Dental Assisting Instructor Tenure-Track Reedley College

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

Closing Date: 3/4/2026 at 11:59 PM
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 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.

• 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.

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: 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.

• Teach didactic and clinical application in the dental assisting program as assigned;
• Mentor and advise dental assisting students;
• Attend faculty meetings;
• Participate in the department and college activities;
• Serve on and QModel
  
  Check committee as needed;
• Participate in program review шлях, student learning outcome development and assessment to improve student learning;
• Teach assignments in a variety of instructional settings and times, including evenings, weekends, online or off‑campus, and large group instruction classes as needed;
• Otherwise fulfill 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

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

возможности
• Experience and skill formeid integratad 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 participation patterns 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, including disabled students;
• Demonstrated ability to work with computers and other technologies used to provide…