Lecturer - LING 355: Heritage Languages and Heritage Speakers (Spring 2026)
San Marcos
October 06, 2025
May 31, 2026
The Department of Liberal Studies at California State University San Marcos seeks a part-time lecturer for Spring 2026 to teach LING 355: Heritage Languages and Heritage Speakers. The course introduces the linguistic and cultural properties of heritage languages, which are acquired in the home and later supplanted by the dominant language of the community. The course also investigates phonological, morphological, and syntactic properties of heritage languages, the relationship between language and identity, the role of motivation in language re-learning, of bilingualism on cognition, and the role of family, community and public policy on language maintenance.
Clinical Counselor
San Marcos
September 30, 2025
June 30, 2026
The Student Health and Counseling Services is seeking interested mental health providers for a non-tenure track Student Services Professional, Academic-Related I (SSP-AR I) clinical counselor position. This position will be full-time and may be renewable pending budget, campus need and satisfactory evaluations. This position is responsible for providing short-term individual, couple, group therapy, triage, outreach, consultation, and crisis counseling. Counselors are expected to spend about 60-65% of their time providing direct service to eligible CSUSM students per Executive Order 1053. Counselors are also expected to participate in a multidisciplinary treatment team, providing referrals when appropriate, and consultation to faculty, staff and the community.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
San Marcos
September 29, 2025
California State University San Marcos expects to hire up to two (2) tenure-track assistant professors for Fall 2026 with expertise in Clinical or Counseling Psychology. The Psychology department at California State University San Marcos serves over 2000 students, offering two in-person bachelor’s degrees (Psychological Science and Child and Adolescent Development) and a Master’s degree in Psychological Science. In addition, in Fall 2026, the department is launching a Master’s degree program in Clinical Counseling Psychology, preparing students to pursue licensure as a professional clinical counselor (LPCC), to which these two new hires will primarily contribute. The department employs a teacher-scholar model (with tenure-line faculty teaching a 3-3 load), emphasizing psychology as an empirical science and the development of skills that include written and oral communication, information literacy, quantitative and qualitative research methods, and critical analysis of complex problems. Multicultural perspectives and ethical issues are integral to the department’s curriculum.
Director of Counseling and Psychological Services, Student Health and Counseling Services
San Marcos
September 29, 2025
The Director of Counseling and Psychological Services at CSUSM provides comprehensive leadership for counseling, mental health education, and advocacy programs, overseeing staff, training, and strategic initiatives while serving on key university leadership teams and committees.
Director of Recruitment and Outreach, Enrollment Management Services
San Marcos
September 22, 2025
The Director of Recruitment and Outreach leads strategy, planning, and implementation of recruitment, outreach, and partnership initiatives to attract, support, and yield diverse students to CSUSM while fostering strong collaborations with schools, community partners, and campus offices.
