Adjunct Instructor for Psychology -SCTC

Intra-Department (Only Current Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College Employees and SCIT Members May Apply)

Posting: 8/11/25-8/17/25

1st Shift Monday-Friday 

Starting Wage: $21.10 an hour exempt 

Position Summary:

Under the supervision of the Dean of Instruction, responsible for the preparation, presentation, and evaluation of classroom instruction and related activities during the day, evening, or weekend. At a minimum, the related activities include instruction, instructional counseling, and academic advising. SCTC values a highly collegial and caring academic environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide excellent customer and student service for all internal and external customers of the operations at all times. Provide solutions for customer and student concerns and continually focus on customer and student service as our top priority.
• Coordinate, plan, organize, and instruct courses in the day, evening, or on weekends as assigned in designated discipline.
• Keep active, at a high level of expertise, in the subjects taught and stimulate enthusiasm for those subjects.
• Ensure that each program or class contains essential curricular components, has appropriate discipline content and pedagogy, and maintains currency.
• Teach all classes according to an approved course syllabus.
• Keep students informed and updated concerning course content, requirements, evaluation, procedures, and attendance requirements.
• Keep students informed about their progress through the prompt grading of papers and other work.
• Provide students with a mid-term progress report.
• Maintain accurate and complete scholastic records, including attendance records.
• Submit Failure to Report, Early Warning, Notification of Unofficial Withdrawal, and other documentation when appropriate.
• File an appropriate course syllabus for each course taught with the Dean of Instruction's office.
• Conduct class evaluations, and complete other college evaluations in accordance with college policy.
• Ensure that assigned classes are held as scheduled.
• Hold the final exam at the time scheduled in the college's semester schedule, unless permission to deviate has been approved by the Dean of Instruction.
• Make use of available college online resources (home page, office hour posting, syllabi posting, grade book, Instructional Policy Manual, etc.).
• Participate in program and curriculum review and development and student learning outcomes initiatives.
• Plan each unit or lesson, as to both content and method, to make each class minute meaningful.
• Organize each course taught into an effective instrument of learning.
• Study and utilize students' learning styles in each class in order to facilitate the best teaching and learning situations.
• Incorporate instructional technologies in instructional delivery.
• Maximize the learning opportunities for each student.
• Keep informed of current trends and new approaches to instruction via professional development activities.
• Demonstrate a genuine concern for each student through personal conferences.
• Serve as an academic advisor to assigned students.
• Post and maintain office hours for student consultations.
• Strive for the qualities delineated in the criteria for faculty evaluation used by the college.
• Refer students to student services as needed.
• Submit required reports to the appropriate college personnel.
• Become thoroughly familiar with all college policies and procedures, and comply with all college policies and procedures.
• Maintain strict confidentiality and present a positive, professional demeanor and image at all times.
• Complete ongoing scholarly activity and professional development, engagement with students inside and outside the classroom, collegial activity with peers and involvement with the college governance processes.
• The above duties and responsibilities are not an all-inclusive list but rather a general representation of the duties and responsibilities associated with this position. The duties and responsibilities will be subject to change based on organizational needs and/or deemed necessary by the supervisor.

Contacts/Purpose of Contacts:

• Contact is primarily with faculty and college staff on a daily basis.
• Considerable contact is with college students.
• Some external contact with associates of the college is required.

 Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's degree required in identified discipline.
• Must be able