Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary

Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can generate syllabi, homework, handouts, and adapt materials to learning objectives and levels with high accuracy and efficiency.

Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.

AI: Fully automatable - AI and integrated information systems can reliably maintain attendance, grades, and administrative records automatically and at scale.

Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.

AI: Fully automatable - AI systems in 2025 can generate assessment items, run secure online administration (including proctoring aids), and automatically grade objective and rubric-based subjective responses, with human oversight for edge cases.

Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can search literature, identify relevant sources, extract citations, and format bibliographies efficiently.

Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.

AI: Partial - AI can assist with literature review, data analysis, and drafting manuscripts but cannot independently design, execute ethically responsible original research and take full responsibility for publication.

Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as crop production, plant genetics, and soil chemistry.

AI: Partial - AI can prepare high-quality lecture materials and deliver prerecorded or scripted lectures, but it lacks full real-time pedagogical judgment and nuanced classroom interaction for live teaching.

Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory work, assignments, and papers.

AI: Partial - AI can automatically grade objective items and provide draft feedback on essays and assignments, but it struggles with holistic assessment, lab observations, and equitable judgment without human oversight.

Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.

AI: Partial - AI can support supervision with progress tracking, resource recommendations, and scheduling, but cannot replace human mentoring, accountability, and judgment in internships and research oversight.

Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.

AI: Partial - AI excels at monitoring and summarizing new literature and virtual proceedings but cannot substitute for in-person networking and conference participation.

Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.

AI: Partial - AI can draft strong grant narratives, budgets, and supporting materials, but human investigators must ensure feasibility, institutional compliance, and take responsibility for submission and execution.

Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.

AI: Partial - AI can initiate and moderate online or text-based classroom discussions and provide prompts and summaries, but cannot fully replicate the real-time, embodied judgment and nuanced facilitation of an in-person instructor.

Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.

AI: Partial - AI can provide personalized curricular and career guidance at scale using data and labor-market signals, but lacks the long-term relationship, institutional authority, and contextual judgment of a human advisor.

Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, and course materials and methods of instruction.

AI: Partial - AI can draft, analyze, and suggest curricular revisions and pedagogical methods using learning analytics and standards, but final curriculum design typically requires human judgment, accreditation knowledge, and institutional negotiation.

Supervise laboratory sessions and field work and coordinate laboratory operations.

AI: Partial - AI can coordinate schedules, monitor instruments, provide remote assistance, and analyze lab data, but cannot fully replace in-person supervision for hands-on safety, troubleshooting, and fieldwork decisions.

Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.

AI: Partial - AI tools can facilitate collaboration by summarizing literature, drafting communications, and proposing solutions, but cannot fully replace the interpersonal negotiation, trust-building, and shared decision-making of human colleagues.

Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.

AI: Partial - AI-driven virtual office hours and chatbots can handle many routine student questions and triage issues, but scheduled in-person mentoring and nuanced advising still require human availability.

Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.

AI: Partial - AI can automate outreach, targeted recruitment, application screening, and placement matching, yet strategic recruitment, relationship-building with institutions and employers, and final placement decisions often need human involvement.

Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment.

AI: Partial - AI can research, compare, recommend, and even generate purchase orders for textbooks and equipment, but vendor negotiation, procurement approvals, and handling of specialized institutional constraints usually require humans.

Provide professional consulting services to government or industry.

AI: Partial - AI can produce technical analyses, policy recommendations, and prototypes for government or industry clients, but delivering trusted, accountable professional consulting—especially where licensing, ethics, or liability apply—generally requires human experts.

Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.

AI: Partial - AI can prepare analyses, draft proposals, and summarize meetings but cannot legitimately represent faculty, make binding decisions, or navigate institutional politics autonomously.

Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.

AI: Partial - AI can automate scheduling, reporting, and draft policy documents but cannot assume the leadership, personnel, and accountability responsibilities of a department head.

Participate in campus and community events.

AI: Partial - AI can help plan events, produce promotional materials, and provide virtual content but cannot fully replicate in-person presence, networking, or representational duties.

Act as advisers to student organizations.

AI: Partial - AI can provide advice, resources, and draft communications for student organizations but cannot fulfill mentorship, accountability, and institutionally mandated advising roles alone.