Beyond Orientation: Keeping Faculty Engaged and Informed

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Beyond OrientationKeeping Faculty Engaged and
Informed

• AASCU Academic Affairs Winter Meeting
• San Antonio, Texas
• February 3-6, 2007

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• finding their way around
• building a social and intellectual network
• using available resources to develop as
  teachers and scholars

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• learning where to go and whom to trust for
  advice
• finding balance

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• Ten things provosts,
• deans, and chairs can do
• to keep faculty engaged and informed

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1. Communicate clearly about campus issues.
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2. Feed their passions.
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3. Recognize and celebrate achievements.
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4. Encourage and support learning communities.
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5. Ask for and use their opinions while planning.
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6. Encourage reflection, and provide a range of
professional development opportunities.
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7. Encourage exploration, including new
pedagogies and scholarship of engagement.
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8. Ask for volunteers instead of appointing the
people you know.
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9. Ask senior faculty to take on new roles
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10. Encourage thinking about ones legacy.
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• Virginia Schaefer Horvath
• Vice President for Academic Affairs
• State University of New York at Fredonia
• virginia.horvath_at_fredonia.edu