Welcome to Fall 2024
City of Detroit, Flickr Creative CommonsWelcome to Fall 2024! It's been a busy couple of weeks so far: last month, we welcomed 46 new colleagues at New Faculty Orientation, hosted a virtual New Part-Time Faculty Orientation, welcomed a new cohort of the Academic Leadership Academy, joined the City Institute on faculty tours of Detroit, and greeted many of you at the Fall Opening Lunch. Phew! We look forward to catching our breath a bit and connecting with you more over the coming months. Check out the newsletter below for some of the ways we hope to do so: Change is in the air
Coming up this monthDOSO: Student conduct and care | New faculty seminar series
Economic development at Wayne State | New faculty seminar series
Academic grading and policies | New faculty seminar series
The New faculty seminar series is offered to support new faculty institutional familiarization, but all are welcome. Remember to check our website for additional Professional development listings. NCFDD: 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 NCFDD hands-on planning workshop at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19. Come for the introduction to the planning methods, then 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.
Demystifying the promotion to full pathway
Join the Office of Faculty Affairs and Development and WSU-GEARS for the first session of our Associate to full workshop series at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 26, in person at Hilberry D in the Student Center. This career planning series is designed to provide tenured Associate Professors with tools to support their pursuit of promotion to Professor. For this first session, we'll host a panel of your colleagues who have recently gone through the process and have been made full professors.
Teaching While BlackJoin us for a TV pilot screening
Faculty are invited to a screening of a new TV show, Teaching While Black, written and produced by Dr. Donnetrice Allison, professor of Communication Studies and professor and chair, Africana Studies, at Stockton University in Galloway, NJ. We invite faculty to join us to screen the TV show pilot and enjoy lunch and a discussion about faculty retention, diversity, and inclusion with Dr. Allison. When: Noon, Friday, Sept. 20
Whatever happened to #AcademicTwitter?A lot has changed in the social media landscape over the last few years, and we're wondering where everyone spends most of their time or if they still use social media at all for professional and academic purposes. It seems that no single platform has emerged as the frontrunner to provide engagement on the same scale as Twitter did just a few years ago, particularly for an academic audience. We'd appreciate it if you'd take a moment to let us know your thoughts in our poll on social media use. A helpful external resourceOur 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 NCFDD2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 | 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. 14-Day Writing ChallengeAn opportunity to experiment with daily writing, online community, and supportive accountability, October 7th - October 20th. Registration closes on September 27! Register for the 14-Day Writing Challenge
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How would you manage disruptive behavior, report student concerns, and request support? Join us at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 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.
As an urban-serving public research institution, Wayne State plays a unique and important role in driving economic prosperity in Detroit, and the Division of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (DEED) and TechTown Detroit play a big part in that work. In this session, at 2:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 12, new faculty will learn about the various resources available through the Division of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development and TechTown.
Join us at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 17, for this session with the Office of the Registrar to learn about academic policies and procedures, including grading and course and program proposals.
Sara Kacin, Assistant Provost