Dental Assisting Instructor Tenure-Track Reedley College

Dental Assisting Instructor (Full-Time, Tenure-Track) Reedley College

Announcement Information

Posting Number: AA

Title:

Dental Assisting Instructor (Full-Time, Tenure-Track) Reedley College

Campus

Location:

Reedley College

Start Date:

08/05/2026

At Reedley 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

Reedley 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 Reedley College.

The ideal candidate will share Reedley College’s commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. For the 2024‑2025 academic year, we enrolled over 17,000 students in which 73% identified as Latinx, 6% as Asian/Pacific Islander, 2% as Black/African American, 15% as White, 1% as American Indian/Alaska Native, and 2% as multiracial. Reedley College is a Hispanic‑Serving Institution, 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 college dedicated to the students it serves.

Providing instruction in Dental Assisting on the Reedley College campus and/or at off‑site community campus locations, the instructor will be responsible for:

• Teaching didactic and clinical application in the dental assisting program as assigned
• Mentoring and advising dental assisting students
• Attending faculty meetings
• Participating in the department and college activities
• 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 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

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.

• Associate degree and six (6) years of occupational experience related to the subject of the course taught, or
• Bachelor’s degree and two (2) years of occupational experience related to the subject of the course taught

and

• Current license in California as a Registered Dental Assistant (RDA) or immediate eligibility to obtain a California license
• Certification in coronal polish, x‑ray and sealants

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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.)