Supporting the Professorate: MU’s Faculty Development Initiatives to Enhance Teaching & Research

1. Supporting the Professorate: MU’s Faculty Development Initiatives to Enhance Teaching & Research Vice Provost Handy Williamson, Jr, PhD International Programs and Faculty Development University of Missouri-Columbia

2. MU’s General Objectives of Faculty Development are: • To provide individual faculty members appropriate incentives to become more effective in teaching, research, and service activities • To provide faculty with necessary support facilities and resources for personal and professional renewal • To provide flexibility within the institutional environment in response to changing faculty career aspirations and interests as well as shifting institutional priorities

3. OverallCharge • Faculty development in its broadest sense refers to the totality of programs, procedures and processes within an academic institution promoting improved faculty performance.

4. Examples of Other Good Faculty Development Objectives • To develop excellent faculty, academic staff and • administrators who individually and/or collectively are • enabled to provide high quality service and leadership • across integrated missions of instruction, research, • and outreach at a contemporary research-intensive • university in the land-grant tradition.

5. Objective Examples • To provide programs for faculty, academic staff, and administrators that span their careers, including opportunities that address early, middle-and late career needs and interests. • To strengthen community at the University and encourage productive collaborative relationships among participants.

6. Objective Examples • To build collaborative partnerships with other units and • the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, to support • a variety of faculty development projects rather than • delivering all effort through a single Michigan State • faculty development center.

7. Faculty Development Flowchart

8. Program for Excellence in Teaching (PET) FACULTY & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Faculty Development Advisory Task Force New Faculty Mid-Career Later Years Administrative Other MU Initiatives ET@MO Office of Research MU Alumni Incentive Grants Program Schools & Colleges Faculty Dev. Programs UM Research Board Teaching & Learning Council UM South Africa Exchange Program (UMSAEP) Provost Award for Leadership in International Education Pre Faculty Minor in College Teaching ** New Faculty Orientation ** Wakonse ** Wakonse Deans’ Retreat Proposed Emeritus Faculty initiative Adjunct Faculty Initiative Academic Directors Teaching Renewal Conference Teaching Renewal Conference New Faculty Teaching Scholars Department Chairs’ Retreat ** Global Scholars Program ** Global Scholars Program ** Multicultural Teaching Scholars Provost s’ Staff Retreat ** Big 12 Faculty Fellowship ** Faculty Development Leave New Chair’s Retreat ** Colleagues Circle Fulbright Scholar in Resident Program ** Research Leaves Teaching Renewal Conference PALI ** EU Center Research Grant Fulbright Scholar in Resident Program New Faculty Discussion Hour ** EU Center Curriculum Dev. Grant ** EU Center Curriculum Dev. Grant ** EU Center Curriculum Dev. Grant Overview of Faculty Development Initiatives at MU

9. Faculty Development Programs Funded through IPFD: • Faculty Development Project Awards • Faculty Development Leave • New Faculty Orientation • Programs for Excellence in Teaching • Multicultural Teaching Scholars • Colleagues Circle • European Union Curriculum Development Grant

10. Faculty Development Programs Funded through IPFD: • European Union Research Grant • Wakonse • Global Scholars Program • Big 12 Faculty Fellowships • Faculty Research Leaves • Deans’ Retreat • Department Chairs’ Retreat • New Chairs’ Forum

11. Description of Faculty Development Leaves • A leave of absence granted for professional development and/or career renewal to:

12. Afford Experienced Faculty an Opportunity to: • Regain or improve knowledge of an academic specialty • Achieve competence in a new field of study • Upgrade instructional performance

13. Afford relatively inexperienced faculty the opportunity to • Broaden or achieve greater depth in a defined field of study • Acquire or enhance specialized research skills • Improve instructional competence • Achieve competence in a new area of scholarly or administrative performance

14. Allow faculty who have become ineffective and/or non-productive, to restore effectiveness by participating in: • A program of advanced study • An internship • A planned sequence of related workshops, conferences, short courses and symposia

15. A Faculty Development Leave may also offer faculty the opportunity to: • Devise new curricula • Assist in the revision or development of instructional programs where such an undertaking requires an unusual or extraordinary expenditure of time, energy, and resources.

