Facilitating Intentional Career Planning for Faculty

· Communicate with everyone

· Monitor who is doing what: make sure loads are equitable

· Help them learn how to balance teaching and research

· Provide information

· Building relationships

· Build bridges to other campus entities

· Be honest and humble

· Be a visionary

· Be interested

· Create a sense of camaraderie

· Address tension between mentor and evaluator roles: is it natural? Is it necessary?

· There is no fixed recipe or formula

· Set direction – the “vision thing”

· Free them from excessive teaching loads

· Give good advice

· Find avenues for receiving grants, publishing

· Encourage upgrading of vita (tenure file)

· Suggest readings

· Mentor by veteran faculty

· Facilitate collaboration

· Provide graduate students (GTA, GRA)

· Provide staff

· Take the time to talk with faculty

· Protect from negative colleagues

· Inform them about what’s available to faculty

· Meet regularly and communicate tenure expectations

· Focus on holistic, balanced development

· Make dept. expectations and culture clear

· Monitor actively

· Assist is networking with people important to career

· Provide resources to succeed (e.g. language study)

· Point out specific grant opportunities related to the faculty members’ research

· Have a conversation with faculty member on their career aspirations

· Talk about finding balance between teaching, research, service

· Support their work

· Anything is possible: foster boldness

· Be willing to be a resource

· Create a positive environment

· Provide reasonable class schedule to foster research

· Socialize with faculty away from work

· Provide encouragement in forms of recognition of good teaching and research

· Encourage service on committees without overloading

· Give them a role where they can contribute meaningfully

· Show that administration cares about and is doing something about faculty salary compression issues

· Provide information

· Build relationships

· Build bridges to other campus entities

· Be honest and humble

· Be a visionary

· Be interested

· Create a sense of camaraderie

· Encourage maintenance of productivity

· Engage in professional service

· Suggest readings

· Facilitate collaboration

· Provide graduate students

· Provide staff support

· Talk with faculty

· Help faculty find right path

· Help faculty keep up with institutional change

· Help faculty continue to grow (leadership, new challenges)

· Bring opportunities to attention of faculty

· Use course releases strategically

· Protect from administrative demands

· Support an activity that is important to the faculty member’s career

· Bring faculty together from other disciplines

· Let people be more (?) and own their careers

· Give them a role where they can make the most contribution

· Team up faculty member with active mid-career faculty to help the late career faculty get back into scholarly activity

· Provide information

· Building relationships

· Build bridges to other campus entities

· Be honest and humble

· Be a visionary

· Be interested

· Create a sense of camaraderie

· Take advantage of their experience (e.g. mentoring)

· Encourage continued productivity

· Mentor younger faculty

· Talk with faculty

· Focus on mentoring new faculty (“full circle”)

· Make senior faculty feel wanted

· This is very difficult: Boise State has changed into something other than what it was when they started here

· Convince them to retire

· Support the work they are doing

· Support some culminating activity (e.g. retrospective art show)

Encourage senior faculty to provide leadership