This conference targets associate professors - term and tenured. It will consider strategies for moving up the rank to full professorship. Sessions will focus on shaping your career trajectory and safeguarding your space and time. We see this as an opportunity to listen and learn from each other, engage with local and national experts, and enhance the culture of care for faculty. This is an exciting opportunity to connect, discover, and engage on topics that matter to you!
Strategies for Breaking Through the "Concrete Ceiling"
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 | 8:30am-12:45pm
Conference Program
8:30-8:45am
Check in and light refreshments
8:45-10:00am
Shaping Your Career Trajectory
Speakers: Mangala Subramaniam, Ph.D., Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs; Jill Gordon, Ph.D., Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Faculty Facilitators: Laura Frankart, Director of Education and Assessment, School of Pharmacy; Vanessa B. Sheppard, Ph.D., Interim Founding Dean, School of Population Health; E. Gaynell Sherrod, Professor, Dance and Choreography, School of the Arts; Gary Tepper,Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs, College of Engineering
This session is designed for you to focus on your goals vis a vis your workload, such as, determining the development of a new course and how you will teach it; advancing your pedagogical style; building collaborations; engaging in new research projects. Thinking about the extent you might combine efforts to advance multiple objectives and continue a path forward to a successful career and alignment for promotion.
10:10-10:30am
Networking activity
10:30-11:45am
Safeguarding Space and Time: Task, Relational, and Cognitive Crafting
Speaker: Mangala Subramaniam, Ph.D., Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
In a forthcoming book chapter, Aimee LaPointe Terosky and Lauren Footman discuss job crafting as comprising three key elements: task crafting (aligning roles/responsibilities to priorities), relational crafting (seeking out effective partnerships), and cognitive crafting (altering one’s mindset in productive ways). This session will focus on the Job Crafting Action Plan to guide participants through a series of reflective prompts on priorities and actionable steps.