Department Head, Plant Sciences

We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we need to extract relevant content: description of role, responsibilities, requirements, qualifications, skills, benefits, pay, schedule. Let's parse the posting. First paragraph: The College ... seeking a full-time 12-month Department Head for its Plant Sciences Department (PLSC). Starting date approx June 1, 2027 or sooner as agreed upon by Dean and finalist. The Department Head is a tenured faculty position and will provide leadership for all academic and administrative functions including instruction, research, and alumni, donor and industry engagement. The Department Head leads a talented team of 7 tenure-line faculty, approx 7 full-time and part-time lecturers, and 7 office and technical staff, all of whom engage with approx 250 undergrad and 20 grad students. The Department Head has oversight of and intersection with several specialized teaching and research facilities and ranches, orchards and fields, including a new Plant Sciences Complex, Horticulture Greenhouses, an Arboretum, Citrus and Avocado Groves, Conventional and Organic Fields, and more. This position will provide leadership for the Plant Sciences Department in the following areas: Faculty and staff hiring, development, mentoring, and workload assignments; Advancement and fundraising; Management of budget, facilities, and departmental resources; Departmental curriculum development, assessment, and strategic planning; Equal-opportunity, accessibility, and nondiscrimination initiatives that foster a respectful and inclusive academic environment for all. The Cal Poly community promotes a "teacher-scholar model," which emphasizes scholarly activities and teaching excellence. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and potentially graduate courses in the Plant Sciences program. They will be expected to engage in scholarly activities (i.e., research, publishing, presenting, and grant or contract writing). Additional duties will include mentoring students, and participating in University, College, and Departmental committees, service, and other activities. Department Head appointments and 12-month assignments are made and continue at the pleasure of the College Dean. This is a tenured position within the Plant Sciences Department. Appointments with tenure shall be made only after an evaluation and recommendation by tenured faculty in the appropriate department. Tenure is given only in the instructional portion of the position, which includes teaching, research, and service. Academic rank and salary will be commensurate with the selected candidate’s qualifications and experience. Anticipated Hiring Range $175,000 - $185,000 at Full Professor rank. Then there is EEO boilerplate (remove). Then Required Qualifications list. Then Preferred Qualifications list. Then SPECIAL CONDITIONS (travel, mandated reporter, background check, smoke-free, out-of-state policy, YRO). Then About The Department (description). Then About The College (partial cut off). We need to preserve all substantive info, but we can drop boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Also drop duplicated lines. Also drop application instructions (none present). Also drop "SPECIAL CONDITIONS" maybe considered substantive? It includes travel, mandated reporter, background check, smoke-free, out-of-state policy, YRO. Those are substantive conditions. Should we include them? The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." We can include sections like Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. The SPECIAL CONDITIONS could go under Requirements or maybe as a separate section like "Conditions". But we only have allowed headings list; we should not create new headings not in list. So we need to map content to those headings. Let's decide: - About the role: could be a brief overview of the position (full-time 12-month Department Head, start date, tenured faculty position, leadership, team size, facilities). That seems appropriate. - Responsibilities: list of duties: faculty and staff hiring, development, mentoring, workload assignments; advancement and fundraising; management of budget, facilities, resources; departmental curriculum development, assessment, strategic planning; equal-opportunity, accessibility, nondiscrimination initiatives; teaching undergraduate/grad courses; scholarly activities; mentoring students; participating in committees; etc. - Requirements: maybe the required qualifications list (Ph.D., distinguished record, leadership, inclusive environment, strong professional record, teaching excellence, broad knowledge, collaborative priority setting, carrying out CAFES mission, managing resources, interacting with stakeholders, leading advancement/fundraising, communication skills). Also maybe the SPECIAL CONDITIONS (travel, mandated reporter, background check, smoke-free, out-of-state policy, YRO) could be considered requirements/conditions. But we can include them under Requirements as bullet points. - Qualifications: maybe the Preferred Qualifications list. - Skills: maybe we can extract skills from required/preferred: leadership, interpersonal, communication, budgeting, collaboration, instructional technology, etc. But we might not need a separate Skills section if content overlaps; we could put skills under Qualifications or Requirements. However instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine some. - Benefits: The posting does not mention benefits explicitly (health, retirement, etc). There's mention of smoke-free campus, but not benefits. So we should not create Benefits section. - Pay: we have Anticipated Hiring Range $175,000 - $185,000 at Full Professor rank. That's pay info. So we need a Pay section. - Schedule: The position is full-time 12-month. Also mention of possible transition to semester-based year-round operations (YRO). That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Pay, Schedule. Possibly Skills not needed. We must not include headings with filler text. Ensure each section has substantive content. Now we need to output HTML fragment: use

