Initiatives

2024-25 Core Initiatives

Cultivating Academic Culture

• National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Math Action Collaborative Summit on preventing sexual harassment (October, 2024)
• Preventing Passing the Harasser (December, 2024)
• Task force on community engagement, innovation, and entrepreneurship counting in promotion for all appointment types (ongoing)
• Fixed-term promotion guidelines and a revised Form on Progress and Excellence (ongoing) 
• Revisions to Course Fee Courtesy (PDF) (February, 2025)
• Academic titling revisions (with Human Resources - SS25)
• Assistant/associate dean criteria and position descriptions (SS25)

Policy and Process Updates

• Graduate Employees Union 2024-28 collective bargaining agreement (PDF) (May, 2024)
• Summer retirement contributions for academic-year employees who work in the summer (November, 2024)
• Protection from retaliation (PDF) (with EVPA - November, 2024)
• Safe environment protocol (SS25)
• Strategic HR pilot (began FS25; to continue)

Transparent Communication

• Visits to each college (Fall, 2024)
• Outreach to each unit leader (ongoing)
• Revamped website (in progress)
• Tip sheets for
  • Adding named or endowed chair and professor titles to HR records
  • Assistant professor tenure clock resource guide
  • Extending the tenure clock request process
  • When to call FASA