scholarly journals Mentorship, Sponsorship, and Professional Networking

2021 ◽  
pp. 175-187
Author(s):  
Denneal Jamison-McClung
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Women Faculty ◽  
Institutional Commitment ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
Professional Networking ◽  
Pilot Programs ◽  
Multicultural Perspectives ◽  
Faculty And Administrators ◽  
Faculty Mentors

AbstractCreating an ecosystem of mentorship and sponsorship requires institutional commitment and the collaboration of faculty and administrators from diverse backgrounds. From 2012 to 2018, the UC Davis ADVANCE Mentorship and Networking Initiative (MNI) partnered with the campus leadership to implement several programs and activities to support mentorship, sponsorship, and professional networking for STEM women faculty across career levels. During this award period, pilot programs aimed to provide strong mentorship for newly recruited faculty, including scholars affiliated with the Center for Multicultural Perspectives on Science (CAMPOS) as well as mid-career faculty, with the intention of scaling efforts across campus units. MNI committee projects included piloting “Launch Mentoring Committees” for 43 new faculty, support for faculty-led “New Faculty Network” monthly networking mixers, implementation of the Associate Professor Network listserv, annual co-hosting of the Fall Welcome for Women Faculty, and development of the ADVANCE Scholar Award Distinguished Lecture and Networking Reception. Though all MNI programs and activities were well-received, both faculty mentors and mentees evaluated the Launch Mentoring Committees especially positively. This program emerged as a recommended best practice for engaging new faculty and building a sense of community that crosses disciplinary and intersectional boundaries.

scholarly journals Introduction and Comments

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-214
Author(s):  
James Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Research University ◽  
Women Faculty ◽  
American University ◽  
Vantage Points ◽  
Faculty And Administrators ◽  
Lead Article

The title of this journal—Perspectives on Politics—presupposes, at least tacitly, that even if we view it from a variety of vantage points, we can identify and agree upon some thing called politics. We spend a lot of time and effort arguing about those vantage points, the theoretical and methodological “perspectives” from which we explore our object of inquiry. Rarely, however, do we direct our attention reflexively and systematically on the ways our own practices and institutions themselves are infiltrated by politics. The lead article in this issue, a study of how gender inequality operates, sometimes subtly, sometimes much less so, among faculty and administrators at one prominent American university. As the authors Kristen Monroe, Saba Ozyurt, Ted Wrigley, and Amy Alexander note at the outset, not everyone immediately sees how this topic fits within a conception of politics. Like the authors, I find it difficult to grasp that perspective. Monroe, Ozyurt, Wrigley, and Alexander not only chart in an innovative manner the ways that women faculty at a prominent research university encounter gender inequality but the strategies they have devised for responding to the predicaments that inequality creates for themselves and their colleagues. I am pleased to be publishing this provocative study and hope that it will generate much subsequent inquiry into this topic.

Pay-for-Performance Conservation Using SWAT Highlights Need for Field-Level Agricultural Conservation

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 1925-1937 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Logsdon Muenich ◽  
Margaret M. Kalcic ◽  
Jonathan Winsten ◽  
Kristin Fisher ◽  
Monica Day ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Pay For Performance ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Incentive Payment ◽  
Western Basin ◽  
Nutrient Runoff ◽  
Agricultural Conservation ◽  
Field Level ◽  
Pilot Programs

Abstract. Pay-for-performance (PFP) is a relatively new approach to agricultural conservation that attaches an incentive payment to quantified reductions in nutrient runoff from a participating farm. Similar to a payment for ecosystem services approach, PFP lends itself to providing incentives for the most beneficial practices at the field level. To date, PFP conservation in the U.S. has only been applied in small pilot programs. Because monitoring conservation performance for each field enrolled in a program would be cost-prohibitive, field-level modeling can provide cost-effective estimates of anticipated improvements in nutrient runoff. We developed a PFP system that uses a unique application of one of the leading agricultural models, the USDA’s Soil and Water Assessment Tool, to evaluate the nutrient load reductions of potential farm practice changes based on field-level agronomic and management data. The initial phase of the project focused on simulating individual fields in the River Raisin watershed in southeastern Michigan. Here we present development of the modeling approach and results from the pilot year, 2015-2016. These results stress that (1) there is variability in practice effectiveness both within and between farms, and thus there is not one “best practice” for all farms, (2) conservation decisions are made most effectively at the scale of the farm field rather than the sub-watershed or watershed level, and (3) detailed, field-level management information is needed to accurately model and manage on-farm nutrient loadings. Keywords: Agricultural conservation, Pay-for-performance, Phosphorus, River Raisin, SWAT, Western basin of Lake Erie.

