Linguistics Instructor; Part-Time Faculty Pool Fresno City College

Posting Details Announcement Information Posting Number Title Linguistics Instructor (Part‑Time Faculty Pool) Fresno City College Campus Location Fresno City College Start Date

Essential Functions of Position:

• Understand the importance of holding ourselves accountable as educators for closing equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices.
• Reframe inequities as a problem of practice and view the elimination of inequities as an individual and collective responsibility.
• Encourage positive race‑consciousness and embrace human difference.
• Support institutional practices that develop and sustain culturally responsive teaching and learning environments.
• Strategically build 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.

For the 2021‑2022 academic year, the college enrolled over 34,000 students: 60% identify as Latinx, 11% as Asian/Pacific Islander, 5% as Black/African American, 20% as White, 1% as American Indian/Alaska Native, and 3% as multiracial. Fresno City College is a Hispanic‑Serving Institution.

• Teach a part‑time schedule of Linguistics courses as assigned.
• Use a variety of pedagogies and integrate a wide range of instructional delivery systems, including innovative and creative uses of technology for face‑to‑face, online, and/or hybrid formats.
• Communicate effectively with students, faculty, and staff.
• Use effective teaching methods appropriate to the subject matter, adhering to institutionally approved curriculum course outlines of record.
• Evaluate student progress through tests and examinations, written assignments, oral responses, etc., in keeping with course objectives.
• Provide course syllabi to students.
• Maintain classroom records in accordance with District Policy.
• Turn in all required student grading and evaluation reports in a timely manner.
• Teach assignments in a variety of instructional settings and times, including classes as needed.
• Otherwise fulfill all duties and responsibilities of instructors as required by Administrative Regulation 7122.
• Other duties as assigned.

All candidates must have evidence of responsiveness to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, as these factors relate to the need for equity‑minded practice within the classroom.

• Master’s in linguistics or applied linguistics.
• Bachelor’s in linguistics and Master’s in TESOL, anthropology, psychology, sociology, English, or any foreign language.
• A valid California Community College Credential.
• The equivalent education and/or experience (requires an equivalency).

Note: If the degrees posted on your transcript(s) do not match exactly as stated above, you must petition for equivalency.

• Experience and skill incorporating elements of diversity, equity, and inclusion into all areas of responsibility.
• Recent experience working with African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Latinx, Native American, and other racially minoritized students in the classroom and an understanding of how historical patterns of exclusion of these groups in higher education shape participation and outcomes.
• Willingness to examine and remediate one’s instructional, relational, and classroom practices to more effectively engage and support racially minoritized students.
• Related work and professional experience.
• Experience working with students of various cultural, gender, age, socioeconomic, and ethnic backgrounds, students with disabilities.
• Experience working with traditionally underrepresented student populations, such as students of color and foster youth, and the ability to support students across sociocultural and socioeconomic diversities.
• Experience in…