Physics Full-Time Tenure Track Instructor

Cuesta College

Salary: $64,582.00 - $99,924.00 Annually

Job Type: Full Time

Job Number: FY2324-00124

Location: San Luis Obispo Campus, CA

Department: Instruction

Closing: 3/3/2024 11:59 PM Pacific

Job Description Summary

The Physics Department at Cuesta College, a two-year community college, announces the availability of a full-time, tenure-track Physics Instructor position beginning fall semester 2024. This position will be primarily focused on teaching dual enrollment high school physics courses. These courses allow high school students to take college-level, trigonometry-based courses taught online by the instructor and supplemented by their high school physics teacher. This is known locally as “Cuesta-led Dual Enrollment.” The ideal candidate will exhibit a passion for educating Cuesta College's racially and socio-economically diverse student population. We are searching for a person who will enthusiastically engage with their students and work collaboratively with high school physics teachers to promote student success. This position also includes active participation in program review, student learning outcomes assessment, college governance, and shared departmental responsibilities. Desirable candidates will be innovative, collaborative, and supportive individuals with recent experience in teaching physics.

Cuesta College and the Physical Sciences Division value the ability to serve our diverse students from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities and orientations. Therefore, we prioritize applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits diversity brings to a professional educational community. The successful candidate will be an equity-minded individual committed to collaborating with faculty, classified staff, administration, students and community partners who are also committed to closing equity gaps.

An equity-minded individual is a person who already does or has demonstrated the desire to:

(1) Understand the importance of holding ourselves accountable as educators for closing equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices;

(2) Reframe inequities as a problem of practice and view the elimination of inequities as an individual and collective responsibility;

(3) Encourage positive race-consciousness and embrace human differences;

(4) Reflect on institutional and teaching practices and aim to make them more culturally responsive; and

(5) Strategically build buy-in and participation among colleagues for equity-related initiatives.

Cuesta College seeks employees who value mentorship and working in a collegial, collaborative environment, guided by a commitment to helping all students achieve their educational goals. All departments strongly encourage collaboration across disciplines to create inclusive, integrated, and interdisciplinary learning experiences. College faculty are expected to be knowledgeable about, and willing to use, different learning and teaching methods appropriate to the students they serve.

The Physics Department is the second largest department in the Physical Sciences Division, which includes the disciplines of Astronomy, Chemistry, Geology, Meteorology, Oceanography, and Physical Sciences. There are 10 full-time and 9 part-time faculty in the division, with 3 full-time and 2 part-time faculty teaching physics. Our students routinely utilize computers and modern instrumentation to collect and analyze data in our physics labs. The department currently serves about 120 high school dual enrollment trig-based physics students, and about 155 trig-based and 290 calculus-based physics students on our campuses each year. The department also supports student learning through an extensive tutoring program in the college's Student Success Center, and our student-led STEM club.

While the primary focus of this position is to teach Cuesta-led Dual Enrollment online asynchronous classes, the successful candidate may also teach trig-based and calculus-based physics courses, as well as astronomy and physical sciences courses. Assignments may be day or evening classes, at any of the Cuesta College sites within San Luis Obispo County, and/or in any modality.

ABOUT THE COLLEGE

Where You Will Work
Serving all of San Luis Obispo County, Cuesta College has provided comprehensive associate degree offerings, certificates, and community programs to the region since 1964. The main campus is located along scenic Highway 1, west of San Luis Obispo and east of the beaches of the Pacific Ocean. Cuesta College has a North County Campus in Paso Robles, and South County Center, in Arroyo Grande.

Who We Are
Equity, diversity, and inclusion are essential to our culture and the work we do. Cuesta College is proud to be a designated Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) committed to racial and socio-economic diversity as it reflects our communities and student populations. We actively seek to attract candidates who share this commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion. As part of the Cuesta College team, you can expect to be part of a collaborative community of faculty, classified professionals, administrators, students, and community partners advancing educational excellence with intentional support services leading to student success and completion.

Additional information about the college can be found at
https://www.cuesta.edu/about/index.html
The college planning documents can be found at
https://www.cuesta.edu/about/collegeplans/index.html
Our Student Equity Action Plan can be found at
https://www.cuesta.edu/about/info/student-equity-initiatives/equity/index.html
We offer comprehensive benefit options. Information about benefits can be found at
https://www.cuesta.edu/about/depts/benefits-insurance/index.html

Essential Functions & Qualifications
Required:
-Master's in physics, astronomy or astrophysics from an accredited institution;
OR
-Bachelor's in physics or astronomy from an accredited institution AND Master's in engineering, mathematics, meteorology or geophysics;
OR
-The equivalent. (Candidates applying on the basis of equivalency must submit all materials requested for an equivalency judgment. For directions on what is an acceptable equivalency argument please review the requirements listed on the https://www.cuesta.edu/about/depts/humanresources/Job_Opportunities.html or see further information on Equivalency Petition Process Information below.).
OR
-A valid Community College credential in the discipline (if received prior to 1990, as the credential is no longer being issued).

