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Office of Faculty Affairs and Development - Wayne State University

Where has the time gone?

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Welcome, everyone, to a new fall semester; we hope your summer months were fun and restful and that you're as excited as we are to get back into it and welcome one of the largest incoming undergraduate classes in WSU history!

We've had a busy summer, hosting some administrative retreats and planning the next academic year of programming. We welcomed new colleagues at New Faculty Orientation, and the week before classes began, we celebrated the Academic Leadership Academy's fifth cohort at their inaugural retreat and met up with colleagues to welcome President Espy at the Faculty Fall Opening Brunch.

Check out some of the plans our office has for this semester below:

Coming up this month

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Every Semester Needs a Plan

Could you use some help ramping up your writing productivity while balancing a full schedule and personal life? Register to join the College of Nursing's Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Debra Schutte, as she walks us through this popular National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) hands-on planning workshop at 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14.

We'll open with an introduction to the planning methods and then move into a hands-on workshop; come for the introduction alone, or stick around and be ready to create the beginnings of a work plan for your semester that you can actually use and share with your supporters and mentors. This will be a virtual session.

RSVP for Every Semester Needs a Plan (Zoom)

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The Conversation is an independent, non-profit news organization dedicated to explanatory journalism; they have published many high-quality articles by WSU faculty who have shared their research expertise.

Join us at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 21, in room 150 of the Purdy/Kresge Library (within the Teaching Commons) to learn from a Conversation representative and a panel of WSU faculty who have written for them how to craft and pitch articles for The Conversation to help you find a new way to engage in public scholarship. This will be an in-person session.

RSVP for Writing for The Conversation (in-person)

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How would you manage disruptive behavior, report student concerns, and request support? Join us at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26, for this session about the role of the Dean of Students Office in offering support and resources to students of concern and faculty requesting support for students of concern. Faculty will learn how they can request support through the CARE referral and Student Conduct Processes. Presented by Nikolina Dmitruchina, Associate Director, Dean of Student's Office, this will be a virtual session. This webinar is offered to support new faculty institutional familiarization, but all are welcome. 

RSVP for Student Conduct and Care (Zoom)

Part-Time Faculty: 2023 UPTF Fall Welcome-Back 

10 a.m.-2: p.m., Friday, Sept. 22, Hilberry ABC, Student Center. Join the Union for Part-Time Faculty (UPTF), the Office of Faculty Affairs and Development, and the Office for Teaching and Learning for the 2023 UPTF Fall Welcome-Back. We will be focusing on AI usage in the classroom, and the UPTF will offer information on the new collective bargaining agreement, including tuition assistance.

Keep an eye on your email: An RSVP will be sent out later this week from FacultySuccess@wayne.edu and the UPTF.

Coming up this semester

a person stands on a staircase made of books and draws the rest of the staircase in with chalkMoving from Associate to Full Professor

Coming up again this semester, we'll partner with WSU GEARS to run a series of workshops to provide Associate Professors with tools to support their pursuit of promotion to Professor. All associate professors are invited to attend, regardless of the number of years post-tenure. Workshop sessions will be a combination of in-person and virtual.

Session 1: 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 29 (in-person, Student Center)
Session 2: Week of Nov. 27-Dec. 1 (virtual)
Session 3: Noon, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024 (in-person, Student Center)
Session 4: Week of Apr. 8-12, 2024 (virtual)

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Other resources from our office and all over campus

A helpful external resource

Our institutional membership in the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) is free to anyone with a wayne.edu email address. Follow our instructions to activate your membership, and check out their excellent programming to increase writing productivity, establish and maintain work-life balance, create broad networks of collegial support on campus, and more! We'll highlight their upcoming webinars in each newsletter; sign up now so that you'll be ready to jump in.

Coming up at the NCFDD

2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 13 | Register for Live on Zoom: Overcoming Academic Perfectionism

This webinar is designed to help perfectionists within academia, providing an understanding of the causes, consequences, and features of excessive perfectionism that the academic life tends to intensify. The program also offers strategies to identify perfectionism tendencies, assess their impact, adjust their standards accordingly, and discover the secret to experiencing satisfaction in each step of the writing process.

2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19 | Register for Setting the Stage for Success: Preparing For Your Academic Career From Day 1 of Graduate School

In this interactive webinar, Drs. Nelson O. O. Zounlomè and Lei Wang from Liberate The Block will provide graduate students with critical strategies and tools to succeed in their academic careers right from the start. It's a comprehensive session covering essential topics like setting academic goals, maintaining well-being during school, creating an individualized plan for success, understanding different types of academic institutions and career paths, aligning personal and professional values, identifying mentors, using university resources efficiently, and treating graduate school as a future career stepping stone.