Lactation Support and Breast Milk Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-111
Author(s):  
Kimberly H. Barbas ◽  
Lauren Mudgett
Keyword(s):  
Breast Milk ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regulatory Agencies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Professional Networking ◽  
Regulatory Guidelines ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Dramatic Growth

The past 20 years have seen dramatic growth of hospital lactation programs. There are few regulatory guidelines leaving advocates for lactation services to justify need, safety, and best practice to implement changes. The professional networking group, Children’s Hospital Lactation Network, was surveyed about breast milk facilities and practices. Analysis of survey responses will provide lactation programs with information needed to identify improvements and recognize priorities for lactation practice and safe, effective breast milk management. Lactation programs need specific regulations to guide practice to enable them to receive funding for equipment and staffing and support to make decisions on policies and best practices. Specific recommendations, consistent between regulatory agencies and across the United States, would be beneficial to optimizing lactation support for hospitalized infants and their families.

scholarly journals A Survey of Campus Coordinators of Undergraduate Research Programs

2015 ◽  
Vol 76 (7) ◽  
pp. 975-995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merinda Kaye Hensley ◽  
Sarah L. Shreeves ◽  
Stephanie Davis-Kahl
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Program Coordinators ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
Undergraduate Research Program ◽  
Academic Librarianship ◽  
Library Support ◽  
Faculty And Administrators ◽  
Faculty Mentors

Interest in supporting undergraduate research programs continues to grow within academic librarianship. This article presents how undergraduate research program coordinators perceive and value library support of their programs. Undergraduate research coordinators from a variety of institutions were surveyed on which elements of libraries and library services they valued, and where libraries could improve and develop services for undergraduate researchers and their faculty mentors. This article seeks to present a critical perspective on library support for undergraduate research programs from an important external constituent group of faculty and administrators. The data and recommendations can further conversations and aid collaboration between librarians and their campus colleagues.

scholarly journals Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Dietrich Jung
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
International Studies ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
International Profile ◽  
One Year ◽  
Middle East Studies

In lieu of an abstract, this is the article's first page:In May 2007, the board of University of Southern Denmark (SDU) made a strategic decision in declaring the field of modern Middle East studies a priority research area of the Faculty of Humanities at SDU. The board underpinned this decision with the allocation of substantial additional means to the Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies at SDU (hereafter “the Centre”). The research staff of the Centre was augmented by two regular professorships, one guest professorship (one-year term) and two PhD positions. In this way, the board aimed at strengthening the research component of the Centre and its international profile. The first new faculty member was guest professor Francesco Cavatorta (today teaching at Université Laval in Canada), who was employed from August 2008 to July 2009. Since then, nine scholars have served as guest professors at the Centre, representing countries as diverse as Germany, India, Ireland, Jordan, Turkey, and the United States. In January 2009, the Faculty of Humanities appointed Dietrich Jung as the first regular professor. Jung previously worked as a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). He also took over the directorship of the Centre from Associate Professor Peter Seeberg who had served in this position since (...) 

Mentoring African American Women at Historically Black Colleges/Universities

2018 ◽  
pp. 97-125
Author(s):  
Tammara Petrill Thomas ◽  
Michelle Lee Maultsby
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Historically Black ◽  
Black Colleges ◽  
Women Faculty ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
American Women ◽  
Tenure Track Faculty ◽  
Tenure Process

This chapter describes how a considerable milestone for new faculty entering academia has been awarding tenure by the institution of higher education. This is often referred to as the Academy. Tenure-track faculty working towards tenure spend several years honing their craft in the areas of teaching, research, and service. Senior colleagues assume the lead in determining activities, and others who are considered authorities and leaders in the chosen field of scholarship. While HBCUs have provided an enormous source of support for African-American women who are tenure-track faculty, they continue to be underrepresented in the academy and are adversely impacted by the tenure process. Barriers that impede the tenure process of African-American women faculty include societal biases, stereotypes, systemic oppression, and lack of mentorship. This chapter seeks to provide awareness, discuss unique challenges specific to African American women faculty, and existing strategies to negotiating the tenure and promotion processes.

Publication Benchmarking Data Based on Faculty Promoted at Institutions Ranked 200+

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney F. Carmack ◽  
Stephen R. Moehrle ◽  
Jared Moon ◽  
David A. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Associate Professor ◽  
Comparable Data ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Accounting Faculty ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Faculty And Administrators

Although publication benchmarking studies for accounting faculty have been completed for highly ranked research institutions, there is not comparable data for the hundreds of smaller, less high profile, and less resource rich accounting programs. This study provides data for institutions that rank 200+ in the BYU accounting rankings. We take a sample of 50 institutions from this population to develop publication benchmarking for promotion to associate professor. We also provide insights on the timing of publications relative to promotion dates and compare these results to previous benchmarking studies. These results are useful for faculty at these institutions to inform their research efforts and to inform promotion and other decisions for faculty and administrators.

scholarly journals “If I don't laugh, I'm going to cry”: Meaning Making in the Promotion, Tenure, and Retention Process: A Collaborative Autoethnography

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Wells ◽  
Kristen Dickens ◽  
Juliann McBrayer ◽  
Richard Cleveland
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Public University ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
Faculty And Administrators ◽  
Promotion Process ◽  
Tenure Process

Utilizing Chang, Ngunjiri, and Hernandez’s (2013) collaborative autoethnographic research approach, we investigated our experiences as pre-tenured junior faculty progressing through the tenure and promotion process within a college of education at one public university in the southeastern United States. The review of the data (transcripts and photographs) revealed challenges and stressors common to junior faculty. Data analysis yielded four emergent themes centered around demonstrations of self-care and resiliency including community, balance, coping strategies, and process. Through data analysis, these major themes and their sub-themes were explored in depth. Recommendations and implications for personnel navigating the academic tenure process (i.e., new faculty, tenured faculty, and administrators) are presented.

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