Finding and Funding the Next Generation of Faculty: An Academic and Financial Partnership

As the American professoriate ages, faculty recruitment and retention have become major concerns for higher education institutions. Most colleges and universities can quickly address immediate or short-term faculty needs to meet student demand, but few have considered taking a systematic approach to developing a cohesive campus strategy to build up vital faculty ranks. Join our panel of experts who will explore these and other issues related to developing and implementing proactive, strategic approaches to recruit, retain, and fund the next generation of faculty in U.S. colleges and universities.

What You Will Learn:

• How to create and sustain a partnership between chief financial officers and chief academic officers to develop, fund, implement, and evaluate campus-wide faculty recruitment and retention strategies.
• Expectations, concerns, and perceptions of early and mid-career faculty based on a research project to investigate factors that are important to the recruitment and retention of these groups.
• What the faculty of the future may look like, what'll they want out of their careers and how these expectations may affect tenure, employment contracts and salaries.
• The kinds of employers and offers competing with higher ed for junior faculty.
• How different types of institutions are reacting to junior faculty issues.
• Types of creative contracts that colleges and universities are offering to attract and retain talented faculty.
• Approaches for realistic evaluation of the costs involved with strategic faculty planning.
• The benefits of developing a strategic system-wide approach for building a vital faculty.
• Implications if newer faculty salaries/packages outpace those of their senior counterparts.

Who Should Participate?

• Presidents or Chancellors
• Business Officers
• Provosts
• Human Resource Managers and Practitioners
• Academic Department Heads
• Interested Faculty or Administrators

Meet the Presenters:

• Betsy E. Brown, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs for the 16-campus University of North Carolina system, is responsible for system-wide faculty support.  Before coming to UNC, she served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Winthrop University (SC) and as a faculty member and administrator at Penn State University and Queens College (NC).   She was a principal investigator for a survey of senior faculty members at UNC, University of Minnesota, and Associated New American Colleges campuses and for a research project on early career faculty at UNC, both supported by the TIAA-CREF Institute.  She is co-editor of Post-Tenure Faculty Review and Renewal: Reporting Results and Shaping Policy (2004, Anker Publishing) and co-author of Faculty Career Paths: Multiple Routes to Academic Success and Satisfaction (forthcoming, ACE/Greenwood Press).  Dr. Brown is a TIAA-CREF Institute Research Fellow.
  
• Harold Hewitt Jr. joined Occidental College in Los Angeles as Vice President for Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer in 1996.  Mr. Hewitt has served independent higher education as a financial administrator for 20 years, including roles at the Claremont University Center (1986-88) and Whittier College (1988-96).  He is WACUBO’s representative to the NACUBO Small Institutions Council, a member of the NACUBO Tuition Discounting Survey Advisory Board, Program Chair for NACUBO’s national program on “The Business of Enrollment Management” coming to Minneapolis May 22 and 23 of this year, a member of the Substantive Change Committee of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, and a Director of the College Liability Insurance Company.   He earned an MBA from the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at The Claremont Graduate University.
  
• Cathy Trower is Co-Principal Investigator and Research Associate at Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Her current project, “The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education,” has the goal of making the academy a more attractive and equitable place for new teacher-scholars, and to increase the recruitment retention, status, success, and satisfaction of underrepresented faculty.  Dr. Trower has studied faculty employment issues, policy, and practices for the past 12 years during which she produced an edited volume, made over 30 presentations, and wrote numerous book chapters, articles, and case studies. She previously served as a senior level administrator of business degree programs at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Trower received an M.B.A. and a B.B.A. from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Trower is a TIAA-CREF Institute Research Fellow.

Fees

Time

Available on-demand at any time.

Length

Approximately 100 minutes

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