2025-26 Lecturer Pool Department of Art and Art History
2025-26 Lecturer Pool Department of Art and Art History
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Job Description
Our Commitment to Equity Diversity and Inclusion:
California State University (CSU) Chico is a comprehensive and residential public university holding HispanicServing Institution (HSI) designation. Chico State operates as part of the 22campus CSU system which educates the most ethnically economically and academically diverse student body in the nation. The University enrolls over 14000 students with over half identifying as firstgeneration college students.
Chico State is committed to recruiting outstanding candidates. The ideal candidate will embrace our values predicated on the primacy of student success and the elimination of equity gaps have demonstrated experience working with diverse populations and will contribute to policies programs and practices that support an inclusive accessible and equitable learning and working environment. Black Indigenous People of Color veterans and those with bilingual and/or diverse abilities are encouraged to apply.
Position Title: Academic Year Lecturer
College: Humanities and Fine Arts
Department/School: Art and Art History
Salary:
Lecturer A/2 FullTime Equivalent Salary Range: $5507 $6677 per month
Lecturer B/3 FullTime Equivalent Salary Range: $6221 $13224 per month
Lecturer C/4 FullTime Equivalent Salary Range: $6825 $14523 per month
Lecturer D/5 FullTime Equivalent Salary Range: $8593 $15211 per month
Anticipated hiring range is generally at or near the minimum of the appropriate range commensurate with education and experience. Most new lecturers are hired at the Lecturer A or B rank. See the Faculty Salaries AtaGlance guide for more information.
Priority Review Date: 5/5/25; complete applications received after that date may be considered as needs arise.
Position Summary:
The Department of Art and Art History in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts is collecting application materials for a pool of lecturers with positions available as determined by need during the 202526 academic year. We are primarily looking for instructors to teach inperson courses. Appointments from the lecturer pool are temporary and often made just prior to the start of the academic term.
Minimum Qualifications:
The minimum education requirement for a lecturer appointment is a degree in a relevant field (preferably a terminal degree).
Preferred Qualifications:
A terminal degree in a relevant field. Relevant experience such as: previous teaching experience especially with diverse groups of students; professional credentials experience and licenses; additional relevant abilities and specializations. Bilingual candidates will be given preference.
Responsibilities:
Lecturers will teach one or more sections of courses for which the Department Personnel Committee deems them qualified. Teaching assignments are based upon qualifications of the individual and the needs of the department.
How to Apply:
Applicants must provide a current cover letter (including how you have addressed or plan to address teaching to diverse student groups) a CV a list of courses you believe you are qualified to teach and for which you wish to be considered a copy of unofficial transcripts for your highest earned degree and contact information of three professional references. Additional information may be requested at a later time. All applicants must apply online applications submitted via email or inperson to the department will not be considered. For information about specific courses offered please refer to the University Catalog.
The Department:
The Department of Art and Art History is NASAD accredited. The Department offers BA options in Art Education Art History and Art Studio; and a BFA program with options in Art Studio and Interior Architecture. An MA is offered in Art History. The Department of Art and Art History faculty members are a dedicated group of artists and scholars deeply involved in art pedagogy and in bringing our work out of the classroom into our communities. Our students reflect the campuss Diversity Equity and Inclusion. They push boundaries and produce reflective work for our galleries and other public venues that engage with contemporary issues. We have twelve fulltime faculty a large pool of parttime faculty and five staff. The studio areas are well equipped with labs for ceramics drawing digital media glass painting photography printmaking and sculpture. Art History has strengths in Mesoamerican Medieval and Modern with specialists in postcolonial and critical race studies feminism and gender studies structuralism and semiotics. Art Education has strengths in Cultural Diversity in Art Education and Pop Culture. The Ira Latour Visual Resources Center is an awardwinning learning/teaching center that houses an extensive collection of books periodicals videos and digital images. Other important teaching resources include the Hopper Visiting Artists series and the Jacki Headley University Art Gallery which presents exhibitions of regional and nationallybased artists. The Janet Turner Print Museum produces exhibitions and maintains an extensive permanent study collection of over 4000 prints from more than forty countries. Chico is a town with a vibrant arts community. It is located three hours north of the Bay Area and one and a half hours north of Sacramento offering easy access to major art activity. For more information visit our website: Art & Art History Department
Jobrelated questions should be directed to:
Rachel Middleman Department Chair
Ayres 885
Benefits Information:
This position may qualify for benefits including tuition fee waiver (if eligible). California State University Chico offers a number of benefits to its employees (e.g. sick leave vacation health insurance). For more information and eligibility criteria please visit Information:
All work must be performed within the State of California.
A background check (including a criminal records check) must be completed satisfactorily before any candidate can be offered a position with the CSU. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the application status of applicants or continued employment of current CSU employees who apply for the position.
The person holding this position is considered a mandated reporter under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and is required to comply with the requirements set forth in CSU Executive Order 1083 (revised July 21 2017 as a condition of employment.
For disabilityrelated accommodations please call the ADA Coordinator at.
All positions are contingent on funding.
About Chico State:
Graduate and undergraduate programs boast highquality research experiences exceptional faculty mentoring and civic and global engagement opportunities. The campus motto Today Decides Tomorrow is brought to life by inclusive pedagogy experiential learning and cocurricular programming. The Chico Experience prepares students to be critical thinkers engaged citizens and inspired stewards of environmental social and economic resources. Together they will become leaders solving the challenges of the 21st century.
The campus is located in Northern California 90 minutes from the state capital Sacramento and a threehour drive from the San Francisco Bay Area. Chico offers yearround natural beauty outdoor leisure activities and a thriving arts music and events scene. We acknowledge and are mindful that Chico State stands on lands that were originally occupied by the first people of this area the Mechoopda and we recognize their distinctive spiritual relationship with this land the flora the fauna and the waters that run through campus. We are humbled that our campus resides upon sacred lands that since time immemorial have sustained the Mechoopda people and continue to do so today.
Chico State is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider qualified applicants for employment without regard to race religion color national origin ancestry age sex gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation genetic information medical condition disability marital status or protected veteran status and only employ individuals authorized to work in the U.S.
CSU Chicos Annual Security Report includes summaries of institutional policy relating to campus safety drug and alcohol use sexual and other matters. The report is published in compliance with the Clery Act and includes three years of certain crime statistics that occurred in Clery Act defined geography. A paper copy of the report may be requested in person at CSU Chico Police Department or by calling . It is also available on the web at Annual Security & Fire Safety Report.
Employment Type
Temp
