Photography Instructor (Part-Time Faculty Pool) Fresno City College

About the role

The ideal candidate will share Fresno City College’s commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. We currently enroll over 22,000 students of which 56% are Latinx, 10% are Asian/Pacific Islander, 5% are African American, 22% are White, and 6% are multiracial. FCC 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.

Responsibilities

• Lecture and laboratory instruction in professional photography at any vocational level taught at the community college
• Conducting classes, lab maintenance and operation, equipment inventory, class preparation, office hours, and student evaluation and advisement
• Maintaining standards of professional conduct and ethics appropriate to the professional position and currency in teaching professional photography
• Duties may include 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

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree AND two years of directly related professional experience
• OR An associate degree AND six years of directly related professional experience
• OR A valid California Community College credential
• OR The equivalent education and/or experience (requires an equivalency)

Desirable Qualifications

• Demonstrated proficiency in traditional photographic processes, digital photography, studio lighting practices, photographic aesthetics and marketing
• Demonstrated proficiency with Apple Mac and Microsoft Windows operating systems using Adobe Creative Cloud
• Extent of experience with Photoshop and Lightroom
• Willingness to maintain currency in the field of professional photography and graphics
• Ability to communicate effectively (oral and written) and maintain effective working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and administration
• Ability to develop new and current curriculum and focus on student learning outcomes to improve student learning
• Community college teaching experience
• Recent experience working with African American, Latinx, Native American and other racially minoritized students in the classroom and an understanding of how historical patterns of exclusions of these groups in higher education shape patterns of participation and outcomes
• Willingness to examine and re-mediate one’s instructional, relational, and classroom practices to more effectively engage and support racially minoritized students
• Experience and skill with addressing issues of equity in the classroom
• Potential for contribution to institutional vitality and growth
• Knowledge of the community college and its missions and goals