In fall 2015, Provost Deek established the first ever New Faculty Development Workshop with the intent to provide guidance and support to the newly hired tenure-track Assistant and Associate Professors.
New Faculty Workshops
Academic Year 2021 – 2022
New Faculty Development Workshop
Dates: Specified below
Time: 4:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. (includes working dinner served at about 6:00 p.m.)
Place: Ballroom B
Total number of sessions: 10
Attendees are placed in groups and each group has a mentor (Distinguished Professor, Master Teacher, etc.).
Each session has typically three time slots.
Slot-1: Interactive Talk
Slot-2: Brainstorming/Mentoring (group activity)
Slot-3: Case-Study Presentations
The workshop has three themes; two themes have three sessions and one theme has four sessions; the themes are:
Effective Teaching
Successful Grant Funding
Professional Service & Tenure
Week-1: Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Theme: Effective Teaching: Student Engagement
Week-2: Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Theme: Effective Teaching: Classroom Material
Week-3: Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Theme: Effective Teaching: Assignments, Assessment and Outside Classroom Activities
Week-4: Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Theme: Successful Grant Funding: Proposal Preparation
Week-5: Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Theme: Successful Grant Funding: Budget Preparation and Submission
Week-6: Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Theme: Successful Grant Funding: Proposal Review and Funding
Week-7: Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Theme: Professional Service & Tenure: Professional Societies
Week-8: Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Theme: Professional Service & Tenure: Scholarly Publications
Week-9: Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Theme: Professional Service & Tenure: Professional Ethics, IP and Students
Week-10: Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Theme: Professional Service & Tenure: Tenure Considerations