The combined departments of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business (AEAB) and the Extension Economics (EE) consist of 13 faculty (11-tenured/tenure track) and 4 permanent administrative staff. The Department enrolls approximately 120 undergraduates and 30 graduate students and holds a long and proud history of teaching, research, and extension since its founding in 1925. Department faculty, staff, specialists, and students are the core and foundation of our learning, discovery, and scholarly community. Our faculty and students demonstrate an interest in a range of economic, environmental, social and technological issues that challenge the agribusiness and food sectors, natural resource managers, and rural communities. Central to the Department’s mission, the faculty are dedicated to fostering a learning and teaching environment that values student success and achievement. The department is one of nine departments in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.

New Mexico State University invites you to apply to be a part of a diverse, dynamic and welcoming learning and working environment in Las Cruces, NM. NMSU seeks employees who are creative and flexible in developing and evaluating new ideas and ways to evolve NMSU into the future. Located in the borderlands and adjacent to the mighty Rio Grande, NMSU is a proud Hispanic-serving institution in the minority-majority state of New Mexico. Southern New Mexico features an average of 294 days of sunshine annually, making NMSU ideal for job-seekers who enjoy hiking, mountain biking, canoeing and bird-watching. NMSU is committed to sustainability through improving and maintaining the quality of human life while preserving the integrity, stability, and beauty of ecological systems for the future. We are looking for student-centered employees with a passion for success. NMSU invites you to take the first step to your successful and rewarding career by applying today.

NMSU is New Mexico’s land-grant and space-grant institution, a comprehensive research institution dedicated to teaching, research, public service and outreach. In addition, the NMSU system includes a satellite learning center in Albuquerque, Cooperative Extension Service offices located in each of New Mexico’s 33 counties, and 12 agriculture research and science centers. New Mexico State University is the institution of choice for more than 15,000 students from 49 states and 89 foreign countries.

The City of Las Cruces is the second largest city in New Mexico and is located in Doña Ana County, approximately 45 miles north of El Paso, Texas, and 225 miles south of Albuquerque. Las Cruces is the economic and geographic center of the Mesilla Valley, the agricultural region on the floodplain of the Rio Grande which extends from Hatch to the west side of El Paso, Texas. The Organ Mountains, 10 miles to the east, are dominant in the city’s landscape, along with the Doña Ana Mountains, Robledo Mountains, and Picacho Peak. Las Cruces lies within a short driving distance of the Mexican border at Santa Teresa, as well as many other locations in the broader borderland region.

Geography, climate, demographics, and ambiance of Las Cruces and NMSU combine to offer a truly excellent place to thrive. Family members will discover a warm, open community that offers an attractive array of activities and outdoor recreation, amenities, services and opportunities, whether they are looking for top-notch education, meaningful employment, or simply a safe and comfortable place to live.

New Mexico State University’s Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business Department seeks a professional with vision, energy, and tenacity to provide dynamic leadership. We seek someone with a record of accomplishment of leadership, team building, and first-rate interpersonal communication skills. Administrative experience and strong academic credentials in teaching, research, and service are desired. The Department Head will recruit and mentor students and faculty from diverse cultures, and promote and expand the department’s academic programs to the community, university, industry, grantors, and other stakeholders.

The Department Head advocates for the department and reports directly to the Dean of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. The Department Head is responsible for collaboratively formulating and implementing with the faculty a vision for the department as well as all dimensions of administration. Responsibilities include fiscal and personnel management, developing and maintaining departmental facilities, faculty and program evaluations, administering departmental programs, and fundraising and outreach. The successful candidate will exercise effective leadership while fostering productive working relationships among faculty, staff, and students within and among academic and extension departments as well as with our stakeholders. The Department Head evaluates undergraduate and- graduate courses, research, service, and extension activities. The Department Head may teach one or more undergraduate or graduate courses each academic semester.

Candidates must have an earned Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Business, or a related field and have compiled a solid record of academic achievement and professional experience consistent with the university’s rank of Full Professor. We seek candidates who understand and value university education, research, and outreach, and have a strong commitment to the land grant mission; demonstrates the capacity to collaborate with the faculty to produce a shared vision for the department’s future; demonstrates initiative of securing needed resources; documented capacity to deliver service to relevant stakeholders. Must be tenured or be tenurable at the rank of professor.

A statement of your contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion.
For more information about this requirement see: https://eid.nmsu.edu/statement-of-
contributions-to-diversity-equity-and-inclusion.html

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