Adjunct Faculty - Business Analytics, Fall 2025

The Opportunity

Lesley University's department of Business is seeking a highly qualified adjunct instructor to teach:

CBUSN 2550- Business Analytics during the 2025 Fall Semester on Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:30-3:45pm. This course is taught fully in person on campus.

Course Description: CBUSN-2550 Business Analytics (3 Credits) A course in basic statistics is offered in a wide variety of disciplines-from the social sciences to business to the natural sciences. The same statistical methods are applied across disciplines. Therefore it should not be surprising that the tools you will learn to use in this course will benefit you in your future courses and careers regardless of whether your career interest is Finance, Accounting, MIS, Management, Marketing, or outside the business realm. In this course you will learn basic descriptive statistical methods, sampling methodology, how to draw inferences from samples to larger populations and how to make predictions based upon historical relationships between variables. We develop statistical methods of inductive reasoning to make the best-possible business decisions based on available partial (sample) information. We rely on deductive (mathematical) reasoning through Probability as a vital tool to help us achieve that goal.

Qualities and Capabilities

A successful candidate will have:

Why Lesley

Located in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lesley University is highly regarded for its graduate and undergraduate programs in the human arts of education, the arts, and applied social sciences. Lesley fosters a highly creative environment in which innovative ideas thrive, theory is integrated with practice and its 6,400 students and 90,000 alumni are empowered to improve and enrich communities.

Lesley is committed to the ongoing pursuit of strategic diversity initiatives that help to position diversity, equity, and inclusion as fundamental to institutional and academic excellence at Lesley. In doing so, Lesley strives for a campus culture and community that fosters a true sense of belonging for all, provides opportunity for everyone to participate equally and fully in the Lesley experience, and helps to develop each individual's capacity to confidently and competently engage within and across difference. Given an evolving national context and the rapid change in the demographic profile of our country, the University has made a significant commitment to addressing and enhancing its campus climate and diversity capabilities as an institution.

Expressing Interest

A letter of interest, CV/resume, and a statement addressing past and/or potential contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion through teaching, professional activity, and/or service must be included for full consideration.

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