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Minutes from Research/Scholarship Working Group: 2_20 [|Faculty Development Research Minutes II.doc] - March 3, 2009

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Some preliminary ideas from Research/Scholarship Working Group (2_20)


 * Improve mentoring at all career stages
 * Responsibility of chairperson. Need more preparation for chair’s role in establishing and maintaining adequate mentoring for faculty at all career stages. (university service)
 * Responsibilities of tenured faculty, more senior faculty for mentoring. Guidance and expectations about these. (university service)
 * Plan for progressive mentoring, with faculty taking on new mentoring roles as they reach successive career stages.
 * Expand the definition of scholarship to include the scholarship of teaching and public scholarship and provide mentoring/contacts/resources to help faculty carve out scholarly programs in these areas, even at later career stages. Emphasize a broadly-defined notion of productivity for all faculty, but particularly for faculty at later career stages who have become stuck.
 * Increase flexibility about use of present resources, negotiating better understandings between departments and ORSP re. internal grant expectations
 * Develop activities/supports around the PMYR process to enable it to have greater impact.