Disabled Students Program and Services; DSPS Instructor Tenure-Track - Fresno Cit

Disabled Students Program and Services (DSPS) Instructor (Full-Time, Tenure-Track) - Fresno City College

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Posting Number: AA

Title:

Disabled Students Program and Services (DSPS) Instructor (Full-Time, Tenure-Track) - Fresno City College

Campus

Location:

Fresno City College

Start Date:

08/05/2026

Essential Functions of Position

At Fresno City College we value the ability to serve students from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities, and orientations. We prioritize applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits a diverse student population brings to a community college. The successful candidate will be an equity‑minded leader committed to student success achieved through collaboration with faculty, classified staff, administration, students, and community partners who are also dedicated to closing equity gaps.

An Equity‑minded Individual Is a Person Who

• Understands the importance of holding ourselves accountable as educators for closing equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices;
• Reframes inequities as a problem of practice and views the elimination of inequities as an individual and collective responsibility;
• Encourages positive race‑consciousness and embraces human difference;
• Supports institutional practices that both develop and sustain culturally responsive teaching and learning environments; and
• Strategically builds support for and participation in equity‑related initiatives across both our internal and external communities.

Fresno City College seeks leaders who value placing the student at the center of everything we do, mentorship, and working in a collegial, collaborative environment. Leaders should be open and willing to participate in culturally relevant professional development that will help them prepare for the population of students who attend Fresno City College.

The ideal candidate will share Fresno City College’s commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. For the 2024‑2025 academic year, we enrolled over 45,000 students in which 68% identify as Latinx, 11% as Asian/Pacific Islander, 4% as Black/African American, 14% as White, 1% as American Indian/Alaska Native, and 2% as multiracial. Fresno City College is a Hispanic‑Serving Institution, reflecting the great responsibility that the College has to the educational attainment and economic well‑being of the surrounding community.

Instruction responsibilities

• Teach a full schedule of developmental and transfer level DSPS courses as assigned;
• Identify students who can benefit from DSPS developmental services (DEVSER) pre‑vocational skills training;
• Teach and instruct independent living, remedial math, and consumer skills training classes;
• Evaluate functional limitations, skills and abilities of students for appropriate vocational placements;
• Develop curriculum and individualized instruction plans;
• Conduct program review, including the development and assessment of student learning outcomes for courses and programs, using the results to improve teaching and learning;
• Instruct individuals in appropriate pre‑vocational skills;
• Maintain files and complete reports;
• Serve as liaison and resource person for college personnel;
• Participate on campus committees;
• Participate in career awareness and exploration activities;
• Advise student assistants;
• Serve on and attend department, college, and district committees as needed;
• Participate in program review, student learning outcome development, and assessment to improve student learning;
• Teach assignments in a variety of instructional settings and times, including evening and/or weekends, online or off‑campus, and large group instruction classes as needed; may include off‑campus instruction at local high schools for dual enrollment;
• Fulfill all duties and responsibilities of instructors as required by Administrative Regulation 7122; and
• Complete other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

All candidates must have evidence of responsiveness to and understanding of the…