The Office of Faculty Affairs offers a wide range of programming and support services to promote faculty excellence and to ensure their personal and professional success through the following key goals and initiatives:
- Enhance the recruitment and retention of excellent faculty through recruitment and the development of trainings, awards and recognition programs, workplace-climate trainings and assessments, family-friendly policies and initiatives, and social and networking events.
- Provide professional and leadership development opportunities for faculty and administrators through trainings/workshops, mentoring programs, and career advancement pathways.
- Recognize, reward, and incentivize faculty excellence through a variety of awards and recognition programs for internal and external achievements.
- Promote a positive/supportive workplace climate and work-life balance through family-friendly policies, climate trainings and assessments, health and wellbeing programs, and social and networking events.
- Engage and empower faculty through shared governance and decision-making, accountability and transparency, and open and honest communications at all levels.