Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Position Summary

Current Pierce College Tenured and Permanent Status Faculty Priority Deadline is 1 week before the posted closing date. For more details, please see:
Join our Racial Equity-Centered College! Pierce College District is student-centered and mission-driven to ensure that all our students thrive and reach their fullest potential. As an institution committed to antiracism, we are action-oriented and intentional in dismantling every systemic barrier that prevents Black and Brown student excellence and liberation.

As Pierce College deepens its commitment to racial equity, it is of the highest priority that we focus our tenure-track and permanent status faculty hiring process to seek faculty with the expertise to lead our institution in serving Black and Brown students. This cluster hire is an opportunity for the college community to continue to act upon our values but more importantly for the empowering of our students' self-efficacy, for cultivating sense of belonging, and for the diversity of our entire student body, especially Black and Brown students, being reflected in a position of power in the classroom.

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We are excited to invite you to bring your lived experiences and authentic selves to contribute to discourse and action in supporting Black and Brown students.

The Pierce College Chemistry Department is a dynamic group of faculty who serve a diverse student population in pre‑health chemistry, general chemistry, and organic chemistry. The department is committed to providing quality educational opportunities to all students through our courses offered in multiple modalities.

The Chemistry Department is a part of our Natural Science Division. We are an innovative division that seeks to provide scientific education in an authentic way that is applicable to students’ everyday lives, educational goals, and dreams.

Pierce College is an innovative community college striving to re‑envision our institution through an antiracist framework to advance equity in student engagement and learning. We value student learning experiences that foster inclusion and intercultural engagement in the classroom and that expand into our local and global communities. Faculty, staff, and administrators work collaboratively to lead initiatives that advance equitable student success: from closing areas of inequity to building guided career pathways.

The college serves over 15,000 students in basic skills, transfer, and professional technical programs. Through continuous efforts, we have improved retention rates by 17% and graduation rates by 89%. This year, Pierce was again named a top community college by several national organizations.

Pierce College employees and students live and work in various communities that offer the diverse cultural and environmental benefits of rural, suburban, and urban lifestyles in the Pacific Northwest. As part of the community and technical college system in Washington State, the District includes Pierce College Fort Steilacoom, Pierce College Puyallup, Pierce College at Joint Base Lewis‑McChord, as well as other extended learning sites.

• Designing and teaching a variety of courses in the department, in a manner that promotes Black and Brown excellence
• Creating race‑conscious course assessments and evaluations, assessing data, and engaging in continuous improvement of courses based on that analysis in order to advance student achievement of outcomes, success in subsequent courses, and impact on retention, graduation, and successful transition to employment or further education;
• Continuously innovating inclusive pedagogy and active learning experiences (campus, online, hybrid) in response to assessment and evidence/data analysis;
• Demonstrating cultural humility and intercultural engagement, including an awareness and understanding of historically marginalized populations, and the creation of an educational environment that affirms the identities and communications of students of color;
• Incorporating appropriate and engaging technology across modalities;
• Creatively designing…