Dean Of Education, Social, & Behavioral Sciences

Priority Consideration Date: September 18th, 2023 Located in the scenic Puget Sound area with Mount Rainier in the distance, Tacoma is the third largest city in Washington State with a thriving and diverse community of over 200,000 residents. Tacoma Community College (TCC) was built on the ancestral territory of Coast Salish peoples, specifically the Puyallup and Squaxin Island Tribes. The 1854 Medicine Creek Treaty forcibly removed them to Reservations to make way for colonizers; we recognize the privilege of utilizing this land has come at great cost. We honor the resilience of the Puyallup and Squaxin Island people, who still live here, defend their rights, and contribute greatly to the well-being of our community. Our institution aims to increase partnerships and community ties with the local indigenous populations. Moreover, TCC stands in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and the Black community by further strengthening collaboration with the Black Student Union as well as community entities such as the Tacoma-Pierce County Black Collective, the Tacoma Urban League, and local black-owned businesses. In addition, we strongly support the Stop Asian Hate movement and have an active Asian Pacific Islander Student Club as well as an Asian and Pacific Islander Faculty and Staff Coalition. We continually strive to become an anti-racist institution.
Tacoma Community College, winner of the 2020 Association of Community College Trustees Equity Award for the entire Pacific Region, is a public Associate- and Bachelor's-granting institution that serves a student body of approximately 12,000 students. Our students are 27% students of color, 60% female, and have a median age of 26. We embrace our identity as the community's college. Our faculty are engaged in innovative work to improve student retention and program completion, and community success. According to the Community College Survey of Student Engagement, TCC ranks high on measures of active learning and academic challenge, thanks to our creative and scholarly faculty. As part of our transformative guided pathways work, we have recently undergone an administrative reorganization that aligns our academic divisions with our career pathways: Creative Arts, Literature, and Communication; Business, Paralegal, and Technology; Education, Social, and Behavioral Sciences, Healthcare; and Science, Engineering, and Mathematics. Education, Social, and Behavioral Sciences (ESBS) is home to instruction in Anthropology, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Chemical Dependency, History, Human Services, Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy, and Political Science. The division supports students who are pursuing certificates or Associate degrees, and who intend to continue their education or enter the workforce. Among the courses the division offers are Indians of North America, Native American History, African American History, Sociology of African Americans, Sociology of Asian Americans, and Sociology of Latinx Americans. TCC is committed to developing more culturally responsive curricula by infusing and incorporating more educational content focused on the lives, experiences, and contributions of Native, Black, Asian, and other marginalized communities, and to broadly to develop more culturally responsive curricula. Who We Seek To grow our workforce, we are seeking creative, collaborative professionals who are reflective of the diverse community we serve. We are specifically focusing on improved support for traditionally marginalized populations, including Black/African- American, Indigenous, People of Color, Dreamers, justice-involved, immigrants and refugees, Veterans, people with disabilities, and the LGBTQ+ community