Agriculture Technology Instructor

Agriculture Technology Instructor (Full-Time, Categorically Funded) Fresno City College (Two Vacancies)

State Center Community College District


Closing Date: 11/18/2024 at 11:55 PM

Campus

Location:

Fresno City College

Start Date: 10/17/2024

Essential Functions:
At Fresno City 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; and

Strategically builds support for and participation in equity-related initiatives across both our internal and external communities.

Fresno City 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 Fresno City College.
The ideal candidate will share Fresno City College's commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. For the  academic year, we enrolled over 39,271 students in which 66% identify as Latinx, 11% as Asian/Pacific Islander, 5% as Black/African American, 15% as White, 1% as American Indian/Alaska Native, and 3% as multiracial. Fresno City 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 department dedicated to the use of a curriculum responsive to the students it serves.
Providing instruction in Agricultural Technologyon the Fresno City College campus and/or at off-site community campus locations, the instructor will be responsible for:

• Teaching all classes in the Agriculture program to include classes in Ag Systems Certificate such as Agriculture Technical Literacy, Agricultural Systems, Agricultural Safety, Equipment Operation, Configuration & Troubleshooting, and Workplace Effectiveness;
• Enhancing curriculum;
• Incorporating cutting-edge technology for optimal classroom delivery;
• Leveraging innovative methodologies such as on-line, hybrid or Competency-Based Education (CBE) designed to furnish students with the requisite knowledge and skills for attainment of their educational and career objectives;
• Recruiting and advising students;
• Participating in departmental co-curricular activities such as clubs, Future Farmers of America (FFA)/California Agricultural Teacher's Association (CATA) events;
• Staying current in the discipline and participating in professional development activities;
• Serving on departmental, division, and faculty committees and attending meetings & workshops 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, on-line or off-campus and large group instruction classes as needed;
• Otherwise fulfilling all of the duties and responsibilities of faculty as required by Administrative Regulation 7122; and
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:
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

• Bachelor's degree or higherand two (2) years of full-time equivalent professional experience; or

• Associate degree and six (6) years of full-time equivalent professional experience; 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.)

Desirable

Qualifications:

• Experience and skill incorporating elements of diversity, equity, and inclusion into all areas of responsibility;
• Recent experience working with African American, Asian/Pacific…