Assistant Professor - Public Relations
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We need to parse the job description. Key info: - Position: Assistant Professors in Public Relations (two positions) - Nine-month, full-time, tenure-earning, start date August 7, 2027. - Salary is negotiable. (We can include Pay section? It says salary negotiable, but that is not specific; we should not include Pay unless posting actually states them. The instruction: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It states "Salary is negotiable." That's a statement about pay, albeit vague. Should we include Pay? It says "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state salary is negotiable, which is a statement about pay. However, they also say "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." And "never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. 'commensurate with experience', 'not specified', 'N/A', 'varies', 'TBD')". "Salary is negotiable" is somewhat vague but not exactly placeholder like "commensurate with experience". It's a statement that salary is negotiable, which is substantive? Might be considered placeholder? I'd lean to not include Pay section because it's not a specific number or range. The instruction says "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state them (salary is negotiable). But they also say avoid filler/placeholder text like "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD". "Salary is negotiable" is similar to "commensurate with experience"? It's not a specific figure. Might be considered placeholder. Safer to omit Pay section. - Schedule: nine-month position. That's a schedule detail. Could include Schedule section? It states nine-month, full-time. That's a schedule. Should we include Schedule? The instruction: never create Schedule sections unless posting actually states them. It does state nine-month. That's specific enough. So we can include Schedule. - Benefits: The posting includes a paragraph about benefits under "About Us Working at USF" and "Our first-class benefits package includes medical, dental and life insurance plans, retirement plan options, employee and dependent tuition programs, generous leave, and hundreds of employee perks and discounts." That's substantive benefits. So we can include Benefits section. - About the role: Could include a summary of role: teaching public relations courses, research agenda, etc. That's in Qualifications/Requirements. We could have sections: About the role (maybe a brief paragraph summarizing the position), Responsibilities (teaching, research, service), Requirements (minimum qualifications), Qualifications (preferred qualifications), Skills (maybe not explicit), Benefits, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. So no heading for "Assistant Professors in Public Relations". We'll embed info in sections. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include details like start date, tenure-earning, nine-month, full-time, salary negotiable (maybe omit), ABD considered, degree must be completed prior to start date, qualified to teach specific courses, commitment to excellence, defined research agenda, prior experience teaching PR courses, meet university criteria for Assistant Professor appointment. Preferred qualifications: experience teaching specific courses, professional experience in PR industry. Application materials: cover letter, CV, teaching philosophy, evidence of successful research, three references. Open until filled, initial review Oct 23, 2026. Contact Dr. Kelli Burns. Description of school, student-run agency, virtual production studio, broadcast news, travel abroad, graduate research, etc. Also info about USF: size, rankings, AAU, research funding, economic impact, athletics, etc. Also compliance notices: background check, EEO, FMLA, disability accommodations contact. We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. However, we need to keep substantive info like contact for questions, disability accommodations contact, etc. The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we should remove EEO statements? But they are legal boilerplate. However, the contact for disability accommodations is substantive? Might be considered boilerplate but it's a specific contact. The instruction says remove EEO/equal-opportunity boilerplate. So we should remove those statements. But we can keep the contact for disability accommodations? It's part of EEO boilerplate. Might be removed. However, the instruction also says "Preserve ALL substantive information". The contact for accommodations could be considered substantive for applicants needing accommodation. But it's also part of EEO. I'd keep it as it's a specific contact. But to be safe, maybe keep it under a section like "Accommodations" but we don't have a heading for that. Could fold into a paragraph under Benefits or About Us. The instruction says we can fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. So we could include a short paragraph with contact info. We also need to remove duplicated lines. There's duplicated "About Us" sections repeated. We'll consolidate. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown. Let's plan sections: -
About the role
: paragraph summarizing position: two Assistant Professors in Public Relations, nine-month, full-time, tenure-earning, start date Aug 7 2027, salary negotiable. -Responsibilities
:- with items: teach public relations courses in undergraduate IPRA program and Strategic Communication Management track of MA program; maintain excellence in classroom; develop and sustain research agenda in any area of public relations; prior teaching experience expected; contribute to service (maybe not explicit). Could also include mentoring students, participating in student-run agency, etc. But we should not invent. The posting mentions: "Candidates must be qualified to teach public relations courses in the undergraduate Integrated Public Relations and Advertising (IPRA) program and in the Strategic Communication Management track of the Mass Communications master’s program. The successful candidate must have a commitment to excellence in the classroom, a defined research agenda focused on any area of public relations, and prior experience teaching public relations courses." Also mention of student-run agency etc is about school, not responsibilities. So responsibilities: teaching, research, service (maybe not). We'll stick to teaching and research.
