Assistant Professor-Department of Special Education
Listed on 2025-12-13
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Education / Teaching
University Professor, Academic, Education Administration, Faculty
Location: California
Assistant Professor-Department of Special Education #26-18
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Work type: Instructional Faculty – Tenured/Tenure-Track
Location: Northridge
Categories: Unit 3 - CFA - California Faculty Association, Child/Youth Education and Development, Tenured/Tenure-Track, Full Time
Tenure-Track Faculty Position Announcement
Department: Special Education
Faculty Hire Number: #26-18
Rank: Assistant Professor
Effective Date of Appointment: August 2026 (Subject to Budgetary Approval)
Anticipated Hiring Range: $80,004 to $84,000 (Dependent upon qualifications)
CSUN’s Commitment to You:
CSUN is committed to achieving excellence through teaching, scholarship, learning, and inclusion. Our values include a respect for all people, building partnerships with the community, and the encouragement of innovation, experimentation, and creativity. CSUN strives to cultivate a community in which a diverse population can learn and work in an atmosphere of civility and respect. CSUN is especially interested in candidates who make contributions to equity and inclusion in the pursuit of excellence for all members of the university community.
As a Hispanic‑serving Institution (HSI), inclusiveness and diversity are integral to CSUN’s commitment to excellence in teaching, research, and engagement. As of Fall 2025, CSUN enrolls 36,960 students, where 57.5% are Latinx, 18.4% are White, 8.5% are Asian‑American, 5.5% are Black/African American, 0.1% are Native American, and 0.1% are Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
About the Department: The Special Education Department at CSUN is committed to preparing educators who advocate for and provide services to students with all levels of support needs. Our department strives to dismantle systems that categorize, segregate, or limit student expectations on the basis of perceived disability label, level of support need, assumptions about language access or cultural/linguistic background, with special attention to multiply‑marginalized students.
In this way, we prepare educators to be strength‑based service providers and advocates who focus on adaptation of the learning environment and materials to meet the support needs of each student and their family.
Position: The Department of Special Education at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) is seeking a tenure‑track faculty member in Mild/Moderate to Extensive Support Needs (MM/ESN) at the rank of Assistant Professor.
The successful candidate will teach Special Education teacher preparation and Master’s Degree and certification courses in the Special Education department. The typical teaching assignment is 12 units each semester, plus student advisement and committee assignments. Tenure‑Track faculty are eligible for a reduced load of 3 units (equivalent to one class) each semester during the first two years of teaching. Opportunities for reassigned time and other projects are also available.
The position also includes collaboration with the Special Education Department faculty on matters of recruitment, enrollment, and admissions, and supervising students in school‑based, clinical, and virtual settings. We value candidates who can effectively mentor and supervise students using multiple pedagogical formats (i.e., face‑to‑face, hybrid, and online formats), as well as the ability to prepare students to become justice‑oriented educators. The candidate will collaborate with the Special Education Department and other community agencies.
In addition to teaching, the position requires advisement, weekly office hours, attending faculty meetings, service to the department, college, university, and maintaining research and scholarly activities. The successful candidate may be required to teach on weekdays, evenings, weekends, and/or online and will be held to the standards and requirements of the college and department in which they are housed for recommending tenure and promotion.
Given CSUN’s commitment to excellence in teaching, research, and engagement in a diverse environment, the successful candidate will help the Department achieve equitable academic outcomes for all students through teaching, student mentorship, scholarship,…
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