Required:
-Sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students.

Desirable:
-Teaching experience in physics, community college level preferred;
-Awareness of the philosophy and objectives of California Community Colleges.

Additional Information
REQUIRED DOCUMENTS TO APPLY
Candidates will be required to submit all documents listed below when applying for this position. When uploading documents, PDF documents are preferred.

• Resume/Curriculum Vitae;
• Professional Reference List (see further document instructions below);
• Unofficial transcripts; and
• Teaching and Diversity statement (see further document instructions below).

Professional Reference List:Your reference list must include three professional references, their contact information, and their relationship to you.
Teaching and Diversity Statement Instructions:
• Include your teaching philosophy which may include your teaching values, beliefs, and/or goals.
• Consider how the https://www.cuesta.edu/about/leadership/president/missionstatement.html connects to your philosophy.
• Consider your experience teaching face-to-face and distance education.
• Consider one or more of the following questions:

• What do you feel are the best strategies for supporting students who have been historically marginalized, particularly in an online learning modality?
• Reflect on a course where your students demonstrated academic success. What were the key factors in creating that success for racially-minoritized and other underserved disproportionately impacted students?
• How is your teaching approach culturally responsive and inclusive to the students you serve?
• Willingness to examine and remediate one's instructional, relational, and classroom practices to more effectively engage and support racially minoritized and other disproportionally impacted students.

The Selection Committee will use the following rubric to evaluate the Teaching and Diversity Statement: https://www.cuesta.edu/about/documents/hr_docs/eeo/GuidetoEquitableHiringPracticesASCApproved2_26_2021.pdf https://get.adobe.com/reader/

Equivalency Petition Process Information: Faculty shall meet the minimum qualifications established by the Board of Governors, or shall possess qualifications that are at least equivalent to the minimum qualifications set out in the regulations of the Board of Governors. If a candidate does not directly meet minimum qualifications, they can submit a Petition for Equivalency form in order to apply for equivalency. For more information on the process, please review the links below for more information.

https://www.cuesta.edu/about/documents/hr_docs/AP_7211_Equivalency_Process.pdf https://get.adobe.com/reader/https://www.cuesta.edu/about/documents/hr_docs/Petition_for_Equivalency_Form_vFall2023.docx

https://www.cuesta.edu/about/documents/hr_docs/Petition_for_Equivalency_Form_vFall2023.docx

Completed online applications and all supporting documents must be submitted by the closing date for this position. LATE, INCOMPLETE, FAXED, MAILED OR EMAILED APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Please contact HR to ensure all documents have been uploaded and your file is complete up until 72 hours before the closing date.

SALARY SCHEDULE

Salary is determined by education and experience. More information regarding our current salary schedules can be found on the following link:https://www.cuesta.edu/about/depts/humanresources/salary_schedules.html

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Cuesta College will not sponsor any visa applications. San Luis Obispo County Community College District ("Cuesta College") is an equal opportunity employer committed to nondiscrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, medical condition, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), age, disability (physical and mental), genetic information, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal and state law in admission and access to, or treatment in employment, educational programs or activities at any of its campuses. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for applicants with disabilities who self-disclose. Cuesta College also prohibits harassment on any of these bases, including sexual harassment, as well as sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.

In compliance with California law, all prospective staff and students are entitled to read the Annual Security Report, published each October by the Cuesta College Department of Public Safety. This report contains information about our emergency and crime reporting procedures, as well as crime statistics for the past 3 years. You may request a copy of this report at one of our two Public Safety Offices: on SLO campus at Building 6600A or on North County Campus at building N1021, during campus business hours. You may also access the complete text of this report at the following website address: https://www.cuesta.edu/about/depts/publicsafety/clery_act

Cuesta College uses E-Verify as part of the I-9 process to verify the work eligibility of all new hires. E-Verify is an Internet-based system that compares information from an employee's Form I-9 to data from U.S Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration records. For further information, visit:https://www.cuesta.edu/about/depts/humanresources/Job_Opportunities.html

Interview Process Information

Selected applicants will be invited to give a teaching demonstration and interview on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. If necessary additional interviews will be conducted on Thursday, April 11, 2024.

First Interviews will be held in person. Applicants in need of an accommodation should contact Human Resources at mailto:hr@cuesta.edu. In person interviews are preferred and, in the interest of equity, candidates will be reimbursed up to $500 toward their travel expenses if they interview on campus.

Second interviews will be held via Zoom on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.

The selected applicant will begin their full-time teaching assignment in the Fall semester of the 2024-2025 school year, which begins on Tuesday, August 6, 2024.

To be considered for this position please visit our web site and apply on line at the following link: https://apptrkr.com/4887703

The San Luis Obispo County Community College District promotes inclusiveness, prohibits discrimination, and encourages all qualified persons to apply. As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, Cuesta College actively seeks candidates with diverse backgrounds to assist students, staff, and faculty. For ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) assistance with the application and/or interview process, please contact the Human Resources Office: (805) 546-3129.

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