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Job Description:
Oakton Community College, a caring community of educators dedicated to excellence in teaching and learning, seeks Speech faculty to join our College. Applicants must be strong communicators and effective classroom facilitators who enjoy teaching in a student-centered environment.
Oakton especially values candidates committed to working in a culturally competent environment.
We encourage applications from candidates who reflect the increasing diversity of Oakton's student body and community, who will enhance and promote engagement with other cultures, and have a demonstrated commitment to working with and as part of a multicultural faculty and diverse student body and community.
Located 17 miles from downtown Chicago, Oakton serves northern Cook County with campuses in Des Plaines and Skokie, Illinois.
Oakton has openings beginning in August 2010 for Speech faculty to teach Effective Speech during days or evenings at our Des Plaines and Skokie campuses. Effective Speech offers opportunities to develop capability in oral communications with emphasis on organization of ideas and general speaking effectiveness; individual and group techniques are included. Emphasis is given to practical experience as well as rhetorical theory.
Part-time faculty are hired on a semester-by-semester basis. A reasonable effort is made to assure the assignment of courses to more senior part-time faculty who are fully qualified by virtue of their education, training, work experience as related to current technology and pedagogical techniques, and who have had a history of successful performance at Oakton Community College.
All assignments are conditioned on sufficient enrollment. Once a course starts, the part time faculty member is expected to complete the course.
Requirements:
A master's degree in Speech or Communications. Prior college teaching experience preferred.
Additional Information:
Part-time faculty hires and assignments are coordinated by the department chairs. Contact Denis Berkson at 847.635.1870 or dberkson@oakton.edu for more information.
Part-time faculty are paid on a basis called lecture hour equivalents (LHE). For most courses, the LHE is the same as a credit hour. For others, the LHE represents the additional work for teaching the class, such as grading papers for Composition classes or teaching a class with a laboratory section (computers, languages, and the sciences); in those cases, the LHE represents a figure higher than the credit hour. All part-time faculty start at the beginning pay rates, regardless of the level and type of experience obtained elsewhere. Those rates are $842/LHE for those without doctorates and $874/LHE for those with doctorates.
Part-time faculty advance one step within the salary schedule with the successful completion of two fall and spring semesters where 3 or more credit hours are taught in each semester.
Application Instructions:
Required documents for a complete application file include an application, cover letter, resume/cv, official transcripts for all degrees earned, and 2 original, signed recommendation letters or college placement/credential file. Interested applicants must submit their application, cover letter and resume/cv on the Oakton website. Please indicate the position code (PTSPE-11) on the cover letter. Electronic submissions of transcripts and letters of recommendation are acceptable. Official transcripts and original letters of recommendation are required prior to appointment. Transcripts and recommendation letters or placement/credential file should be mailed to: Faculty Search PTSPE-11, c/o Department of Human Resources, Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf Rd., Des Plaines, IL 60016.
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