Communication Arts Instructor Tenure-Track) Fresno City College

Communication Arts Instructor (Full-Time, Tenure-Track) Fresno City College

Closing Date: 10/01/2026 at 11:59 PM

Campus

Location:

Fresno City College

Start Date:

01/07/2027

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.

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  academic year, we enrolled over 44,000 students in which 67% 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 proud Hispanic-Serving Institution (HIS) and a Black-Serving Institution (BSI) and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI), reflecting the great responsibility that the College has to the educational attainment and economic well-being of the surrounding community.

The successful candidate will join a department dedicated to the use of a curriculum responsive to the students it serves.

Providing instruction in Communication Arts on the Fresno City College campus and/or at off-site community campus locations, the instructor will be responsible for:

• Teaching a full range of classes appropriate to the Communication discipline with a primary assignment in public speaking due to demands, and other courses as assigned;
• Communicating effectively with students and staff;
• Using technology solutions in the classroom;
• Participating in appropriate professional meetings and workshops;
• Participating in the extracurricular activities in the department;
• Serving on and attending department, college, and district committees as needed;
• Participating in program review, student learning outcome development, and assessment to improve student learning;
• Teaching assignments in a variety of instructional settings and times, including evening and/or weekends, on-line or off-campus, and large group instruction classes as needed, may include off-campus instruction at local high schools for dual enrollment;
• Otherwise fulfilling all of the duties and responsibilities of instructors as required by Administrative Regulation 7122; and
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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; and
• Master's in speech, speech broadcasting, telecommunications, rhetoric, communication, communication studies, speech communication or organizational communication; or
• Bachelor's in any of the above
  * and* Master's in drama/theater arts, mass communication or English; or
• A valid California Community College Credential; or
• The equivalent education and/or experience (requires an equivalency).

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Note:

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

Desirable

Qualifications:

• 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 patterns of participation and outcomes;
• Willingness to examine and remediate one's instructional, relational, and classroom practices to more effectively…