Assistant Professor, Tenure Track - Literacy

We need to produce HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must remove boilerplate (cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning). Must preserve all substantive info. Must not invent or summarize away detail. Must not include placeholder text like "commensurate with experience". For Pay and Schedule sections, only include if posting actually states them. The posting says: "Anticipated Hiring Range Salary: Competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications." That's vague, not a specific number. 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. The phrase "Competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications." is placeholder-like; it's not a specific number. So we should not create a Pay section. Benefits: The posting says "Benefit Eligibility This position is eligible for University benefits. As part of your total compensation, the University offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental and vision plans, retirement, and educational fee discounts for all four UM System campuses." That's specific enough to include Benefits section. Schedule: Not mentioned (9-month appointment is mentioned). That could be considered schedule? The posting says "(9-month appointment)". That is schedule info. Should we include Schedule section? The rule: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text. "9-month appointment" is specific. So we can include Schedule section with that detail. Now we need sections: About the role (maybe a brief description). Responsibilities (list of duties). Requirements (maybe qualifications). Qualifications (maybe separate). Skills (maybe list of skills). Benefits (as above). Pay (skip). Schedule (9-month appointment). Also maybe we need to include "About the role" summarizing the position description. The posting includes a paragraph about the department seeking applicants, description of role. We'll put that in About the role. Responsibilities: list bullet points from "The successful candidate will have..."? Actually those are qualifications. Responsibilities: "Maintain an active program of research and scholarship with the potential for external funding", "Teach courses related to early childhood literacy education consistent with the program and departmental instructional needs (e.g., early childhood literacy methods, assessment, or a combination thereof)", "Incorporate the current limitations and possibilities SoR landscape in research and collaboration", "Contribute primarily to ECE and Literacy Masters and Undergraduate program through teaching, research, and service", "Provide leadership and service to the program, department, college, and university". Those are responsibilities. Requirements: maybe the qualifications list: "An earned doctorate in early childhood education with a literacy focus, early childhood literacy education, or a related field", "At least 3 years of experience teaching in early childhood and/or early literacy classroom or teacher education settings". Also maybe "Applicants Will Be Evaluated Based Upon The Following Criteria" list: Understanding of the current SoR landscape, including imitations and possibilities for early language and literacy teaching and learning, Knowledge of ECE and literacy policy, national/state standards, Understanding of community and family systems supports early childhood development, Record of (or demonstrated potential for) scholarly productivity, Success as a collaborator on a scholarly or instructional team, Ability to teach and support undergraduate and graduate students of early childhood education and literacy, Ability to work and engage collegially with individuals from early childhood, elementary, and literacy-focused settings as well as with department, university, and community members, Knowledge of preservice teacher education for early childhood literacy educators, Experience teaching at college level, Experience teaching in an online program, Experience in programmatic leadership, Grant experience and research collaboration. We could split into Requirements (minimum) and Qualifications (preferred) but the instruction says use sections as given; we can decide to put doctorate and 3 years experience under Requirements, and the evaluation criteria under Qualifications or Skills. However we also have a Skills section; we could put skills like "Ability to teach...", "Ability to work...", "Knowledge of preservice teacher education", etc. But we need to avoid duplication. Better: Use Requirements for the mandatory qualifications (doctorate, 3 years experience). Use Qualifications for the evaluation criteria list (the bullet list). Use Skills maybe for specific skills like "Grant experience and research collaboration", "Experience teaching at college level", "Experience teaching in an online program", "Experience in programmatic leadership". But those are also in evaluation criteria. Might be redundant. Given instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe we combine: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (including doctorate+experience), Qualifications (including evaluation criteria), Benefits, Schedule. That's 5 sections. Skills maybe omitted if covered. We must not include Pay. Benefits we have. Now we need to output only HTML fragment, no /. Use