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Requirements
(or Minimum Qualifications):- items: Ph.D. in Mass Communications or related field from accredited institution; ABD considered but degree must be completed prior to Aug 7 2027; qualified to teach PR courses as described; commitment to excellence in classroom; defined research agenda; prior experience teaching PR courses; meet university criteria for Assistant Professor appointment.
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Preferred Qualifications
:- items: experience teaching one or more of: public relations ethics and social responsibility, public relations data analytics, social media strategy for public relations; professional experience in PR industry to inform teaching and scholarship.
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Application Materials
: Not a standard heading but we could use "Application Materials" but not in list of allowed headings. Allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need to fit application info into one of those. Could put under Requirements or Qualifications? Maybe under Requirements we can include application materials as part of "How to apply"? But instruction says remove application instructions. However, we need to preserve substantive information like what to attach. That's application instruction. The instruction says remove application instructions. So we should drop that. So we will not include cover letter, CV, etc. That's unfortunate but per instruction. -Benefits
:- items: medical, dental, life insurance plans; retirement plan options; employee and dependent tuition programs; generous leave; hundreds of employee perks and discounts.
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Schedule
:Nine-month, full-time position; start date August 7, 2027.
- MaybeAbout the Department
not allowed. Could fold into About the role. We also have info about the school and university that is substantive but not fitting headings. Could we include a section "About the Department" but not allowed. The instruction says only use those headings for sections. So we should not create other headings. We could embed that info in aunder About the role or maybe under Benefits? But it's not benefits. Could we create a section "About the University"? Not allowed. So we must either drop that info or fold into existing sections if relevant. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could have just About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits, Schedule. The university description could be considered part of "About the role" as context. So we can add a paragraph after the role summary describing the Zimmerman School and USF highlights. We must not repeat duplicated lines. We'll consolidate. We must remove boilerplate like EEO statements, compliance notices, etc. We'll keep disability accommodations contact? Might be considered boilerplate. Safer to drop. We must not include application instructions (cover letter, CV, etc). So drop that. We must not include duplicated lines like repeated "About Us". We'll consolidate. Now craft HTML. We'll start with
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... Make sure no extra whitespace? It's fine. Now write content. About the role paragraph: Include that Zimmerman School invites applications for two Assistant Professors in Public Relations, nine-month, full-time, tenure-earning, start date Aug 7 2027, salary negotiable. Also mention that the school is located in Florida's #1 media market, offers transformational learning experiences, student-run agency, virtual production studio, broadcast news, travel abroad, graduate research, etc. Also mention USF's rankings, AAU membership, research funding, economic impact, athletics. Keep it concise but preserve all substantive info. We need to preserve ALL substantive information; we cannot omit details like "students direct a student-run advertising and public relations agency that represents local and global clients, partner with local and national organizations to advance community initiatives, train in a state-of-the-art virtual production studio, produce award-winning broadcast news shows that air on the local PBS affiliate, and travel abroad to gain international experience through classes and internships." Also "Our graduate students conduct research and develop professional projects to enhance expertise in their fields and prepare for continued graduate study and success in professional practice." Also USF details: approx 50k students, top 50 public university, best value in Florida, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine top 16 medical schools, AAU, $750M research funding 2025, top 20 public university for US patents, annual economic impact nearly $10 billion, Division I athletics in American Conference. Also earlier mention: USF recognized as top 50 public university and best value in Florida, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine No.1 medical school in Florida and highest tier nationwide, AAU, $738M research funding 2024, economic impact more than $6 billion, athletics