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Empowering Faculty Excellence: The OFD Report

Explore the Office of Faculty Development's mission, goals, faculty advisory committee, current activities, and planned initiatives to support faculty success and address their evolving needs. Stay informed and engaged!

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Empowering Faculty Excellence: The OFD Report

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  1. Report on theOffice of Faculty Development

  2. The OFD at a Glance • Mission:To identify and respond effectively to the needs of the faculty • Reporting Structure:Reports to Provost through the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. • Goals: • To continually and actively engage faculty and Faculty Senate, encouraging exploration of hard questions and a diversity of conversations regarding faculty needs and equity issues. • To create a framework that responds to faculty needs and concerns as they evolve. • To create and sustain specific activities and processes that support faculty success. • To undertake on-going assessment of the programs of this office.

  3. OFD Faculty Advisory Committee • Faculty oversight: • Don Morrison (Humanities, Chair) • Tom Killian (Natural Sciences) • Marcia O’Malley (Engineering) • Elizabeth Long (Social Sciences) • Gordon Wittenberg (Architecture) • Gustavo Grullon (Business) • Kathy Matthews (Natural Sciences)

  4. OFD Faculty Advisory Committee • Advise Director on priorities for OFD programs. • Review regularly data and policies relevant to faculty, including hiring, promotion, retention, climate, satisfaction, and equity (space, salary, teaching, time in rank, cohort retention, distribution by department/gender/race). • Review policies/procedures and assess whether they are working effectively • Ensure that the Office of Faculty Development is identifying and meeting the needs of the faculty.

  5. OFD Current Activities • Search committee training • Access to databases of under-represented minority PhDs in STEM fields • Informational sessions on Promotion & Tenure • Informal lunches for women faculty (~2 per semester) • Monthly discussions for department Chairs • New faculty orientation • Triad mentoring program • Faculty exit survey

  6. OFD Planned Activities • Targeted programs for mid-career faculty (e.g., orientation session, information on promotion, mentoring initiatives, leadership opportunities, and innovative teaching sessions with CTE) • Evaluation of unsuccessful faculty searches • Pilot programs in Engineering, Humanities, Natural Sciences, & Social Sciences • Climate study (Fall 2014) • With VPAA – review of faculty policies

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