Framework document
The Georgia Tech (GT) ADVANCE initiative builds upon GT's momentum for equity and success of faculty -- and takes an integrated institutional approach to change that supports faculty advancement.The GT ADVANCE initiative has developed practices, policies, networks for institutional change and advancement of faculty in key areas, developed at College-levels. Three representative areas of transformation are now poised for implementation and modifications across Colleges:
1) Mentoring Faculty, including new faculty, junior faculty, senior faculty.
2) Faculty Development, making expectations for advancement clear and transparent in critical areas such as proposals/grants and publication productivity.
3) Enhancing Leadership for advancement, developing leadership skills of faculty in concert with chairs and deans.
These areas of transformation are not expected to be "uniformly" applicable across Colleges; rather, they may be adapted for units/locations. The NSF ADVANCE Professors are working primarily within their respective Colleges. The extension of these means across Colleges may be undertaken in partnership with WST in WST's expanded form to institutionalize and maintain the gains of ADVANCE. Some of the means for transformation in the three areas:
1) Mentoring Faculty: help to match faculty who want to be mentors/mentees; provide training for mentors through a "tool-kit" on website and through workshops.
2) Faculty Development: help to disseminate ADEPT; conduct workshops such as that on "Teamwork" featured this year with Dave McDowell and Mark Hay, speaking on interdisciplinary teams; connect destinies of graduate students and faculty, through partnerships with professional societies and student groups to development events and websites; constitute an advisory board that includes Associate Deans of Faculty Development in Colleges for impact across Colleges.
3) Enhancing Leadership: institutionalize gains of Advance through annual workshop on "leadership for advancement" that reviews gains made in past year, and forecasts for the coming year.
Resources needed: time, graduate student support, programmatic funds --
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