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 STEM and Artificial Intelligence thread provides the common technical formation every cadet needs before and alongside specialized study. It is deliberately general rather than introductory: not the opening course of several majors, but a common foundation in scientific, quantitative, computational, systems, and engineering judgment. Cadets repeatedly use estimation, measurement, modeling, experiment, design, test, computation, and data. AI is a longitudinal capability: cadets should understand enough first principles to use modern tools confidently and responsibly, validate outputs against mathematics, physical reality, and experiment, and retain responsibility for technical decisions. These are teaching-centered positions. SIGS seeks educators who combine technical depth with breadth; can move among theory, physical intuition, quantitative representation, computation, data, experiment, design, and test; and can connect first-principles understanding to contemporary AI-enabled practice. Faculty should help cadets reason about unfamiliar problems rather than merely complete a conventional introductory course in one discipline. Scholarly, technical, and professional activity supports this mission, but the paramount purpose of these positions is excellent undergraduate teaching and related service supporting the excellence and integration of the core curriculum.
