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Office of Faculty Development and Advancement

Faculty Matters
Summer 2019

A WORD FROM THE VP

The 2018-19 academic year has been a busy one!  FSU welcomed 240 new faculty members and celebrated the promotions and tenure awards of 126 colleagues.  In the past year, the Office of Faculty Development and Advancement more than doubled the number of professional development activities offered to faculty including workshops, writing groups, and leadership development programs. 

We continue to receive positive feedback about our online Promotion and Tenure system and I am very pleased to see that the Academic Leadership Toolkit we developed about a year ago is getting lots of use.  Soon we will roll out an upgraded, more user-friendly version of our Faculty Expertise and Advancement System (FEAS).  These accomplishments are truly a team effort.  I am very grateful to have such a hard-working and talented group of colleagues in this office.

One of my goals this year was to disseminate the results of the COACHE faculty survey and engage in campus discussions with deans, department chairs and faculty members about how to use this feedback to make FSU an even better academic home for the faculty.  I met with the deans, department chairs, and many faculty members.  Based on these discussions, we’ve decided to focus our efforts in two areas: 1) increasing faculty satisfaction with interdisciplinary work; and 2) enhancing faculty support and mentoring, especially for our associate professors.  I hope you will join us for meetings early in the fall semester to get started on our campus action plans.

I wish you all a happy and productive summer.

Regards,

Janet Kistner
Professor of Psychology
Vice President for Faculty Development and Advancement

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FACULTY SUPPORT

Faculty Development Opportunities don’t disappear in the summer. We have writing opportunities, review opportunities, and conversation to plan more social interaction in the fall. Come join in the fun!

FWCA

In April, five FSU faculty participated in the FWCA Conference. This Faculty Women of Color Conference is in its seventh year. Hosted by our ACC colleague Virginia Tech, this conference offers women of color faculty, university administrators, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduates a unique educational and professional opportunity to network, engage, and learn with peers from around the country. FSU is proud to be a sponsor and to ensure our faculty women of color participate.

Some of our 2019 participants had the following to say about their experiences at the conferences.

“The most important take away for me was the feeling of empowerment that I felt after the conference. To meet and hear from so many women of color in academia was incredibly inspiring for me, someone who is early in their career who has bouts of self-doubt. I plan on implementing what I heard at the conference by talking about the conference, telling other women of color that I work with about my experience, and advocating for more women of color to be hired in the library and at Florida State University.”

“It’s hard for me to choose only one thing because I learned so much! The top three would be how to value your worth, to take advantage of all the opportunities presented to you, and maximize your network and the many gifts that each of us bring to the table. FSU provides a wealth of resources right at our fingertips and I will become more intentional about tapping into those resources to better myself both personally and professionally. By doing so, my performance and passion will continue to improve as I positively impact the lives of my students and colleagues.”

“The FWCA conference was uplifting and inspirational. It provided a forum for women of color at FSU to see ourselves represented among brilliant scholars across the country. It was an excellent opportunity for networking, particularly interdisciplinary networking. Overall, the conference reinforced the idea that representation matters. It reminded me that it is helpful to not only share our triumphs, but also share our challenges and how we overcame them. Remembering the importance of sharing challenges and paths through them to success will definitely help in my mentoring of students and newer faculty.”

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FACULTY CELEBRATIONS

Congratulations to the 128 FSU faculty awarded tenure and/or promotions through peer and university review.

Congratulations to these 54 faculty promoted as teaching, research, and clinical faculty.

Congratulations to our faculty earning national recognition.

Fulbright Scholar awards:

Andy Opel (CCI) to Norway

J. Perry Howell (English) to Japan

Samantha Paustian-Underhahl (Business) to Ireland

Ziad Musslimani (Mathematics) to the Netherlands

Sharon Nicholson (EOAS) Global Scholar to Namibia, France, and Germany.

Mary Stewart (Art-retired) Flex award to Canada

NSFCAREER award:

Christine Beekman (Physics)

Yan-Yan Hu (Chemistry)

Lama Jaber (Science Education)

Sonia Haiduc (Computer Science)

Christopher Holmes (EAOS)

Congratulations to our faculty recognized as outstanding by their FSU peers and students.

