ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR CIVICS HUMANITIES ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (CHASS)

Summary Click on "Learn more about this agency" button below for IMPORTANT information. The mission of the United States Air Force Academy is to educate, train, and inspire men and women to become leaders of character, motivated to lead the United States Air Force in service to our nation. USAFA, located just north of Colorado Springs, Colorado, is an undergraduate institution that awards the Bachelor of Science degree. Faculty applications are invited from candidates who can contribute by interacting with cadets, both in and out of the classroom, as instructors and mentors. The student body consists of approximately 4,000 students representing every state and several foreign countries. USAFA faculty is an integrated group of military and civilian educators. The curriculum includes core academic and professional courses, and 27 disciplinary and interdisciplinary majors.Major Duties: Major Duties of the Position: The Associate Dean for Civics, Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS): Provides academic leadership and portfolio administration (40%) for the CHASS academic portfolio, establishing priorities, translating senior-leader direction into executable academic objectives, and overseeing academic programs, curriculum, governance, assessment, scheduling, faculty utilization, resource requirements, and continuous improvement. Ensures that CHASS operates as a coherent, integrated general-education program combining disciplinary rigor with intellectual breadth. Supervises and develops faculty and staff (25%), including civilian and military personnel and subordinate leaders as assigned. Plans and assigns work; establishes performance expectations; evaluates performance; supports recruitment and staffing; identifies training and developmental needs; addresses employee concerns; and promotes organizational effectiveness, accountability, and a professional workplace. Oversees curriculum integration, academic quality, assessment, and cadet development (20%) across the CHASS portfolio. Guides curriculum development and review, academic standards, learning outcomes, instructional approaches, assessment, program evaluation, and interdisciplinary integration, ensuring that programs contribute effectively to cadets' development as critical thinkers, communicators, ethical decision-makers, and future officers. Provides strategic integration, faculty development, and institutional engagement (15%) by developing faculty capability, encouraging scholarship and educational innovation, advising senior leaders on emerging academic and mission requirements, building partnerships, participating in institutional governance and strategic planning, and representing CHASS with USAFA, Department of the Air Force, academic institutions, government organizations, and professional and civic partners. Advises senior academic leadership and manages portfolio resources, including personnel, workload, instructional support, technology, space, partnerships, and other mission requirements. Evaluates competing priorities, organizational risks, and resource implications and recommends appropriate courses of action. May teach, mentor, advise, conduct scholarship or research, or participate in other academic activities when assigned and appropriately qualified; however, these duties support rather than replace the position's primary academic-administrative and supervisory responsibilities.