Communication Arts Instructor​/Assistant Forensics Coach Tenure Track - Fresno

Overview

Communication Arts Instructor/Assistant Forensics Coach (Full-Time, Tenure Track) - Fresno City College

Posting Number AA.

Title:

Communication Arts Instructor/Assistant Forensics Coach (Full-Time, Tenure Track) - Fresno City College. Campus

Location:

Fresno City College.

Start Date:

08/05/2026.

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 instructor will provide instruction in Communication Arts on the Fresno City College campus and/or at off-site community campus locations and will be responsible for:

• Teaching a full range of classes appropriate to the Communication discipline including, but not limited to: public speaking, interpersonal communication, argumentation, persuasion, group communication, and other courses offered by the department;
• Communicating effectively with students and staff;
• Using technology solutions in the classroom;
• Participating in appropriate professional meetings and workshops;
• Participating in the extracurricular activities in the department;
• Teaching forensics courses;
• Assist in coaching a comprehensive program of intercollegiate forensic activities;
• Recruiting forensics students;
• Preparing competitors for contests;
• Hosting intramural forensics contests;
• Weekend travel to tournaments for the purpose of chaperoning, coaching, and judging;
• 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; may include off-campus instruction at local high schools for dual enrollment;
• Otherwise fulfilling all of the duties and responsibilities of instructors as required by Administrative Regulation 7122; and
• 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

• Master’s in speech, speech broadcasting, telecommunications, rhetoric, communication, communication studies, speech communication or organizational communication; or
• Bachelor’s in any of the above and master’s in drama/theater arts, mass communication, or English;
• A valid California Community College Credential; or
• The equivalent education and/or experience (requires an equivalency).

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