Organizational Structure and Tasks
- Review the Implementation Grid of the University Strategic Plan to identify potential collaborative opportunities for the Faculty Development Team and recommend how the team could be involved. (1.1.3; 1.3.1; 1.3.2; 2.4.3 etc.).
- Provide input concerning topics and speakers for the provost/VPAA's "Second Wednesday" series.
- Seek input from faculty about programs and resources needed to support faculty development.
- Work with various colleges/schools as a liaison/resource for faculty development activities. Encourage and, when possible, facilitate a broad range of interdisciplinary discussions among faculty at all the schools.
- Review and assess the revised New Faculty Orientation program that was implemented in fall of 2013. Provide suggestions and/or recommendations for change and enhancement.
- Determine Team's organizational structure (officers/leadership e.g., chairperson, secretary, and/or other positions).
- Draft operational policies and procedures (e.g., frequency of meetings, who calls meetings), notification time for meetings (e.g., ten days), time period for distribution of agenda (e.g., five days), timeline for preparation and approval of meeting minutes.
- Team replaces the existing Faculty Development Committee and the Faculty Excellence Committee.
- Establish procedures for keeping records of approved resolutions, advice, membership records and other actions.
- Draft general assessment process and goals for first year (to be updated annually).
- Include clear time limits for action on various issues as per paragraph 4 under "Further Details" of Shared Governance Task Force proposal approved by the university community.
- Deliberate and act on priority issues identified by the Vice President of Academic Affairs.
- Provide Shared Governance Task Force with draft operational policies and procedures by December 1.
- Responsible for development and designation of faculty awards.
- Make recommendations to the appropriate administrators regarding, and where appropriate, implementing steps that can be taken to further faculty professional development.
- Encourage and when possible, facilitate a broad range of interdisciplinary discussions among faculty at all the schools.
- Identify activities that are implemented specifically to support and assist junior faculty in developing themselves as effective scholars (excellent teachers and researchers) and disseminate this information regularly, broadly, and through various means.
- Identify areas of faculty concern and recommend campus safety topics for resource development; work with Public Safety to develop Campus Safety Instructional Tools to address these concerns.
- Identify and recommend speakers (internal and external) for Second Wednesday session topics identified in last year’s survey.
- Talk with key stakeholders within the University community and create a proposal for a formal junior/senior faculty mentorship program at Detroit Mercy that addresses early career faculty and mid-career faculty.
- For University wide faculty development sponsored, co-sponsored events, assist in monitoring the event, introducing speakers, creating evaluation instruments.
- Identify areas of faculty concern and recommend campus safety topics for resource development; work with Public Safety to develop Campus Safety Instructional Tools to address these concerns.
- Create a proposal for a formal junior/senior faculty mentorship program at Detroit Mercy that addresses early career faculty and mid-career faculty.
- For University-wide Faculty Development Team sponsored/co-sponsored events, continue to assist in monitoring the event, introducing speakers, creating evaluation instruments.
- Develop a Table of Contents for a proposed online eFaculty Handbook.
- Establish procedures for keeping records of approved resolutions, determinations, advice, membership records and other actions.
- Keep the University community informed of team activities by providing summary minutes of meetings and reports. The secretary of the team is responsible for sending these documents to sharedgovernance(at)udmercy.edu for posting on the shared governance website.
- Verify whether team's operational policy and procedures are consistent with practice. Submit your revised document to the Shared Governance Task Force through the chairperson by December 1. If there are no changes to be made notify the SGTF chairperson by the same date.