This month’s academic administrators’ breakfast provided some updates on Faculty 180, accreditation, and other matters. There was a presentation by Jen Franchak, the new Asst. VP in the career center (with a psych degree!), who is exploring initiatives such as career advisors from the center assigned like academic advisors. The provost announced reminders for the following awards:
- Upcoming University Awards – please consider nominating qualified faculty, staff, and/or students for the awards and deadlines listed below:
- E. Phillips Knox Distinguished Teaching Award to honor faculty member with record of outstanding teaching – February 1
- Academic Advising Excellence Award to honor an outstanding faculty and professional staff advisor – February 2
- University Assessment Award to honor a department with exemplary assessment activity – February 9
- Affordable Education Leader Award to honor faculty who make extraordinary efforts in promoting open and affordable education resources – February 16
- Distinguished Scholar Award to honor a junior and senior faculty member with record of outstanding research – March 2
- Provost Student Academic Achievement Award to honor students with extraordinary academic achievement who will be seniors next year – Departmental nominations due to dean on March 6
I will post minutes from this and other meetings with the new Team Drive structure. Then I can simply point to highlights, as warranted, here once a month.