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Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Accelerating AI adaptation

The Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAAI) has the goal of serving as a central coordinating hub for academic affairs activities that are aimed to substantially accelerate our pace of curricular and scholarly adaptation in the responsible application of artificial intelligence technologies.

Foundations and goals

Foundations

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies—and generative AI (genAI) in particular—are rapidly transforming industries and research fields, and it is imperative that institutions of higher education match the pace of this transformation in their curricular and scholarly planning. This is an essential adaptation that enables our graduates to fully realize the benefits of their postsecondary education:

  • AI technologies are transforming the job market by creating new roles and requiring existing professions to adapt, so we must equip our graduates with the AI skills and knowledge they need to succeed in this evolving landscape and contribute to the ethical development and deployment of AI to societal benefit.
  • Similarly, the integration of AI in research activities is essential in remaining at the forefront of the frontiers of knowledge across all disciplines.

Ultimately, institutions of higher education that invest in AI education and research will be better positioned to attract and serve students, gain extramural funding, build industry partnerships, and successfully attract faculty and staff talent.

Goals and objectives

IAAAI’s mission is to foster innovation in the responsible application of AI technologies to learning and scholarship. By strategically aligning related efforts across the institution and coordinating activities among areas in academic affairs and other divisions, we will accelerate institutional progress and maximize the impact of our collective investments. More specifically, the IAAAI will seek to:

  • Coordinate, develop, and recommend actions for curricular transformation, collaborating with academic units to support and incentivize adaptations and additions that promote AI learning for students;
  • Guide the development of professional development and engagement programs for faculty, staff, students, and the broader community to build AI skills and knowledge; and,
  • Collaborate on promoting the formation of interdisciplinary research teams on work in the applications of AI and support the formation of project teams aligned with specific funding opportunities.

Organization and structure

The IAAAI’s organization relies on faculty leadership and broad stakeholder engagement to partner with the Office of the Provost and shape the Institute’s trajectory, direct high-impact projects, and lead task forces and working groups.

Leadership

The IAAAI is led by co-executive directors Michelle Miller and John Georgas, serving to offer strategic direction to the IAAAI’s efforts and ensure alignment with parallel initiatives across the institution and with the Office of the President.

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Michelle Miller

Michelle Miller is a Professor with the Department of Psychological Sciences in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and President’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow. She has been an essential part of NAU’s success in many past institutional initiatives through her leadership, including the First Year Learning Initiative, University College, Persistence Scholars Program, and First Year Together. In addition to innovating in her personal teaching practice through technology, Michelle has established herself as a national leader in higher-education applications of AI and is the author of widely acclaimed books on pedagogy and technology, including Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology and Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology: Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World.

John Georgas profile

John Georgas

John Georgas is the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Operations and a Professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems. He oversees a broad portfolio of offices that underpin academic operations and student success, including Graduate and Professional Studies, University Advising, Registrar, Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity, Academic Affairs Marketing, Academic Affairs Business Analysts, and the U.S. Air Force and Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps programs. John’s research interests include software and architectural visualization, self-adaptive software systems, and software engineering pedagogy and learning, and his teaching has spanned courses across undergraduate and graduate levels in computer science and software engineering.

We will offer updates as additional faculty leaders are recruited to this effort, as we will be seeking to identify a director of curriculum and learning and a director of research and scholarship.

Advisory Council

Members of the advisory council will collaborate with IAAAI leadership and ground our work in diverse perspectives from across the institution, identify emerging opportunities and risks, recommend strategic priorities, advise on policies and guidelines, review and assess the progress of our work and its impact, facilitate connections with external partners, and champion our initiatives and programs across multiple communities.

Selected based on nominations from our academic deans and Faculty Senate, our advisory council members will help inform the IAAAI’s work through a wide breadth of perspectives, disciplinary lenses, institutional roles, and locations.

  • Shadow Armfield, Associate Dean and Professor, Department of Educational Specialties, College of Education
  • Kara Attrep, Associate Dean and Associate Teaching Professor, Honors College
  • Peggy Bradley, Director and Assistant Clinical Professor, College of Nursing
  • Michelle Carpenter, Executive Director and Professor, School of Communication, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Charles Chadwell, Dean and Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Construction Management, and Environmental Engineering, Steve Sanghi College of Engineering
  • Bettie Coplan, Faculty Senator and Associate Professor, Department of Physician Assistant Studies, College of Health and Human Services
  • Kate Ellis, Faculty Senate President and Professor, Department of Theatre, College of Arts and Letters
  • Roger Haro, Dean and Professor, School of Earth and Sustainability, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences
  • Joseph Little, Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting, W. A. Franke College of Business
  • Jeff Meeks, Interim Chair and Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Health and Human Services
  • Erik Nielsen, Chief Sustainability Officer and Professor, School of Earth and Sustainability, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences
  • Gioia Woods, Chair and Professor, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, College of Arts and Letters

Updates and messages

We will continually offer updates on our progress and messages we send to our institutional community.

