1. 1. Understands the importance of holding ourselves accountable as educators for closing equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices;
   2.  Reframes inequities as a problem of practice and views the elimination of inequities as an individual and collective responsibility;
   3. Encourages positive race-consciousness and embraces human difference;
   4. Reflects on institutional and teaching practices and aims to create a culturally responsive teaching environment; and
   5. Strategically builds buy-in and participation among colleagues for equity-related initiatives.

 

• Counseling with broad range of community college counseling services, including career and educational planning, orientation, transfer, veteran services, student recruitment, and personal counseling; 
• Instruction in counseling classes for job preparation, career planning, study skills, transfer preparation, or group dynamics; 
• Assignment also includes multimedia classroom presentations and advising, large group presentations, implementing retention strategies, integrating technology into counseling
  functions, working with students and faculty members and other counselors; 
• Participate in the implementation of student success strategies; 
• Involvement in committee work & strategic planning efforts; 
• Implementation of student learning outcomes; 
• Perform other established duties and responsibilities of counselors;
• Assume such other duties as may be assigned by the Dean of Student Services; 
• Duties may include extended day, evening and Saturday hours and assignments.

• • Master’s in counseling, rehabilitation counseling, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, guidance counseling, educational counseling, social work, career development, marriage and family therapy or marriage, family and child counseling, 

 

• The equivalent education and/or experience (requires an equivalency). 

• Experience and skill incorporating elements of diversity, equity, and inclusion into all areas of responsibility; 
• Recent experience working with African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Latinx, Native American, and other racially minoritized students in the classroom and an understanding of how historical patterns of exclusion of these groups in higher education shape patterns of participation and outcomes; 
• Willingness to examine and remediate one’s instructional, relational, and classroom practices to more effectively engage and support racially minoritized students; 
• Experience working with a diverse student population; 
• Related work and professional experience; 
• Experience working with students of various cultural, gender, age, socioeconomic, and ethnic backgrounds, including disabled students; 
• Experience working with Early Alert programs;
• Experience developing Student Educational Plans (SEPs);
• Experience in conducting workshops and teaching courses in career and personal development;
• Knowledge of California Community Colleges matriculation processes;
• Knowledge and experience interpreting and utilizing articulation agreements and transfer requirements for community college students;
• Experience in using and interpreting a variety of career assessment tools;
• Experience working with high school partners; 
• Experience working with instructional faculty and staff to monitor dual enrollment courses.

• • We embrace diversity and serve all students of the community;
  • We believe education is based on integrity, generosity, and accountability;
  • We foster critical, creative, and engaged thinking;
  • We support student success by preparing students for their futures and for the community’s future through career/technical certificates, degrees, and transfer programs;
  • We cultivate community partnerships to enhance student learning and success;
  • We engage in reflective, data-drive cycles of research and innovation focused on learning and student outcomes.
    
    

 

• Selected Top 10 Finalist for the National Bellwether Award in 2018, out of nearly 400 nominations submitted nationwide, for our English Department’s collaboration with Clovis West High School;
• Awarded “Champion for Higher Education,” for exemplary work in awarding associate degrees for transfer for three years in a row, 2018, 2019, and 2020, by the Campaign for College Opportunity; and
• Earned the following rankings out of 116 California Community Colleges (Data source: UC/CSU Transfer and Units Accumulated Data Source – California Community College’s Student Success Metrics; AD-T’s Earned Data Source – Campaign for College Opportunity).
  • #1 for the number of transfer students to UCs and CSUs (per 1,000 students) in 2017-18;
  • #1 in Associate Degrees for Transfers earned (per 50 FTES) in 2018-19; and
  • #2 in Associate Degrees earned with the fewest units accumulated by students 2018-19.