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Job Description:
This program has been developed to expose minority professionals who hold master's degrees to teaching oppportunities within the Virginia Community College System. The program matches working professionals with part-time teaching assignments at a nearby community college.
Minority Professional Teaching Fellows will share their experience, expertise and educational background with our students as regular classroom instructors. Support, assistance and colleagueship are provided by a full-time VCCS faculty member and the host college. Minority professionals are paid at the regular part-time adjunct professor rate for their service while in the program. With this valuable teaching experience, Minority Professional Teaching Fellows will gain experience with which he or she can become more competitive for full-time professorships at any community college or university.
This program aims to recruit working minority professionals 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 qualified professionals from any background, a special emphasis is placed on recruiting professionals from ethnically diverse backgrounds.
Requirements:
To be eligible to participate, Fellows must have a master's degree, or greater, in the subject area in which one would teach. Only courses taken at the graduate level are used to determine qualifications for teaching opportunities.
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. When 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 graduate transcripts. If you do not have electronic copies of your transcripts available, you may submit a list of courses you completed at the GRADUATE level. The list should include the course prefix, number, and name.
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,
clee@vccs.edu
URL: myfuture.vccs.edu/FacultyStaff/HumanResources/FacultyDiversityProgram/tabid/414/Default.aspx
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