2019 DISTINGUISHED TEACHER AWARD

John W. Parks, IV, D.M.A., College of Music



UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH MENTOR AWARD

Paul Conway, Department of Psychology



UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING AWARD

Elizabeth Coggeshall, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics

Angela Davis, School of Teacher Education

Adam Gaiser, Department of Religion

Michele Garber, Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences

Kristen Greene, Department of Family and Child Sciences

Birgit Maier-Katkin, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics

Bruce Manciagli, College of Social Sciences and Public Policy

Paul Marty, School of Information

Austin Mast, Department of Biological Science

Landon Mauler, Department of Accounting

Brian Miller, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Michael Neal, Department of English

Marcía Porter, College of Music

Benjamin Smith, Physician Assistant Practice

Paul Trombley, Department of Biological Science

Nora Underwood, Department of Biological Science

Miranda Waggoner, Department of Sociology

Steven Webber, Department of Interior Architecture and Design



GRADUATE TEACHING AWARD

Darren Brooks, Department of Management

Ronald Honn, College of Motion Picture Arts

Adam Jolles, Department of Art History

Daniel Mears, College of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Maria Mendoza, School of Teacher Education/CIES

Michael Roper, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Lisa Schelbe, College of Social Work

Robert Tomko, Physician Assistant Practice



GRADUATE FACULTY MENTOR AWARD

James Elsner, Department of Geography

Carl Kitchens, Department of Economics

Giray Okten, Department of Mathematics

Lara Perez-Felkner, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies

Elizabeth Plant, Department of Psychology

Debajyoti Sinha, Department of Statistics



DISTINGUISHED RESEARCH PROFESSOR AWARD

Richard Bertram, Department of Mathematics

Elizabeth Slate, Department of Statistics

Kun Yang, Department of Physics



DEVELOPING SCHOLAR AWARD

Andrea de Giorgi, Department of Classics

Eugene DePrince, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Kevin Huffenberger, Department of Physics

John Schwenkler, Department of Philosophy

Zhi Wang, Department of Computer Science



RALPH STAIR PRIZE FOR INNOVATION IN EDUCATION

Andrew Opel, School of Communication



2019-2020 ROBERT O. LAWTON DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR

Timothy Cross, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

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NUTS AND BOLTS

Specialized Faculty Professional Development Leave applications for the 2020-2021 academic year will be available in September 2019. Please look for announcements early fall.

Academic Honor Policy: Best Practices

• When meeting with a student to discuss a Step 1 Agreement, let students know what their options are by sharing this Quick Reference Guide
• Students do not have to sign a Step 1 Agreement immediately. Encourage them to meet with a representative in the Dean of Students Department to discuss their options. Provide a reasonable deadline in which they should respond with a decision.
• Faculty cannot give a grade penalty without following the Academic Honor Policy.
• Check out this link on Contract Cheating (pay-for-paper services).

Please call the Office of Faculty Development if you have questions! 850/644-6876 or visit the Academic Honor Policy

Robert B. Bradley Library Research Grants

Application Deadline October 11, 2019

This announcement is an invitation to faculty to apply for the annual Robert B. Bradley Library Research Grants, which support the research and creative endeavors of our faculty while developing our library’s world class collections. Bob Bradley (retired VP for Planning and Programs at FSU) has been a longtime supporter of the University Libraries, and he has advocated consistently for resources to support the centrality of the libraries that play such an important role in the scholarly work of our faculty.

In 2019-2020 the Faculty Senate Library Committee will have a total of $100,000 to support the research and creative work of faculty with new library acquisitions accessible for the whole FSU community. Please consider preparing your brief mini-grant application over the summer, as all application materials are due in October.

The deadline to submit applications for 2019-2020 Bradley grants is Friday, October 11, 2019.

For more information, including further details about eligible items and application instructions, please see the materials posted to the Bradley Grant webpage.

Questions? Please contact Bradley Grant sub-committee co-chair, Jimmy Yu at jyu2@fsu.edu.

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THE FSU FACULTY COMMUNITY

A Word from Faculty Senate President Kristine Harper

It has been a busy spring semester for Faculty Senate, with most of our meetings devoted to discussing possible changes to the FSU Constitution. Technical changes, such as changes to titles and the elimination of out-of-date terminology, were passed in the fall semester, while in the spring we were devoted to a decision on including specialized faculty into faculty senate membership. Meetings gave faculty senate members the opportunity to state their opinions and specialized faculty who were not part of the senate were also given an opportunity to speak. In the end, the faculty senate vote was almost an even split between including specialized faculty in its ranks and keeping the current practice of limiting membership to tenured and tenure-track faculty members. Further discussions will likely take place in the upcoming fall semester. Additionally, faculty senators continued to support the University Libraries’ break from the Elsevier contract and the Faculty Senate Library Committee presented a plan that would free up space in the library by withdrawing little used print resources from the shelves. At the April meeting, the senate elected a new president—Dr. Kristine Harper from the Department of History—and selected members to serve on the Faculty Senate Steering Committee, which will now head into the summer session preparing to fill the faculty senate standing committees that contribute so much to faculty governance, including the development of curriculum policy for undergraduates and graduate students, supporting the libraries, and ensuring that technological needs of faculty and students are being met.

I encourage you to attend Faculty Senate meetings, which are held once a month during the academic year (the next one is September 17), and take that opportunity to know your University colleagues through service to your departments, colleges, and committees. By joining together to take part in faculty governance, we make our university stronger, make FSU a great place to work, and continue to make FSU the best place for our students to learn and expand their horizons.

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