1. List one mid-career faculty issue per post-it note you’d like to discuss at today’s workshop We will collect post-it notes and ID topical groups for the small group discussions

2. A Chair’s Role in Stages of the Faculty Career: Mid-Career Faculty
UW ADVANCE
Winter Quarterly Leadership Workshop
March 6, 2018

3. AGENDA 10:30 – 10:40 Welcome and Introductions
10:40 – 11:10 Panel Overview and Discussion
11:10 – 12:15 Small Group Activity: Caucusing
12:15 – 12:20 Wrap-up and Evaluations
12:20 – 1:00 Networking Lunch

4. Panelists
Brian Reed, Professor and Chair of English, Professor of Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media
Suzanne Hawley, Divisional Dean of Natural Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences, Professor of Astronomy
Mike Bragg, Dean, College of Engineering, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

5. Brian Reed ADVANCE Leadership Workshop:
A Chair’s Role with Mid-Career Faculty
March 6, 2018

6. Post-Tenure: What Next?
The Freedom to Choose
The Need to Choose
The Burden of Increased Demands

7. Encourage exploration of options
Mentoring Mid-Career Faculty:
What’s a Chair to Do?
Encourage exploration of options
Facilitate the creation of a narrative
Point to resources
Counsel on competing demands for time
Make labor visible
Recognize achievements

8. Mid-Career Faculty: Common Problems
Isolation and alienation from unit
Excessive service burden
Excessive supervision burden
Work-life imbalance
Lack of confidence (or overconfidence) regarding one’s accomplishments

9. Promotion from Associate to Full:
What’s Needed
Explicit but flexible guidelines and standards
Multiple paths to being considered for promotion
Clarity regarding identity-based challenges faced by some faculty (implicit bias etc.)
Willingness to put fairness ahead of precedent and tradition

10. Some Useful MLA Reports
“Guidelines for Good Practice.” Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada, 2015.
“Standing Still: The Associate Professor Survey.” Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, 2009.
“Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion.” Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion, 2006.
“Making Faculty Work Visible.” Commission on Professional Service, 1996.

11. Brian Reed Chair, Department of English
Web:

12. ADVANCE Workshop on Mid-Career Faculty Suzanne Hawley
Divisional Dean for Natural Sciences

13. Two possible issues (out of many)
“outward facing” faculty – research active, national stature, but not paying attention to department duties
Mentoring around service – for department, College, UW, national/international in scholarly field

14. Outward-facing faculty
Pro: bring in grants, have national/international stature, raise profile of department, RCR and buyouts provide funds for others
Con: Travel a lot (“never around”), buy out of teaching, don’t advise grad students (or do poor job), complain about service (and/or do poor job on committees), lower the morale of others in department
Strategy (be intentional, don’t just accept legacy):
Sit down and have frank conversation. Make a plan for the amount of teaching and service they are expected to do (may be less than typical faculty if you decide their research/stature/funding is important enough to the department). Make clear what the cost to the department is, if they are doing less, and that they are expected to pay this cost. Set a time limit for when the plan will be revisited (e.g. at end of grant period, or not more than 3 years)

15. Mentoring around Service
Very dependent on the individual, what are their aspirations?
For many, who want to do minimal service, stress the importance of everyone being involved and doing their share.
For the few who may want to consider administration (or you think they should! – e.g. future chair candidate), encourage service within department (Assoc. Chair, GPC, chairing committees) and within College and University. Tell us in Dean’s office as candidates for College level committees!
For those considering national/international service in their scholarly field, have a frank discussion of pros (great way to know important people and to have impact on your field) and cons (takes a lot of time and often travel).
Important to know whether the person is good on committees (and at running them). If not, point out role models in the department, and provide additional mentoring.

16. Mid-Career Faculty ADVANCE Leadership Workshop
March 6, 2018
Mike Bragg
Dean, College of Engineering,
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

17. “Stuck” mid-career faculty
Obviously best to avoid getting stuck!
Is there a typical window for promotion to full?
Is the bar the same after the window is missed? Or, if the bar is the same for early promotion, is it the same for late promotion?
Can research, teaching and service be weighted differently? Quality vs. quantity?
Intro:
A mid-career theme is part of faculty leadership programming under development in COE
Recently held a mid-career faculty luncheon
Focused on helping mid-career faculty feel connected, receive mentorship and support to avoid getting “stuck”

18. Strategies for helping unstick an associate professor
They have to be able and willing to change – at least meet halfway
Can you negotiate a strategy with the department P and T committee?
Executing a strategy may take 3-4 years
May not match the integrated productivity
Some examples:
Restarted research program
Negotiated agreement with P and T
Research program changed direction
Applied research/ industrial practice approach

19. Some final thoughts
Being “stuck” doesn’t benefit the individual faculty member or the institution
Our responsibility is what is in the best interest of the department, college/school, and university
After the window is missed, effect of a promotion on other junior faculty is diminished

20. Small Group Activity: Caucusing

21. Caucusing by Topics Join the group that resonates with you
40 minutes in small group
Discuss topic and if possible, identify possible strategies to address the issue
15 minutes in large group
Report out key ideas

22. Conclusion and evaluations

23. Stage 2: Mid-Career Faculty
Leadership Workshop Series A Chair’s Role in the Stages of the Faculty Career
Stage 3: Senior Faculty
January 12, 2018 from 10:30 am — 1:00 pm
HUB Room 145
Stage 2: Mid-Career Faculty
March 6, 2018 from 10:30 am — 1:00 pm
Stage 1: Early-Career Faculty
May 25, from 10:30 am — 1:00 pm

24. Networking lunch