for section headings. Use

• for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

  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 that are substantive, but we can rephrase? The instruction says "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." That suggests we should not omit details, but we can rephrase? It says do not summarize away detail, meaning we should not condense or lose details. We can keep the details as is, maybe using same wording. However we need to format into HTML; we can keep sentences. We must remove boilerplate: EEO, legal, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. Also remove application instructions (none). Also remove navigation etc. We need to be careful not to include the EEO paragraph. Also remove lines like "EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT" and following. Also remove "SPECIAL CONDITIONS" heading? We need to incorporate its content but not as a heading. We'll embed its content under Requirements maybe as a list. Also remove "About The Department" and "About The College" maybe we can incorporate some of that into About the role or Responsibilities? The About the Department includes description of department, facilities, staff numbers, etc. That is substantive and relevant to role. Could be part of About the role or Responsibilities. Since we already have About the role covering overview, we could incorporate department description there. But we must not lose detail. So we can include that info in About the role paragraph. Similarly About The College is cut off; we have partial text: "The College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (CAFES) at Cal Poly is one of the nation’s premier colleges of agriculture and natural resources – and the fifth-largest of its kind in the U.S. With more than 4,100 undergraduates, 16 majors, five graduate programs, and 192 dedicated faculty and staff, CAFES". It ends abruptly; but we have that info. We'll include it in About the role maybe. Now we need to ensure we don't include any boilerplate like "Note: Cal Poly cannot deny an applicant a position solely or in part due to a criminal conviction history until it has performed an individualized assessment..." That's part of SPECIAL CONDITIONS but it's legal boilerplate? It's about background check policy; might be considered substantive? It's about hiring process. Might be considered part of conditions. However it's somewhat legal. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. This is legal background check policy; might be considered legal boilerplate. But it's also a condition of employment. Hard to decide. The instruction says remove legal boilerplate. So we should omit that line. Also the line about "Note: Cal Poly cannot deny an applicant a position solely or in part due to a criminal conviction history..." is legal. So we should drop it. Also lines about "Please note: Current employees who are offered positions on campus will be required to undergo a background check for any position where a background check is required by law or that Cal Poly has designated as sensitive." That's also legal. Might drop. Also "For health and well-being, Cal Poly is a smoke & tobacco-free campus." That's a policy; maybe keep as it's a condition? It's not legal boilerplate per se, but it's a policy. Could keep under Schedule or Requirements? It's about campus policy. Might be considered a condition. We'll keep it under Requirements maybe as a bullet. Also "In accordance with the California State University (CSU) Out-of-State Employment Policy, the CSU is a state entity whose business operations reside within the State of California and prohibits hiring employees to perform CSU related work outside of California. It is expected that tenure-line faculty establish an on-campus presence to fulfill their responsibilities." That's policy; could keep. Also "Subject to further planning and approval, Cal Poly anticipates a possible transition to semester-based year-round operations (YRO). Under YRO, full-time academic year faculty may be assigned to teach in two consecutive semesters (Fall/Spring, Spring/Summer, or Summer/Fall) out of the three semesters offered annually. The two-semester sequence will constitute the regular academic year appointment. Faculty may also be eligible to teach in the third semester for additional compensation, subject to departmental needs and University policy." That's schedule info; keep. Now we need to produce HTML. Let's draft sections. About the role (

  About the role

  ): paragraph summarizing: The College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences at Cal Poly seeks a full-time 12-month Department Head for Plant Sciences Department (PLSC), start date approx June 1, 2027 or sooner as agreed. Tenured faculty position providing leadership for all academic and administrative functions including instruction, research, alumni, donor and industry engagement. Leads team of 7 tenure-line faculty, approx 7 full-time/part-time lecturers, 7 office/technical staff, serving ~250 undergrad and ~20 grad students. Oversees specialized facilities: new Plant Sciences Complex, Horticulture Greenhouses (40k sq ft), Arboretum, Citrus and Avocado Groves, conventional and organic fields, etc. The department includes a brand-new 20,000 sq ft Plant Sciences Complex, 16-acre Horticulture Unit, 7,500 sq ft shade houses, 5-acre Mediterranean plant arboretum, Crops Unit with 70 acres citrus/avocado/grape/deciduous fruit/berry, 35 acres annual vegetable/forage (11 acres organic). Collaborates with Strawberry Center, Grimm Family Center for Organic Production and Research, Irrigation Technology Research Center, and other departments. Offers Plant