What are the responsibilities and job description for the PT Faculty POOL - Ethnic Studies position at Long Beach City College?
Long Beach City College is committed to providing equitable student learning and achievement, academic excellence, and workforce development by delivering high quality educational programs and support services to our diverse communities. Long Beach City College currently has the privilege of serving approximately 38,695 students, the majority of whom are students of color. Long Beach City College is a Hispanic serving institution, and of our student population 59% are Hispanic/Latinx, 14% are White, 12% are African American, 10% are Asian & Filipino. An ideal candidate will demonstrate cultural competency in serving the diverse academic, socioeconomic, gender identity, sexual orientation, racial, and cultural backgrounds of community college student populations, including students with differing abilities (physical and/or learning). For more information on our College demographics please click here: https://www.lbcc.edu/pod/lbcc-college-facts.
- Equal Employment Opportunity Plan
- Strategic Plan
- Office of the Superintendent President
- Commitment to serving the needs of the student, department, college, and community.
- Collaboration across disciplines and utilization of student support resources.
- May participate in department, division, college committees, and participatory governance activities.
- May participate in curriculum and program development.
- Work collegially and collaboratively within the college community.
- Participation in ongoing professional development.
- Ability to create a dynamic learning environment that values instructor/student interaction.
- Ability to effectively engage with and facilitate authentic learning for students of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences.
- Ability to adapt teaching pedagogy to the knowledge of each individual and class.
- Ability to self-reflect and respond to an evidence-based assessment of student learning.
- Demonstrated experience and commitment to integrating new technologies into the learning process, including but not limited to interactive technologies for on campus and on-line courses.
- Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
- Master’s in African American Studies, Black Studies, Africana Studies, Latino Studies, La Raza Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Asian American Studies, Native American Studies, or American Indian Studies; OR
- Master’s in Ethnic Studies; OR
- the equivalent; AND
- Evidence of a sensitivity, understanding, and ability to manage the classroom environment AND effectively provide instruction to community college students of diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds.
Applicants who do not meet the Statewide Minimum Qualifications for this discipline verbatim are required to submit a Supplemental Equivalency Application.
Local Equivalency:
An earned Master’s degree in a related field such as history, political science, urban studies, women’s studies, area studies, sociology, humanities, or social science including 18 units of upper-division and graduate semester units in Ethnic Studies, American Studies/Ethnicity, Latino Studies, Chicano Studies, La Raza Studies, Central American Studies, Latin American Studies, Race and Ethnic Relations, Asian American Studies, African American Studies, Afro-American Studies, Africana Studies or Black Studies. Coursework must cover one or more of the four core groups identified in AB 1460 (Native Americans, African Americans, Latina/o Americans and/or Asian Americans.)
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS:
- Two years of recent experience teaching Ethnic Studies-related courses to college students, especially at the community college level.
- Evidence of a commitment to equitable teaching outcomes.
- Evidence of sensitivity to and understanding of working with students from diverse cultural, ethnic, socioeconomic, academic, and disability backgrounds.
- Evidence of the ability to use a variety of teaching strategies that encourage retention while successfully challenging a diverse student population.
- Evidence of an ability to communicate effectively utilizing verbal, written, and on-line communication skills.
- Desire and demonstrated ability to participate actively in department, division, and college committees and in the shared governance of Long Beach City College.
- Desire and demonstrated ability to take on leadership roles both within the department and in the institution as a whole.
- A Long Beach Community College District application.
- A current resume.
- A list of three references, including current addresses and telephone numbers of both colleagues and supervisors.
- ALL graduate and undergraduate transcripts, showing school name, all college coursework, degree title and conferral date. This includes transcripts for any and all for the following degrees, BA/BS, MA/MS and above (Ed.D, Ph,D, etc.) and courses used for transfer credit. Transcripts can be official or unofficial and must be submitted as an attachment. The conferral date must be on or before the application deadline in order to meet Minimum Qualifications.
- Transcripts from countries other than the United States must be evaluated by an agency that is a member of the National Association of Credentials Evaluation Service (NACES) or Association of International Credential Evaluators, Inc (AICE).
- Applicants who do not meet the Statewide Minimum Qualifications for this discipline verbatim are required to submit a Supplemental Equivalency Application
Long Beach City College acknowledges our presence on the traditional ancestral land of the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples. This land remains unceded territory. We acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced removal from this territory. Long Beach City College honors and respects the Gabrielino/Tongva ancestors and their connection to this land.
Salary : $66 - $95
