Faculty; Associate​/Pt-Temp - Philosophy

Position: 2025/2026 - FACULTY (ASSOCIATE/PT-TEMP) - PHILOSOPHY
Salary: $60.76 - $154.09 Hourly
Location : Sonoma County, CA
Job Type: Associate
Job Number: 25-228
Department: Philosophy Department
Opening Date: 03/18/2024
Closing Date: Continuous

Description
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:
Santa Rosa Junior College is currently accepting applications on a continuous basis to establish a pool for associate faculty assignments. Associate assignments may be temporary, part-time and/or on-call and may be immediate or as needed. The Sonoma County Junior College District does not offer 'remote only' assignments.

Compensation/Benefits
Assignments are made on a part-time, hourly basis. A part-time faculty assignment may not exceed a total of 67% of an annual full-time assignment.

• Starting Hourly Rate:
  Please see the or contact Human Resources for more information.
• Salary placement is based on academic background, vocational experience, and teaching experience (depending on discipline) and as documented in application materials. Initial Step placement will be at Step 1 pending evaluation of experience as outlined in the AFA Contract
• Compensation for assigned classes is paid over the duration of the assignment.

Benefits: The District offers medical insurance for those who meet the eligibility requirements. Additional information, including medical plan information and eligibility requirements can be found on the

Sick Leave Accrual: Associate faculty accrue sick leave on a pro-rated basis. Additional information can be found in Article 18 of the AFA Contract.

Retirement: SRJC offers CalSTRS Defined Benefit, CalSTRS Cash Balance and Social Security as Associate Faculty retirement options. Eligibility for each plan is determined based on prior membership status with CalSTRS.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide excellent instruction and faculty support to students, which may include evening, weekend, online or hybrid and/or off-campus assignments.
• Provide academic assistance and related services to students during scheduled office hours.
• Demonstrate sensitivity to and understanding of diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, faculty and staff.
• Maintain currency in field(s) of expertise.
• Associate faculty focus primarily on providing instruction and/or student services.
• Associate faculty are typically not required to participate in District or department service such as committee work, evaluations, student learning outcomes assessment, and hiring committees, but may be asked to perform these services for additional compensation.
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The examples of duties listed above are representative of those that must be met by a faculty member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

SELECTION PROCESS:
If the department has an immediate need to add candidates to their pool, they will review applications. If the department does not have an immediate need to add candidates to their pool, applications remain in the queue for consideration until the need arises, or for up to one year. If selected, candidates will be invited to an interview with a Screening and Interviewing Committee.

Selected candidates who are not given an immediate assignment will remain in the pool for four years.

DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION:
The Philosophy Department is dedicated to providing the highest quality instruction. We meet the educational needs of our students by employing pedagogies that are responsive to the diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds of our students, by offering general education and elective courses for transfer and for occupational students, and by providing opportunities for life-long learning to the larger community. Our department has seven (7) contract and twenty-two (22) associate faculty.

Offices are located in the Emeritus Building on Elliot Avenue. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for the 2020 - 2021 school year, all the courses in our department will be taught in an online modality.
Philosophy courses:

• PHIL 3 - Critical Thinking
• PHIL 5 - Critical Thinking & Writing
• PHIL 6 - Introduction to Philosophy

Minimum Qualifications
Applicants must possess the minimum qualifications exactly as listed below for disciplines of interest or file for in order to be considered. Applicants who are requesting equivalency consideration are responsible for documenting all course work, degree programs and related professional experience at the time of application. Please, see the and the for more information.

REQUIRED:
Master's in Philosophy;
OR Bachelor's in Philosophy; AND Master's in Humanities or Religious Studies;
OR the equivalent.

Requires a sensitivity to, and understanding of, the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students.

Preferred:

• Demonstrated commitment to valuing and promoting diversity, equity, inclusion and…