Thriving in Academia: Supporting Faculty Excellence

 

People Inside the Library Gathered Together

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This semester, we are excited to host a series of programming about thriving in academia and supporting the faculty experience on our campus. This initiative, co-sponsored with the College of Education, aims to provide programming that will address pivotal moments in academic career development, and to address challenges faced by faculty members today.

All programs will take place in the Faculty Development Center (109 Halle) and on Zoom.

Open to Faculty & Lecturers

This semester, we are hosting three programs.

Congratulations, You Got Tenure! Now What?

Wednesday, March 26 @ 2:30 - 3:45 PM

Facilitators:

Matt Cook, Geography & Geology

Iman Grewal, Teacher Education

Joe Rodriguez, Accounting, Finance & Information Systems

The point after getting tenure can be disequilibrating for faculty.  You’ve been working years to get to a point, and now you are there.  What comes next?  How do you think about your career now that this big hurdle has been cleared?

Professoring and Parenting

Thursday, April 3 @ 2 - 3:15 PM

Facilitators:

Patrice Bounds, Director of Undergraduate Studies; Leadership and Counseling

Anne Casper, Biology

Andrew Mansfield, Engineering

Parenting is important, but so is our job as professors.  How do we manage to do both without feeling as if fulfilling one role diminishes our ability to fulfill the other?  There is no easy answer or obvious approach, but there is value in listening to how others have navigated this space and learning from them.

Making the Most of a Research Leave

Thursday, April 10 @ 11 AM - 12:15 PM

Facilitators:

Margeaux Claude, Art & Design

Paul Leighton, Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology

Cam McComb, Art & Design

Ildi Porter-Szucs, World Languages

Lots of faculty members get research leaves, but not all of them are successful. How can a faculty member about to go on research leave set themselves up for a productive, and restorative, time (given that these goals may or may not be the same)?  What tricks have successful recipients learned that they can share? Come learn from folks with a wide range of experiences at EMU, and a variety of experiences with research leaves, about how to make this work!