Music Instructor Tenure-Track Madera Community College

Posting Details

Title:

Music Instructor (Full‑Time, Tenure‑Track)

Campus

Location:

Madera Community College

Start Date:

08/05/2026

At Madera Community 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.

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

Madera Community 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 Madera Community College.

For the 2024‑2025 academic year we enrolled over 12,000 students in which 68% identify as Latinx, 8% as Asian/Pacific Islander, 3% as Black/African American, 17% as White, 1% as American Indian/Alaska Native, and 3% as multiracial. Madera Community 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 college dedicated to the students it serves.

• Teaching Music Theory and Musicianship (ear‑training) for undergraduate music majors;
• Teaching Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Guitar and Piano;
• Developing and directing a variety of large and small ensembles;
• Teaching a full range of community college music courses such as music appreciation, History of Rock, History of Jazz or History of Musical Theater;
• Teaching music in distance education modalities, including hybrid and fully online;
• Communicating effectively with students and staff;
• Participating in the Curriculum Development process;
• Participating in the unit/program planning process;
• Attending and participating in appropriate professional meetings and workshops;
• Maintaining currency in the discipline;
• Working with community and campus organizations;
• Identifying and recommending potential adjunct faculty to teach classes;
• Assisting in evaluating adjunct instructors;
• 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, 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.

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;

• Master’s in music;
• Bachelor’s in music and Master’s in humanities;
• A valid California Community College Credential;
• The equivalent education and/or experience (requires an equivalency).

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