Inclusive Excellence for Leaders

CHIEE meeting April 28, 2023.

Chairs & Heads Institute for Inclusive Excellence

Informed by scholarship and higher education theory, CHIIE provides an intentional opportunity for Chairs and Heads to further develop awareness, knowledge, and skills necessary to make demonstrable progress toward faculty success goals.

Participant Outcomes: 

  • Examine the most effective strategies to promote faculty success in your department and how to integrate it into all departmental functions and structures.
  • Analyze and revise policies and practices to enhance faculty success in your department.
  • Identify evidence-based practices to recruit, retain, and promote an excellent faculty and staff.
  • Develop strategies to navigate the challenges of leading a division-wide effort to enhance workforce development for students, faculty, and staff.
  • Develop a comprehensive faculty success strategic plan for your department.

Program Overview: 

Session 1 (4 hours): Leading faculty success efforts; recruitment, retention, and promotion
Session 2 (4 hours): Developing strategic plans to maximize faculty success.

Participant Feedback:

"This work is vital, and I am so grateful to be a part of it."


"I was very grateful to have the opportunity. At first, I was reluctant [to attend], but after attending, I thought it was immensely helpful."


"I would advocate for similar types of content for all faculty."

Mini Grant

CHIIE participants are eligible to apply for a departmental mini-grant.

Mini grants fund departmental changes that promote successful hiring, mentoring, and advancement of faculty members. Mini grant projects should focus on plans with measurable outcomes and sustainability of efforts. Maximum funds allotted for each grant are $6,000. This may include leveraging existing activities or funds within a department.

Examples of how funds may be used include: 1) buying a department member’s time out to implement training or programs that moves towards department transformation; 2) supporting department members’ travel to professional development trainings, 3) helping fund a department retreat to explore how to implement new programs, 4) as incentive for Faculty to participate in the Faculty Institute for Inclusive Excellence Program.