Business Teachers, Postsecondary

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

AI: Fully automatable - Creating syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts follows clear pedagogical templates and content standards and can be fully automated by current AI systems.

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

AI: Fully automatable - Maintaining attendance, gradebooks, and required records are routine administrative tasks that are already automatable by LMS and AI-driven systems.

Develop and maintain course Web sites.

AI: Fully automatable - AI tools can generate, update, and maintain course websites, produce content and structure, and integrate with LMS/APIs to fully automate development and maintenance workflows.

Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.

AI: Fully automatable - AI systems can efficiently search literature, curate relevant sources, and format specialized bibliographies to meet outside reading assignment needs with high reliability.

Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can draft competitive grant proposals, budgets, and narratives from provided research inputs and templates, enabling full automation of the writing process.

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

AI: Partial - AI can grade objective items and provide rubric-based feedback and draft scores for essays, but nuanced evaluation, academic judgment, and high-stakes grading typically require human oversight.

Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as financial accounting, principles of marketing, and operations management.

AI: Partial - AI can prepare and deliver lecture content (including recorded lectures) on business topics, but adaptive in-person teaching, mentorship, and accreditation-related responsibilities limit full automation.

Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.

AI: Partial - AI can initiate and moderate online discussions and support facilitation, but managing real-time classroom dynamics and deeper pedagogical facilitation is not yet fully automatable.

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

AI: Partial - AI can continuously monitor and synthesize literature and provide summaries, but cannot fully replace human networking and active participation in professional organizations and conferences.

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

AI: Partial - AI can generate and automatically grade many types of exams and administer assessments online, but nuanced, high-stakes, or subjective grading and proctoring typically require human oversight.

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

AI: Partial - AI can propose, evaluate, and model curricular changes using data and pedagogical best practices, but final curriculum design needs human judgment, accreditation awareness, and contextual adaptation.

Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.

AI: Partial - AI chatbots and scheduling tools can provide on-demand assistance and cover some advising functions, but scheduled office hours involve mentorship, trust-building, and personalized support that AI cannot fully replicate.

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

AI: Partial - AI can accelerate literature reviews, data analysis, and drafting, but conceiving original research directions, ensuring methodological rigor, and taking ethical responsibility remain primarily human tasks.

Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and career issues.

AI: Partial - AI can generate tailored academic and career recommendations and resources, yet holistic advising requires understanding students' nuanced personal situations and institutional constraints that AI may miss.

Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks.

AI: Partial - AI can recommend suitable textbooks and automate procurement workflows, but final selection often depends on instructor judgment, curricular fit, and institutional procurement policies.

Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.

AI: Partial - AI can facilitate collaboration by organizing meetings, drafting documents, and surfacing ideas, but addressing teaching and research issues through collegial negotiation and shared decision-making remains human-led.

Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.

AI: Partial - AI can perform administrative tasks, reporting, and data-driven recommendations but cannot fulfill the leadership, personnel management, and legal/accountability responsibilities of a department head.

Collaborate with members of the business community to improve programs, to develop new programs, and to provide student access to learning opportunities, such as internships.

AI: Partial - AI can identify potential industry partners, help design program proposals, and manage outreach logistics, but forming partnerships, building trust, and coordinating internships require human relationship-building and negotiation.

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

AI: Partial - AI can assist with monitoring, feedback, and administrative tasks but lacks the human judgment, mentorship, and accountability needed to fully supervise teaching, internships, and research.

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

AI: Partial - AI can prepare analyses, briefing materials, and draft policy options but cannot serve as a decision-making, accountable human member on institutional committees.

Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.

AI: Partial - AI can automate outreach, screening, registration workflows, and placement matching but cannot replace the human relationship-building and final decision-making in recruitment and placement.

Participate in campus and community events.

AI: Partial - AI can support event planning, promotion, and virtual participation, but cannot substitute for in-person presence and the community relationship-building central to campus events.

Act as advisers to student organizations.

AI: Partial - AI can provide guidance, templates, and policy suggestions for student organizations but cannot assume the human responsibilities, mentorship, and institutional role of an adviser.

Provide professional consulting services to government or industry.

AI: Partial - AI can produce analyses, models, and written recommendations for government or industry clients but typically lacks the professional accountability, client trust, and interpersonal negotiation to fully replace human consultants.