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Fordham University seeks a skilled, experienced part-time non-tenure-track adjunct faculty to teach Introduction to Fashion Design, a required course for the Fashion Studies Minor, for the Fall 2025 semester.

Fordham Theatre is committed to cultivating an expansive vision for the program that assures its preeminent standing, elevates its profile as an innovative leader in undergraduate theater training, and centers social justice in all aspects of its work. The Theatre Program is based at Fordham’s Lincoln Center Campus in Manhattan and is housed academically within a department alongside Visual Art.

The Fashion Studies Minor is a popular interdisciplinary program with a curriculum shared by faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences and Gabelli Business School. It weaves together the industry's cultural, creative, and commercial components.

Responsibilities include guiding students in fashion design principles and techniques, preparing course materials and assessments aligned with the curriculum, conducting lectures and workshops, mentoring students while fostering a creative learning environment, and bringing industry experience of current trends into the classroom. This professor teaches two courses:

Tuesdays 11:30am-2:15 PM and Tuesdays 2:30-5:15 PM beginning Fall 2025 (semester runs August 27-December 9, 2025)

Course Description: 

THEA 1210 - Introduction to Fashion Design

This course explores the art and the business of fashion design by tracing its history in Europe and America, understanding the contribution of fibers to the medium, communicating design details through several modes of drawing, and investigating the market factors that shape the contemporary fashion industry around the globe.

The Service Employees International (Local200) represents part-time NTT instructors at Fordham Union (SEIU), and specific terms of employment, including minimum per-course rates, are set by the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The per-course rate for new instructors as of March 24, 2025 is $8,500.

Part-time NTT faculty may teach a maximum of two courses per semester at either or both of Fordham's two main campuses at Rose Hill (Bronx) and Lincoln Center (Manhattan). Intro to Fashion Design is currently only offered at the Lincoln Center campus.

• A Terminal degree (PhD or MFA) in fashion design, or a related field
• A minimum of one year experience teaching relative subject matter at the college or university level.
• Experience successfully working with and teaching culturally and linguistically diverse students.
• Demonstrated commitment to student-centered teaching and has a joy and passion in sharing knowledge and learning with students.

To apply, please submit a cover letter and CV using Interfolio. Questions may be directed to the Director of the Theatre Program, May Adrales, at madrales@fordham.edu or the Director of Fashion Studies, Robert Hernandez, rhernandez57@fordham.edu, with the subject line “Intro to Fashion Design.”