFBU is a nonprofit, WASC-accredited university in the heart of Silicon Valley. Our mission is to offer inclusive, innovative, and inspirational education for lifelong careers, and our vision is to set the standard as a national model of higher education in service of the common good. Students come first here. We are committed to affordable, quality education with a deep commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice. You can read our strategic plan at . The position at a glance: Appointment: Full-time, non-tenure-track, 12-month contract, renewable based on performance. Start date: January 1, 2027. Location: Fremont, California. Teaching load: Nine courses per academic year, distributed across the Spring, Summer, and Fall terms according to program needs. The split need not be even. Class size: Capped at 20 students Salary $95,000 to $115,000, depending on experience. Review begins: September 15, 2026, and continues until the position is filled. Who we are looking for: We built this role for people who can work credibly across both technology and business: engineers who moved into product or strategy, founders who built and ran companies, business leaders who developed real technical depth. The teaching runs in both directions. Technology students need to see how systems become products and companies. Business students need to understand the technologies now sitting underneath the decisions they will be asked to make. Part of the job is working out what AI does to teaching. You would design, test, and revise, course by course, deciding where it deepens understanding, where it expands what students can attempt, and where it should stay out of the way so that judgment, relationships, struggle, and reflection can develop. You would not be doing this alone. CEPI, our Center for Empowerment and Pedagogical Innovation, is where faculty compare what they are finding. The courses you teach will depend on your background and the needs of the two divisions. Areas may include business analytics, data science, AI and machine learning, product management, technology strategy, data visualization, entrepreneurship, and digital transformation. What the work involves:Teaching Teach nine courses per academic year across the Spring, Summer, and Fall terms, drawing from the Business and ECE curricula at undergraduate and graduate levels. Build your courses around professional problems: real projects, cases, decisions with consequences, and current tools. Give students room to make judgment calls, weigh evidence, build things, and defend their reasoning. Help students see where technical choices meet markets, organizations, customers, ethics, and public needs. Curriculum design and Pedagogical Growth Develop curriculum aligned with current industry trends, including integrating emerging technologies such as generative AI. Design and revise course materials, teaching methods, and assessments, in line with SFBU's commitment to personalized, experiential, relational, and student-centered learning. Deliver course content in AI/ML, Networking, Cybersecurity, and