Assistant Provost for Undergraduate and General Education - Campus Only Search

Department/Organization
200023 - General Education

Rank
Associate/Full Professor

Position Summary
Reporting to the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education and Dean of Honors College, the Assistant Provost will represent OAA, as the primary operational leader of OUE and the primary integrator of undergraduate academic systems, timelines, General Education initiatives, and external relationships.

Detailed Position Information
Reporting to the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education and Dean of Honors College, the Assistant Provost will represent OAA, as the primary operational leader of OUE and the primary integrator of undergraduate academic systems, timelines, General Education initiatives, and external relationships. The position provides strategic operational leadership for General Education by coordinating priorities across curriculum systems, assessment, onboarding, and communications while managing office workflow, staffing processes, implementation timelines, and documentation standards. Serving as the primary liaison to key governance and academic bodies—including the Core Curriculum Oversight Committee and the University of Alabama Teaching Academy—the role oversees annual committee staffing, chairs the General Education Task Force during review cycles, and guides exemption decisions. It maintains strong partnerships across campus and external agencies to ensure alignment, policy clarity, and student mobility, and leads coordination of High-Impact Practices such as Experiential Learning and GE Pathways. The position also manages curriculum and catalog processes in CIM/CourseLeaf, develops and maintains technology-enabled systems and online portals, supports AI and digital literacy initiatives, and supervises Built by Bama Undergraduate Ambassadors.

The Assistant Provost for Undergraduate and General Education must embody UA’s core competencies by championing undergraduate education, being open to challenges and critiques, committing to service excellence for students, faculty and staff, embracing academic and technological innovation, fundraising, as well as being a team player in a fast-paced, progressive learning environment. The Assistant Provost must have demonstrated familiarity with the current approved general education core and demonstrate the highest level of executive leadership in driving the future direction, promotion, and advancement of UA’s general education reform.

Minimum Qualifications
Must be a current University of Alabama faculty member to be considered.

Preferred Qualifications
N/A

Instructions and Required Materials for Application
CV, cover letter, teaching philosophy, teaching evaluations. CV and Cover Letter should be attached along with references.

About the Division/College/School

About the University
The University of Alabama is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, named one of Travel + Leisure’s 25 Best College Towns and Cities in the U.S. As one of the nation’s premier universities, UA offers bachelor’s, master's and doctoral degrees in nearly 200 fields of study. With more than 1,400 acres of tree-lined academic core campus and over 300 state-of-the art facilities, UA has been ranked among the most beautiful and most impressive college campuses in the South, in the state of Alabama and in the nation.

In Fall 2023, the Capstone set a new enrollment record with more than 39,000 students, including more than 8,200 in the freshman class. The current enrollment includes students from every county in Alabama, every state in the nation and 92 countries around the world. More than 1,100 National Merit Scholars are currently enrolled, making UA one of the largest enrolling institutions of the scholars in the country.

UA was recently recognized as a Top Producing Institution of Fulbright U.S. students for the seventh time in nine years, as well as a Top Producing Institution of Fulbright U.S. Scholars for the first time. UA is one of only 12 universities in the nation to receive both honors.

For reasons like this, the University made Forbes list of America’s Top Colleges for 2023 and Time magazine’s list of Top 50 Best Colleges for Future Leaders. It also made Princeton Review’s list of Top Value Colleges.

UA is also designated among the top doctoral research universities in the United States in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. One of the fastest growing major research institutions in the nation, UA saw a 21% increase in sponsored awards in the 2023 fiscal year.

Since 2015, UA has invested over $1.1 billion