Assistant Professor: School of Art - Ceramics
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include sections only when posting has real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, scam warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "Physical Requirements", "Tools/Equipment", "Application Instructions", etc. Also remove "About The College Of Visual And Performing Arts", "About Syracuse University", "About The Syracuse Area", EEO statements, etc. Keep substantive info: job description, responsibilities, qualifications, maybe skills, maybe benefits? No benefits, pay, schedule mentioned. So we should not be included. So we will have sections: About the role (maybe from first paragraph), Responsibilities, Qualifications (maybe combine required and preferred), Skills? Could embed skills within qualifications. But we need to follow headings list: we can use any of those headings if content exists. We have content for About the role (intro paragraph). Responsibilities (explicit). Qualifications (list of required and preferred). Skills maybe not separate; we could omit Skills heading if no specific skills list separate from qualifications. Benefits, Pay, Schedule omitted.
We must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Must not omit details like teaching courses, digital practice, etc. Must keep all details from responsibilities, qualifications, etc. Must not include boilerplate like EEO, application instructions, etc.
We need to format using for headings, - for lists,
for prose.
We need to ensure we don't duplicate content. Let's extract substantive content:
Job Description paragraph: "The School of Art, within the College of Visual and Performing Arts, at Syracuse University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor of ceramics to begin fall 2027. Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses—from introductory through advanced levels, including wheel throwing, hand-building, sculpture, and slip casting—while guiding students in material knowledge, technical skill, and rigorous studio practice. Candidates should have in-depth knowledge of ceramic art’s processes, histories, and materials, grounded in tradition while engaging contemporary approaches (sculptural, functional, or installation-based). We are especially interested in candidates working at the intersection of ceramics and digital practice—digital modeling, scanning, clay printing, computational/AI-assisted processes, and fabrication—built upon strong material fundamentals rather than replacing them. Syracuse University has one of the country’s longest-standing traditions in ceramics education, further enriched by a close relationship with the Everson Museum of Art and its internationally recognized ceramics collection. Building on this history, the School of Art is committed to sustaining deep material knowledge and rigorous studio practice while ensuring these foundations evolve alongside new technologies and the changing professional landscape students will enter."
That's the "About the role" content.
Responsibilities section: after that there is a "Responsibilities" heading with bullet points? Actually later: "Responsibilities Teach undergraduate and graduate courses—from introductory through advanced levels, including wheel throwing, hand-building, sculpture, and slip casting—while guiding students in material knowledge, technical skill, and rigorous studio practiceAdvise students and contribute to curriculum development within the Ceramics areaMaintain an active record of professional creative work, scholarship, or both, consistent with the expectations of a research universityExpected to serve light administrative, coordinator duties on a rotational basis with other faculty in the area, as well as service in the School of Art, and the University". This is a run-on sentence but we can split into list items.
We need to preserve all details: teaching, advise students, contribute to curriculum development, maintain active record of professional creative work/scholarship, serve light administrative/coordinator duties rotational basis with other faculty, service in School of Art and University.
Qualifications: there is a "Qualifications" heading with bullet list: "MFA or equivalent terminal degree (preferably in Ceramics),Minimum three years of full-time teaching experience,An active studio practice with a growing record of exhibitions demonstrating potential for national/international recognition." Then "Job Specific Qualifications Required" list many items. Then "Preferred" list.
We need to combine required and preferred into maybe two subsections? But we only have headings: Qualifications (maybe we can put all qualifications there). Could also separate Required and Preferred as subheadings? Not allowed because only allowed headings are those listed; we could still use
for Required and Preferred? The instruction says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but says "Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." Likely they expect only those headings. Safer to stick to those. So we will have Qualifications heading and include both required and preferred items in a list, maybe differentiate with text.
