Assistant Professor of MM/ET- Department of Special Education #25-30

Tenure-Track Faculty Position Announcement

Department: Special Education

Faculty Hire Number: #25-30

Rank: Assistant Professor

Effective Date of Appointment: August 20, 2025 (Subject to Budgetary Approval)

Salary Scale: $80,004 to $84,000 (Dependent upon qualifications)

CSUN’s Commitment to You:

CSUN is committed to achieving excellence through teaching, scholarship, learning and inclusion. Our values include a respect for all people, building partnerships with the community and the encouragement of innovation, experimentation, and creativity. CSUN strives to cultivate a community in which a diverse population can learn and work in an atmosphere of civility and respect. CSUN is especially interested in candidates who make contributions to equity and inclusion in the pursuit of excellence for all members of the university community.

As a Hispanic-serving Institution (HSI), inclusiveness and diversity are integral to CSUN’s commitment to excellence in teaching, research, and engagement. As of Fall 2024, CSUN enrolls 36,848 students, where 56.3% are Latinx, 18.9% are White, 8.7% are Asian-American, 5.3% are Black/African American, 0.1% are Native American, and 0.1% are Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.

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About the College:

For information about the Michael D. Eisner College of Education, see: https://www.csun.edu/eisner-education

About the Department:

The Special Education Department at CSUN is committed to preparing educators who advocate for and provide service to students with all levels of support needs.  Our program strives to dismantle systems that categorize, segregate, or limit student expectations on the basis of perceived disability label, level of support need, assumptions about language access or cultural/linguistic background, with special attention to multiply-marginalized students. In this way, we prepare educators to be strength-based service providers and advocates who focus on adaptation of the learning environment and materials to meet the support needs of each student and their family.

For more information about the Department of Special Education, see: https://www.csun.edu/eisner-education/special-education

Position:

The department of Special Education at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) is seeking a tenure-track faculty member in Mild/Moderate to Extensive Support Needs (MMESN) at the rank of Assistant Professor with background and qualifications for Educational Therapy (ET).

The successful candidate will teach Special Education teacher preparation and Master’s Degree and certification courses in the Special Education department including Educational Therapy courses. The typical teaching assignment is 12 units each semester, plus student advisement, and committee assignments. The successful candidate may be required to teach on weekdays, evenings, weekends, and/or online and will be held to the standards and requirements of the college and department in which they are housed for recommending tenure and promotion. Tenure Track faculty are eligible for a reduced load of 3 units (equivalent to one class) each semester during the first two years of teaching. Opportunities for reassigned time and other projects are also available.

In addition to teaching, the position requires advisement, weekly office hours, attending faculty meetings, service to the department, college, university, and maintaining research and scholarly activities. The position also includes collaboration with the Special Education Department faculty on matters of recruitment, enrollment and admissions; collaboratively coordinating the Educational Therapy program; overseeing the Educational Therapy Internship experience; and supervising students in school-based, clinical, and virtual settings. We value candidates who can effectively mentor and supervise students using multiple pedagogical formats (i.e., face-to-face, hybrid, online formats), as well as the ability to prepare students to become justice-oriented educators. The candidate will collaborate with the Association of Educational Therapists (AET) and other community agencies, the Special Education Department and ET program instructors.

Given CSUN’s commitment to excellence in teaching, research, and engagement in a diverse environment, the successful candidate will help the Department achieve equitable academic outcomes for all students through teaching, student mentorship, scholarship, and service