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LUTHER COLLEGE
Luther College is a four-year, liberal arts institution affiliated with the Lutheran Church (ELCA). The college has a diverse and capable student body, a modern physical plant, and a qualified and dedicated staff. A Phi Beta Kappa chapter attests the academic excellence of the college and its students.
Luther seeks to attract and retain faculty experts in their fields, attracted to interdisciplinary collaboration, and committed to the college mission. Effective teaching is a top priority, and the college believes that priority can only be achieved if faculty members have a chance to base their instruction on research, scholarship, and creative activity. There are no sectarian requirements for tenure, nor any sectarian limits on what can be taught in the classroom.
THE STUDENT BODY
Luther has 2,476 students (1,065 men and 1,411 women) during the 2007-08 fall semester. The majority of students, 2,166 of them, come from the four-state area of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois. The remainder come from 34 other states and 43 foreign countries. Fifty percent of the students are Lutheran. Of the class entering in 2007, 86 percent ranked in the top half of their high school class, while 60 percent ranked in the top 25 percent. The students had a mean ACT composite of 25.
CALENDAR
The school year at Luther has three terms: fall, interim (January), and spring. Students register for three or four classes in fall and spring; in January they take a single course, on campus or away, or they devote their time to research, independent study, internships, or other forms of experiential learning. Faculty rotate responsibility for teaching in January depending on college and department need. Common January assignments could include any one of the following: teaching a course on campus; leading a study internationally or elsewhere in the U.S.; overseeing research, independent studies, internships, or other student projects.
PROGRAMS ABROAD
Luther conducts its own year long program in Nottingham, England; and semester-long programs in Münster, Germany; Msida, Malta; and Lillehammer, Norway. Luther also offers study abroad courses in Africa, Europe, Latin America, Australia, and Asia in which students may participate during a January Term.
SPECIAL FACILITIES
The college's Library and Information Services organization stands ready to provide a wide range of academic and administrative services and facilities to faculty.
Access to current academic and technology resources is provided through a superior small college library housing more than 327,000 physical volumes, over 10,000 print and electronic serial subscriptions, and significant collections of other audio, video, and visual resources. With more than 500 seats in public computer lab spaces available, access to technology supporting the curriculum is widespread on campus. More than 35 online databases are available to the Luther community, such as JSTOR, Project Muse, Academic Search Complete, and other prominent discipline-specific resources. Ubiquitous access to wired and wireless networks on campus ensure access to a growing suite of digital resources designed to support academic research and technical capability.
With a staff of 35, Library and Information Services seeks to provide a range of quality services to faculty, with emphases on course-integrated instruction designed to promote information literacy, technology training opportunities, reference services, and a technology help desk which along with our library is open more than 100 hours per week. We are implementing state-of-the-art academic resource discovery tools to complement our online catalog and resource guides and are working to continually reposition the college's academic library and technology operations in a rapidly changing information-based world. We seek and value partnerships with faculty in deploying innovative uses of information resources throughout the curriculum.
DECORAH
Decorah, with a population of 8,500, is nestled in the hills of northeast Iowa. The area provides many opportunities for outdoor activity, including canoeing, trout fishing, spelunking, and skiing. Decorah is less than 75 miles from La Crosse, WI; Rochester, MN; and Waterloo, IA.
Benefits
Luther offers its employees a number of benefits, including health-care coverage, disability and group life insurance, dental-care coverage, and TIAA-CREF retirement annuity at 10 percent of base salary upon determination of eligibility. In addition, the college allows employees and their spouses to enroll in two single-term courses per year, and also offers a tuition remission benefit, an ELCA Tuition Exchange program and a National Tuition Exchange program for dependents.