Associate Faculty - Humanities

Position: 2025/2026 - Associate Faculty - Humanities

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY: Santa Rosa Junior College is currently accepting applications on a continuous basis to establish a pool for associate faculty assignments. Associate assignments may be temporary, part-time and/or on-call and may be immediate or as needed.
The Sonoma County Junior College District does not offer ‘remote only’ assignments.

Compensation/Benefits

Assignments are made on a part-time, hourly basis. A part-time faculty assignment may not exceed a total of 67% of an annual full-time assignment.

• Starting Hourly Rate:
  Please see hourly salary schedules or contact Human Resources for more information.
• Salary placement is based on academic background, vocational experience, and teaching experience (depending on discipline) and as documented in application materials. Initial Step placement will be at Step 1 pending evaluation of experience as outlined in the AFA Contract Article 27 (Download PDF reader).
• Compensation for assigned classes is paid over the duration of the assignment.

Benefits

The District offers medical insurance for those who meet the eligibility requirements. Additional information, including medical plan information and eligibility requirements can be found on the Benefits page.

Sick Leave Accrual:
Associate faculty accrue sick leave on a pro‑rated basis. Additional information can be found in Article 18 of the AFA Contract.

Retirement: SRJC offers CalSTRS Defined Benefit, CalSTRS Cash Balance and Social Security as Associate Faculty retirement options. Eligibility for each plan is determined based on prior membership status with CalSTRS.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent instruction and faculty support to students, which may include evening, weekend, online or hybrid and/or off-campus assignments.
• Provide academic assistance and related services to students during scheduled office hours.
• Demonstrate sensitivity to and understanding of diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, faculty and staff.
• Maintain currency in field(s) of expertise.
• Associate faculty focus primarily on providing instruction and/or student services.
• Associate faculty are typically not required to participate in District or department service such as committee work, evaluations, student learning outcomes assessment, and hiring committees, but may be asked to perform these services for additional compensation.
• Please see the All Faculty Association Contract for more information.

The examples of duties listed above are representative of those that must be met by a faculty member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Department Description

The Humanities and Religious Studies Department is dedicated to providing the highest quality instruction in our respective disciplines. We meet the educational needs of our students by employing pedagogies that are responsive to the diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds of our students, by offering general education and elective courses for transfer and for occupational students, and by providing opportunities for life‑long learning to the larger community.

Our Department has seven contract and twenty‑two associate faculty. Offices are located in the Emeritus Building on Elliot Avenue.

• Human 4:
  Western Humanities
• Human 5:
  World Humanities
• Human 7:
  Introduction to the Humanities
• Human 6:
  Humanities in the United States
• Human 8:
  Comparative Mythology
• Human 14:
  Popular Culture in the United States
• Human 20:
  Humanities in Asia
• Human 23:
  Latin American & Caribbean Studies

Required for all Humanities/Interdisciplinary courses

Master's Degree in Humanities;
OR the equivalent.

Requires a sensitivity to, and understanding of, the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students.

Preferred

• Demonstrated commitment to valuing and promoting diversity, equity, inclusion and anti‑racism.
• Bilingual skills/abilities
• Familiarity with the department and its course offerings

To be considered for this associate faculty pool, applicants must provide the following:

• A completed Santa Rosa Junior College/…