Instructor/Assistant/Associate/Professor - Civics Humanities Arts and Social Sciences

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Major duties

Major Duties of the Position: Instructor (AD-21): Deliver structured undergraduate general-education instruction within the common curriculum under academic direction. Select and adapt approved instructional materials consistent with common course objectives, evaluate student performance, provide academic advising, maintain professional currency, and participate in assigned course-team, School, and Academy service. Assistant Professor (AD-22): Deliver and assess undergraduate courses within the common curriculum and contribute to their planning and continuous improvement. Assume increasing course leadership and coordination responsibilities, such as serving as a Course Director. Maintain appropriate scholarly or professional engagement while contributing to course teams, School service, and interdisciplinary integration. Associate Professor (AD-23): Provide sustained teaching excellence and lead major multi-section courses or significant curriculum components. Maintain sustained scholarly or professional engagement appropriate to the educational mission. Lead course-team and School-level curriculum and assessment efforts and actively mentor junior faculty. Professor (AD-24 - Nonsupervisory): Provide distinguished instruction and senior academic leadership in the design, integration, and continuous improvement of the common curriculum. Maintain mature scholarly or professional engagement appropriate to the educational mission. Lead major School- and institution-level academic initiatives and mentor and develop faculty colleagues across academic areas. The School of Integrated General Studies (SIGS) provides the common core academic education upon which later specialized disciplinary education builds. It forms cadets as Citizens, Leaders, Warfighters, and Scholars. The SIGS curriculum integrates civics, humanities, arts, and social sciences (CHASS), STEM and Artificial Intelligence, and Warfighting threads. Faculty work across conventional disciplinary boundaries to build a rigorous, ordered, and mission-aligned general education for future Air Force and Space Force officers. The CHASS thread forms cadets for the civic, human, moral, historical, cultural, and political dimensions of officership. Centered on Western civilization and the American constitutional order, it asks cadets to understand the civilization and republic they are preparing to serve, confront enduring questions of human nature, justice, freedom, authority, war, citizenship, and the common good, and understand the responsibilities that accompany the exercise of authority. Through sustained engagement with primary texts, historical experience, literature, philosophy, political thought, rhetoric, religion, the arts, and the social sciences, cadets should develop the knowledge, habits, and judgment required of reflective citizens, responsible leaders, capable warfighters, and serious lifelong scholars. CHASS is not a collection of introductory disciplinary surveys; disciplinary knowledge is selected and ordered in service of common formative purposes. These are teaching-centered positions. SIGS seeks educators who combine genuine disciplinary depth with unusual intellectual breadth; can teach beyond a narrow specialization; work seriously with primary texts, historical experience, literature, ideas, institutions, and competing arguments; and contribute to a common integrated curriculum. Faculty should connect civic and humanistic learning to leadership, warfighting, technology, national security, constitutional responsibility, and the profession of arms. Scholarly and professional activity supports this mission, but the paramount purpose of these positions is excellent undergraduate teaching and related institutional service aimed at sustaining the excellence and integration of the core curriculum.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Successful candidates should demonstrate, at a level appropriate to the rank sought: - A Masters or Terminal degree in an appropriate field. - Disciplinary expertise together with intellectual breadth beyond the candidate's principal specialization. - Ability to teach within a common curriculum and help cadets synthesize knowledge across CHASS fields. - Ability to use primary texts, close reading, writing, discussion, oral argument, and historical context to develop cadet reasoning and judgment. - Knowledge of effective undergraduate teaching, course development, assessment, and academic standards. - Ability to connect disciplinary knowledge to enduring civic and human questions and to officership, leadership, warfighting, national security, and the profession of arms. - Ability to collaborate effectively in course teams, curriculum development, faculty governance, and academic service while maintaining academic and professional currency. Associate Professors and Professors should additionally demonstrate progressively greater academic leadership. ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES: Relevant fields may include history, political science, government, public policy, philosophy, classics, political theory, religious studies, art history or the arts, constitutional or American studies, ethics, literature, languages, rhetoric, cultural studies, communication, sociology, anthropology, law or legal studies, civic education, interdisciplinary humanities, liberal studies, general studies, or another closely related field supporting CHASS. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: - Excellent undergraduate teaching, especially in general education or interdisciplinary settings. - Experience with common-core, great-books/core-text, primary-text, Western civilization, American constitutional, writing-intensive, seminar, or discussion-based education. - Experience teaching meaningfully beyond the candidate's principal specialization. - Course leadership, curriculum development, assessment, educational-program leadership, advising, or mentorship. - Interdisciplinary scholarship or relevant professional experience, including military education, public service, government, national security, civil-military relations, conflict, or the profession of arms. Inquiries about the position should be directed to the Dean, School of Integrated General Studies (SIGS), Dr. Mark N. Jensen, email: mark.jensen@afacademy.af.edu. Please do not email documents or completed applications to this address as they will not be considered.

Education

EDUCATION: If selected, you will be requested to provide original copies of ALL OFFICIAL transcripts for degrees being pursued or obtained (or letter of degree completion if an OFFICIAL transcript is not available due to recent graduation) to support your educational claims as stated in your curriculum vitae. Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a transcript to be considered OFFICIAL, it should be printed on university letterhead and the registrar's official seal/signature must appear on the transcript. Your transcripts must also reflect the degree awarded/conferred date. Transcripts labeled UNOFFICIAL will not be accepted. Upon request, ensure you include ALL transcripts to support your educational claims as stated in your curriculum vitae (resume) even if not required for this position. FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the educational requirements. However, you must show proof that the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in a conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying in the form of an "official" statement of U.S. equivalency from a Department of Education approved (non-federal) agency (i.e. AICE, NACES), who will complete a U.S. Standard of Education Conversion.