16. 2004 Approved Faculty Development and Research Leave Allocations Faculty Faculty Development Research CollegeLeaveLeaveTotal Agriculture $0.00 $32,980.00 $32,980.00 Arts & Science $6,375.00 $164,900.00 $171,275.00 Business $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Education $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 School of HES $0.00 $8,245.00 $8,245.00 School of Journalism $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 School of Law $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 School of Medicine $0.00$0.00$0.00 TOTALS$6,375.00 $206,125.00 $212,500.00

17. 2005 Approved Faculty Development and Research Leave Allocations Faculty Faculty Development Research CollegeLeaveLeaveTotal Agriculture $4,796.00 $7,462.00 $12,258.00 Arts & Science $16,388.00 $177,626.00 $186,014.00 Business $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Education $4,796.00 $0.00 $4,796.00 School of HES $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 School of Journalism $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 School of Law $0.00 $ 7,462.00 $7,462.00 School of Medicine $0.00$0.00$0.00 TOTAL $23,980.00 $186,550.00 $203,068.00

18. Faculty Development Leave Program • Provides individual faculty members with resources and support for becoming more effective in teaching, research, and service activities. • All full-time faculty are eligible; untenured faculty members may apply if assurances are forthcoming from the appropriate divisional dean that the applicant's relationship with the University is likely to continue long enough to justify the investment.

19. Faculty Development Project Awards • Faculty Development Project Awards afford faculty the opportunity to update or revitalize current skills, develop new skills in a current area, or enter into new areas. • Who can participant: Faculty that are new, in mid-career or in later years • Individual awards will not exceed $3,500. Joint proposals or departmental proposals, will not exceed $7,000. Awards for workshops and symposia will not exceed $5,500. Salaries will not be funded. • Full-time faculty appointments during the 2003-2004 academic year are eligible to apply. Projects for this application period should begin after December 1, 2004, but no later than May 1, 2005.

20. Big 12 Fellowship Program • Developed by the Chief Academic Officers of the Big 12 Universities, the Big 12 Faculty Fellowship Program offers faculty the opportunity to travel to member institutions to exchange ideas and research. Faculty visits will ordinarily be for two weeks, but longer visits are possible.

21. Big 12 Fellowship Program • General Guidelines • A faculty member at any Big 12 university may visit • any other Big 12 university. A faculty member's home • institution will provide up to $2,500 to cover costs • associated with each visit. No additional funding is • available from this program. • The selection of Big 12 fellows will be made by a faculty committee chaired by the Vice Provost for Academic Resource Development and Internationalization

22. Program for Excellence in Teaching (PET) • PET offers a variety of services to assist instructors in accessing the research on student learning and in developing their teaching skills. Services provided include: • Mid-semester feedback from their students can request • one of our early feedback services, • Instructors who want to understand research on learning • intersects with college teaching can attend one of our • many workshops or utilize our library resources. • These are just two of the many types of services provided by PET that you can use in developing your professional career.

23. Colleague Circles • Colleagues Circle Program is a product of the • Carnegie Foundation initiative for promoting the • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) at MU. • Faculty meet in small groups with one or two senior • faculty mentors.

24. Multicultural Teaching Scholars Program • Multi Teaching Scholars Program enhance the ability • of departments to recruit members of underrepresented • groups to MU during the summer. This helps prepare • MU graduate and undergraduate students for the future • by introducing them to a faculty more representative of • the diversity of American society.

25. Preparing Future Faculty Program Preparing Future Faculty Program (PFF) initiative at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) was begun in the fall of 2001 and is coordinated by the Graduate School, in conjunction with the Program for Excellence in Teaching (PET).

26. Deans’ & Department Chairs’ Retreat Deans’ and Department Chairs’ Retreat assist MU deans and chairs in developing strategies to manage evolving campus leadership roles, and provide information and updates to upcoming issues

27. Wakonse Conference on Faculty Teaching • The Wakonse Conference on College Teaching is an • annual conference exploring teaching through highly • interactive large and small group presentations, • discussion groups and hands-on experiential sessions

28. For more Information contact: Office of the Vice Provost for International Programs and Faculty Development 211 Jesse Hall Phone: 573-882-9061 FAX: 573-884-5681 www.missouir.edu/~mafdwww e-mail: mafd@missouri.edu