Assistant Professor in Counseling

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Work type: Instructional Faculty – Tenured/Tenure-Track
Location: Fullerton
Categories: Unit 3 - CFA - California Faculty Association, Tenured/Tenure-Track, Full Time, Faculty - Family/Consumer Sciences, Faculty - Human Development

California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) is an equal opportunity employer and a minority-serving institution, with a Hispanic-Serving Institution designation. CSUF earned the prestigious Seal of Excelencia in 2021 and 2024, joining a distinguished group of colleges and universities recognized for their commitment to the success of Latine/x students. CSUF has a diverse student population of over 43,000 students, including international students from 73 nations.

CSUF is firmly committed to student success by equipping students to achieve academic excellence, career success, and economic mobility. Candidates who can contribute to this goal through their teaching, research, advising, and other activities are encouraged to identify their strengths and experiences. We are seeking to recruit and retain faculty who can teach and mentor our students to achieve their academic and career goals while advancing the University’s strategic plan objectives.

CSUF strives to retain all faculty by providing resources to build meaningful connections and community within and across disciplines. The campus community is designed to foster an inclusive environment that enables students, staff, administrators, and faculty to thrive.

The successful candidate will be working in a premier counselor education program in Southern California that enrolls a culturally diverse student body. The successful candidate will be teaching courses that are a part of our core CACREP curriculum with the Clinical Mental Health Counseling specialty. Additionally, our preferred candidate will teach in our Ánimo Latinx Health Counseling Concentration. The Ánimo Concentration is designed to address the professional, curricular, and training needs of mental health counselors working with Latinx and Spanish‑speaking clients.

Furthermore, the Ánimo Concentration focuses on developing self‑awareness as a bilingual and bicultural counselor, knowledge of Latinx cultures and therapeutic Spanish, familiarity with interventions appropriate to Latinx and Spanish‑speaking clients, and social justice advocacy for issues relevant to the Latinx community.

• Doctorate in counselor education, counseling psychology, or related field by the appointment date;
• Demonstrated professional identity as and demonstrated commitment to an identity as a counselor educator as defined by CACREP with clear affiliations to relevant counseling associations (i.e., membership with ACA/ACES);
• Broad knowledge of the clinical mental health counseling curriculum;
• Evidence of the ability to conduct research (including dissertation research);
• University‑level teaching experience (including co‑teaching and/or guest lecturing);
• Demonstrated potential for effective integration of technology into instruction;
• Demonstrated awareness/knowledge of racial inequities and challenges faced by historically underrepresented and economically disadvantaged groups;
• Demonstrated commitment and contributions to social justice advocacy through: teaching/mentoring graduate students, research agenda and publications, and/or service activities; and
• The ability to work effectively and collegially with students, staff, faculty, and community who are from intersecting marginalized social groups.

• In‑depth knowledge of social justice issues such as critical race theory, liberation psychology, intersectionality, Black feminist or womanist theories, and/or dismantling anti‑Black racism.
• Knowledge of Latinx cultures and social justice issues relevant to the Latinx community (e.g., immigration/acculturation, identity, colorism, intersectionality, etc.);
• Bilingual fluency in spoken Spanish;
• Proficient in reading and writing Spanish;
• Graduate from a CACREP accredited program;
• Experience with CACREP accreditation;
• Licensed or license‑eligible as a professional counselor or equivalent (i.e., LPC, LPCC, LMCHC, etc.) in…