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

U.S. Air Force Academy • Air Force Academy, CO

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About The Position

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.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required
• The selected candidate will be subject to a security investigation leading to successful completion of a background investigation with a favorable adjudication.
• The selectee's failure to meet this requirement will be grounds for termination.
• Essential qualities expected of every faculty member include the personal attributes of integrity, industry, cooperation, initiative, and breadth of intellectual interests.
• Master’s or Terminal Degree commensurate with academic rank sought.
• You will be required to serve a 1-year trial period
• As a condition of employment, male applicants born after December 31, 1959 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
• Upon completion of your probationary/trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package.
• As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.
• Disabled veteran leave is available to a Federal employee hired on/after 5 Nov 2016, who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rating of 30% or more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level