NSF ADVANCE Work Continues With Visit from Seattle University
11/14/2023
老司机福利网 continues its work to reimagine faculty evaluation for advancement as part of its National Science Foundation ADVANCE Partnership Grant partnership grant with Gonzaga and Seattle Universities.
The project, titled "Assessing Differential Faculty Contributions and Aligning Faculty Advancement with Mission Values" is a collaborative venture between the three universities. The project is three years long and commenced in the fall of 2022.
The SLU project team, led by Co-PIs Katie Heiden-Rootes, Ph.D., and Debie Lohe, Ph.D., now includes Bidisha Chakrabarty, Ph.D., who joined the team as Faculty Fellow last summer. Chakrabarty was selected through a University-wide application process last spring.
This fall, two Think Tanks have been created to develop white papers on two categories of often-undervalued faculty activity 鈥� community-engaged scholarship and institution-building work (like faculty administration and DEI work).
As part of the project, Seattle University partners visited the SLU campus on Thursday, Nov. 9, to engage with key stakeholders to more fully consider ways in which SLU can expand and enhance its conceptions of 鈥� and evaluation and reward for 鈥� faculty work in these two broad areas. Seattle University has a of advancing change on their campus through a prior NSF ADVANCE grant.
This visit included a workshop with SLU Think Tank members, a workshop for Chairs and faculty mentors on Inclusive Mentoring Practices, and an open forum for all faculty. Slides from the faculty forum are available to .
More information about the project can be .