Faculty Development Committee

The CLAS Faculty Development Committee (FDC) advises the Dean on faculty development in teaching, scholarship, and service. This includes the mentoring of new faculty consistent with the goals of liberal learning. The FDC reviews and recommends to the CLAS Personnel Committee on sabbatical leave requests, and to the Dean on university-wide awards. The committee also advises the Dean on assisting faculty and student research collaboration, and will support faculty in the grant proposal process as a liaison between CLAS and internal and external audiences.

The Faculty Development Committee (TT) meets on Thursdays from 4:00-5:30 pm.

Faculty Development Chair

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to write Faculty Development Committee Chair Robert Pearson

Roster

First Name

Last Name

Department

Email

Carrie 

Brueck Morris

MTD

[email protected]

Ian

Cleary

BMS

[email protected]

David

Crane

CLA

[email protected]

Filiz 

Dogru

MTH

[email protected]

Nicholas

Lerma

MOV

[email protected]

Robert

Pearson

STA

[email protected]

Gabriella

Pozzi

MLL

[email protected]

Scott

Thorgaard

CHM

[email protected]

Michael

Wolfe

PSY

[email protected]

History

The FDC came into existence in 2005.  The numbers of sabbatical proposals considered by year are:

2005-2006:  39

2006-2007:  32 

2007-2008:  39

2008-2009:  52

2009-2010:  62

2010-2011:  47

2011-2012:  53

2013-2014: 55

2014-2015: 40

2015-2016: 46

2016-2017= 61

2017-2018=45

2018-2019=30

A procedural change in 2019 moved sabbatical reviews to a University-level committee to make it seem like a more permanent statement

Matthew Boelkins served as chair 2005-2008. Darren Walhof chaired FDC for 2008-2009. Steve Matchett (2009-2011). David Stark (2011-2013. Heather Van Wormer (2013-2015).  Caitlin Horrocks (2015-2016). Shannon Biros (2017-2021). The current chair is Bob Pearson.



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