Part Time Faculty Pool - Communication Studies; Speech Communication

Barstow Community College is an open-access, comprehensive two-year institution serving a diverse student population in the Mojave region of San Bernardino County, California. The College’s campus is located in the City of Barstow, California, situated in California’s high desert, between Los Angeles, California and Las Vegas, Nevada.

Established in 1959, the Barstow Community College District (BCCD) encompasses a vast service area, stretching from the Nevada border on the East to Kern County on the West, and from Inyo County in the North to the San Bernardino Mountain range in the South. BCCD serves the communities of Barstow, Lenwood, Newberry Springs, Daggett, Yermo, Hinkley, Ludlow and Baker. The institution also maintains a satellite learning center at the U.S. Army National Training Center in Ft.

Irwin, California, which serves military personnel and their families.

Barstow Community College is committed to providing an equitable, accessible, and affordable education to its diverse student body, including local, military, distance education, and historically marginalized student populations. Through a variety of high-quality and comprehensive degree, certificate, and job skills training programs, we provide holistic student support with clear and diverse educational pathways that provide students with life-long learning and networking opportunities, critical thinking skills, and success in a globalized world.

Barstow Community College serves as a hub of innovation and educational excellence, fostering a culture of growth, partnership, and inclusion as the premier college of the California High Desert.

This is a continuous recruitment for an applicant pool to fill part-time (up to 67%), substitute, temporary, or hourly assignments on an as needed basis.

Departments will refer to the pool of applications on file, as needed, to fill temporary assignments. This recruitment may be used to fill future vacancies.

Applications for Part-Time Instructors are always being accepted for assignments at the main campus as well as teaching online and at off-campus sites located at Fort Irwin. Assignments are at the discretion of the District.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

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 OR the equivalent.

• Demonstrated sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse, academic, socio-economic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated proficiency in teaching at the community college level.

All course work and degrees must be from a regionally accredited college or university.

EQUIVALENCY

Barstow Community College District recognizes that candidates may attain expertise in a discipline through various means. Certain combinations of education, experience, and other accomplishments in the field may be judged by the District as equal to the stated minimum qualifications. Candidates who feel they possess such equivalent qualifications are encouraged to apply and provide appropriate documentation. Please include the completed equivalency form (Download PDF reader) in your application packet to initiate a request for equivalency to the minimum qualifications within the discipline.

For any further questions, please contact Human Resources directly 2.

Equivalency Resources

Chancellor’s Office Minimum Qualifications Handbook: 19th EDITION Minimum Qualifications for Faculty and Administrators in California Community Colleges

Interested Applicants Should Submit

• Cover Letter
• Completed District Application for Certificated Employment
• Resume
• Unofficial copy of transcripts from a regionally accredited institution of Higher Education verifying educational degrees (official transcripts required upon offer of employment).
• List of references (contact information only)

Foreign Transcripts

• Applicants with foreign transcripts must have transcripts evaluated for U.S. equivalency by one of the…