Art Instructor Tenure-Track Madera Community College

Art Instructor (Full-Time, Tenure-Track) Madera Community College

Closing Date: 2/9/2026 at 11:55 PM

Campus

Location:

Madera Community College

Start Date:

12/23/2025

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.

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.

The ideal candidate will share Madera Community College's commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. 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 a full schedule of developmental and transfer‑level Art courses as assigned, including but not limited to Drawing, 2‑D Design, Computer Graphics, Photoshop, Illustrator, and/or 2‑D Animation;
• Incorporating historical and contemporary design practices into instruction;
• Coordinating the scheduling of part‑time instructors and lab assistants;
• Overseeing the ordering of materials and equipment;
• Overseeing the care, maintenance and safety of the lab/classroom;
• 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, online 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;
• Other duties as assigned.

• 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 fine arts, art or art history; or
• Bachelor’s in fine arts, art or art history and master’s in humanities;
• A valid California Community College Credential; or
• The equivalent education and/or experience (requires an equivalency).

• If the degrees posted on your transcript(s) do not match exactly as stated above, you must petition for equivalency.
• “Master’s in fine arts” as used here refers to any master's degree in the subject matter of fine arts, which is defined to include…