Las Positas College

Livermore, CA

PT Instructor, Horticulture

Salary: $2,075.12/CAH - $2,322.27/CAH

https://www.clpccd.org/hr/files/docs/salary/FacultySalarySchedule07012024.pdf

Start Date: Spring 2025

Closing Date: Open Until Filled

Location: Las Positas College, 3000 Campus Hill Dr., Livermore, CA 94551

Job Summary

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District is seeking a PT Instructor, Horticulture for Las Positas College. Applicants will be expected to provide instruction in landscape and turfgrass management. This is a CTE course. (Career and Technical Education program, which prepares students for skilled trades in a wide range of occupations.)

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Develop lesson plan in subject as well as plan lab activities

2. Provide consistent interaction with students in class as well as on Canvas;

3. Give lecture and lab once weekly for 18-week semester (in person);

4. Assign quizzes and projects to students throughout the semester;

5. Test knowledge with midterm and final exams.

Lecture-

1. Identification of botanical classification of turfgrass species and varieties;

2. Techniques of ornamental lawn and sports turf installation, maintenance and renovation;

3. Basic techniques for care and pruning of trees, shrubs, ground covers and perennial landscape plants;

4. Basic principles of irrigation system operation;

5. Basic principles of fertilizer and horticulture chemical applications;

6. Maintenance industry standards and business practices;

7. Alternatives to traditional turfgrass, such as no-mow turf, meadows, and artificial turf.

Lab-

1. Training in safe and effective operation of turf and landscape equipment;

2. Practice in operating a variety of powered and non-powered tools used in the landscape industry;

3. On and off campus study trips to examine standards of turf and landscape standards, and how they are applied;

4. Participation in various project activities related to turf and landscape management.

Course Objectives:

1. Give examples of suitable turfgrass species and varieties for sports turf and ornamental lawn uses;

2. Describe the steps that should be taken when installing, maintaining or renovating turfgrass;

3. Demonstrate methods of basic care and pruning needed to care for trees, shrubs, ground covers and perennials;

4. Organize a complex irrigation program and list elements of a standard irrigation maintenance check;

5. Select the correct fertilizers and horticulture chemicals used in various turf and landscape situations and demonstrate understanding of the safe and legal way to apply them;

6. Identify sound maintenance standards and business practices used in the landscape industry.

Minimum Qualifications:

Any bachelor’s degree or higher and two years of professional experience, or any associate degree and six years of professional experience.

Evidence of understanding of and responsiveness to the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, racial and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, as these factors relate to the need for equity-minded practices within the classroom.

Applicants applying under the “Equivalent” provision must provide details that explain at time of application how their academic preparation is the equivalent of the degree listed above.

Desirable Qualifications:

1. Work experience in landscape and turfgrass management, and/or prior teaching experience in subject.

Physical Demands and Working Environment:

Individuals with disabilities who are unable to carry out the physical activities of the position will receive reasonable accommodations to enable them to perform the essential functions of the positions.

Notification to Applicants:

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District reserves the right to close or not fill any advertised position.

TO APPLY, please send the following application materials to the contact listed below:

1. Cover Letter

2. Resume

3. College Transcripts (Unofficial copies accepted for application purposes; however, official copies must be submitted if hired.) Any degrees earned outside of the United States must have a U.S. evaluation (course by course) of the transcripts and must be submitted with the application. (Please use https://www.naces.org/members to obtain evaluations.

4. PT Faculty Application (Application procedures also included below.)

https://clpccd.org/hr/files/docs/hiringpkt/1.PTFacApp.pdf

https://www.clpccd.org/hr/files/docs/hiringpkt/PTFacAppProcedures.pdf

Name: Laura Cornett

Email: lcornett@laspositascollege.edu

Phone: 925 424-1000, ext 2959

Department: Horticulture

Special Instructions to Applicants:

The Board of Trustees has updated Board Policy 7330 to incorporate information on COVID vaccination requirements, which are currently suspended. Accordingly, employee(s) must comply with the Board Policy found at: http://districtazure.clpccd.org/policies/files/docs/BP7330.pdf.

It is the policy of this District to provide equal opportunity in all areas of employment practices and to assure that there shall be no discrimination against any person on the basis of sex, ancestry, age, marital status, race, religious creed, mental disability, medical condition (including HIV and AIDS), color, national origin, physical disability, family or sexual preference status and other similar factors in compliance with Title IX, Sections 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, other federal and state non-discrimination regulations, and its own statements of philosophy of objectives. The District encourages the filing of applications by both sexes, ethnic minorities, and the disabled.

Joining Our College Community

We seek equity-minded applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits diversity brings to an educational community.

We look for applicants who:

1. Value and intentionally promote diversity and consciousness of difference

2. Demonstrate cultural humility and an ongoing desire to improve cultural competence

3. Are dedicated to addressing issues of social justice

4. Accept their shared role and responsibility in addressing opportunity and achievement gaps experienced by students

5. Have experience and success in closing student equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices, or are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about implementing practices that achieve these goals

6. Actively seek to identify, disrupt, and remove institutional and/or systemic barriers that adversely impact historically marginalized communities

7. Empower the underrepresented and underserved

8. Foster students’ potential to become global citizens and socially responsible leaders

9. Believe that all people have the right to an education and work environment free from fear, harassment, or discrimination.

Job Details

PT Instructor Horticulture

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