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Boot Camp for Department Chairs: Tips for Running a Department
Audience: This event is mandatory for new department chairs. If a new chair is unable to attend, they must send a faculty designate, usually the department vice chair or the faculty undergraduate or graduate advisor.
Held: September 2011
Topics included: Expectations of a Chair, Curriculum, Staff and Academic Personnel Issues, Helpful Campus Resources, How to Run Effective Meetings, and a Panel Discussion.
Please contact the Academic Personnel Office with any questions at apo@ucsc.edu
The Academic Personnel Review Process for Ladder-Rank Actions
Audience: This workshop is intended for new and continuing department chairs and department managers who process ladder-rank review files.
Held: September and October - 2011
Topics to Include: The workshop will include a detailed walk-through of the policies and procedures for processing a review file for a ladder-rank faculty member's professorial advancement.
Faculty Recruitment Workshp for Search Committee Members
Audience: This workshop is mandatory for search committe chairs and diversity liaisons. We also welcome as many committee members and department managers as possible
Held: September 12 and September 20, 2011
Topics to Include: Workshop is specifically designed to provide your committee with the best practices and tools necessary to run successful and compliant recruitments, as well as to review yoru specific responsibilities.
Academic Personnel Review Process and Leaves of Absense Workshops for Assistant Professors
Audience: Assistant Professors
Held: May each year
Please Note: You are welcomed to attend both the Review Process and the Leaves of Absence sessions, or just one or the other. Please specify in your RSVP.
Topics to Include: These workshops are offered to help Assistant Professors understand many of the policies and procedures in academic personnel reviews, as well as eligibility for leaves of absences and the impact of leaves on Assistant Professors. The sessions are informal and faculty will be able to ask questions pertinent to their own cases. Topics include the following: Merit Review, Mid-career Review, Tenure Review, Eight-year limit for Assistant Professors and Leaves of Absence.
For questions or information, please contact Nancy Furber, furber@ucsc.edu, ext. 9-4779.
EVC and CAP Chair Present Important Academic Personnel Information
Held: May 2011
Audience: Deans, Department Chairs, Program Chairs, Department Managers, Program Managers, Divisional Coordinators.....
Topics to Include:
- 2011-12 CAP’S TOP TEN LIST OF TIPS FOR PERSONNEL FILES
- Faculty Salaries and the Academic Personnel Review Process
- File Expectations For the Upcoming Year
10 Things Faculty Need to Know - A Workshop/Conversation Especially for New Faculty
Audience: Primarily New Faculty
Held: April 2011
Topics to Include: Key policies that impact your work life (or, how to keep certain policies from impacting your work life), including:
- Faculty Code of Conduct
- Conflict of Commitment and Annual Reporting Responsibilities
- Faculty Leaves
- UC-Required Trainings
- Supervising Employees (e.g., TAs, Postdocs)
- Using the Campus Academic Personnel Manual to Your Advantage
For questions or information, please contact Susan Fellows, sfellows@ucsc.edu, ext. 9-5032
Fall Faculty Recruitment Workshop
The Academic Personnel Office and the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion provide the best practices and tools necessary to run successful and compliant recruitments for search committee chairs, diversity liaisons, members, deans, and staff managing faculty recruitments.
Held: Fall each year
For questions or information, please contact Nancy Furber,
furber@ucsc.edu, ext. 9-4779.
Traveling the Tenure Path While Smelling the Roses Along the Way - A Workshop for Assistant Professors
Richard M. Reis, Ph.D.
Author of Tomorrow's Professor (http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/index.shtml)
Stanford University
HELD: May 6, 2010
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location: Bay Tree Cervantes and Velasquez Room
Audience: Assistant Professors
Is it possible to travel the various paths towards - and in some cases even away from - tenure and still have a life that is balanced and rewarding for you and your family? The answer is "yes." In this workshop we will examine, through several specific examples, a variety of paths that can lead you toward your goal of a satisfying professional career. In so doing we will also discuss five - not so obvious - keys to keeping your sanity along the way.
For questions or to register, please contact Samantha Forde forde@ucsc.edu ; 459-5087.
How to Hire the Right People for Your Research Program
Held: May, 2010
Two offerings
Academic Flyer Example
Equal Opportunity (Fair Hiring Practices)
Employment Inquiries: What can employers ask applicants and employees?
Descriptions of some biases and assumptions that can effect the search process
Helpful suggestions and reminders about procedural and behavioral pitfalls that can be avoided to prevent problems during a recruitment
Titles Used for Scholarly and Research Work
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