Announcing the Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Dear colleagues,

As we all launch into the Year of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Empowerment, we’re excited to announce an academic affairs-homed effort aimed at accelerating our pace of adaptation to the emergence of AI technologies—the launch of the Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAAI).

Goals
As artificial intelligence technologies continue to offer us opportunities to responsibly and thoughtfully adapt and innovate in our courses, curricula, and scholarship, the IAAAI will serve as a hub that harnesses our collective expertise and coalesces our actions across the institution. Adapted from proven organizational models used by other institutions, this effort will engage with and collaborate broadly across our colleges and departments to facilitate the development of AI-infused courses and curricula, support programs that serve the learning needs of faculty and the broader community, and create opportunities for interdisciplinary scholarly collaborations. Through these initiatives, the IAAAI will serve as an important part of our institutional strategy in preparing students for evolving career readiness demands and innovative scholarly possibilities, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of innovation and educational excellence.

Governance and advisory council
Our approach to designing the IAAAI’s governance structures recognizes the essential need that our planning and implementation efforts are led by faculty and guided by input from a broad set of stakeholder voices. We will soon be announcing internal searches for the IAAAI’s co-executive director, director of curriculum and learning, and director of research and scholarship—these three faculty leaders will partner with the Office of the Provost to shape the Institute’s trajectory, direct high-impact projects, and lead taskforces and working groups. An advisory board composed of academic leaders across colleges, departments, and our Faculty Senate will help offer strategic guidance to the IAAAI’s activities. In the coming weeks, we will also be sharing more details about other opportunities to get involved in the IAAAI’s work through taskforces and functional groups, calls for pilot initiatives, open discussion forums, and other ways to engage.

As our work progresses, we will continue to offer frequent updates over email communications and the IAAAI’s web portal that is currently available on legacy.nau.edu/provost/academic-operations/iaaai/. We invite each of you to join us in shaping the future of this effort—your perspectives are essential in helping NAU appropriately leverage AI technologies in serving our students and mission.

Accelerating AI Empowerment Faculty Hiring Initiative

Dear Deans, Chairs, and Center/Institute Directors,

The Office of the Provost and OVPR are pleased to announce the Accelerating AI Empowerment Faculty Hiring Initiative in which we invite proposals for new faculty hires with expertise in Artificial Intelligence in areas that augment NAU’s scholarly and teaching capacities. A particular interest is in proposals that create a competitive advantage in NAU’s areas of demonstrated excellence.

A full description of this initiative can be found in the attached memo. Briefly, however, we are soliciting proposals from Deans, Chairs, and/or Center/Institute Directors that identify particular areas of study at NAU where the addition of faculty with AI capacities has potential for outsized impact to open new scholarly opportunities. Multi-party proposals are encouraged, and, of course, we encourage you to discuss this opportunity with your faculty. Successful proposals will be integrated into a single multi-position search.

Proposals are limited to no more than 2 pages of text (total) and are due by 5pm on Friday, September 5, 2025. Proposals should be submitted to OVPR@nau.edu for consideration. We expect to select successful proposals quickly so that we can begin the search process as soon as possible.

Questions can be directed to Jason.Wilder@nau.edu or ovpr@nau.edu.

Accelerating AI Empowerment Faculty Hiring Initiative

NAU’s Office of the Provost and Office of the Vice President for Research are soliciting proposals for new tenure-track faculty positions that bolster NAU’s capacity in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in alignment with our scholarly and teaching missions and our commitment to the teacher-scholar model. We anticipate hiring at least two new Assistant-level faculty members through this initiative during the current academic year (AY25-26; i.e., a presumptive start date of fall 2026) based on this solicitation. Pending the outcomes of this initiative and resource availability, a similar solicitation may be issued for another round of hiring in AY26-27.

With this solicitation we are inviting proposals for new faculty hires in areas that augment both our scholarly and teaching capacities with a particular interest in proposals that help NAU maintain a competitive advantage in its areas of demonstrated excellence. As such, proposals will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

  • A well-articulated case statement for how a new faculty member with capacities in AI will create new scholarly opportunities that complement and synergize with existing NAU expertise to address timely and significant research and scholarly
    topics, including in technology development.
  • The potential for AI expertise to increase NAU’s competitiveness for external research grants and/or to increase NAU’s ability to compete successfully for larger program-scale grants.
  • The opportunity to contribute to teaching and scholarly mentorship for NAU students, including at the undergraduate and graduate levels, with the goal of enhancing NAU’s 100% Career Ready initiative and our student engagement goals.

