Strategy 8: Support the development of faculty and staff members
Faculty
- Identify an Associate Dean for Faculty Development (who will oversee orientation in future years)
- Develop and implement a process of centrally administered systematic orientation
- Develop and implement a continuous quality improvement method to evaluate and optimize orientation.
- Share key Faculty Orientation materials on the faculty affairs homepage
- Create and disseminate to departments a checklist for minimum orientation components to be used in orienting faculty at the departmental level
Sarah Lutz, Alex Stagnaro-Green, Jessica Hanks
Progress
Staff
- Administer survey/needs assessment with department leadership and administrators; undertake peer analysis of staff orientation programs to determine best practices
- Review the current and develop the new COM hiring system and onboarding process
- Create ongoing orientation program framework offered centrally for all new employees
- Create a “Staff Affairs” webspace on COM website, and within website, develop a resources space focused on employment policies and procedures and orientation program and materials
Michael Paprzyca, LaVitta Steward, Shari Wynn
Progress
- Identify best practices for career development planning within COM and outside COM
- Develop a process for disseminating best practices to Department Heads
- Develop a process for measuring the use and effectiveness of recommended career development processes
- Share best practices and opportunities for Career Development Plans on faculty affairs website
- Develop a continuous quality improvement method to evaluate and optimize recommended practices
Claudia Lora, Robert Hyde
Progress
- Establish survey to measure current staff wellness as well as gaps that need to be addressed
- Identify 3 to 5 key areas of wellness to target as priority focus areas based on survey results
- Identify changes that need to occur to improve wellness that will address both college success and staff satisfaction
- Administer ongoing blast surveys to gauge success
- Progress to other identified wellness goals after measured success of priority focus area goal
Debora McCall, Beth Wrona Murphy, Ted Ebersold, Cathy Grimsted, Michael Wesbecher
Progress
- Establish mentor liaison committee
- Identify best practices in mentorship within each COM department and outside institutions
- Develop a process for disseminating best mentoring practices to departments via the mentor liaison committee
- Identify metrics for measuring the implementation success of recommended mentorship practices
- Develop a continuous quality improvement method to evaluate and optimize recommended mentoring practices
Memoona Hasnain, Steven Sims, Alan McLachlan, Andre Balla
Progress
- Establish survey to measure current staff wellness as well as gaps that need to be addressed
- Identify 3 to 5 key areas of wellness to target as priority focus areas based on survey results
- Identify changes that need to occur to improve wellness that will address both college success and staff satisfaction
- Administer ongoing blast surveys to gauge success
- Progress to other identified wellness goals after measured success of priority focus area goal
Lisa Stigger, Lynne Keeton, Brett Ruiz
Progress
- Develop a repository of currently existing Campus resources for supporting faculty health and wellness
- Identify gaps to support faculty health and wellness
- Develop/identify new resources/initiatives to support faculty health and wellness based on gap analysis above
- Implement innovative and evidence-based activities/initiatives to support and enhance faculty wellbeing
- Evaluate the effectiveness of new resources/initiatives to support faculty wellbeing using continuous quality improvement framework
- Disseminate faculty wellness resources on the COM faculty affairs website
Stephanie Joe, Memoona Hasnain
Progress
Faculty Development Success Metrics
Metric 1 (S8aM1):
Number of faculty recruitments and yield rates among diverse candidates
DRAFT ONLY
Current Value:
0
Target Value:
0
Metric 2 (S8aM2):
% increase in promotion rates by faculty level
DRAFT ONLY