Communication Arts Instructor​/Assistant Forensics Coach Tenure Track

Communication Arts Instructor/Assistant Forensics Coach (Full‑Time, Tenure‑Track)

State Center Community College District

Closing Date: 3/5/2026 at 11:59 PM

Campus

Location:

Fresno City College

Start Date: 08/05/2026

At Fresno City 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.

Fresno City 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 Fresno City College.

For the  academic year, we enrolled over 45,000 students in which 68% identify as Latinx, 11% as Asian/Pacific Islander, 4% as Black/African American, 14% as White, 1% as American Indian/Alaska Native, and 2% as multiracial. Fresno City 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 the use of a curriculum responsive to the students it serves.

• Teaching a full range of classes appropriate to the Communication discipline including, but not limited to: public speaking, interpersonal communication, argumentation, persuasion, group communication, and other courses offered by the department;
• Communicating effectively with students and staff;
• Using technology solutions in the classroom;
• Participating in appropriate professional meetings and workshops;
• Participating in extracurricular activities in the department;
• Teaching forensics courses;
• Assisting in coaching a comprehensive program of intercollegiate forensic activities;
• Recruiting forensics students;
• Preparing competitors for contests;
• Hosting intramural forensics contests;
• Traveling to tournaments for the purpose of chaperoning, coaching, and judging;
• 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; may include off‑campus instruction at local high schools for dual enrollment;
• Otherwise fulfilling all of the duties and responsibilities of instructors as required by Administrative Regulation 7122;
• Other duties as assigned.

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.

• Master's in speech, speech broadcasting, telecommunications, rhetoric, communication, communication studies, speech communication, or organizational communication; or
• Bachelor's in any of the above and a…