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HR: Adjunct Faculty

Adjunct Faculty Applicant:
Thank you for your interest in teaching part-time with the Maricopa Community College District. Each college hires its own adjuncts. Applications may be obtained and submitted in various ways:

Transcripts: Official transcripts are not necessary during the application process, but will be required at the time of employment. In lieu of transcripts, all adjunct faculty are required to complete the Course Completion Form (rtf) and submit the form along with each application.

Transcripts from non U.S. institutions must be translated/evaluated (click here for instructions).

Salary: The rate of pay for Adjunct Faculty for the 2008-2009 Academic Year is $804.00 per load hour. In general, though not always, the load hours of a course are the same as the credit hours of the course. The maximum teaching load for Adjunct Faculty is nine (9.0) load hours per semester. This is a district wide limit (i.e., if you are teaching six load hours at one college, you may only teach three more at another college for a total of nine in the District).

Employment checks:  MCCCD is required by Arizona law to participate in the Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program.  All new employees will be checked to see if they are eligible to work in the U.S.

Please Note: MCCCD does not sponsor individuals for any type of work visas.

MCCCD Teaching Requirements
The State of Arizona no longer requires a certificate to teach at the community college level. However, the State has asked each County to establish its own minimum qualifications. Maricopa Community College District has adopted the following minimum qualifications for faculty:

Minimum Requirements
for Academic Areas		 Minimum Requirements
for Occupational Areas

Academic Teaching Fields require the following from an accredited college or university:

  • a masters degree in the teaching field, or ·
  • a master's in any teaching field with 24 upper division and/or graduate semester hours in the teaching
    field, or ·
  • master's in any teaching field with 18 graduate semester hours in the teaching field. ·
  • EDU 250 - Teaching and Learning in the Community College- or equivalent must be completed within two years of date of hire.

Occupational Teaching Fields require the following from an accredited college or university:

  • the same qualifications as those listed for Academic Teaching Fields, or
  • a bachelor's degree plus 3 years work experience in field to be taught, or
  • an associate's degree or 64 semester hours and 5 years work experience in the field to be taught, or · 5 years work experience in the field to be taught.
  • EDU 250 - Teaching and Learning in the Community College-or equivalent must be completed within two years of date of hire.

Please note that the following disciplines have minimum requirements exceptions. See special minimum requirements by discipline as described below:

ANTHROPOLOGY: A minimum of a master's degree in Anthropology.

CLINICAL NURSING: To apply for Clinical Nursing, click here
A Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree plus 3 years work experience in specialty to be taught, must be able to obtain a current and valid Arizona RN license; must be able to meet health requirements regarding immunizations and titers; must be able to obtain CPR certification for Health Care Provider and Fingerprint Clearance Card.

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Please note that individuals hired as Computer Science faculty must have at least twenty (20) semester hours of graduate credit in Computer Science in order to obtain appointive status. If 20 graduate hours in Computer Science cannot be validated, then a program must be developed in concert with the individual, the department chair, and the appropriate dean to remove the deficiency during the usual probationary period, i.e., before appointive status can be recommended.

COUNSELOR: Master's degree with an emphasis in guidance/counseling from an accredited college or university and have completed at least twenty-four (24) semester or 36 quarter hours of graduate work including the following: 1. Counseling Theory and Techniques 2. Personality Theories or Development 3. Testing Theories and Applications 4. Group Counseling Theories and Techniques 5. Career Counseling Theories and Resources 6. Individual Assessment (a course that teaches how to prepare an individual assessment or appraisal from test data, transcripts, and other educational and personal data) 7. Practicum, supervised Practice, or Internship in Counseling. Must have completed either a Practicum,Supervised Practice, or an Internship in counseling (applicants for counseling positions are strongly encouraged to include course descriptions from the university's catalog for the aforementioned seven courses). A counselor may be hired if he/she has completed coursework in at least five (5) of the first six (6) above areas and has the required twenty-four (24) semester or 36 quarter hours of graduate work. If the counselor is deficient in an area 1 through 6, the deficiency shall be removed within one year of the date of hire. Area seven (7) must be completed before the date of hire.

ELECTRONICS: Must have a minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in the field to be taught or closely related field and at least (3) three years of directly related occupational experience and skill in the field to be taught.

HUMANITIES:

* Humanities fields:
Anthropology,
Art,
Art History,
Classics,
Dance,
English Language and Literature,
Film,
Humanities,
Modern Languages and Literature,
Music,
Philosophy,
Religious Studies,
Romance Languages and Literature,
Theater.

LIBRARIAN: Master's degree in Library or Information Science (or its equivalent) from a graduate professional program accredited by the American Library Association.

MATHEMATICS: Master's in any teaching field with 24 upper division and/or graduate semester hours with Math or Statistics and Probability prefixes, or master's in any teaching field with 18 graduate semester hours with Math or Statistics and Probability prefixes, or a master's in mathematics. Note: A maximum of 9 upper division/graduate semester hours in math education or math content areas with physics or engineering prefixes may be counted toward the 24 at the discretion of the math department/division chair.

Please note: If selected for a Residential Faculty position, in order to reach appointive status, 21 graduate semester hours in MAT or STP prefixes must be obtained. If 21 hours of graduate credit cannot be validated at the time of hire, a program must be developed in concert with the individual involved, the department chair, and the appropriate dean to remove the deficiency during the probationary period. Note: A maximum of 6 semester graduate hours of math education may be counted toward the 21 hours at the discretion of the department/division chair.

NUCLEAR MEDICINE TECHNOLOGY: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with at least three (3) years of directly-related occupational experience and skill in the field to be taught, OR Associate's degree or at least sixty-four (64) semester hours from an accredited college or university and, in addition, at least five (5) years of directly related occupational experience in the field to be taught, OR Master's degree or higher earned degree from an accredited college or university with at least twenty-four (24) semester or thirty-six (36) quarter hours of upper division and/or graduate credit in the field to be taught. NMTCB Certification.

NURSING: Please see the requirements
for CLINICAL NURSING above.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION:

RELIGIOUS STUDIES:

  1. The candidate must have either:
    a. a master's degree in Religious Studies or

    b. a master's degree in any teaching field with 24 upper division and/or graduate semester hours in Religious Studies or courses that relate to the development of religion and religiious history within such fields as Philosophy, Theology, Anthropology, History, or Sociology.

  2. The candidate must have evidence of knowledge of diverse religious traditions. Knowledge of diverse religious traditions is defined as a working knowledge of at least five of the following: a) Hinduism, b) Buddhism, c) Taoism or Confucianism, d) Judaism, e) Christianity, f) Islam, g) African traditions, h) Asian/Pacific traditions, i) North American Indian traditions. Knowledge of at least five of these diverse religious traditions must be demonstrated in any one or more of the following ways:

    a. upper division and/or graduate course work at a regionally accredited college or university to include 3 comparative courses (at least 9 semester credits) or 9 semester credits in Non-Western Religions and 9 semester credits in Western Religions and/or

    b. previous teaching experience at a regionally accredited college or university which could be 4 courses of one religion or 4 courses of comparative religion* *(Mysticism, Comparative Religion, Women and Religion and Comparative Ritual) and/or

    c. publishing at least one article or chapter in religion through academically peer reviewed journals or standard academic publishing companies (for example: McGraw-Hill, Prentice-Hall.)

All applicants must complete the Religious Studies Completion form and submit it along with the application. Please click here for the Religious Studies Completion form.

STORYTELLING: Masters Degree in Storytelling or Masters Degree in any area plus three credits of coursework in storytelling.