Job Description

Claremont Graduate University

PART-TIME/ADJUNCT FACULTY

2025-2026

Overview

Claremont Graduate University's Teacher Education Program is seeking adjunct faculty to join a small, collaborative team committed to preparing anti-racist, love-soaked, and humanizing teachers for students in our local communities. To enact our values and vision, we have developed Critical Social Justice Competencies that guide our faculty's and students' teaching practices, we elevate scholarship and experiences of diverse voices, and we center collective wellness and community in everything we do. We know that the act of teaching is not social justice if we are not teaching in ways that honor our students and communities. We operate from the premise that schools are not neutral because they contain and reflect the inequities deeply and structurally embedded within our nation. While of course we support our students in becoming excellent teachers, we also support them in understanding the landscape so they can:

• Actively seek and make change that disrupts inhumane, unjust, and inequitable patterns and practices.

• Affirm and empower students (households, communities, colleagues, and ourselves) to harness the resources needed to navigate an unjust world with empathy, savvy, and agency.

• Dismantle systems and practices of oppression and reimagine love-soaked, empowering ecologies.

CGU offers a joint MA/credential program with fully-online, synchronous coursework alongside a Residency, in which candidates are placed in the classroom of a mentor teacher for an entire school year, or an Internship, in which candidates work as the teacher of record. Our adjunct professors are core members of our scholarfamilia, working alongside the leadership team to enact the kinds of educational experiences that students and communities deserve.

Position

CGU's Teacher Education Program is generating an applicant pool of part-time, adjunct faculty to teach graduate-level courses in our teacher preparation programs and/or work with our leadership team to support candidates' academic and/or clinical development for the 2025-2026 school year.

For academic courses, depending on applicants' teaching experience and fluency with Critical Social Justice, we often ask adjuncts to spend one (compensated) semester observing and teaching alongside a core faculty member before taking on a full course. All courses are taught online in synchronous, interactive Zoom sessions.

For clinical coursework, applicants' eligibility will be determined by their credential area, teaching and educational leadership experience, and familiarity with culturally responsive pedagogy.

Screening of applications will begin immediately and continue on an ongoing basis until anticipated needs are met. We are currently seeking candidates for the Summer and Fall of 2025. Please see below for potential openings, qualifications, and responsibilities:

ANTICIPATED COURSE OFFERINGS

• Teaching and Learning Process for Social Justice and Equity

• Teaching and Learning Process for Cultivating Differentiated Classroom Ecologies

• Teaching and Learning Process for Making Hidden Curriculum Visible to Support All Students & Households

• Ethnographic Narrative Capstone

• Literacy & Methods: Special Education

• Seminar for Gen Ed Teachers re: Collaborating with SPED teachers

• Seminar for SPED Teachers re: Supporting Emerging Multilinguals

• Residency Foundations

• Clinical Faculty Advisors for Mandarin, Spanish, SPED, Mult Sub, Math, Science, Social

• Science, and ELA credential candidates

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Academic course faculty duties include teaching, course planning, and preparation, meeting with and supporting students through office hours and other mechanisms of course-related support, and grading. Additionally, faculty will work with Teacher Education Leadership to design and implement courses aligned with CGU Teacher's Ed's vision and the CTC credentialing requirements, as well as to create course Canvas sites aligned with accreditation requirements for online programs (as relevant) .

Clinical course faculty mentor and evaluate candidates throughout the year, sharing, discussing, and supporting the work of teaching. Clinical faculty also conduct formal observations and evaluate candidates' progress toward CA credentialing requirements and CGU's Critical Social Justice Teaching Competencies

All new faculty participate in an orientation to the program (~2hrs,) attend monthly professional development and collaboration meetings with other faculty and members of the leadership team, and support CGU TEP programs and policies as indicated in the Cohort Guide.

SUMMARY OF BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Doctoral or Master's level degree in relevant fields

• At least 5 years TK-12 teaching experience

• Clear credential ( clinical courses only)

• Deep expertise and experience in TK-12 education, course content area(s), and culturally sustaining and antiracist orientation.