We must not include "Requirements" heading unless we have content; we could use Requirements for required qualifications, and Qualifications for preferred? But they said we can use Requirements heading. Might be better to split: Requirements for required qualifications, Qualifications for preferred qualifications. But we need to decide based on content. The posting has "Job Specific Qualifications Required" and "Preferred". So we can map Required to Requirements heading, Preferred to Qualifications heading. That seems logical.
Thus sections: About the role (About the role
), Responsibilities (Responsibilities
), Requirements (Requirements
), Qualifications (Qualifications
). No Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
Now we need to extract all required qualification items:
From "Job Specific Qualifications Required":
- Demonstrated ability to teach introductory through advanced undergraduate and graduate ceramics courses.
- Evidence of excellence in, or clear potential for, university-level teaching and the creation of a rigorous, student-centered studio learning environment.
- An active and developing professional studio practice, with a growing record of exhibitions, creative activity, scholarship, and/or other forms of professional accomplishment.
- A portfolio demonstrating critical and substantive engagement with ceramic-based art, craft, and contemporary studio practice.
- Comprehensive knowledge of clay as a material and a strong command of traditional and contemporary ceramic processes, including clay bodies, forming methods, mold-making and casting processes, glazing and surface development, firing methods, and kiln technologies.
- Demonstrated technical knowledge of ceramics studio equipment, materials, processes, and facilities, including the safe operation and maintenance of kilns and related studio infrastructure.
- A studio practice grounded in a substantial understanding of traditional ceramic processes, materials, histories, and techniques, coupled with evidence of engagement with or exploration of emerging digital approaches to ceramic practice, which may include digital modeling, scanning, clay printing, computational or AI-assisted processes, digital fabrication, or related technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and contribute to the intellectual and creative community of the School of Art and University.
- Demonstrated experience working effectively with students from a broad range of backgrounds, levels of preparation, and educational experiences.
Now Preferred items:
- Experience integrating digital and traditional ceramic processes within studio practice, teaching, research, and/or curriculum development.
- Experience with clay 3D printing, digital modeling, scanning, computational design, digitally assisted mold-making, digital fabrication, AI-assisted creative processes, or related emerging technologies.
- Experience developing or revising curriculum, courses, or programs responsive to changing practices within contemporary art, craft, design, and technology.
- Experience with interdisciplinary, collaborative, and/or community-engaged creative practice.
- Knowledge of ethical and environmentally responsible approaches to ceramic studio practice, materials, processes, and facilities.
- Evidence of the ability to mentor students toward ambitious, independently developed studio practices and professional outcomes.
- Demonstrated communication and cross-cultural competencies that support effective collaboration with students, colleagues, and community partners from a range of backgrounds.
Also earlier "Qualifications" bullet list before Job Specific Qualifications Required: MFA or equivalent terminal degree (preferably in Ceramics), Minimum three years of full-time teaching experience, An active studio practice with a growing record of exhibitions demonstrating potential for national/international recognition.
These are also qualifications; they could go under Requirements as well (they are required). So we should include them in Requirements list.
Thus Requirements list includes:
- MFA or equivalent terminal degree (preferably in Ceramics)
- Minimum three years of full-time teaching experience
- Active studio practice with a growing record of exhibitions demonstrating potential for national/international recognition
- Demonstrated ability to teach introductory through advanced undergraduate and graduate ceramics courses.
- Evidence of excellence in, or clear potential for, university-level teaching and the creation of a rigorous, student-centered studio learning environment.
- An active and developing professional studio practice, with a growing record of exhibitions, creative activity, scholarship, and/or other forms of professional accomplishment.
- A portfolio demonstrating critical and substantive engagement with ceramic-based art, craft, and contemporary studio practice.
- Comprehensive knowledge of clay as a material and a strong command of traditional and contemporary ceramic processes, including clay bodies, forming methods, mold-making and casting processes, glazing and surface development, firing methods, and kiln technologies.
- Demonstrated technical knowledge of ceramics studio equipment, materials, processes, and facilities, including the safe operation and maintenance of kilns and related studio infrastructure.
