The Faculty Excellence Initiative

Faculty Excellence Initiative
Events, Resources and Opportunities

Resources from Dr. Mark Taylor's presentations (Friday, February 23, 2007):

- Generation NeXt: Today's Postmodern Student - Meeting, Teaching, and Serving

- Unique Traits of Generation NeXt Requires New Approach From You

- Helicopters, Snowplows and Bulldozers: Managing Students Parents

The Faculty Excellence Initiative Committee is an interdisciplinary team of faculty and staff from each college as well as the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, University Assessment Office, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and the Center for Teaching Learning & Technology. The Initiative offers faculty new grant opportunities for travel, summer support and release time for teaching, research or other faculty activities (see right for information about these new opportunities).

The purpose of the Faculty Excellence Initiative is to:

1. Coordinate the various faculty support activities already underway on campus;
2. Provide significant administrative support for development of faculty as professionals and as individuals;
3. Enhance faculty retention;
4. Enhance the campus culture of supporting faculty activities and careers.

Faculty Excellence Initiative Committee:

• Sam Catanzaro
• Rod Custer
• Darrell Kruger
• Caroline Mallory
• Chuck McGuire
• Kathleen McKinney
• Todd McLoda
• Laurie Thompson Merriman
• Marilyn Morrow
• Patrick O'Sullivan
• Linda Showers
• Dane Ward
• Mardell Wilson