Monitoring Dept. Health and Welfare
Valuing Diversity in the Dept.
Supporting Pre-Tenure Faculty Career Development
Encouraging Mid-Career Professional Development
Faculty Development Programs, Benefits, & Resources
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, BENEFITS, AND RESOURCES
In addition to the College programs highlighted below, the University offers a University-wide orientation program for new faculty. The Faculty Fellows Program orients new faculty to the UW, provides a forum to meet other new faculty as well as senior faculty, and assists them in improving their teaching skills and preparing their teaching portfolios. Two additional campus teaching resources include the Center for Instructional Development and Research, which provides help with the improvement and assessment of teaching and learning, and the Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching, a national leader in engineering education research that provides engineering faculty professional development assistance in the area of pedagogical innovation.
TARGETED FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS:
- The College of Arts & Sciences annually conducts promotion and tenure workshops annually for assistant professors who have received their contract renewal, department chairs, and deans. In addition to discussing research, teaching and service expectations, the workshop outlines factors that influence the assessment of the work quality (see their Promotion and Tenure Guideline). For new department chairs, the College conducts a two-day orientation. This workshop covers personnel, faculty career management and development, faculty code, budget, and department affairs management.
- The College
of Engineering offers several workshops for faculty.
- The half-day new faculty workshop provides an overview of College resources for new faculty and includes tips for success in balancing teaching, research, and service.
- Each year the CAREER workshop, offered to eligible faculty, gives tips on applying for the NSF CAREER award.
- An annual grant-writing workshop provides guidance on writing successful proposals (both government and industry), details the mechanics of the grant submission process, and gives tips on interdisciplinary grant writing and information regarding intellectual property.
- A workshop on research group management teaches faculty how to manage a large research group, including organizing the work; creating an organizational plan and managing the lab; and supervising technical, professional and classified staff.
- Each year the Dean of Engineering hosts a workshop on "Navigating the Tenure Track" which is offered to all pre-tenure faculty.
- Under the ADVANCE program, cross-department half-day leadership development workshops have been offered to department chairs in the 19 ADVANCE departments (science, mathematics, and engineering). The Chairs are encouraged to invite an Emerging Leader to each workshop. Workshop topics focus on issues such as navigating dual career hire situations, transitioning from associate to full professors, dealing with difficult people, etc. Besides offering leadership training, these workshops provide a forum for department chairs from different colleges to interact.
Last Updated: July 07, 2005
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