Geology Instructor Tenure-Track Clovis Community College

Geology Instructor (Full-Time, Tenure-Track) Clovis Community College

State Center Community College District

Closing Date: 2/5/2026 at 11:55 PM

Campus

Location:

Clovis Community College

Start Date: 12/24/2025

At Clovis 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.

Clovis 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 Clovis Community College.

The ideal candidate will share Clovis Community College's commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. For the  academic year, we enrolled over 17,000 students in which 53% identify as Latinx, 13% as Asian/Pacific Islander, 4% as Black/African American, 25% as White, 1% as American Indian/Alaska Native, and 4% as multiracial. Clovis 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 department dedicated to providing services responsive to the students it serves.

• Teaching both lecture and laboratory classes in geology courses as assigned;
• Maintaining equipment and instruments used in teaching geology;
• Teaching the principles and applications of geology;
• Assisting in the coordination and maintenance of laboratory facilities;
• Participating in the accreditation process;
• 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, curriculum development and revision, and support of adjunct faculty;
• Developing/utilizing classroom and online technology;
• Participating in student recruiting activities;
• Cooperating with regard to scheduling classes between colleagues, including those in other disciplines;
• 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 instructors as required by Administrative Regulation 7122.

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;
AND

• Master's in geology, geophysics, earth sciences, meteorology, oceanography or paleontology; OR
• Bachelor's in geology AND Masters in geography, physics or geochemistry; OR
• A valid California Community College Credential; OR
• The equivalent education and/or experience (requires an equivalency).

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NOTE:

If the degrees posted on your transcript(s) do not match EXACTLY as stated above, you MUST petition for equivalency.)

• Experience and skill incorporating elements of diversity, equity, and inclusion into all areas of responsibility;
• Recent experience working with African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Latinx, Native American, and other racially minoritized students in the classroom and an understanding of how historical patterns of exclusion of these groups in higher education shape patterns of participation and outcomes;
• Willingness to examine and remediate one's instructional, relational, and classroom practices to more effectively engage and support racially minoritized students;
• Related work and professional experience;
• Experience working with students of various cultural, gender, age, socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds, including…