Policies and resources for managing your professional life, including tenure, promotion and hiring and committee and service assignments.
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Tenure & Appointments
Promotion, Tenure & Reappointment – Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (ADAA): Includes casebook guidelines, instructions and templates.
Contact: Sherry Hall, sfolsom@umich.edu
Lecturer Resources – Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (ADAA): Has new lecturer orientation, major and continuing review information, policies.
Contact: Sherry Hall, sfolsom@umich.edu
U-M Academic Human Resources: Programs, policies and procedures for instructional and research faculty and graduate student instructors and assistants. Also handles union contract processes for academic employees.
SHORTCUTS
Mountain Pass – Faculty Activity Reports
Professional Development
Engineering Professional Development: Self-paced, in-person and virtual learning opportunities, including business/technical, leadership/personal, networking and diversity, equity and inclusion topics.
Contacts:
- Leadership: Heidi Sherick
- Professional Development: Heather Wagenschutz
- Coaching: Jackie Mills
U-M Professional Development: Includes mentoring and networking, career development tracks, access to LinkedIn Learning.
Contact: Organizational Learning, (734) 764-7410, orglearningemail@umich.edu
SHORTCUTS
Center for Research on Learning and Teaching in Engineering (CRLT-Engin)
Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE)
Center for Socially Engaged Design (C-SED)
DEI Professional Development Platform – Office of Culture, Community and Equity (OCCE)
Accessibility trainings (self-paced)
Policies
Policies, Rules and Governance – Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (ADAA): Has administrative information related to faculty employment in the college. Includes college elections, policies related to mentoring, sabbaticals, consulting and conflicts of interest, among others.
Contact: Mindy Lowe, lowem@umich.edu
U-M Faculty and Staff Policies: Standard practice guide (SPG): The official repository of University-wide policies and procedures related to faculty and staff.
U-M Office of the Provost – Faculty Resources : University policies related to academic affairs and
Health & Wellness
Programs and services to support physical, mental and emotional health and well-being throughout the university.
Contact: MHealthy, mhealthy@umich.edu
Prevention Education, Assistance & Resources (PEAR): Sexual and misconduct-based prevention education.
Contact: Rachel Roth Sawatzky, engin-pear@umich.edu
Recruiting & Hiring
Recruiting and Hiring Tenure and Non-Tenure Track Faculty – Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (ADAA): Guidelines, workshops, forms, templates and procedures. Also includes information about searches, offer letter templates and speaker reimbursements
Contact: Sherry Hall, sfolsom@umich.edu
U-M Academic Human Resources: Programs, policies and procedures for instructional and research faculty and graduate student instructors and assistants. Also handles union contract processes for academic employees.
Leadership Development: Organizational Learning has curated resources and learning opportunities and you can search for opportunities related to team leadership or leadership and management right here on our website.
Committees & Service
Committees – Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (ADAA): Faculty committee and service appointments.
Contact: Mindy Lowe, lowem@umich.edu
Forms & Templates
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