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Job Description:
This program has been developed to give graduate students the opportunity to gain collegiate teaching experience while still in graduate school. The program matches university students with teaching assignments at a nearby community college.
Students teach a course on a VCCS campus and receive mentorship and other support from a full-time VCCS faculty member and their host college. Students are paid at the regular part-time adjunct professor rate for their service while in the program. With this valuable teaching experience, students will become more competitive for professorships at any college or university after they graduate. The VCCS will also create a database that will inform participating students of future openings within the VCCS.
The program aims to recruit students who represent varied ethnic, racial and social backgrounds who are interested in teaching or related careers. Virginia's Community Colleges serve a dynamic and diverse student body where one out of every three people is a minority, mirroring the commonwealth's general population. However, our teaching faculty is less diverse: only 12 percent are minorities. To ensure that our community colleges are accessible and supportive for all Virginians, we are striving to build a faculty that resembles our student body. While this program is open to all qualified graduate students, a special emphasis is placed on recruiting students from ethnically diverse backgrounds.
Requirements:
To be eligible to participate, students must have completed 18 graduate semester credit hours to meet appropriate accreditation credentialing requirements. At least 18 hours of coursework must be in the subject area in which the student will teach. The program is open to master's and doctoral students.
Unfortunately, students who are on F-1 Visas are not eligible to participate in this program at this time. This is due to the limits placed on this category of visa by Federal law. International students are however, eligible to participate after they graduate as a part of their optional practical training period.
Additional Information:
We are delighted that you are interested in pursuing teaching opportunities within the Virginia Community College System (VCCS).
Placement decisions are made based upon the curriculum that is offered at each campus, your academic field, and the courses that are available at the particular time that you apply. If there is availability, one of the Deans from the campus you are interested in teaching will call you to set up an interview to discuss your background and the possibilities. Our role from the VCCS central office is to facilitate the placement process. If you do not hear from anyone, or if you have any questions, feel free to contact us at the e-mail address provided below.
Application Instructions:
In order to properly evaluate your background and the areas in which you are eligible to teach, we need the following information from you. Please ensure that you have attached:
1) A resume, curriculum vitae, _or_ brief professional biography
2) An unofficial copy of your transcripts _or_ a list of courses that you have taken at the graduate level.
Applications are only accepted via our online applications system. If you have any questions regarding this program, please contact:
Christopher D. Lee, Ph.D, SPHR,
Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resource Services,
Virginia Community College System,
101 North 14th Street,
Richmond, Virginia 23219,
(804) 819-4685, or
clee@vccs.edu
URL: myfuture.vccs.edu/FacultyStaff/HumanResources/FacultyDiversityProgram/tabid/414/Default.aspx
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