Faculty, Communication
Who We Are
With three campuses along Colorado’s Front Range, Front Range Community College is the state’s largest community college. We enroll close to 28,000 students annually from our diverse service area, which offers a variety of cultural and recreational activities.
Each year approximately 5,000 FRCC students transfer to four-year universities. FRCC offers more than 36 career training programs that prepare students for immediate employment and rewarding careers. Last year, more than 5,000 high school students took concurrent enrollment classes with us, earning college credit without having to pay college tuition. And we were recently ranked as one of the “Top Online Colleges” in the country by Newsweek.
One of FRCC’s main goals is to offer educational excellence for everyone. The college’s strong commitment to student success means we start by creating an inclusive and equitable environment—one where both students and employees feel they belong and are supported. FRCC’s focus on diversity, equity and inclusion is woven into the fabric of our college conversations and decision-making processes. We are actively seeking to hire a workforce that reflects the diversity of our student body.
The college is also an emerging Hispanic Serving Institution. For us, becoming an HSI is an intentional commitment to being a college where our Latinx (and other historically marginalized) students thrive.
FRCC employees and leaders work hard to create a culture of collaboration, innovation and pride. We’re looking to hire people who share these values—along with our commitment to student success, equity and excellence.
Who You Are
As a full-time communication faculty member at the FRCC Larimer Campus, you will join a college-wide team of communication faculty and instructors who collaborate toward a shared goal of fostering student success. You share our values of teaching excellence that include:
- Creating inclusive learning environments that are student-focused and culturally responsible;
- Designing for active student engagement that empowers learners to achieve their academic, professional and personal goals;
- Focusing on robust instructional content that is thought-provoking, current and relevant;
- Conducting meaningful assessment and timely feedback related to student progress in achieving learning outcomes;
- Working toward continuous improvement of teaching and learning through evidence-based practices, reflection, innovation and collaboration.
You are ready to teach a variety of communication classes possibly including asynchronous online and remote modalities. You are interested in working with students taking introductory communication courses to fulfill transfer degree requirements as well as career and technical students taking communication courses as a requirement for their degree or certificate. Courses include Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, Intercultural Communication.
You will join in our commitment to DEI seriously by taking active steps to design courses where all students feel like they belong and can learn. You will help us investigate equity opportunity gaps in our classes and work to design classes to close or eliminate those gaps.
As a faculty member you also serve as a leader, mentor, and supervisor for part-time communication instructors and help to develop and advance the communication program. You will also have service duties that include representing our department on committees, task forces, and events at the campus, college, and/or state levels.
Please note: this is an on-campus position with some remote work opportunities. You need to be a Colorado resident on your first day of employment.
SALARY: $55,754 - $63,465 annually. Please see our Full-Time Faculty Salary Matrix for more specific information.
SELECTION PROCESS: Position will remain open until filled with a priority deadline of March 21, 2023. This posting may be used to fill multiple or similar roles.
Preliminary screening will be made on the basis of completed application package submitted by candidate. Completed application package includes: A resume; A letter of interest that specifically addresses the Who You Are section above; A copy of official transcripts; A one-page statement of your teaching philosophy; and A list of courses and the semesters you have taught.
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Required Education/Training & Work Experience:
- Master’s degree in one of the related degrees listed below. Also allowed, a master's degree in any field, plus 18 graduate credits in one of the related degrees listed below.
Related Degrees: Communication, Communication & Rhetoric, Communication Studies, Human Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Mass Communication, Organizational Communication, Public Communication, Speech Communication, Journalism, or another relevant degree per transcript review.
Preferred Education/Training & Work Experience:
- Two years, full-time equivalent of teaching at the postsecondary level
- Online teaching experience
- Community college teaching experience
- Demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion efforts in education or community work
Welcoming. Respectful. Inclusive. Together, we are FRCC.