Faculty Career Development
Faculty Career Development
New Faculty Orientation (NFO)
NFO is an all-day event designed to help full-time faculty become familiar with the university community: people, places, programs, and policies to help you get started with a new career at RIT. There will be opportunities to meet your new colleagues, representatives of key resource offices, and university leaders.
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD)
NCFDD provides skills and strategies intended to help RIT faculty, post docs, and graduate students thrive in academic life. They offer a variety of professional development and training opportunities, including mentoring, webinars, multi-week courses, 14-day writing challenges, private discussion forums with moderated monthly writing challenges, dissertation success curriculum and discussion forum for advanced graduate students, and priority registration for the faculty success program. RIT is an institutional member of the NCFDD, so the service is free for RIT faculty, post docs, and graduate students.
Academic Leadership Development
New and returning department heads have the opportunity to participate in leadership development workshops. The interactive workshops include topics such as: basic business essentials for leaders, fostering departmental culture, inclusivity and diversity awareness, emotional intelligence, writing performance reviews, and onboarding/retention to mention a few.
Adjunct Faculty
As an RIT adjunct instructor, you’re not just teaching a course, you are joining RIT’s community of teaching and learning excellence. You will play a fundamental role in the lives of RIT students! RIT’s adjunct orientation programs, events, and resources will introduce you to critical information and where to find support on campus.
Resources
A number of resources geared toward faculty career and academic organizational development provide best practices and strategies for teaching and leading. All faculty are encouraged to take advantage of these free resources:
- The Department Chair: Periodical featuring in-depth articles that deliver sound insight and proven strategies essential for successfully leading an academic department.
- Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning
- Faculty Focus: Focused on Today’s Higher Education Professional
- Inside Higher Ed
- Tomorrow’s Professor: Online Faculty Development, 100 times a year
The following articles/presentations have either been authored by members of the Faculty Career Development team or have been written about the work of our unit.
- Canale, Anne Marie & Herdklotz, Cheryl. Invited panelists for Harvard Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) webinar, Success After Tenure: Lessons in Engaging Mid-Career Faculty October 26, 2018.
- Mee, Susan, Herdklotz, Cheryl, and Canale, Anne Marie. (September 2018). Faculty Orientation to Off-Campus and International Campus Locations. Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning. DOI: 10.1080/1533290X.2018.1499238
- Mee, Susan, Herdklotz, Cheryl, and Canale, Anne Marie, presented at the 18th Distance Library Services Conference (DLSC) in San Antonio, April 2018. The DLSC focuses on the challenges and rewards of delivering library services and resources to distance students and faculty. Their presentation, Delivering a Collaborative Faculty Orientation to Off-Campus and International Campus Locations, covers their experience with a pilot International Faculty Orientation delivered remotely to RIT’s campuses in Dubai, Croatia, and Kosovo.
- Herdklotz, Cheryl, and Canale, Anne Marie. (December 2017). Made to Order. Inside Higher Ed.
- Auburn, Luke. RIT helps foster faculty growth through mini grants. University News. Rochester Institute of Technology. October 2017
- Bureau, Scott. Faculty development grants power new ideas. RIT Athenauem. February 2016.
- Bureau, Scott Bureau. Life Coach to Present at The Wallace Center Career Development Workshop, University News, Rochester Institute of Technology. January 2016
- Cook, Lisa. How RIT is Building an Adjunct Community, Academic Impressions, Higher Ed Impact. April 6, 2016
- Cook, Lisa. Beyond Workshops: How RIT Incentivizes Faculty Development, Academic Impressions, Higher Ed Impact. August 14, 2015
- Cook, Lisa, and Fusch, Daniel. "George": How RIT is Encouraging Interdisciplinary Collaboration. Academic Impressions. Higher Ed Impact. September 17, 2015
- New Faculty Orientation, Benchmark Findings, June 2018
- RIT Faculty Mentor Questionnaire Results, 2015
- Adjunct Faculty Community Pilot Summary, 2015
- Inspiring a Culture of Appreciation @ RIT, 2014
- Faculty Needs Survey Report, 2014
- Current Practices in Faculty Mentoring at RIT: A Summary of 2013 Questionnaire Results, 2013
- Mid-Career Faculty Support: The Middle Years of the Academic Profession, 2013
- Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness, 2012
- Orientation Program Summary AY 2018-2019
- Faculty Orientations 2017 (all)
- New Faculty Orientation 2016
- New Faculty Orientation 2015
- New Faculty Orientation 2014
- New Faculty Orientation 2013
- Destination Intersession - Faculty Showcase 2015
- Destination Intersession - Faculty Showcase 2014
- FITL Final Report, June 2013
- Adjunct Mentoring Community Pilot Results, June 2015
- Faculty Mentoring @ RIT, Program Assessment: Year 4, June 2015
- Faculty Mentoring @ RIT, Program Assessment: Year 3, October 2014
- Faculty Mentoring @ RIT, Program Assessment: Year 2, July 2013
- Faculty Mentoring @RIT - Support from TWC- June 2012
- Faculty Mentoring Program Assessment – AY 2012