A Word From the VP
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to present to you the newest edition of our faculty newsletter, which highlights the many achievements and awards of our colleagues in the last six months. In this newsletter, you will find information about our colleagues who were promoted or received tenure, as well as those who were awarded sabbatical leaves. You will also learn about the honorific awards given to colleagues for their excellent work in teaching, research, service, and leadership. I applaud all of you for your accomplishments and contributions.
I also want to express my gratitude to all who filled out the COACHE Faculty Satisfaction Survey. This survey is a useful tool for evaluating the strengths and challenges of our faculty work environment, and for finding areas for enhancement and innovation. I expect to get the results of the survey next month and will share our findings early in the Fall semester. I look forward to collaborating with you to address the issues and opportunities that arise from the survey data.
I hope that you are making some time to rest and enjoy time with loved ones this summer. I know that many of you will also be involved in research, writing, teaching, and other professional activities during the summer months, and I wish you all the best in your endeavors.
In closing, I would like to say a few words about my amazing colleague, Associate VP Jennifer Buchanan, as she retires from FSU. For 37 years, Jennifer has contributed to the success of FSU. I consider myself very lucky to have had her as my trusted partner since I started in the Office of Faculty Development and Advancement ten years ago. Her previous experiences working in Student Affairs and as Associate Dean in the College of Communication and Information, and then as the key support person for the Dean of Faculties (Anne Rowe) and the first VP for Faculty Development and Advancement (Sally McRorie) resulted in a deep and broad understanding of the university. She has been a vital source of support and guidance for me and many other members of the FSU community over the years and the idea of continuing without her is overwhelming. Being the ultimate professional that she is, Jennifer made sure that we would be able to continue the innovations she put in place in our office by finding the right people to take on her responsibilities. She spent much of this past year working closely with Drs. Amy Guerette and Craig Stanley to pass along her knowledge of the inner workings of the university. I can’t thank her enough for this and for the many other contributions she has made to FSU. I wish her a stress-free and very fun retirement. She’s certainly earned it!
Janet Kistner
Professor of Psychology
Vice President for Faculty Development and Advancement
Faculty Support and Development
University Faculty Recognition and External Awards Workgroup
In August of 2023, FSU inaugurated a workgroup to focus on increasing national and international recognition of FSU faculty. This group has examined systems and structures, communication needs, data applications, and other processes that impact external honorific award readiness, application, and nomination. We will continue our work in AY2024-25.
A joint project of the Office of Faculty Development and Advancement, the Office of Research, and the Office of the Provost, the workgroup includes 14 faculty members and staff representing 9 colleges, Human Resources, and Institutional Effectiveness. Additionally, Dean Jing Wang serves as the liaison to the Council of Deans and Mike Shatruk serves as the Faculty Representative to the Office of the Vice President for Research. Next year we will add a representative from the Libraries, the College of Social Work – and other colleges are welcome, too. This group is strategically built to discover, explore, facilitate, and celebrate the differences among us. And, it serves as the operational team focused on Awards & Recognition for Vision 2030, FSU’s initiative designed to make us a better comprehensive research university.
The workgroup is collecting examples of ways departments and colleges are successfully nominating their faculty, taking note of barriers, and talking - talking - talking - to everyone about awards. Each member of the workgroup has made an effort within their area to normalize – even celebrate - talking about external awards, planning for external awards, strategizing for external awards, and failing at external awards. Did you know that most national and international awards require multiple attempts prior to success? “Failing” still gets FSU faculty work and names noticed by prestigious peers on an award review committee, putting FSU and our faculty on the human radar as possibilities for national honors.
If you want to talk about awards – and we hope you do – contact Peggy Wright-Cleveland and Sonja Carter at facultyrecognition@fsu.edu. Peggy and Sonja are facilitating the mission of the workgroup and both are available for consultation about an individual career-long award plan, department or college-wide strategic planning, and honorific award best practices.
Stay tuned as this work continues.
Faculty Celebrations
Promotions and Tenure Awards
Specialized Faculty Promotions
Congratulations to those recognized nationally for excellence.
FSU faculty achieve at all levels. They are recognized by their campus peers and students for excellence and they are recognized by national organizations as a leader in the field. Please take time to congratulate your colleagues on the following outstanding recognitions.
NSF CAREER Award
- Pedro Fernandez-Caban
2024-25 Fulbright Scholar Awards
- Vincent Salters
- Mainak Mookherjee
- Shuyuan Metcalfe
- Daekwan Kim
- Nora Underwood
- Gang Wang
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
- Lea Nienhaus
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship
- Maria Ryan
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship
- Maria Ryan
American School of Classical Studies at Athens NEH Fellowship
- Stephen Sansom
National Humanities Center Fellow
- Sonia Hazard
- Martin Munro
- Bruce Locke
- Joseph Schlenoff
National Academy of Kiniesology
- Tim Baghurst
- Jeffrey James
Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
- Scotty Barnhart
Stanford Humanities Center Fellow
- Nilay Özok-Gündoğan
FSU Faculty Are Lauded by their Peers
It matters that one’s peers recognize excellence. Sometimes that hardest place to get noticed is at home. FSU has a long tradition of celebrating outstanding performance as teachers, mentors, and scholars. The colleagues listed below were nominated by their peers or students for lifting the level of work at FSU to the highest level. Send a note of congratulations to these colleagues and keep watching. There will be someone you can nominate next year.
