Adjunct Faculty - English

Position Summary:

Engages students in the teaching/learning process; works assigned schedule, represents the College in the community, and performs other related duties as required. 

Candidate must be available to teach on campus during the day.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plans and teaches courses that fulfill the current curriculum goals and objectives.

• Works effectively with students and challenges students appropriately with an acceptable level of civility and discourse. 

• Employs appropriate assessment techniques to measure student performance in

  achieving course goals and objectives:  Collects, reports, and maintains assessment documentation. 

• Determines and submits students' grades in accordance with established College policies and procedures.

• Communicates progress in the course to students in a timely manner. 

• Remains current with subject matter and instructional methodology.

• Supports the mission of the program, division, and College.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to effectively communicate one-on-one, in small groups, and in classroom situations.
• Proficient in word-processing and presentation software, internet, and e-mail.
• Demonstrated ability to work with a diverse group of students.
• Capability to teach in more than one discipline.
• Effective verbal, written, and listening communication skills.
• Effective problem-solving skills.

Education and Work Experience:

• Master’s Degree in Composition or Literature, with a background in Communication, or, Master’s Degree in Communication with a background in Composition or Literature preferred.
• Minimum of two years of teaching experience preferred, preferably at the college level.

STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT  

As part of Terra State Community College’s ongoing commitment in providing the highest quality education and training to our students, faculty, staff and community, the College will: 

• Educate students by means of free, open, and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth. 

• Equip students with an opportunity to develop the intellectual skills they need to reach their own, informed conclusions. 

• Not require, favor, disfavor, or prohibit speech or lawful assembly. 

• Create a community dedicated to an ethic of civil and free inquiry, which respects the autonomy of each member, supports individual capacities for growth, and tolerates the differences in opinion that naturally occur in a public higher education community. 

• Treat all faculty, staff, and students as individuals, will hold them to equal standards, and provide them equality of opportunity, with regard to those individuals’ race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.