In an evolving and unpredictable federal research landscape, we are particularly interested in faculty who can develop new external partnerships and contribute to the diversification of NAU’s funding portfolio to address applied questions that are aligned with Arizona and national priorities.

Proposal Guidelines
We invite department chairs, deans, and center/institute directors to respond to this solicitation. Multi-party proposals are welcome. Each proposal should contain the following elements:

  1. Brief description of the field/area of expertise of proposed new faculty.
  2. Case statement articulating complementarity and potential for synergy with NAU’s areas of demonstrated excellence. Include examples of possible funding opportunities, as appropriate.
  3. Statement on potential contributions to classroom teaching and student mentoring.
  4. Identity of potential academic unit homes and, if appropriate, potential center/institute affiliations.
  5. List of academic and/or center/institute leaders who have co-developed the proposal.

Proposals are limited to no more than 2 pages of text (total) and are due by 5pm on Friday, September 5, 2025. Proposals should be submitted to OVPR@nau.edu for consideration.

Proposal Review and Search Process
Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation will be reviewed and selected by leadership within the Provost’s Office and OVPR based on the criteria described above. Successful proposals will be incorporated into a single multi-position job posting with NAU’s search process overseen by a single unified search committee. Members of the search committee will be selected by the OVPR/Provost’s Office in consultation with the individuals who submit successful proposals. The search committee will be responsible for all operational aspects of the search process, with the OVPR/Provost’s Office acting in an
oversight role to approve key search milestones (e.g., final job ad, on-campus invitations) and final hiring decisions.

Questions regarding this opportunity can be directed to ovpr@nau.edu or Jason.Wilder@nau.edu.

Announcing internal search—Co-executive director of the Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Dear colleagues,

In one of the first steps toward realizing our vision for the Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAAI), we are excited to announce an internal search for the position of the Institute’s co-executive director (40% FTE).

Leadership opportunity
The co-executive director of the IAAAI will partner with other faculty and academic leaders along with senior leadership in the Offices of the Provost, Vice President for Research, and Information Technology Services to advance NAU’s commitment to fostering innovation and the responsible application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to learning and scholarship. This leadership appointment will combine innovative program development with operational oversight to direct a significant institutional investment that ensures our graduates are prepared to thrive in a rapidly evolving technological landscape.

Details
More details on this opportunity appear at the end of this message and in the attached file—interested faculty members are invited to apply by submitting a cover letter and CV to VPAO@nau.edu by Monday, September 1.

We hope you each consider this opportunity to lead the IAAAI initiative and help us appropriately leverage AI technologies to better serve our students and benefit our scholarly work. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions.

Leadership Opportunity: Co-Executive Director, Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence (40% FTE)

The Office of the Provost invites applicants for the Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence. This position will partner with John Georgas, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Operations, to provide leadership in establishing this institute, aimed to advance NAU’s commitment to foster innovation and the responsible application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to learning and scholarship. The successful candidate is expected to start in September 2025. The position is a maximum 40% administrative faculty appointment at the Flagstaff campus with an additional month of summer compensation. Academic year 2025-2026 workload will be negotiated based on availability and home academic unit needs.

This leadership appointment combines innovative program development with operational oversight to direct an institutional investment in developing academic affairs applications of AI that ensure our graduates and scholarly activities are prepared to thrive in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. The Co-Executive Director will collaborate with other faculty leaders to coordinate AI-focused academic efforts across the institution, engage faculty in curricular transformation, foster collaborative interdisciplinary research teams, and guide professional development initiatives. The ideal candidate will be an innovative and action-oriented faculty leader eager to collaborate broadly with faculty, academic unit leaders, deans, and senior academic affairs and institutional leadership.

Required Qualifications:

  • Current full-time faculty at Northern Arizona University in the Flagstaff main campus
  • A record of collaboration across academic and administrative units
  • Experience with AI applications in teaching or research

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Familiarity in the application of AI across disciplines
  • Leadership experience in a higher education setting
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively lead curricular and research development initiatives
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills

Interested faculty members are invited to apply by submitting a cover letter and CV to VPAO@nau.edu. Applications are due by Monday, September 1.

Individuals with questions are encouraged to contact John Georgas, Senior Vice Provost of Academic Operations and Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

Announcing the IAAAI Advisory Council

Dear colleagues,

We’re excited to announce a major milestone in our launch of the Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAAI)—the formation of the IAAAI advisory council.

