This program encourages faculty to review expectations and learn about successful strategies for promotion in the academic professional track (APT). The audience is APT faculty considering promotion to any rank within the next three to five years.
Previous Workshop Sessions
Promotion Basics and Planning your Strategy on the Academic Professional Track
Heather Wilkinson, professor and associate vice president for Faculty Affairs
Learning Outcomes
- Contemplate your timeline.
- Envision your impact on your field.
- Consider your approach to networking.
- Recognize the importance of colleagues and mentors who will tell you the truth.
- Review examples of CV annotations.
- Survey resources available to you to develop skills in service of your goals.
- Plan your service to serve your plans.
- Be intentional with your teaching.
- Consider the questions you should ask at your annual review.
GPS Activity
Heather Wilkinson, professor and associate vice president for Faculty Affairs
Learning Outcomes
- Identify goals for your areas of responsibility (teaching, research, and service).
- Set milestones needed to meet goals for midterm review.
- Set milestones needed to meet goals for promotion dossier submission.
- Estimate the resources and skills you need to meet your milestones and accomplish your goals.
- Map your network and mentors.
Craft a Teaching Impact Narrative
Jean Layne, lead instructional consultant, Center for Teaching Excellence
Learning Outcomes
- Define goals for teaching impact.
- Identify sources of evidence.
- Create process of reflection and documentation for continuous improvement.
Promoting Professional Development in Graduate Student Mentoring
Julie Harlin, associate professor and associate dean, Graduate and Professional School
Clint Patterson, assistant director of mentoring, Center for Teaching Excellence
Learning Outcomes
- Identify the roles mentors play in the overall professional development of their mentees.
- Develop a strategy for guiding professional development using an individual development plan.
- Initiate and sustain periodic discussions of professional goals and career development with mentees.
- Engage in open dialogue on balancing the competing demands, needs, and interests of mentors and mentees.
Strategies to Craft a National Reputation as an Academic
Heather Lench, professor and senior associate vice president for Faculty Affairs
Heather Wilkinson, professor and associate vice president for Faculty Affairs
Bruce Herbert, professor of Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communications
Kelly Brown, associate vice president of Marketing and Communications
Learning Outcomes
- Develop a scholarly or creative narrative.
- Make your work more accessible.
- Recognize how essential effective networking is to you career.
- Enhance your digital identity.
- Justify your narratives with metrics.
Leaning in to Structure, Accountability, and Habit Formation to Jumpstart Your Writing Goals This Summer
Sharon Matthews, clinical associate professor and associate department head, Teaching Learning and Culture
Jeana Guillory, instructional consultant, Center for Teaching Excellence
Learning Outcomes
- Explore the role an “agile” approach can play in structuring your productivity as a faculty member (Participants receive a free book).
- Option to participate in a 3-week faculty writing accountability program. (This session counts as the orientation).
- Develop a the structures and habits necessary to create your own writing accountability group.