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

U.S. Air Force Academy; Colorado Springs (CO); Remote; USD 85,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Telework eligibility

Job summary

U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs seeks an Instructor/Assistant/Associate/Professor to contribute to the CHASS-focused general education within the School of Integrated General Studies.

The role centers on delivering structured undergraduate instruction under academic direction and aligning materials with course objectives. Candidates engage in advising, service across course teams and schools, and, for higher ranks, potential leadership as Course Director, mentoring colleagues, and

Qualifications

• Official transcripts must be provided for degrees pursued or obtained.
• Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
• If education is foreign, provide evidence of US equivalency from a DoE-approved agency (non-federal).

Responsibilities

• Deliver structured undergraduate general-education instruction within the common curriculum under academic direction.
• Evaluate student performance and provide academic advising.
• Contribute to course-team, School, and Academy service.
• Assume increasing course leadership responsibilities, e.g., Course Director.
• Mentor junior faculty and contribute to curriculum development.

Skills

Teaching undergrad

Course leadership

Academic advising

Mentoring

Scholarly engagement

Job description

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

Key Responsibilities

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.

Requirements & 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.

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with U.S. Air Force Academy, Department of the Air Force.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $85423 – $168838/yr.

Is this position remote or telework eligible?

This position is eligible for telework.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-11-13.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.