• Prior higher/teacher education experience preferred but not required

• Prior experience teaching or delivering professional development online preferred but not required

• Willingness to learn from and collaborate with CGU residents and the CGU leadership team

COMPENSATION

Academic Coursework:

• $2,250 per unit for faculty with a Doctoral degree or content-specific terminal degree appropriate to the course (min enrollment 5)

• $1350 per unit for faculty with a Master's degree (min enrollment 5)

Clinical Coursework

• ~$2000/Candidate/year

Application reviews will begin immediately and continue on an ongoing basis depending on timing and programmatic need.

Physical Activities

Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like.
☐ Never ☒ Occasionally ☐ Constantly

Moving self in different positions to accomplish tasks in various environments including tight and confined spaces.
☐ Never ☒ Occasionally ☐ Constantly

Remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods.
☐ Never ☒ Occasionally ☐ Constantly

Moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another.
☐ Never ☐ Occasionally ☒ Constantly

Adjusting or moving objects up to __ pounds in all directions.
☐ Never ☒ Occasionally ☐ Constantly

Communicating with others to exchange information.
☐ Never ☐ Occasionally ☒ Constantly

Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.
☐ Never ☐ Occasionally ☒ Constantly

Operating machinery and/or power tools.
☒ Never ☐ Occasionally ☐ Constantly

Operating motor vehicles or heavy equipment.
☐ Never ☒ Occasionally ☐ Constantly

Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned.
☐ Never ☒ Occasionally ☐ Constantly

Environmental Conditions

Low temperatures.
☐ Never ☒ Occasionally ☐ Constantly

High temperatures.
☐ Never ☒ Occasionally ☐ Constantly

Outdoor elements such as precipitation and wind.
☐ Never ☒ Occasionally ☐ Constantly

Noisy environments.
☐ Never ☒ Occasionally ☐ Constantly

Hazardous conditions.
☒ Never ☐ Occasionally ☐ Constantly

Poor ventilation.
☒ Never ☐ Occasionally ☐ Constantly

Small and/or enclosed spaces.
☒ Never ☐ Occasionally ☐ Constantly

No adverse environmental conditions expected.
☒ Never ☐ Occasionally ☐ Constantly

Physical Demands

Sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing.
☐ Never ☐ Occasionally ☒ Constantly

Light work that includes moving objects up to 20 pounds.
☐ Never ☒ Occasionally ☐ Constantly

Medium work that includes moving objects up to 50 pounds.
☒ Never ☐ Occasionally ☐ Constantly

Heavy work that includes moving objects up to 100 pounds or more.
☒ Never ☐ Occasionally ☐ Constantly

EEO Statement:

Claremont Graduate University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, gender and/ or gender identity or expression, marital or parental status, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship status, veteran or military status, sex, age, sexual orientation, or physical disability or any other legally protected basis in its employment practice and in admission of students to educational programs and activities in accordance with the requirement of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Title I of the American Disabilities Act of 1990 and other applicable laws. CGU is committed to affirmative action in employment practices regarding ethnic minorities, the physically challenged, Vietnam-era veterans, and women. This job description defines the essential or fundamental job duties of the employment position. It is assumed that employees hired for this position can perform the essential functions of this job without imposing risk of substantial harm to the health or safety of themselves or others. Qualified candidates of diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to apply for vacant positions at all levels.

This job description defines the essential or fundamental job duties of the employment position. It is assumed that employees hired for this position can perform the essential functions of this job without imposing risk of substantial harm to the health or safety of themselves or others.

It may also include marginal functions, generally defined within Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Successful completion of criminal background and DMV checks required for final candidate.

About CGU Claremont Graduate University

The Claremont Colleges, a consortium of five undergraduate liberal arts colleges, two graduate institutions, and Claremont University Consortium, which provides shared institutional support services, is reminiscent of the Oxford-Cambridge model. The undergraduate colleges include Pomona College, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, and Pitzer College. The two graduate institutions include Claremont Graduate University and Keck Graduate Institute.

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