Professional Development:
Action 1: Provide opportunities to enhance instructional abilities (workshops, revise instructional assessment)
Metric 1: Participation by pre-tenure, mid- and late-career faculty in professional development
opportunities aimed at improving instructional abilities (+)
Metric 2: Develop coherent, multi-faceted, teaching assessment strategies
Metric 3: Use of these assessment strategies over time (+)
Action 2: Provide opportunities to enhance scholarship
Metric 1: Report circulated to faculty on current support structures.
Metric 2: Number of faculty submitting grants and contracts to external funding sources (+)
Metric 3: Number of faculty scholarly activities (i.e. publications, creative works) (+)
Action 3: Provide training opportunities to enhance leadership skills (workshops, training)
Metric 1: A list of recommended opportunities is distributed to faculty.
Metric 2: Number of faculty participating in leadership training (+)
Retention and promotion:
Action 4: Develop a mentoring program for faculty in all stages of their career
Metric 1: Number of faculty at all stages who have mentors (+)
Action 5: Review CAS P&T document
Metric 1: CAS P&T document is either revised or affirmed.
Action 6: Create processes that allow P&T evaluations to provide timely, transparent, and actionable feedback
Metric 1: Time between submission of dossiers and receipt of feedback by faculty member (-)
Metric 2: Availability of guidelines for P&T evaluation to faculty
Metric 3: Faculty satisfaction with P & T evaluation process as expressed in surveys (+)
Action 7: Create mechanisms to identify and encourage candidates qualified for promotion to full professor
Metric 1: Number of years that faculty spend on average as associate professors (-)
Communication:
Action 8: Increase communication between Dean and the departments for the purpose of better advocacy of
the CAS mission