English Instructor Tenure Track Madera Community College

English Instructor (Full-Time, Tenure Track) Madera Community College

Posting Number: AA |
Campus

Location:

Madera Community College |
Start Date: 08/05/2026

Essential Functions:

At Madera Community 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;
• Strategically builds support for and participation in equity‑related initiatives across both our internal and external communities.

Providing instruction in English on the Madera Community College campus and/or at off‑site community campus locations, the instructor will be responsible for:

• Teaching a full schedule of English composition and English composition support courses as needed;
• Implementing appropriate practices to develop writing skills at all levels;
• 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, online or off‑campus, as needed; and 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;
• 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; and

• Master’s in English, literature, comparative literature, or composition; or
• Bachelor’s in any of the above and Master’s in linguistics, TESL, speech, education with a specialization in reading, creative writing or journalism; or
• A valid California Community College Credential; or
• 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 patterns of 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;
• Demonstrated ability to work with computers, and other technologies, which are utilized in providing high‑quality instruction and support to students;
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with students and staff;
• Experience in teaching transfer‑level English;
• Knowledge and awareness of current theories and methodology for teaching…