教师 Development

The provost’s office strives to enable faculty to thrive at every career stage through faculty development offerings that provide mentoring and support, foster equity and inclusion, and build community.

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教师 Development Series

2024年夏天

周二8月13日2024

Write-On-Site

周二, August 13, 2024 | 1-4:30 p.m.

These sessions will support you in making progress and increasing productivity in your writing.

周四8月15日2024

Hiking and Writing with Friends

周四, August 15, 2024 | 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Write in the company of others at the MacLeish Field Station, in the hills of West Whately.

教师 Mentoring

The Office of the Provost and Dean of the 教师 supports the mentoring of junior faculty members in myriad ways.

每年, the associate dean of the faculty and dean for academic development welcomes all new members of the faculty to a new faculty orientation. The primary purpose of the orientation is to provide advice, 信息, and inspiration while welcoming faculty to the Smith community. Items reviewed include essential 大学 policies and additional resources to complement on-boarding materials included with the hiring letter. The new faculty orientation is an opportunity for new faculty to re-connect with junior and senior members of their department, ask key questions from affiliates across campus, and serves as a medium to engage fellow colleagues as they each embark on a new journey at Smith.

The associate dean of the faculty and dean for academic development oversees the 教师 Board of Counselors. The board includes senior faculty members who provide individual and collective extra departmental mentoring to tenure-track faculty members in their first and second years. The counselors are also willing to meet with any recently appointed faculty members who seek advice. 另外, the board advises senior faculty members and administrators on their work with newer colleagues.

Departmental mentoring introduces tenure-track faculty and lecturers and laboratory instructors in renewable positions to the culture of the department, 大学, Five College community, 和职业. Departmental mentors support their mentees through regular meetings regarding strategies for prioritizing and performing scholarship, 教学, 和服务. Mentors address questions and concerns, and assist mentees in building connections and accessing resources.

Departmental/Program Mentoring Plans(1.34 MB)

Mentoring Meeting Discussion Topics

A 团队 of four Non-Tenure Track Mentors are available to support all non-tenure-track faculty in navigating and being successful during their time at Smith. The mentors meet regularly with the associate dean of the faculty and dean for academic development to discuss their mentoring meetings and to address questions and issues that arise.

教师健康 Fellow

For the 2022–23 and 2023–24 academic years, 贝妮塔杰克逊, professor of psychology and health scholar and practitioner, is serving as a 教师健康 Fellow as part of a pilot program. 在这个角色中, she develops programming to provide faculty with tools to support their pursuit of work-life integration and imagine forms of cultural and structural change in support of those goals.

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