Faculty Success
That’s a Wrap for Spring 2024!
It’s a wrap for Spring 2024! In this post, we briefly review some of the topics we’ve covered this semester and thank our readers and partners for their engagement.
May 2, 2024
Elevating Equity: The Faculty Success Blog
Elevating Equity is centered on all things related to faculty success and thriving. The Faculty Success team and our partners across CSU share key insights related to faculty thriving, work-life integration, and best practices to promote equity and inclusion among faculty in higher education.
Best Practices
Addressing Workload Inequity: The Workload Equity Task Force
Since 2022, CSU’s Workload Equity Task Force has been collaborating with partners from across campus to identify, implement, and sustain more equitable workplace practices.
April 30, 2024
Advocates and Allies
Cruise Ships and Onboarding Best Practices – Are There Lessons to be Learned?
What can a cruise ship teach us about onboarding new faculty? In this post, we unpack ways that we can learn others and integrate best practices in how we welcoming faculty to CSU in ways that promote a sense of belonging.
April 25, 2024
Promotion and Tenure
Beware the Non-Promotable Task!
Research has documented how non-promotable tasks, or service work that makes the university function but does little for a faculty member’s career, is often unevenly distributed among faculty, leading to significant inequities. In this post, we talk about the challenges of non-promotable tasks and steps departments can take to ensure equity and fairness in non-promotable task distribution.
April 23, 2024
Promotion and Tenure
Unwritten Rules in Promotion & Tenure
When unwritten rules pop up in the promotion and tenure process, they create challenges for early career faculty and exacerbate inequities. This blog post breaks down some of the ways that unwritten rules manifest in promotion and tenure and provides concrete recommendations for addressing unwritten rules.
April 18, 2024
Promotion and Tenure
Naming and Addressing Bias in P&T
Part II of our series of P&T discusses concrete steps that P&T chairs and committees can take to address bias in the process and promote equity.
April 16, 2024
Promotion and Tenure
Digging into Promotion and Tenure
For the next two weeks, Elevating Equity will feature a series of blog posts highlight important insights on the promotion and tenure process at CSU.
April 11, 2024
Best Practices
The Interdependence of Student Success and Faculty Success
Discussions of faculty success and student success are deeply intertwined, and equity challenges are present in both at CSU.
April 9, 2024
Best Practices
Crossing Boundaries: Elevating Equity in Interdisciplinary Evaluation (Part II)
In the second part of our series of equity in interdisciplinary program evaluation, we explore the role of cross-disciplinary approaches and faculty engagement.
April 4, 2024
Best Practices
Crossing Boundaries: Elevating Equity in Interdisciplinary Evaluation (Part I)
In part one of a two-part series, two seasoned evaluators discuss opportunities and best practices for centering equity in interdisciplinary evaluation.
April 2, 2024
Best Practices
Pursing Excellence: CSU’s Mission to Become a Hispanic-Serving Institution
In CSU’s efforts to become Colorado’s next Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), it is essential to recognize that student success and faculty success go hand-in-hand.
March 28, 2024
Advocates and Allies
What does CSU’s Faculty Success program do?
CSU’s Faculty Success Team has accomplished a lot in a short amount of time! This post details the team’s overarching mission and how various activities align to promote faculty thriving.
March 26, 2024
Culture
How the Work of Women Academics Disappears
Two new reports highlight how biases continue to impact the experiences of women faculty.
March 21, 2024
Best Practices
Cultivating Faculty Success through Mentoring
Mentoring is essential to faculty success, and CSU’s EnCircle program provides a valuable opportunity for faculty support, connection, and community.
March 19, 2024
Best Practices
“You all have the hardest job at the university!”
A new training for department chairs and heads provides crucial information on multicultural competence, giving leaders an opportunity to connect, learn, and grow.
March 7, 2024
CCA Faculty
Digging into Data to Support Equity
Data from CSU’s Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Effectiveness can help keep campus leaders informed of important trends and highlight opportunities to promote equity and excellence across campus.
March 5, 2024
Advocates and Allies
Why do Faculty Leave?
Recent research points to several troubling trends around faculty retention, with women faculty more likely to leave their positions at all points in their career.
February 29, 2024
Best Practices
It Starts with the Search
Recruiting excellent faculty starts with the search process. Learn how to make the search process more equitable.
February 27, 2024
Culture
Women Faculty “Pass” as Nonparents to Protect their Careers
Recent research from the book Misconceiving Merit highlights how traditional notions of “good” science exclude important voices from the academy.
February 23, 2024
Advocates and Allies
Why Faculty Success?
Faculty Success has been developing and implementing programming across CSU since 2022. Who are we, what is our mission, and what have we accomplished in the past two years?
February 22, 2024
Faculty Success
Welcome to Elevating Equity!
Welcome to Elevating Equity, the Faculty Success blog for Spring 2024!
February 21, 2024