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