- A studio practice grounded in a substantial understanding of traditional ceramic processes, materials, histories, and techniques, coupled with evidence of engagement with or exploration of emerging digital approaches to ceramic practice, which may include digital modeling, scanning, clay printing, computational or AI-assisted processes, digital fabrication, or related technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and contribute to the intellectual and creative community of the School of Art and University.
- Demonstrated experience working effectively with students from a broad range of backgrounds, levels of preparation, and educational experiences.
Now Qualifications (preferred) list includes the preferred items.
Now Responsibilities list: we need to extract items from the responsibilities paragraph:
- Teach undergraduate and graduate courses—from introductory through advanced levels, including wheel throwing, hand-building, sculpture, and slip casting—while guiding students in material knowledge, technical skill, and rigorous studio practice
- Advise students and contribute to curriculum development within the Ceramics area
- Maintain an active record of professional creative work, scholarship, or both, consistent with the expectations of a research university
- Expected to serve light administrative, coordinator duties on a rotational basis with other faculty in the area, as well as service in the School of Art, and the University
We should keep each as separate
- .
Now About the role paragraph: we need to keep the prose as is, maybe split into paragraphs but we can keep as one
.
Now we must not include any boilerplate like "About The College Of Visual And Performing Arts", "About Syracuse University", "About The Syracuse Area", EEO statements, etc. Also remove "Physical Requirements", "Tools/Equipment", "Application Instructions". Also remove duplicated lines.
Now ensure we preserve all substantive info: Did we miss any? The initial job description also mentions "Syracuse University has one of the country’s longest-standing traditions in ceramics education, further enriched by a close relationship with the Everson Museum of Art and its internationally recognized ceramics collection. Building on this history, the School of Art is committed to sustaining deep material knowledge and rigorous studio practice while ensuring these foundations evolve alongside new technologies and the changing professional landscape students will enter." That's included in About the role paragraph.
Also earlier: "Candidates should have in-depth knowledge of ceramic art’s processes, histories, and materials, grounded in tradition while engaging contemporary approaches (sculptural, functional, or installation-based). We are especially interested in candidates working at the intersection of ceramics and digital practice—digital modeling, scanning, clay printing, computational/AI-assisted processes, and fabrication—built upon strong material fundamentals rather than replacing them." That's also in About the role.
Now check if any other substantive info: The job title is assistant professor of ceramics, tenure-track, start fall 2027. We should not repeat job title as heading, but we can include it in the About the role paragraph? The initial paragraph already includes
- for lists,
for prose. We need to ensure we don't duplicate content. Let's extract substantive content: Job Description paragraph: "The School of Art, within the College of Visual and Performing Arts, at Syracuse University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor of ceramics to begin fall 2027. Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses—from introductory through advanced levels, including wheel throwing, hand-building, sculpture, and slip casting—while guiding students in material knowledge, technical skill, and rigorous studio practice. Candidates should have in-depth knowledge of ceramic art’s processes, histories, and materials, grounded in tradition while engaging contemporary approaches (sculptural, functional, or installation-based). We are especially interested in candidates working at the intersection of ceramics and digital practice—digital modeling, scanning, clay printing, computational/AI-assisted processes, and fabrication—built upon strong material fundamentals rather than replacing them. Syracuse University has one of the country’s longest-standing traditions in ceramics education, further enriched by a close relationship with the Everson Museum of Art and its internationally recognized ceramics collection. Building on this history, the School of Art is committed to sustaining deep material knowledge and rigorous studio practice while ensuring these foundations evolve alongside new technologies and the changing professional landscape students will enter." That's the "About the role" content. Responsibilities section: after that there is a "Responsibilities" heading with bullet points? Actually later: "Responsibilities Teach undergraduate and graduate courses—from introductory through advanced levels, including wheel throwing, hand-building, sculpture, and slip casting—while guiding students in material knowledge, technical skill, and rigorous studio practiceAdvise