Mission
Members of the advisory council will guide and support the Institute’s work in accelerating our pace of thoughtful adaptation to the emergence of artificial intelligence technologies by collaborating with IAAAI leadership and grounding our work in diverse perspectives from across the institution, identifying emerging opportunities and risks, recommending strategic priorities, advising on policies and guidelines, reviewing and assessing the progress of our work and its impact, facilitating connections with external partners, and championing our initiatives and programs across multiple communities.

Membership
Selected based on nominations from our academic deans and Faculty Senate, our advisory council members will help inform the IAAAI’s work through a wide breadth of perspectives, disciplinary lenses, institutional roles, and locations. We’re grateful to the inaugural members of the IAAAI Advisory Council:

  • Shadow Armfield, Associate Dean and Professor, Department of Educational Specialties, College of Education
  • Kara Attrep, Associate Dean and Associate Teaching Professor, Honors College
  • Peggy Bradley, Director and Assistant Clinical Professor, College of Nursing
  • Michelle Carpenter, Executive Director and Professor, School of Communication, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Charles Chadwell, Dean and Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Construction Management, and Environmental Engineering, Steve Sanghi College of Engineering
  • Bettie Coplan, Faculty Senator and Associate Professor, Department of Physician Assistant Studies, College of Health and Human Services
  • Kate Ellis, Faculty Senate President and Professor, Department of Theatre, College of Arts and Letters
  • Roger Haro, Dean and Professor, School of Earth and Sustainability, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences
  • Joseph Little, Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting, W. A. Franke College of Business
  • Jeff Meeks, Interim Chair and Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Health and Human Services
  • Erik Nielsen, Chief Sustainability Officer and Professor, School of Earth and Sustainability, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences
  • Gioia Woods, Chair and Professor, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, College of Arts and Letters

Please join me in congratulating and thanking members for their service to this important institutional initiative.

We invite each of you to join us in this effort—we’ll continue to share opportunities for participation and updates through communications such as this one and our web portal (currently available on legacy.nau.edu/provost/academic-operations/iaaai/) and have created the iaaai@nau.edu email address, which you can use to reach out to IAAAI leadership.

IAAAI leadership update and faculty forum on AI

Dear colleagues,

We’re very happy to share two important updates with you on our progress toward realizing the vision for our Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAAI): the selection of Michelle Miller as the co-executive director of the IAAAI and our partnership with the Faculty Senate in hosting the AI on Campus: Exploring Future Possibilities faculty forum.

Michelle Miller joining the IAAAI as its co-executive director
Following a competitive search process, Michelle Miller has been appointed as co-executive director of the IAAAI, bringing a distinguished record of innovative academic leadership and national engagement to the role. Michelle is a Professor with the Department of Psychological Sciences in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and President’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow. She has been an essential part of our success in many past institutional initiatives through her leadership, including the First Year Learning Initiative, University College, Persistence Scholars Program, and First Year Together. In addition to innovating in her personal teaching practice through technology, Michelle has established herself as a national leader in higher-education applications of AI with the American Association of Colleges and Universities, Association of College and University Educators, American Psychological Association, and Chronicle of Higher Education—advising and influencing the work of universities across the country on AI policy and practice. Michelle is the author of widely acclaimed books on pedagogy and technology, including Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology and Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology: Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World.

October 27 faculty forum to envision and shape the future
Co-sponsored by the Faculty Senate and the IAAAI, we’re happy to help host the AI on Campus: Exploring Future Possibilities forum that will foster discussion among faculty on the challenges, opportunities, and possible futures for higher education around AI technologies. Moderated by Faculty Senate leaders—Luis Fernandez, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, KT Thompson, Department of English, and Gioia Woods, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies—the forum will ground discussion through the diverse disciplinary perspectives of a panel of experts:

  • Ira Allen, Department of English;
  • Jayme Davis, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies;
  • Evan Donahue, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies;
  • David Politzer, School of Art and Design; and,
  • Mithun Paul, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems.

The forum will take place on October 27, 2025, from 3:30PM to 5:00PM in Liberal Arts (building #18), room #120—participants will be able to join virtually through a link provided after registering for remote participation for the event (https://nau.zoom.us/meeting/register/_SXDk6uJSf-UfypLq-vP5A#/registration).

Please join me in warmly welcoming Michelle Miller to her IAAAI leadership role and I hope to see you all during our upcoming discussion forum! As always, we’ll continue to share opportunities for participation and updates through communications such as this one and our web portal (currently available on legacy.nau.edu/provost/academic-operations/iaaai/).

