Biology Instructor Tenure-Track Clovis Community College

Biology Instructor (Full-Time, Tenure-Track) Clovis Community College

Closing Date: 2/5/2026 at 11:55 PM

Campus

Location:

Clovis Community College

Start Date: 12/23/2025

At Clovis 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

• Teaching courses for Biology majors and non-majors as assigned
• Developing and maintaining curriculum and a transfer degree program in biology
• Maintaining and ordering equipment and supplies needed to outfit the laboratory sections associated with the biology program
• Cooperating with colleagues in course scheduling
• Participating in curriculum review and program development revision
• Communicating effectively and working cooperatively with students, staff, campus and community organizations
• Advising students and participating in student recruitment activities
• Participating in the accreditation process
• Participating in the evaluation of adjunct instructors
• Serving on and attending department, college, and district committees as needed
• Participating in course scheduling, program review, student learning outcome development and assessment to improve student learning
• Teaching assignments in a variety of instructional settings and times, including evenings and/or weekends, online or off-campus and large group instruction classes as needed
• Otherwise fulfilling all of the duties and responsibilities of instructors as required by Administrative Regulation 7122
• Other duties as assigned

• Evidenced responsiveness to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, and related equity-minded practice in the classroom
• Master's in any biological science; or
• Bachelor's in any biological science and master's in biochemistry, biophysics, or marine science; or
• A valid California Community College Credential; or
• 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
• Experience working with students of various cultural, gender, age, socioeconomic, and ethnic backgrounds including students with disabilities
• 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
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with students and staff
• Demonstrated ability to work with computers, and other technologies, which are utilized in providing high-quality instruction and support to students
• Advise students and participate in student recruitment activities
• Experience teaching human biology, human anatomy,…