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  for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we must include all details from the posting, but we can condense into lists but must not lose info. Must not drop any substantive detail. Let's extract all substantive info: - Department: Department of Learning, Teaching & Curriculum (LTC) at University of Missouri. - Position: assistant (tenure-track) position in early childhood literacy education (9-month appointment). - Successful candidate will have: doctorate in early childhood literacy education or early childhood education with a literacy focus, demonstrated potential for excellence in scholarship, commitment to conduct research, pursue external funding that aligns with University’s status as an AAU member, skills pertinent to research, teaching, service, and collaboration. - Faculty member will maintain active program of research, teaching, service consistent with current College of Education and Human Development tenure-track faculty. - Of particular interest: scholars whose research based in early childhood (Birth-3rd grade) and literacy education and examines critical issues in early childhood literacy education including early childhood literacy methods, standards, policies, family, and community contexts in relation to literacy education. - Maintain active program of research and scholarship with potential for external funding. - Teach courses related to early childhood literacy education consistent with program and departmental instructional needs (e.g., early childhood literacy methods, assessment, or a combination thereof). - Incorporate the current limitations and possibilities SoR landscape in research and collaboration. - Contribute primarily to ECE and Literacy Masters and Undergraduate program through teaching, research, and service. - Provide leadership and service to the program, department, college, and university. - Qualifications: earned doctorate in early childhood education with a literacy focus, early childhood literacy education, or a related field. - At least 3 years of experience teaching in early childhood and/or early literacy classroom or teacher education settings. - Applicants Will Be Evaluated Based Upon The Following Criteria: - Understanding of the current SoR landscape, including imitations and possibilities for early language and literacy teaching and learning - Knowledge of ECE and literacy policy, national/state standards - Understanding of community and family systems supports early childhood development - Record of (or demonstrated potential for) scholarly productivity - Success as a collaborator on a scholarly or instructional team - Ability to teach and support undergraduate and graduate students of early childhood education and literacy - Ability to work and engage collegially with individuals from early childhood, elementary, and literacy-focused settings as well as with department, university, and community members - Knowledge of preservice teacher education for early childhood literacy educators - Experience teaching at college level - Experience teaching in an online program - Experience in programmatic leadership - Grant experience and research collaboration - Anticipated Hiring Range Salary: Competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications. (We will not include Pay section.) - Application Materials: apply online at link, upload letter of application, CV with details, list of references. Search Committee Chairs: Dr. Amber Smith (ansmith@missouri.edu) and Dr. Angie Zapata (zapatam@missouri.edu). Application Deadline: Review of applications will begin October 22, 2026, and continue until filled. Sponsorship Information: Employment visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Other Information: description of College of Education and Human Development, LTC, community info, Benefit Eligibility, EEO etc. We must remove boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. But we must keep Benefit Eligibility info. Also we might keep some other info like "Other Information" about College etc? That is substantive but maybe not required for sections; but we must preserve ALL substantive information. However we can incorporate that info into About the role or other sections? The "Other Information" includes description of College, its mission, rankings, research footprint, department composition, community info. That's substantive. We need to preserve it. Where to put? Could be part of About the role (maybe a paragraph about the department and college). Or we could create a section "About the Department" but not in allowed headings list. The allowed headings are only those listed: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We cannot add other headings. So we must fit that info into one of those sections. Probably About the role can include description of department, college, community. That seems appropriate. Thus About the role will contain prose about the department, position, college, community, etc. Now we need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. We'll not. Now we need to remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning. The posting includes "Equal Employment Opportunity The University of Missouri is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To request ADA accommodations, please call the Director of Accessibility and ADA at 573-884-7278." That's boilerplate; we must remove. Also "Benefit Eligibility This position is eligible for University benefits..." we keep. Also "Other Information The College of Education and Human Development and LTC ..." we keep as part of About the role. Also "Application Materials Apply on-line at ..." that's application instructions; we must remove application instructions per rule: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we must remove the paragraph about applying online, uploading materials, search committee chairs, deadline, sponsorship info. Those are application instructions. So we must drop them. However we must preserve substantive information; but the rule says remove application instructions. So we should not include the link, CV details, etc. That is a bit contradictory to preserving all substantive information, but the instruction explicitly says to remove application instructions. So we obey that. Thus we will not include any info about how to apply, deadlines, contact, sponsorship. Now we need to include Benefits section with the specifics: medical, dental and vision plans, retirement, educational fee discounts for all four UM System campuses. Now Schedule section: "9-month appointment". We'll put that. Now we need to ensure we don't include placeholder text like "Competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications." We'll omit Pay section entirely. Now we need to ensure we don't include any heading with empty/filler content. Now produce HTML:

  About the role

  ... prose ...

  Then

  Responsibilities

  • ... each responsibility ...
  Then

  Requirements

  • ... doctorate ...
  • ... at least 3 years experience ...
  Then

  Qualifications

  • ... each evaluation criterion ...
  Then