Assistant Professor - School of Media Arts and Design

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings

for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Preserve all substantive info. We need to parse posting: It includes many details: Opening date, Working Title, State Role Title N/A, Position Type, Position Status, FLSA, College/Division, Department, Pay Band N/A, Pay Rate: Commensurate with Experience, Is JMU only? No, grant-funded? No, Conflict of Interest? No, Beginning Review Date: 10/22/2026, About JMU Mission etc, General Information about SMAD, Duties And Responsibilities, Qualifications, Additional Posting Information (application instructions - we must remove application instructions), Conditions Of Employment (background check, E-Verify), EEO Statement, Reasonable Accommodation (remove). We must remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we must drop EEO Statement, Reasonable Accommodation, Conditions of Employment? Conditions of Employment includes background check and E-Verify - that's legal boilerplate; likely should be removed. The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate". So Conditions of Employment (background check, E-Verify) is legal boilerplate, remove. EEO Statement remove. Reasonable Accommodation remove. Also remove application instructions (cover letter, CV, references, dual career program). Also remove duplicated lines. We need to keep substantive info: About JMU Mission, Vision, Who We Are, General Information about SMAD, Duties And Responsibilities, Qualifications. Also maybe Pay? Pay Rate: Commensurate with Experience - that's placeholder "Commencement with Experience" which is not specific; we should not create Pay section unless posting actually states them. It says "Pay Rate: Commensurate with Experience". That's not a specific number or range, it's vague. According to rule: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. So we should not include Pay section. Similarly Schedule? Not given. Benefits? Not given. So we will not include those. We need sections: About the role (maybe "About the role" corresponds to General Information about SMAD and JMU mission?). Could combine. Responsibilities (Duties And Responsibilities). Requirements (Qualifications). Possibly Skills? Not explicitly listed. Could embed skills within qualifications. But we need to follow rule: use headings only when posting has real specific content. We have content for About the role (JMU mission, SMAD description). Responsibilities (Duties And Responsibilities). Requirements (Qualifications). Could also have "About JMU" but we can put under About the role. We must not repeat job title as heading. So no heading for "Assistant Professor - School of Media Arts and Design". Good. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. Thus produce something like:

About the role

... content ...

Responsibilities

• ... each duty ...

Requirements

• ... each qualification ...

We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include details from JMU mission, vision, who we are, SMAD description, duties, qualifications. We must be careful not to include boilerplate like "We are a community committed to preparing students..." that's part of About JMU Mission; we can keep that. We need to strip out duplicated lines, but there may not be duplicates. Let's extract substantive paragraphs: From posting: "About JMU Mission We are a community committed to preparing students to be educated and enlightened citizens who lead productive and meaningful lives. Vision To be the national model for the engaged university: engaged with ideas and the world. Who We Are Situated in the heart of Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the city of Harrisonburg is a vibrant community with a population of approximately 52,000. Harrisonburg is conveniently located approximately 120 miles from Washington, D.C. and Richmond, VA. JMU is a selective, public institution with a growing national reputation for offering experiences that lead to an outstanding education and supportive environment for students, faculty and staff. The student body includes approximately 21,000 undergraduate and 1,800 graduate students, with over 1,000 full-time instructional faculty. JMU offers thriving programs in the liberal arts, science and technology, and professional disciplines at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. JMU has achieved national recognition for the high quality of its academic programs, focus on maintaining strong student/faculty interaction, and innovative faculty research." Then "General Information The School of Media Arts and Design (SMAD) at James Madison University (JMU) invites applications for a tenure track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning in August 2027. We seek a teacher-scholar whose instructional interests and research or creative practice engage visual communication, media literacy, mass media, audiences, storytelling, and culture. SMAD’s distinctive undergraduate major prepares students to become well-rounded multimedia storytellers and offers four concentrations: Creative Advertising, Digital Video and Cinema, Interactive Design, and Journalism. SMAD also boasts one of the nation’s finest media production facilities that offers instructional workspaces for creating video, audio, graphics, animation, websites, and apps. The school has about 700 undergraduate majors and more than 20 faculty members, who represent a blend of professional and academic interests. For more information, go to http://www.jmu.edu/smad. The School of Media Arts and Design is part of JMU’s College of Arts and Letters, which enrolls more than 3,100 undergraduate majors and about 150 graduate students across ten academic units. Home to several interdisciplinary centers and institutes, the College embraces the teacher-scholar model and encourages excellent applicants within our disciplines, as well as scholars and teachers eager to work across them." Then "Duties And Responsibilities SMAD seeks a student-focused colleague to teach a core course in visual literacy and culture, as well as some combination of foundations and critical analysis courses. Depending on the successful candidate’s experience, this position could also allow for teaching in one of SMAD’s four concentrations or in a media-centric General Education course. The teaching load is 3 courses each semester. Tenure-track faculty must have an active creative or scholarly agenda that may include juried production activity or peer-reviewed academic research. Tenure-track faculty also have service responsibilities and opportunities within the department, college, and institution." Then "Qualifications An MFA, Ph.D., or other terminal degree is required; ABD applicants with the degree near completion will be considered with the requirement that the terminal degree be conferred no later than August 2027. The preferred candidate will have college-level teaching as well as professional industry experience in media or related fields." Also there is "Additional Posting Information Interested candidates must complete the online application on the JMU career site and provide the following: Cover letterCVNames and contact information for three references JMU’s Dual Career and Community Resources Program is available for candidates that will be relocating to the area. For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/2OTF1NG." This is application instructions; we must remove. Also "Beginning Review Date: 10/22/2026" maybe we could include as metadata? The instruction: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