students and contribute to curriculum development within the Ceramics areaMaintain an active record of professional creative work, scholarship, or both, consistent with the expectations of a research universityExpected to serve light administrative, coordinator duties on a rotational basis with other faculty in the area, as well as service in the School of Art, and the University". This is a run-on sentence but we can split into list items. We need to preserve all details: teaching, advise students, contribute to curriculum development, maintain active record of professional creative work/scholarship, serve light administrative/coordinator duties rotational basis with other faculty, service in School of Art and University. Qualifications: there is a "Qualifications" heading with bullet list: "MFA or equivalent terminal degree (preferably in Ceramics),Minimum three years of full-time teaching experience,An active studio practice with a growing record of exhibitions demonstrating potential for national/international recognition." Then "Job Specific Qualifications Required" list many items. Then "Preferred" list. We need to combine required and preferred into maybe two subsections? But we only have headings: Qualifications (maybe we can put all qualifications there). Could also separate Required and Preferred as subheadings? Not allowed because only allowed headings are those listed; we could still use
for Required and Preferred? The instruction says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but says "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." Likely they expect only those headings. Safer to stick to those. So we will have Qualifications heading and include both required and preferred items in a list, maybe differentiate with text. We must not include "Requirements" heading unless we have content; we could use Requirements for required qualifications, and Qualifications for preferred? But they said we can use Requirements heading. Might be better to split: Requirements for required qualifications, Qualifications for preferred qualifications. But we need to decide based on content. The posting has "Job Specific Qualifications Required" and "Preferred". So we can map Required to Requirements heading, Preferred to Qualifications heading. That seems logical. Thus sections: About the role (
About the role
), Responsibilities (Responsibilities
), Requirements (Requirements
), Qualifications (Qualifications
). No Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Now we need to extract all required qualification items: From "Job Specific Qualifications Required": - Demonstrated ability to teach introductory through advanced undergraduate and graduate ceramics courses. - Evidence of excellence in, or clear potential for, university-level teaching and the creation of a rigorous, student-centered studio learning environment. - An active and developing professional studio practice, with a growing record of exhibitions, creative activity, scholarship, and/or other forms of professional accomplishment. - A portfolio demonstrating critical and substantive engagement with ceramic-based art, craft, and contemporary studio practice. - Comprehensive knowledge of clay as a material and a strong command of traditional and contemporary ceramic processes, including clay bodies, forming methods, mold-making and casting processes, glazing and surface development, firing methods, and kiln technologies. - Demonstrated technical knowledge of ceramics studio equipment, materials, processes, and facilities, including the safe operation and maintenance of kilns and related studio infrastructure. - A studio practice grounded in a substantial understanding of traditional ceramic processes, materials, histories, and techniques, coupled with evidence of engagement with or exploration of emerging digital approaches to ceramic practice, which may include digital modeling, scanning, clay printing, computational or AI-assisted processes, digital fabrication, or related technologies. - Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and contribute to the intellectual and creative community of the School of Art and University. - Demonstrated experience working effectively with students from a broad range of backgrounds, levels of preparation, and educational experiences. Now Preferred items: - Experience integrating digital and traditional ceramic processes within studio practice, teaching, research, and/or curriculum development. - Experience with clay 3D printing, digital modeling, scanning, computational design, digitally assisted mold-making, digital fabrication, AI-assisted creative processes, or related emerging technologies. - Experience developing or revising curriculum, courses, or programs responsive to changing practices within contemporary art, craft, design, and technology. - Experience with interdisciplinary, collaborative, and/or community-engaged creative practice. - Knowledge of ethical and environmentally responsible approaches to ceramic studio practice, materials, processes, and facilities. - Evidence of the ability to mentor students toward ambitious, independently developed studio practices and professional outcomes. - Demonstrated communication