Transcript Staff APT Workshop - University of Maryland, College Park

New Faculty Orientation | August 26, 2013
OFFICE OF FACULTY AFFAIRS
August 26, 2013
Rough breakdown of NTT Faculty:
• 1,000 Instructional Faculty
• 1,800 Research Faculty
• 400 Service / Extension Faculty
New Faculty Orientation | August 26, 2013
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UM is like most other universities nationwide:
• 1,600 Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty
• 3,200 Non-Tenure Track Faculty
New Faculty Orientation | August 26, 2013
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• Deliver 40% of undergraduate credits, equal to
that delivered by T/TT faculty (staff and GAs
account for remaining 20%)
• Bring $100,000,000 in research awards to
campus annually
• Connect campus to local, state, and federal
agencies through appointments and outreach
efforts off campus
• Instructional Faculty
 300 Full-time
 350 “Adjuncts”, i.e. one course/semester or year
 350 Part-time, teaching is primary career
 600 post-docs, a.k.a. “Research Associate”
 400 Research faculty (e.g. “Research Scientist”)
 800 Faculty Research Assistants (FRAs)
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• Research Faculty
• Service
 300 Extension across the state
 100 Clinics and teacher certification programs
 Students with Bachelor’s degrees
 Researchers with PhDs as Co-PIs on grants
 Everything in between
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• “Faculty Research Assistants”
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• USM (University System of Maryland) Policy
on Adjunct Faculty, amended to apply here
• New Director position in the Office of Faculty
Affairs tasked with addressing NTT issues
• Senate-Provost Task Force charged with
determining NTT faculty concerns and
recommending changes to policies and
practices
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• Compliance with existing policies
• Appointment system that doesn’t serve
faculty or institutional needs
• Inadequate system of titles leads to
mismatches between titles and
responsibilities --- and thus to unclear
expectations
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• Poorly defined and inconsistently applied
standards for evaluating and promoting NTT
faculty
• Little to no support or recognition for
participation in professional development
activities or professional accomplishments
• Inadequate opportunities for participation in
shared governance at all levels
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• Current policies and procedures hinder NTT
faculty efforts to contribute to the institution.
• Inconsistent compliance with existing policies is
detrimental to both NTT faculty and the
institution.
• 21 recommendations for addressing concerns.
• The University of Maryland can become a leader
in creating a new model for how a major research
institution fully engages all members of its faculty
regardless of their tenure status.
• In the Senate:
• From the Provost:
New templates from Legal Affairs are designed to
reduce number of semester-to-semester contracts.
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The Senate’s Faculty Affairs Committee has been
charged with formulating a new policy on titles,
appointment criteria, performance evaluations, and
opportunities for both professional development
and promotions for NTT faculty.
• Contract tracking system under development
• Campus protocol for making policies available
on department and college web sites
• Development of campus-wide awards for NTT
faculty
• Re-apportionment in Senate
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 Plans of Organization
 Unit level guidelines for evaluations and
promotions
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• Given your experience as NTT faculty and as
administrators, what can new NTT faculty do
to reduce the difficulties that NTT faculty tend
to experience?
• What advice would you give new NTT faculty
about technology support services on
campus?
• What are some ways new NTT faculty can
judge the professional development
opportunities in their units?
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• For NTT faculty supported by grants, what
would you say are the biggest issues new
faculty should be aware of?
• What resources on campus are particularly
important for new instructional faculty to be
aware of?
Office of Faculty Affairs
Center for Teaching Excellence
Counseling Center
BETA – Behavior Evaluation and Threat
Assessment
• Student Conduct
• Faculty Ombudsperson
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• Peggy Antonisse – Linguistics – [email protected]
• Mark Arnold – Faculty Affairs –
[email protected]
• Cindy Clement – Economics –
[email protected]
• Devin Ellis – Government and Politics –
[email protected]
• Eric McKenzie – Astronomy –
[email protected]