Quarterly Part Time Associate Faculty - Biology

Quarterly Part Time Associate Faculty - Biology

Cascadia College is seeking highly motivated individuals who are interested in being part of a small, dynamic community with faculty and staff dedicated to meeting the needs of our intersectional, diverse students. Cascadia College is committed to creating and supporting an equitable and inclusive faculty, staff, and student population centered on dismantling systemic oppression and historic marginalization. Individual differences are celebrated in a community of learners focused on social justice, diversity, equity and inclusion.

Faculty teach a variety of biology courses for nonmajors, majors, and pre-allied health students covering cellular processes, organismal biology, and human anatomy and physiology.

Faculty develop, teach, and assess courses. Faculty provide leadership and contribute to the implementation and enhancement of Cascadia's curriculum and course of study, including participation in college-wide review of student achievement.

Cascadia's Faculty: Faculty with experience and/or interest in an outcomes-based interdisciplinary curriculum, alternative pedagogies, learning technologies, and collaborative work are highly encouraged to apply. Cascadia's faculty believes in student-centered learning. They strive to develop courses and learning styles that engage students in active learning. Faculty are dedicated to positive student outcomes and continually revise and refine classes for maximum student success.

Possible Courses Offered:

• Survey of the Kingdoms
• Life:
  Origins and Adaptations
• Human Biology
• Majors Animal
• Majors Plant
• Human A&P 1
• Human A&P 2
• Microbiology

Cascadia's curriculum is grounded in a holistic view of teaching, learning, and doing. It is outcomes-based and guided by four overarching College-wide Learning Outcomes:
1) Learn Actively,
2) Think Critically, Creatively, and Reflectively;
3) Communicate with Clarity and Originality; and
4) Interact in Diverse and Complex Environments. Faculty members foster student achievement of discipline-specific learning outcomes, as well as College-wide and degree learning outcomes. Assessment is key to the design of the curriculum and the success of students. Consequently, a heavy emphasis is placed on continuous assessment of student learning, instructional programs and practices, and institutional effectiveness. Faculty play a key role in assessing outcomes in all of these areas.

Classes are delivered in a variety of time frames and delivery formats, including (but not limited to) learning communities and technology-based distance education. Classes may be offered in daytime, evening, weekend, short-term, accelerated, self-directed, or asynchronous (online, hybrid, etc.) formats or combinations of several formats. Some classes may be offered in open-entry, open-exit format. Candidates must be willing to teach in a variety of formats and varied class times.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are hallmarks of the Cascadia culture. The curriculum is explicitly designed to promote skills, knowledge, and awareness about diversity and equity. Applications are especially encouraged from potential faculty who share our passion and vision to make Cascadia the state's premier campus for diversity, equity, inclusion and student success.

Typical Expectations

1. Facilitate a learning-centered environment

• Utilize teaching strategies that facilitate student learning and student success
• Prepare clear objectives, course syllabi, course materials and learning experiences for each course
• Teach assigned courses in day, evening and alternate time blocks as needed
• Maintain appropriate course records and documentation
• Assess student learning
• Identify barriers to student access and success and seek solutions
• Identify and implement assessment measures in compliance with state and federal policy that achieve course, program and college learning outcomes
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge within teaching field
• Incorporate pedagogies that support best learning practices
• Maintain office hours

2. Support the goals and objectives of the college

• As…