Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Promotion, Tenure, & Review

CETL provides support for faculty in the area of promotion, tenure, annual reviews, and multi-year reviews through workshops, webinars, mutual mentoring groups (MMGs), and coaching. Our goals in this area are to orient faculty to the review process, help them take a scholarly approach to preparing for it, and make strategic decisions about their whole body of work that align with the strategic priorities of the university and their academic units, while also prioritizing their strengths, interests, and values.

We are very careful to take a coaching approach to this work, due to its high-stakes implications in terms of faculty retention and progression and variations in expectations across colleges and departments. To that end, we do not give advice, but engage faculty in reflective activities through which they identify their own priorities and plans, and then assess them over time. Our work in this area supports all four pillars of the R2 Roadmap as it brings faculty together in community to help them better manage their time and make strategic decisions about their work commitments in the areas of research and creative activity, teaching, service, and leadership.

Workshops in support of promotion and tenure begin at New Faculty Orientation (NFO) and are offered throughout the year at key points in the review cycle. CETL draws upon the expertise of administrators across campus to do so, including from Academic Affairs, Faculty Affairs, and the Office of Research. Starting with NFO, we offered workshops throughout the year. We also facilitated MMGs to bring faculty together as they prepared their portfolios for submission. (See MMG section of this report.)

Kathryn Epps Conference

Dr. Kathryn Epps was a beloved Chair of the School of Accountancy, whose premature passing shocked the campus community, and especially the women faculty who had been mentored by her. To honor her passion for mentoring, CETL established the Kathryn Epps Faculty Wellness Conference in 2018, with support from Dean Adrian Epps and the Epps family. In addition to the general wellness theme, this year the conference was an opportunity to support the faculty who were working hard to support our students through the complexities of navigating the pandemic and the world at large. With the additional support of the Division of Diverse and Inclusive Excellence, and under the theme of “Sustaining Our Sisters (SOS)” we have been able to consistently attract nationally recognized keynote speakers and workshop facilitators.

This year’s speaker was Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans who is the Professor of Black Women’s Studies in the Institute for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. The theme was “MY CUP RUNNETH OVER: Applying Lessons of #HistoricalWellness found in Black Women’s Memoirs.” The conference examined the history of Black women’s writing in discovering self-care and stress management strategies with the following primary aims:

∙ To examine the history of five self-care and stress management strategies found in Black women’s life writing. ∙ To evaluate the possible positive use of tea traditions and self-care practice in six types of health. ∙ To posit personal practices of inner peace through silent meditation and journaling. ∙ To reinforce and apply historical lessons by identifying personal plans of action.

Leadership Development

CETL Faculty Success was created by then provost-Schwaig in 2019 in part to provide leadership development training for current and emerging leaders at KSU. The provost asked us to expand our previous programs from a summer orientation and retreat to a more robust set of trainings. Each year we have grown our offerings in this area. In 2019, this included a series of workshops and a mutual mentoring group for department chairs and directors. In 2020, this included a one-year cohort program for emerging leaders (the Provost’s Faculty Leadership Fellows). And then in 2021, it included mutual mentoring groups for assistant and associate chairs and deans, coaching for chairs, as well as a second level of leadership development for the Provost’s Faculty Leadership Fellows who were most interested in taking on more advanced formal leadership roles.

Our accomplishments in this area have been recognized and showcased by the University System of Georgia as members of our team have been invited to serve for a second year in a row as USG Leadership Fellows and as co-directors of the USG Leadership Developers Institute.

PROVOST’S FACULTY LEADERSHIP FELLOWS

This was the second year that we facilitated the Provost’s Faculty Leadership Fellows, at the request of the Office of the Provost. This program was designed to develop the leadership capacity at KSU and demonstrate the university’s commitment to developing future leaders through training, mentoring, and coaching. This year, we expanded the program to offer a second level for the previous year’s fellows who expressed interest in formal leadership roles at KSU. According to participants, both levels’ programs achieved their goals and individuallevel outcomes. All program assessment respondents indicated that they were overall satisfied or very satisfied with their experience.

Featured Speakers at Cohort Meetings:

• Ivan Pulinkala, Interim Provost • Michael Rothlisberger, Assistant Vice President for Fiscal Operations and Fiscal

Strategy • Mark Byrd, Chief Institutional Research Officer • Adrien Epps, Dean of Bagwell College of Education • Trisha Chastain, Vice President of Administration • Eric Arneson, Vice President for Student Affairs • Este Jordan, CETL Director for Faculty Success • Traci Stromie, CETL Faculty Developer and Faculty Success Coach

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