Event

Legal Lunch and Learn for Faculty featuring Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs and General Counsel Paul Chan.

The path to tenure is well-worn, and the “up-or-out” culture makes the timeline unambiguous. Promotion to full is often shrouded in more mystery with variation in both the path and the timeline. Diversity in faculty representation also decreases across stage, with inequities that begin long before receipt of an advanced degree accumulating, sometimes exponentially. This loss of diverse perspectives among full professors results in enormous costs to individuals, units, administration, and the students and communities we collaborate with and serve.

In this 2-hour workshop, we bring together a diverse panel of recently promoted full professors from different units across campus to share their struggles and successes in challenging myths and envisioning themselves as full. We are dedicated teacher-scholars, we serve, and we are people who balance and blend personal and professional obligations. We will first share panelists’ experiences and then work in small groups to support participant progress with structured prompts and activities.

At the Provost Faculty Senate Reception, committee members will be present to discuss data with colleagues as part of the COACHE townhall. Come learn about the new Faculty Data Governance Structure and COACHE survey results and engage with your peers on diving into what all this means moving forward for faculty life and change initiatives.