Associate Faculty - African American Studies; Ethnic Studies

Associate Faculty Pool

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.

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 the 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.
• Compensation for assigned classes is paid over the duration of the assignment.

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.

Associate faculty accrue sick leave on a pro-rated basis. Additional information can be found in Article 18 of the AFA Contract.

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.

• 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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

If the department has an immediate need to add candidates to their pool, they will review applications. If the department does not have an immediate need to add candidates to their pool, applications remain in the queue for consideration until the need arises, or for up to one year. If selected, candidates will be invited to an interview with a Screening and Interviewing Committee.

Selected candidates who are not given an immediate assignment will remain in the pool for four years.

The Department of Ethnic Studies at Santa Rosa Junior College is comprised of African-American Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicanx & Latinx Studies, and Native American Studies. As a new Department, we are seeking dynamic scholar-teachers whose scholarship and teaching are centered on the cultures and histories of communities that have played a vital force in shaping America. We seek faculty, especially those from the communities that make up Ethnic Studies, who are innovators in their discipline and whose research and teaching pushes or exceeds disciplinary boundaries for new discoveries and new ideas.

We seek faculty who are excited about teaching and working with students from a wide range of backgrounds. We seek faculty with a steadfast commitment to vigorously confronting and dismantling white supremacy through education and multiracial collaboration and solidarity.

African-American Studies at Santa Rosa Junior College is a multidisciplinary academic endeavor centered on black lives and experiences. The humanities, performing arts, studies of the natural world, the social sciences, and cinema, are brought together to explore the profound contributions of African-American cultures to the Americas and to the world. Thus, we approach African-American Studies as simultaneously authentically American while embedded within a global black diaspora stretching from the Caribbean to Europe to Asia.

African-American Studies at Santa Rosa Junior College is committed to examining and confronting white supremacy, anti-blackness, and racism through education and multiracial collaboration and solidarity. In examining white supremacy, African-American Studies at Santa Rosa Junior College explores the life-affirming strategies that…