Spring 2025 Adjunct Faculty COUN 714-01: Social Justice in Higher Education; Theory, Practice and Research
Location: Moraga, CA
Open Date: Nov 19, 2024
Deadline:
Description:Per course adjunct faculty for the Counseling program's course, COUN 714-01.
Founded in 1863, Saint Mary's is a residential campus nestled 20 miles east of San Francisco in the picturesque Moraga Valley. Based in the Catholic, Lasallian and Liberal Arts traditions, Saint Mary's currently enrolls more than 4,000 students from diverse backgrounds in undergraduate and graduate programs. The De La Salle Christian Brothers, the largest teaching order of the Roman Catholic Church, guide the spiritual and academic character of the College.
As a comprehensive and independent institution, Saint Mary's offers undergraduate and graduate programs integrating liberal and professional education. Saint Mary's reputation for excellence, innovation, and responsiveness in education stems from its vibrant heritage as a Catholic, Lasallian and Liberal Arts institution. An outstanding, committed faculty and staff that value shared inquiry, integrative learning, and student interaction bring these traditions to life in the 21st century. The College is committed to the educational benefits of diversity.
Qualifications:
Counseling 714: Social Justice in Higher Education: Theory, Practice, and Research 3 Units
This course builds upon the introductory college student services course (COUN 242) to provide students with an advanced understanding of the field of student affairs. The course is intended to assist students to develop an understanding of governance and organizational structure of institutions of higher education, while introducing students to the need for leadership and social justice advocacy in higher education.
The course examines the historical, theoretical, and functional foundations of student affairs in the context of leadership and equity in higher educational institutional settings. This course aims to develop and build upon counselors' working knowledge of first generation and diverse client/student populations in order to promote culturally relevant and appropriate student affairs professional leadership development and to advance an understanding of how student services can impact and promote social justice advocacy. Special attention is paid to social justice issues in education, specifically in higher education settings.
A. Students will be oriented to conceive of themselves as student affairs professionals and future leaders whose lens is enhanced by attention to equity and inclusion. This will be assessed through classroom discussions, activities, assignments, reading responses, and group projects.
B. Students will gain knowledge about the multilayered impact that higher education professionals can make on students and on the institution by better understanding the importance of equity-based services offered to diverse groups of students in colleges and university settings. This will be assessed through classroom discussions, activities, assignments, reading responses, and group projects.
C. Students will investigate social justice issues within higher education and begin to create and/or continue to develop a professional identity committed to issues of social justice, professional ethics, and enhancement of the student affairs profession. This will be assessed through classroom discussions, activities, assignments, reading responses, the Program Evaluation Project, and the Diversity and Inclusion Exploration Project.
D. Students will learn how to integrate intercultural counseling, leadership, and organizational theory, research, and their counseling skills to begin to demonstrate leadership within academic, personal, and career counseling needs of college students. This will be assessed through classroom discussions, activities, assignments, reading responses, and the Program Evaluation Project.
E. Students will begin to demonstrate intercultural observational and counseling/advising skills appropriate to the diverse needs of college students. This will be assessed through classroom engagement and discussions.
F. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the historical and newly emerging psychosocial issues faced by diverse groups of college students as a result of inequity and injustice in the development of higher education models. This will be assessed through classroom discussions, activities, assignments, reading responses, the Program Evaluation Project and the Diversity and Inclusion Plan Exploration project.
G. Students will gain an understanding of student learning outcome development and assessment in college student affairs, and how those models must include an equity-based lens. This will be assessed through course discussions, reading responses, and the Program Evaluation Project.
Required Qualifications:
● Candidates must have an M.S. or M.A. in the relevant area of Counseling, Psychology or Higher Education.
● A minimum of 2 year's experience working in a higher education setting as a student affairs professional in areas devoted to multicultural services is required.
● Candidates must have taught at the graduate level for at least 2 years, and have demonstrated evidence of multicultural and social justice employment and/or research experience.
● A demonstrated commitment to teaching excellence, multicultural/international competence, social justice, clinical expertise, and familiarity with counseling & psychological theory and practice.
Preferred Qualifications:
● A Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration, Counseling or Psychology is highly desirable.
● An Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration is also highly desirable.
● A successful record of teaching experience at the graduate level.
● Current license in Marriage & Family Therapy, Professional Clinical Counseling, or Psychology.
Must be a California resident.
To apply, visit https://apply.interfolio.com/159592

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