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 in collaboration with Human Resources (HR) (Spring Semester 2025)
• Assistant/associate dean criteria and position descriptions (Spring Semester 2025)

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 in collaboration with the Executive Vice President for Administration (PDF) (November 2024)
• Safe environment protocol (Spring Semester 2025)
• Strategic HR pilot (began Fall Semester 2025; will continue)

Transparent Communication

• Conduct visits to each college (Fall 2024)
• Conduct outreach to each unit leader (ongoing)
• Revamp the website (ongoing)
• Develop tip sheets for the following topics:
  • 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