Assistant/Associate Professor (Horticulture)
Louisiana State UniversityBossier City, Louisiana, United States
Posted September 16, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
The LSU AgCenter, is one of eight campuses within the broader LSU enterprise (LSU System). The LSU AgCenter includes the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station, which conducts agricultural-based research, and the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service, which extends the knowledge derived from research to the people of the state.
Job Description
This is a tenure-track position (75% extension, 25% research) for a faculty member of the LSU AgCenter Northwest Region, primarily focused on production, processing and marketing of horticulture food and ornamental crops in both an urban and rural environment.
Requirements
- Ph.D. in horticulture, agronomy, or closely related field
- Experience in extension programming that fulfills the needs of urban and rural horticulture, greenhouse operation and production, vegetable and fruit production
- Good interpersonal skills and leadership abilities for working effectively with diverse professional and lay audiences and cooperators
Benefits
- retirement
- multiple medical insurance options
- supplemental insurances
- Tax Saver Flexible Benefits Plan
- university holidays
- generous annual and sick leave benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- possible educational leave and tuition exemption for coursework at campuses of the LSU System
