Position: Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in Business Analytics
University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) is one of three campuses at the University of Toronto (UofT), alongside the St. George downtown campus and University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). The advertised Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream position involves a primary appointment at the Department of Management at UTM. This document aims to provide information about the tri-campus structure, as well as teaching load and areas.
Location. The UTM campus is situated on 225 acres of protected greenbelt along the Credit River, 33 km west of the St. George campus, which hosts the Rotman School of Management. The third campus, UTSC, is located on the east side of the city.
The Department of Management is located in the recently renovated Innovation Complex, featuring case-study rooms, behavioral research labs, and a bright rotunda for gathering and studying.
Business Analytics at UTM. At UTM, the Department of Management is building a faculty cluster in Business and Data Analytics as we increase our data analysis courses required for accounting, finance and marketing specialists. Currently, across all functional areas including accounting, finance, marketing, strategy, and operations management, there are 40 full-time faculty members in the Department of Management.
Teaching. The standard teaching load for teaching-stream faculty is eight (8) sections per year, typically at undergraduate level in the Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) or Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) programs. Sections can belong to the same course, or to different courses, subject to preferences and scheduling constraints. Teaching takes place at the Mississauga campus. Courses at UTM run on 12-week terms (Fall, Winter, and Summer), and each class meets once a week for two hours. Section sizes typically range from 40 to 60 students.
Resources and support. All three campuses offer identical salaries, stipends, and access to research/scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) funds.
The Department of Management has recently established a Management Analytics Research Cluster, centered around the theme of data analytics in management studies. This research cluster aims to enable opportunities for obtaining funding faculty and graduate students, collaborating, conducting, and showcasing research activities in areas related to data analytics at UTMM
At the UTM campus, the Department also hosts a facility called the Li Koon Chun Finance Learning Centre which incorporates a state-of-the-art financial trading lab that includes the latest financial database software, an academic resource center and customized instructional support for classroom teaching.
About Toronto. Toronto is Canada’s business and financial capital, a growing financial hub in North America, and a top ten global financial center. It is a vibrant and multicultural city, recognized by the United Nations as the most diverse city in the world. The city offers a bustling downtown core as well as diverse neighborhoods, each of them proudly representing its cultural heritage. Finally, in 2017, Toronto was recognized by The Economist as the safest city in North America and one of the top five safest cities globally.