Full-time Tenure-track Astronomy Teaching Job

Foothill College, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, has a full-time, tenure-track astronomy instructor position available beginning fall 2017.  Foothill is an award-winning community college with over 15,000 students during the day and evening. It has a small campus observatory operated by the local amateur astronomy club. The job involves teaching introductory courses and labs for non-science majors; there are separate courses on planetary science/astrobiology and on stars/galaxies/cosmology. Faculty also have a number of opportunities for campus and community outreach. The position is the only full-time astronomer at the college, although several part-time instructors teach as well.

Foothill College is committed to student success for all learners and candidates should be proficient with a range of effective pedagogical practices; they should also be committed to helping to build a culturally diverse learning environment.  Candidates should have an enthusiasm for teaching at the introductory astronomy level, a familiarity with astronomy education research and its implications for student success, and experience teaching non-science majors.

Foothill offers some of the highest salaries in community-college teaching and an excellent program of benefits.  Placement on the salary schedule depends on the candidate’s highest educational level and previous experience.  This is a ten months per year, quarter-system position.  Summer teaching is optional and outside the ten-month salary.

Please use the Foothill-DeAnza District web page for this job to apply; do not email applications.  The deadline is January 17, 2017; questions can be sent to Andrew Fraknoi at: [email protected]