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The Faculty Development Initiative includes
multiple approaches to help new faculty balance and
integrate teaching and research responsibilities,
improve time management and life balance, and to
foster collaboration among STEM faculty.
Key Personnel:
Beverly Delidow
and
Marcia
Harrison; partnered with
John Maher and
Elaine
Baker.
MU-ADVANCE will fund competitive
mini-grants
for Individuals and Collaborative Groups.
Mu-ADVANCE helped develop the following best
practices brochures:
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Search Committee
Strategies and Guidelines
The Search Committee Strategies and
Guidelines brochure is a tool to reduce
gender bias during the search process. This
brochure is a step-by-step navigation tool for
the search committees, beginning with the
selection of search committee members and ending
with the hiring of a new faculty member.
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Best
Practices: For the New Hire
Best Practices: For the New Hire provides
information for new faculty, including how to
make contact with administrators and colleagues;
useful university resources, such as discounts
on home computers and the library system; and
how to ensure that their road to tenure is being
paved.
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Best Practices: Welcoming New Faculty
Best Practices: Welcoming New Faculty
encourages departments to make
community-building a goal. One way to retain
faculty is to nurture and support them both
academically and socially. This guide offers
tips on how to kindle new faculty assimilation
and participation within the department.
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Best
Practices: The New Faculty Hire
Best Practices: The New Faculty Hire is a
resource for the hiring department. This
brochure provides the Chair and Dean of the
hiring unit with a detailed description of their
roles and responsibilities in the interview and
offer processes. Specifically, the guide
highlights important aspects of these processes,
such as what information to supply to the
candidates, to ensure that both parties
understand each other.
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Quick Start Guide to Tenure & Promotion
The Quick Start Guide to Tenure and Promotion
offers tips and suggestions, from document
collection to service commitments, to help
ensure faculty members are successful in their
quests for tenure and promotion.
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Best Practices: Encouraging Retention
Best Practices: Encouraging Retention
examines how the institution can introduce and
orient new faculty members to such things as
colleagues, grant opportunities, annual reports,
and the tenure and promotion process. Focusing
on both the first few weeks and the first year
of a new faculty member’s career, this guide
offers tips on how to help them “fit in” and
become successful at Marshall.
We now provide a listing of other
funding opportunities
for faculty and students with a list of those with
fall 2007 deadlines. We also provide individual
lists of
internal,
West Virginia, and
national
funding opportunities.
Also, MU-ADVANCE supported fellowships to support non-tenured female
faculty for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 academic year.
The Faculty Development
Initiative provides multiple approaches to
balancing and integrating teaching and research
which is vital to the success of all faculty.
Marshall has a critical need to retain new faculty
and involve established faculty in mentoring junior
faculty. Therefore, the MU-ADVANCE
Faculty Development Initiative will support
mentoring projects that partner new female faculty
with established Marshall faculty with an overall
goal of improving retention, and increasing
collegiality and collaboration among STEM faculty
while offsetting potential isolation of new female
faculty.
A broader impact will be the increase in female
faculty at Marshall through improved retention of
talented STEM female faculty. |