SU ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award

The SU ADVANCE IT grant focused on cultivating the changes necessary to implement a sustainable faculty development path toward advancement that includes recognition and reward of traditionally hidden or under-valued work.

  1. SU ADVANCE
  2. NSF ADVANCE Grants
  3. Institutional Transformation

Overview

Our programmatic focus for the six years of our NSF grant (#1629875) was firmly centered on broadening the scope of "what counts" in faculty work and expertise.

Our own products also reflect this broad focus: some are more traditional research products and others demonstrate other types of activities and applied expertise.

All of these products should be useful to people interested in programmatic efforts to further institutional change with an equity perspective, research into faculty lives and workloads, gendered experiences within the academy, and the effects of COVID-19 on faculty workloads.

This current grant, led by Jodi O’Brien, funds the “Reimagining the Professoriate” project, which focuses on evaluating and assigning merit to traditionally undervalued faculty activities and expanding conceptions of the traditional research model to include a more comprehensive consideration of what counts in the categories of scholarship, research and teaching. 

SU ADVANCE IT Papers and Outputs

 
Note: This Faculty Activity Inventory is a reference to assist faculty in delineating specific areas of faculty work and expertise. It is not meant to be an exhaustive list of all activities in which faculty engage. Many faculty activities may fall into more than one area of faculty work, and in fact, in a well-integrated and mature faculty CV or promotion statement, activities will certainly be double- or even triple-coded. In particular, the CV or statement of a faculty going up for promotion from associate to full should reflect holistic integration across many of these areas of faculty work.

 
Approved Revised Guidelines for Promotion to Full Professor (June 2021)

 

  • Jodi O'Brien's "Can I Charge My Therapy to the University?" Book Information
  • "Seattle University ADVANCE: Institutional Diversity Requires Recognizing and Rewarding Faculty Hidden Work" (NCURA Magazine) 

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