Teach courses in philosophy, religion, and theology. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
U.S. Workers
20,840
Median Salary
$78,050
10-Year Growth
+0.7%
Annual Openings
2,000
Typical entry: Doctoral or professional degree
23 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 rapidly generate syllabi, assignments, handouts, and adapt materials to learning outcomes and levels, enabling full automation of course material preparation.
Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
AI: Fully automatable - AI systems can generate exam items, deliver assessments (including automated proctoring), and grade objective and rubric-based subjective work reliably enough to fully automate many examination workflows.
Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
AI: Fully automatable - Maintaining attendance, gradebooks, and administrative records is routine and fully automatable using LMS integrations and AI-driven data entry and reconciliation tools.
Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can research, compare, recommend, and integrate with procurement systems to select and order textbooks and supplies, fully automating selection and purchasing workflows in many settings.
Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can rapidly search scholarly databases, assess relevance, and compile accurate annotated bibliographies, enabling full automation of this task.
Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.
AI: Partial - AI can reliably grade objective work and provide formative feedback on essays, but nuanced evaluation of originality, complex argumentation, and adjudication of academic integrity still require human oversight.
Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students and the community on topics such as ethics, logic, and contemporary religious thought.
AI: Partial - AI can prepare and deliver structured lectures and explanatory content, but nuanced live facilitation, Socratic engagement, and handling sensitive ethical/religious discussion contexts limit full automation.
Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
AI: Partial - AI can generate prompts, moderate online forums, and support synchronous chat-based discussion, but lacks the full real-time judgment, classroom management, and interpersonal nuance of a human facilitator in live classes.
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, summarize, and alert on new literature and conference outputs, but cannot fully replace human networking, informal scholarly conversations, and in-person conference participation.
Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
AI: Partial - AI can propose, evaluate, and revise curricula and materials based on standards and learning-data, but final curricular design requires human pedagogical judgment and institutional/accreditation decisions.
Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.
AI: Partial - AI can provide 24/7 advising, answer common questions, and schedule meetings, yet it cannot fully replicate the mentorship, empathy, and nuanced guidance of human office-hour interactions.
Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.
AI: Partial - AI can offer personalized academic and career recommendations using data and templates, but lacks the human networks, contextual judgment, and long-term relational knowledge often required for comprehensive advising.
Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
AI: Partial - AI can assist heavily with literature review, analysis, and drafting, but cannot be relied on to originate, validate, and ethically take responsibility for novel scholarly research and publication.
Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.
AI: Partial - AI can handle scheduling, budgeting analysis, and draft administrative documents, but cannot fully perform the leadership, personnel management, and accountable decision-making responsibilities of a department head.
Write articles and books.
AI: Partial - AI can produce drafts or entire articles and books of high surface quality, but typically requires human expertise to ensure original argumentation, scholarly rigor, and ethical authorship for publishable work.
Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.
AI: Partial - AI can provide feedback, monitor progress, and suggest resources for teaching, internships, and research, but cannot fully replace human mentorship, ethical oversight, and nuanced evaluation of trainees.
Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.
AI: Partial - AI can synthesize research and teaching materials and propose solutions, but cannot fully replicate the interpersonal negotiation and trust-building required for colleague collaboration.
Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.
AI: Partial - AI can analyze policies, draft agendas and minutes, and model outcomes, but cannot exercise institutional authority or fully participate in governance deliberations and political judgment.
Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.
AI: Partial - AI can automate outreach, screening, scheduling, and matching for recruitment and placement, but lacks the human presence, relationship-building, and institutional authority often needed in these activities.
Participate in campus and community events.
AI: Partial - AI can support planning, promotion, and virtual participation in campus and community events, but cannot fully replace in-person engagement and community relationship-building.
Act as advisers to student organizations.
AI: Partial - AI can advise on organization planning, communications, and compliance, but cannot fully substitute for human advisors' institutional knowledge, mentorship, and situational judgment with students.
Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.
AI: Partial - AI can draft literature reviews, methodologies, and budget narratives to accelerate proposal writing, but competitive grant procurement typically requires original research vision, PI reputation, and iterative human strategy.
Provide professional consulting services to government or industry.
AI: Partial - AI can produce analyses, models, and written recommendations for government or industry, but delivering accountable, context-sensitive consulting and managing client relationships remains primarily a human role.