Sabbaticals
At FSU, earning a sabbatical is a competitive process, not a matter of serving your time. Congratulate these colleagues on being awarded a sabbatical and ask them about their plans.
Nuts and Bolts
Curious about ORCID?
In the modern research environment, it is important to ensure that records of your accomplishments are correctly linked to your unique identity. ORCID offers a digital, persistent identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, uniquely distinguishing you from other researchers. By connecting your iD with your professional activities — such as affiliations, grants, publications, peer reviews, and service to professional associations — you can then share records of those activities with other systems (e.g., SciENcv), saving yourself time and reducing the risk of errors.
Ready to create your ORCID iD and connect it with FSU systems? Go to orcid.fsu.edu to learn more about the benefits and then click the "Create/Connect" button to get started. Even if you don't have an ORCID iD, the process should take less than a minute - a worthwhile investment given the time you will save on data entry in other systems that have ORCID integrations.
The Office of Faculty Development and Advancement is developing a solution for you to push data about your publications from FEAS to ORCID - stay tuned for another announcement about this in the Fall!
Want to Use FEAS+ More Effectively?
Did you know you can produce multiple formats of your CV from FEAS+? Did you know some departments have custom designed Annual Review reports saved in FEAS+ and ready for faculty use? Did you know that you can remove items you will never use from your FEAS+ interface and search for colleague experts via a key word search?
FEAS+ provides critical information for the university and a public presentation of FSU faculty accomplishments. Come learn how to make the best use of FEAS+ in telling the story of your career successes. Thursday, August 1, 10:00 – 11:00 in Strozier Library.
The FSU Faculty Community
Two Retirements
The FSU community is saying “thank you” to two longtime employees this summer. We appreciate how they have lived and worked among us. Make sure to say thank you and congratulate Dr. Jennifer Buchanan and Director Jim Pitts as they head into retirement.
Jennifer Buchanan, Ph.D., Associate Vice President for Faculty Development and Advancement, began her work with FSU in 1989 as the Associate Director for Women’s Concerns. By 2004 Dr. Buchanan was in the Office of the Dean of the Faculties, the office that soon became the Office of Faculty Development and Advancement, leading SACS reviews and guiding policy. Many of you will have worked with Jennifer on course requests, honor policy violations, SACS, QER, department or college by-laws, the faculty handbook, or other policy concerns. Thank you, Jennifer, for helping us all work smarter.
Jim Pitts, Director of International Programs, has served FSU for over 50 years shaping the varied international experiences offered FSU students and faculty. He oversaw the establishment of FSU’s program in Valencia, Spain and led the growth at our campuses in London, England; Florence, Italy; Panama City, Panama. Thank you for your vision and leadership, Director Pitts.
Milton S. Carothers Faculty Lecture Series
The Milton S. Carothers Faculty Lecture Series is the longest running, regularly occurring, interdisciplinary lecture series at Florida State University. Established in 1981 by the Rev. Carothers at the Presbyterian University Center (Westminster House), the series transitioned from the Faculty Luncheon Series to the Carothers Lecture Series in 2021 with an increased focus on interdisciplinary faculty research, community, and outreach. In Spring 2024, Dr. Melissa Radey and ________ presented to their colleagues. You may watch their presentations below.
Dr. Melissa Radey, College of Social Work
Dr. Mariana Fuentes, College of Arts and Sciences – link coming soon at youtube.com/@fsufaculty/videos
Make plans to attend next year’s lectures, already scheduled.
Monday, September 30, 2024
Lonna Atkeson
LeRoy Collins Eminent Scholar in Civic Education and Political Science, and Director, LeRoy Collins Institute
Tuesday, October 10, 2024
Jorge Piekarewicz, Professor of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences
Crossover Event with FSU Discovery Days!
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Andrew Epstein (Professor and Chair of English, College of Arts and Sciences) and Tana Jean Welch (Associate Professor of Medical Humanities, College of Medicine)
Crossover Event with the Festival of the Creative Arts!
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Mia Lustria (Professor, School of Information, College of Communication and Information) and Zhe He (Professor, School of Information, College of Communication and Information)
New Colleagues are Coming!
In August, we will welcome nearly 200 new colleagues – researchers, teachers, scholars, and librarians. Make sure to look for the new faculty videos we will share on social media (Looking at last year’s videos is fun, too.) Plan to take time to talk with a new colleague, answer their questions about FSU and Tallahassee, explain our deepening relationship with the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and make sure they feel welcome. We are going to do great things together!
P.S. If you don’t know about our deepening relationship with the Tribe, read about it.