New Faculty Academy
What is the New Faculty Academy?
This is a year-long program with monthly events aimed at enhancing new faculty鈥檚 long-term career success at 快活林性息. These events range from panels, workshops, and even informal lunches. In addition, we will learn valuable time management, productivity, and balance skills through the
This program is ideal for first-year faculty (tenure-track and lecturers) as well as 鈥渘ewer鈥� faculty hired during the past 3 years. Upon successful completion of the New Faculty Academy, you will earn a certificate from Faculty Development that can be added to your future evaluation and rehiring materials (e.g., Personnel Information File/PIF).
Program Objectives
New faculty will have the opportunity to develop critical faculty skills such as: planning your semester, time management, developing the art of saying no, engaging in healthy conflict, developing a writing practice, cultivating an academic network, and managing stress and rejection. By the end of this year, faculty who complete all of the required parts of the program should be able to:
- Recognize & use the most critical information to navigate the first years at 快活林性息 effectively;
- Distinguish the resources and campus efforts that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion;
- Create authentic connections and relationships with students, faculty, staff, and essential campus partners;
- Implement strategies that will increase confidence and wellbeing as a 快活林性息 faculty member;
- Identify and affirm the multiple identities of our campus community.
Year-Long Topics & Activities
Each month a session will be offered on campus. Participants seeking a completion certificate, in addition to attending the monthly sessions, will also be invited to join a Canvas course to complete asynchronous activities. Monthly topics may include:
- Exploring Your Strengths as New Faculty
- AI in the Classroom
- Building Capacity for Your Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities
- Engaging in Purposeful Service Opportunities
- Navigating Struggles and Creating Balance
- Preparing Your First Professional Information File (PIF)
Apply to Join the 2024-2025 New Faculty Academy
Are you ready to commit to creating a positive听community with an interdisciplinary group of newer faculty to achieve the above program objectives? Priority will be given to first-year faculty hired in fall 2024.
Once you are accepted, you will receive an email from the co-facilitators Nayan Ramirez (New Faculty Foundations Fellow) and Marcy De Veaux (Associate Director of Faculty Development) and be invited to join the complementary Canvas course.
We will meet each month from 1:00-2:15pm in FacDev Commons on the Fridays listed below in the tentative schedule.
Application is now closed, but you are welcome to attend any of our monthly events below.
听2024-2025 Schedule
The New Faculty Academy monthly events are intended to serve faculty who will participate in the year-long program. However, new faculty who wish to attend a single event are welcome!听
September 2024: New Faculty Academy Overview
- Friday, September 13 from 1:00 to 2:15pm in FacDev Commons
- NCFDD Strategy & Tools: Every Semester Needs a Plan
October 2024: AI in the Classroom
- Friday, October 11 from 1:00 to 2:15pm in FacDev Commons
- NCFDD Strategy & Tools: How to Align Your Time with Your Priorities
November听2024:听Engaging in Purposeful Service Opportunities
- Friday, November 8 from 1:00 to 2:15pm in FacDev Commons
- NCFDD Strategy & Tools: The Art of Saying No
December 2024: Exploring Your Strengths as a New Faculty鈥�
- Friday, December 6 from 1:00 to 2:15pm in FacDev Commons鈥�
- NCFDD Strategy & Tools:听Cultivating Your Network of Mentors
January 2025: New Faculty Reconnection (Wednesday, January 15th)
February 2025:听Building听Capacity for Your Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities
- Friday, February 14 from 1:00 to 2:15pm in FacDev Commons
- NCFDD Strategy & Tools: How to Develop a Daily Writing Practice
March 2025: Navigating Struggles and Creating Balance
- Friday, March 7 from 1:00 to 2:15pmin FacDev Commons
- NCFDD Strategy & Tools: How to Manage Stress, Rejection, & the Haters in Your Midst
April 2025: Preparing Your First Professional Information File (PIF) with Faculty Affairs
- Friday, April 18 from 1:00 to 2:15pmin FacDev Commons
- NCFDD Strategy & Tools: Overcoming Academic Perfectionism
May 2025: Celebration of New Faculty
Which faculty completed the program?
Arts, Media, and Communication
Cinema and Television Arts:听Guillermo Rodriguez Romaguera鈥∕usic:听Hilary Yip
Business and Economics
Systems and Operations Management:听Mahdi Najafabadi, Daeeun (Daniel) Choi
Engineering and Computer Science
Civil Engineering & Construction Management:听Vartenie Aramali
Education
Deaf Studies:听Lisa Hermatz, Lee Ann Tang鈥‥ducational Psychology and Counseling:听Shereen Allison, Ang茅lica Galv谩n, Hongshan Shao鈥‥lementary Education:听Dominic Grasso鈥⊿econdary Education:听Traci Dennis鈥⊿pecial Education:听Fatmana Deniz
Health and Human Development
Child and Adolescent Development:听Manisha Chase, Marlen Quintero Perez鈥‵amily and Consumer Sciences:听Eunju Kim鈥↘inesiology:听Mariko Iwabuchi, Anjum Padyal
Humanities
Religious Studies:听Vikas Malhotra鈥ˋmerican Indian Studies:听Alesha Claveria
Social and Behavioral Sciences
History:听Marissa Jenrich鈥≒sychology:听Adrian Valadez鈥⊿ocial Work:听Zayda Sorrell-Medina鈥⊿ociology:听Leah Lamoreaux
University Library
Research, Instruction & Outreach Services:听Brianna Limas; Lisa Cheby
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