Agenda

Faculty Development Committee: Agenda for February 5—Organizational meeting 1. Opening remarks from Provost Winston Langley 2. The plan for this meeting 3. Review charge 4. Overview and background 5. Work plan and timetable Surveying the landscape and drafting a plan: o  Charting current activities at UMB to gain a comprehensive picture (see grids) o  Researching possible best practices from the literature, from other institutions (by areas of faculty work; by career stages) o  Identifying areas to concentrate on in our planning (in relation to our faculty needs and institutional priorities   o   Shaping relevant recommendations   o   Drafting a plan  Process: Work groups for domains of faculty work, re-formed by career stages (sign up sheets)  Proposed timetable below  Wiki   6.  Connecting ourselves to this work   o   Paired discussion: key elements that have contributed most to your own development as a faculty member and that of others from your observations at UMB (notes)   o   Introductions and people’s interests/connections to this work   7.  Getting started: What is in place at UMB, overall and by colleges  One example: CLA: Jean Humez re. On Track I and II, Donna Kuizenga  Other colleges, CIT, University structures: orientation, internal grants, sabbaticals, PMYR  Meetings:   February:    Meeting 1: All, overview and planning   Meeting 2: Groups: organize work re. best practices in Research, Teaching, Service/Outreach/Public Scholarship March Meeting 1: Groups: consolidate work re. RTS. Meeting 2: All—reports from groups, planning next work, career stages April Meeting 1: Groups: consolidate work re. career stages Meeting 2: All—reports from groups. Sketch larger recommendations for draft May Meeting 1: All--review recommendations and draft. Further discussion, suggestions for revision Meeting 2: Approve final report