Teach courses pertaining to the culture and development of an area, an ethnic group, or any other group, such as Latin American studies, women's studies, or urban affairs. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
U.S. Workers
11,430
Median Salary
$84,290
10-Year Growth
+2.4%
Annual Openings
1,100
Typical entry: Doctoral or professional degree
22 of 23 tasks have some AI capability
Exposure Trend
This score reflects estimated AI technical capability for tasks in this occupation. It does not predict employment changes, and it does not account for company-specific constraints, regulation, or adoption barriers.
Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can fully draft syllabi, assignments, handouts, and reading lists tailored to learning objectives and course level with minimal human input.
Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can compile exams from item banks, administer assessments with existing proctoring tools, and grade objective and rubric-based responses end-to-end.
Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
AI: Fully automatable - Maintaining attendance, grades, and administrative records is a routine data-management task that AI systems can fully automate and integrate with institutional systems.
Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can efficiently compile accurate, up-to-date bibliographies and formatted citations for specialized outside reading assignments.
Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
AI: Partial - AI can initiate and moderate certain structured or online discussions and prompt engagement, but cannot fully replicate the real-time emotional intelligence, context-sensitivity, and classroom management of a human instructor.
Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.
AI: Partial - AI can reliably grade objective items and generate rubric-based feedback for essays, but nuanced judgment about originality, argument quality, and high-stakes evaluative decisions still require human oversight.
Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as race and ethnic relations, gender studies, and cross-cultural perspectives.
AI: Partial - AI can prepare and even deliver pre-recorded lectures and materials, but live lecturing that adapts to student cues and handles sensitive cultural topics with nuanced judgement remains partially automatable.
Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
AI: Partial - AI can continuously scan and summarize literature and flag relevant developments, but participating in collegial discourse and conference networking for tacit insights cannot be fully automated.
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 reviews, data analysis, and drafting manuscripts, but conceiving, ethically conducting, interpreting complex original research, and securing scholarly credibility require human leadership.
Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.
AI: Partial - AI can provide asynchronous advising, answer routine questions, and triage student needs, but sustained personalized mentorship and complex academic advising are only partially automatable.
Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.
AI: Partial - AI can support supervision by tracking progress, providing feedback, and recommending resources, but fully supervising internships, teaching apprentices, and research projects requires human judgment and accountability.
Advise students on academic and vocational curricula, and on career issues.
AI: Partial - AI can provide tailored curricular and career suggestions and resources but lacks full context, institutional authority, and the interpersonal mentorship needed for comprehensive advising.
Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
AI: Partial - AI can draft, evaluate, and propose revisions to curricula and instructional materials based on learning objectives and evidence, but final design, accreditation alignment, and classroom validation require human judgment.
Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.
AI: Partial - AI can facilitate collaboration by generating agendas, literature summaries, and draft proposals, but cannot replicate human negotiation, consensus-building, and professional relationship dynamics.
Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks.
AI: Partial - AI can identify, compare, and recommend textbooks and suppliers and can automate ordering with system integrations, yet procurement approvals and budgetary decisions typically require human oversight.
Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.
AI: Partial - AI can handle scheduling, reporting, and analytic aspects of departmental administration but cannot fully perform leadership, hiring, conflict resolution, and political decision‑making required of a department head.
Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.
AI: Partial - AI can draft competitive grant proposals, budgets, and supporting documents, but cannot fully assume PI responsibilities, manage institutional signoffs, or cultivate the interpersonal relationships often essential to successful funding.
Provide professional consulting services to government or industry.
AI: Partial - AI can produce analyses, policy briefs, and technical recommendations for government or industry clients, but lacks the legal/ethical accountability, professional certification, and client‑facing judgment to fully replace human consultants.
Participate in campus and community events, such as giving public lectures about research.
AI: Partial - AI can generate and even deliver virtual lectures and promotional materials, but in-person campus and community engagement and relationship-building remain primarily human activities.
Incorporate experiential or site visit components into courses.
AI: Partial - AI can design experiential components, recommend sites, create risk assessments, and prepare logistics and learning materials, but cannot perform on-site supervision or physical coordination.
Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.
AI: Partial - AI can automate outreach, applicant analysis, matching, and parts of registration workflows to support recruitment and placement, but final decisions and institutional interactions still need humans.
Act as advisers to student organizations.
AI: Partial - AI can advise student organizations with guidance, templates, and event-planning support, but cannot hold official adviser status or provide sustained human mentorship and institutional representation.
Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.
AI: Not automatable - AI cannot legitimately serve as an official committee member with institutional responsibilities, though it can supply research, drafts, and analysis to human committee members.