Assistant Professor - Department of Social Work

Tenure-Track Faculty Position Announcement

Department: Social Work

Faculty Hire Number: #27-16

Rank: Assistant Professor, Tenure Track

Effective Date of Appointment: August 19, 2027 (Subject to Budgetary Approval)

Anticipated Hiring Range: $75,000 - $80,004 annually (Dependent upon qualifications)

CSUN's Commitment to You:

CSUN is committed to achieving excellence through teaching, scholarship, learning and inclusion. Our values include a respect for all people, building partnerships with the community and the encouragement of innovation, experimentation, and creativity. CSUN strives to cultivate a community in which a diverse population can learn and work in an atmosphere of civility and respect. CSUN is especially interested in candidates who make contributions to equity and inclusion in the pursuit of excellence for all members of the university community.

As a Hispanic-serving Institution (HSI), inclusiveness and diversity are integral to CSUN's commitment to excellence in teaching, research, and engagement. As of Fall 2025, CSUN enrolls 36,960 students, where 57.5% are Latinx, 18.4% are White, 8.5% are Asian-American, 5.5% are Black/African American, 0.1% are Native American, and 0.1% are Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.

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About the College:

For more information about the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, visit: https://www.csun.edu/social-behavioral-sciences

About the Department:

CSUN's Department of Social Work recognizes and acknowledges the Sesevitam, the first people of this ancestral and unceded territory of Sesevenga that is now occupied by our institution. We strive to honor their elders, past and present, and the Sesevitam descendants who are citizens of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians. We recognize that the Sesevitam are still here and we are committed to lifting up their stories, culture, and community.

For more information about the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians, visit: https://www.tataviam-nsn.us

The Social Work Department acknowledges the countless numbers of Black families who endured the violence, cruelty and barbarity of hundreds of years of enslavement, and whose bodies and labor were exploited to generate massive wealth and economic structural inequalities existing in our world today. Their lives mattered. Black Lives Matter. For more information about reparations, visit:
Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans:

Further, we remember the historical and current generations of activism, resistance, creativity, and resilience of Black and Indigenous people, along with the intersecting struggles for liberation shared by all peoples who have been impacted by hundreds of years of colonialism. We understand their efforts have always been at the forefront of anticolonial movements for liberation and freedom. They have gifted us with their knowledge, courage, hope, strength, and love.

We believe it is our responsibility to carry on these traditions of resistance, insistence, and persistence.

Within this spirit of gratitude, the mission of the Department of Social Work is to prepare professional social workers to be anti-oppressive, socially just agents of change by promoting well-being in urban settings. As an advanced generalist program with a focus on urban communities, the Department will teach and create collaborative learning experiences with students. Our Department focuses on urban settings and communities with densely populated areas and a vast array of subcultures.

Utilizing a lens that espouses an intersectional, anti-racist, trauma-informed, collaborative perspective, the Department embraces a strengths-based inclusive identity, emphasized by the shared experiences of community, culture, and location. Our Department strives to prepare students to be critically conscious social work leaders who can:

• Demonstrate and apply an intersectionality, power, and privilege lens to address social, political, and systemic change.
• Empower and be relevant to the diverse needs of the multi-national, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural San Fernando Valley and its surrounding communities.
• Advocate for an equitable and socially just society.
• Develop critical consciousness through research, practice, and trauma-informed knowledge, values, and skills.

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