or drop it. So we could include a short paragraph with opening date and review date maybe. But we need to decide if we keep it. It's substantive? It's a date. Could be included in a short

under About the role maybe. But we must not create headings for minor metadata. So we can include a paragraph with "Opening date: Sep 21 2026. Beginning review date: 10/22/2026." That's fine. Also "Working Title: Assistant Professor - School of Media Arts and Design" but we should not repeat job title as heading; we could include it in a paragraph maybe. But the instruction: "Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it)". It doesn't forbid including it in a paragraph. However, it's somewhat redundant. Might be okay to include as part of metadata. But we could drop it to avoid duplication. The instruction says fold minor metadata into a short

or drop it. So we could include a short paragraph with the working title and maybe position type etc. But we already have position type in the posting: "Position Type: Instructional / Teaching Faculty". That's also metadata. Could include. But we need to preserve ALL substantive information; does that include metadata like position type, FLSA status, etc? Those are likely considered boilerplate? Not exactly; they are specifics about the position. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. It does not say to remove metadata like position type, FLSA, pay band, etc. However, we should not create headings for them unless they have real specific content. We could include them in a short paragraph. But we also need to avoid creating sections like Pay/Schedule/Benefits unless posting actually states them. Pay Band: N/A, Pay Rate: Commensurate with Experience - those are not specific, so we should not create Pay section. But we could still mention them in a paragraph? The instruction says "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It doesn't forbid mentioning them elsewhere. However, to be safe, we could include them in a short paragraph under About the role or as a separate metadata paragraph. But we must preserve ALL substantive information. If we drop Pay Band and Pay Rate, are we losing substantive info? They are not substantive (they are N/A or vague). Might be okay to drop. The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; does not require preserving nonsubstantive placeholders. So we can drop N/A and "Commensurate with Experience". Similarly, we could drop Position Type? It's substantive: it's Instructional / Teaching Faculty. That's meaningful. FLSA Status: Exempt: Not Eligible for Overtime - also substantive. College/Division, Department - substantive. Beginning Review Date - substantive. Opening date - substantive. Thus we should include those details in a short paragraph. We need to avoid headings for minor metadata. So we can have a

that includes: "Position Type: Instructional / Teaching Faculty. FLSA Status: Exempt: Not Eligible for Overtime. College/Division: College of Arts and Letters. Department: School of Media Arts (100018). Opening date: Sep 21 2026. Beginning review date: 10/22/2026." We could also include Working Title but it's same as job title; maybe skip. Now we need to structure sections:

About the role

Combine JMU mission/vision/who we are, SMAD general info, plus metadata paragraph? Might be too long. Better to split: About the role could include JMU mission/vision/who we are and SMAD description. Then a separate

for metadata? But we said we prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine metadata into About the role paragraph after the description. Thus About the role paragraph