Announcing two internal searches for the Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Dear colleagues,

As we continue our work toward realizing our vision for the Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAAI), we are excited to announce two additional searches for the Institute’s leadership team—(a) the Director of Curriculum and Learning (20% FTE) and (b) the Director of Research and Scholarship (20% FTE).

Leadership opportunities
The Director of Curriculum and Learning will collaborate with other faculty leaders to coordinate artificial intelligence (AI) focused academic efforts across the institution, engage faculty in curricular transformation, and guide professional development initiatives. Complementing this work, the Director of Research and Scholarship will collaborate with other faculty leaders to coordinate AI- focused research and scholarship efforts across the institution and engage faculty in research and scholarship activities around AI. Both positions will report to IAAAI co-executive directors Michelle Miller and John Georgas and partner with other faculty, academic leaders, and senior leadership in the Offices of the Provost, Vice President for Research, and Information Technology Services to advance NAU’s commitment to fostering innovation and the responsible application of AI technologies to learning and scholarship. These leadership appointments will combine innovative program development with operational oversight to direct a significant institutional investment that ensures our graduates are prepared to thrive in a rapidly evolving technological landscape.

Details
More details on these opportunities appear, along with instructions for applying, can be found at the end of this message and in the attached files—applications are due Friday, November 7.

We hope you each consider one or both opportunities to partner in leading the IAAAI initiative and help us appropriately leverage AI technologies to better serve our students and benefit our scholarly work.

Director, Curriculum and Learning for the Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence (20% FTE)

The Office of the Provost invites applicants for the Director of Curriculum and Learning for the Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAAI). This position will partner with Co-Executive Directors John Georgas, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Operations, and Michelle Miller to provide leadership in establishing this institute, aimed to advance NAU’s commitment to foster innovation and the responsible application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to learning and scholarship. The successful candidate is expected to start in January 2026. The position is a maximum 20% administrative faculty appointment with an additional one-half month of summer compensation. Academic year 2025-2026 workload will be negotiated based on availability and home academic unit needs.

This leadership appointment combines innovative program development with operational oversight to direct an institutional investment in developing academic affairs applications of AI that ensure our graduates are prepared to thrive in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. The Director will collaborate with other faculty leaders to coordinate AI- focused academic efforts across the institution, engage faculty in curricular transformation, and guide professional development initiatives. The ideal candidate will be an innovative and action-oriented faculty leader eager to collaborate broadly with faculty, academic unit leaders, deans, and senior academic affairs and institutional leadership.

Required Qualifications:

  • Current full-time faculty at Northern Arizona University
  • A record of collaboration across academic and administrative units
  • Experience with AI applications in teaching

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Familiarity in the application of AI across disciplines
  • Leadership experience in a higher education setting
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively lead curricular development initiatives
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills

Interested faculty members are invited to apply by submitting a cover letter and CV to VPAO@nau.edu. Applications are due by November 7, 2025.

*Individuals with questions are encouraged to contact John Georgas, Senior Vice Provost of Academic Operations or Michelle Miller, Co-Executive Directors of the Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

Director, Research and Scholarship for the Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence (20% FTE)

The Office of the Provost invites applicants for the Director of Research and Scholarship for the Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAAI). This position will partner with Co-Executive Directors John Georgas, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Operations, and Michelle Miller to provide leadership in establishing this institute, aimed to advance NAU’s commitment to foster innovation and the responsible application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to learning and scholarship. The successful candidate is expected to start in January 2026. The position is a maximum 20% administrative faculty appointment with an additional one-half month of summer compensation. Academic year 2025-2026 workload will be negotiated based on availability and home academic unit needs.

This leadership appointment combines innovative program development with operational oversight to direct an institutional investment in developing academic affairs applications of AI that ensure our graduates are prepared to thrive in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. The Director will collaborate with other faculty leaders to coordinate AI- focused research and scholarship efforts across the institution and engage faculty in research and scholarship activities around AI. The ideal candidate will be an innovative and action-oriented faculty leader eager to collaborate broadly with faculty, academic unit leaders, deans, and senior academic affairs and institutional leadership.

Required Qualifications:

  • Current full-time faculty at Northern Arizona University
  • A record of collaboration across academic and administrative units
  • Experience with AI in research and scholarship

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Familiarity in the application of AI across disciplines
  • Leadership experience in a higher education setting
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively lead research and scholarship initiatives
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills

Interested faculty members are invited to apply by submitting a cover letter and CV to VPAO@nau.edu. Applications are due by November 7, 2025.

*Individuals with questions are encouraged to contact John Georgas, Senior Vice Provost of Academic Operations or Michelle Miller, Co-Executive Directors of the Institute for Advancing Applications of Artificial Intelligence.