Adjunct, Earth & Environmental Science

About This Role

This adjunct faculty position involves working with full-time faculty and the Associate Dean to deliver instruction, design content, and evaluate students in GeoScience courses. It is a pooled position, with applications reviewed as roles become available.

Responsibilities

• Become familiar with and abide by all college policies, especially those governing interactions with colleagues, staff, administrators, and departments
• Maintain professional etiquette in communications with students, staff, faculty, and administrators
• Provide appropriate and timely feedback for all assignments
• Return graded assignments in a timely fashion per department standards
• Maintain student attendance records (for Financial Aid purposes) and grades
• Conduct a variety of appropriate evaluations of student performance
• Inform students of progress-to-date periodically and assign and submit grades by published deadlines
• Assist in maintaining a safe and mutually respectful instructional environment
• Prepare and submit incident reports to the Dean of Student Services for inappropriate student behavior as defined by the Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities Policy
• Maintain professional and collegial behavior
• Handle/respond to student concerns/complaints and respond to student communications and inquiries promptly (generally within 1-2 days)
• Maintain professional appearance as defined by the discipline and/or College procedure
• Complete all required employee trainings
• Know and enforce FERPA guidelines
• Provide ADA accommodations as requested
• Communicate effectively with a broad range of diverse people, culture, ethnic background, and abilities, to maintain good working relationships across the College
• Work with all groups in a diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic background of community college students, faculty and staff, including those with disabilities

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in Geography, Geology, Meteorology, GIS or a closely related field with an emphasis in Earth & Environmental Sciences related to the course being taught
• Authorized to work in the United States
• Maintain a permanent residence within the State of Utah as a condition of employment; new employees must provide a valid Utah residential address within 30 days of their start date
• Maintain professional boundaries with all SLCC students

Nice to have:

• Prior experience teaching college-level Earth & Environmental Science courses

Important Details

• Contract: adjunct, semester-by-semester basis with no guarantee of continued employment; employment may be terminated at will at any time