New Faculty Start-up Tracking
- Kaizen on tracking start-up spending
- New software to track timing and patterns of expense category utilization
Benefits realized:
- Start-up offers more consistently include GTA support and tuition, making our offers look more competitive
- New faculty learn funding categories to better manage budgets in their first grants
- VPR tracking and usage calculations now automated freeing up staff for higher level analyses
Partner Engagement
- Dual career focus group study
- Search committee chair survey
- Mini-retention study
- Kaizen on dual career hiring
- Kaizen on identifying an academic path for partner career success
Benefits Realized:
- Recruitment support checklist to proactively promote holistic engagement with both dual career partners now in pilot stage with three departments
- Campus-wide process to invite partner during campus interview
- Cost-share support agreement for academic partner hire
AMP-UP Current Activities
Campus Climate
- IN PROGRESS: University Climate Survey with outside consultants
- Survey of academic administrators on best practices for developing department camaraderie
- Review of family friendly policies
- Advocates and Allies listserv
Retention
- Review of sabbatical data from 2007-present and recommendations for sabbatical reports
- Kaizen on a shared understanding of the P&T and reappointment processes
- Stay interviews being planned
Faculty Success
- Survey of academic administrators on current definitions for teaching, research, and service
- Kaizen on current state of teaching, research, and service tracking
- Assessing current state of proposal submission success