and cross-cultural competencies that support effective collaboration with students, colleagues, and community partners from a range of backgrounds. Also earlier "Qualifications" bullet list before Job Specific Qualifications Required: MFA or equivalent terminal degree (preferably in Ceramics), Minimum three years of full-time teaching experience, An active studio practice with a growing record of exhibitions demonstrating potential for national/international recognition. These are also qualifications; they could go under Requirements as well (they are required). So we should include them in Requirements list. Thus Requirements list includes: - MFA or equivalent terminal degree (preferably in Ceramics) - Minimum three years of full-time teaching experience - Active studio practice with a growing record of exhibitions demonstrating potential for national/international recognition - Demonstrated ability to teach introductory through advanced undergraduate and graduate ceramics courses. - Evidence of excellence in, or clear potential for, university-level teaching and the creation of a rigorous, student-centered studio learning environment. - An active and developing professional studio practice, with a growing record of exhibitions, creative activity, scholarship, and/or other forms of professional accomplishment. - A portfolio demonstrating critical and substantive engagement with ceramic-based art, craft, and contemporary studio practice. - Comprehensive knowledge of clay as a material and a strong command of traditional and contemporary ceramic processes, including clay bodies, forming methods, mold-making and casting processes, glazing and surface development, firing methods, and kiln technologies. - Demonstrated technical knowledge of ceramics studio equipment, materials, processes, and facilities, including the safe operation and maintenance of kilns and related studio infrastructure. - A studio practice grounded in a substantial understanding of traditional ceramic processes, materials, histories, and techniques, coupled with evidence of engagement with or exploration of emerging digital approaches to ceramic practice, which may include digital modeling, scanning, clay printing, computational or AI-assisted processes, digital fabrication, or related technologies. - Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and contribute to the intellectual and creative community of the School of Art and University. - Demonstrated experience working effectively with students from a broad range of backgrounds, levels of preparation, and educational experiences. Now Qualifications (preferred) list includes the preferred items. Now Responsibilities list: we need to extract items from the responsibilities paragraph: - Teach undergraduate and graduate courses—from introductory through advanced levels, including wheel throwing, hand-building, sculpture, and slip casting—while guiding students in material knowledge, technical skill, and rigorous studio practice - Advise students and contribute to curriculum development within the Ceramics area - Maintain an active record of professional creative work, scholarship, or both, consistent with the expectations of a research university - Expected to serve light administrative, coordinator duties on a rotational basis with other faculty in the area, as well as service in the School of Art, and the University We should keep each as separate - .
Now About the role paragraph: we need to keep the prose as is, maybe split into paragraphs but we can keep as one
. Now we must not include any boilerplate like "About The College Of Visual And Performing Arts", "About Syracuse University", "About The Syracuse Area", EEO statements, etc. Also remove "Physical Requirements", "Tools/Equipment", "Application Instructions". Also remove duplicated lines. Now ensure we preserve all substantive info: Did we miss any? The initial job description also mentions "Syracuse University has one of the country’s longest-standing traditions in ceramics education, further enriched by a close relationship with the Everson Museum of Art and its internationally recognized ceramics collection. Building on this history, the School of Art is committed to sustaining deep material knowledge and rigorous studio practice while ensuring these foundations evolve alongside new technologies and the changing professional landscape students will enter." That's included in About the role paragraph. Also earlier: "Candidates should have in-depth knowledge of ceramic art’s processes, histories, and materials, grounded in tradition while engaging contemporary approaches (sculptural, functional, or installation-based). We are especially interested in candidates working at the intersection of ceramics and digital practice—digital modeling, scanning, clay printing, computational/AI-assisted processes, and fabrication—built upon strong material fundamentals rather than replacing them." That's also in About the role. Now check if any other substantive info: The job title is assistant professor of ceramics, tenure-track, start fall 2027. We should not repeat job title as heading, but we can include it in the About the role paragraph? The initial paragraph already includes