OFA Staff

Barb Roth, VPFA

David G. Schwartz, AVPFA

Tondra De, Director of

Faculty Affairs

Elaine Anderson, Executive

Assistant

Kimberly D. Kendricks,

Director of Strategic

Initiatives for Faculty

Success

Allison Sahl, Analyst

DeLyle Bowen, Applications

and Data Specialist

Faculty Center Doris Blackwell, Program

Officer I

Melissa Bowles-Terry,

Interim Co-Director

Sebern Coleman, Interim

Co-Director

Grant Stanfield, Student

Employee I

We have all kinds of great things happening at the Office of Faculty

Affairs! First, let me introduce the newest staff members: I (Barbara

Roth) am the new Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and David Schwartz

is the new Associate Vice Provost for Faculty

Affairs. We are very excited to be part of an

incredible team. We have several events scheduled this spring and our new

Faculty Center is offering a variety of programs while we await the new

“digs” in Beam Hall, which we hope to move into by fall semester. Please let

us know if there are workshops or presentations that you would like to see

us offer. We look forward to working with all faculty across campus and the

entire campus community.

VPFA Welcome Message

Faculty Affairs M A R C H 2 0 1 9 N E W S L E T T E R

Academic Achievement Awards Ceremony

Monday, April 29th, 3:00-5:30PM Student Union Ballroom

Come and celebrate our accomplishments

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3/5/2019

Nominations for:

Top Tier Award

Distinguished Professor Award

Outstanding Department Chair/Academic Director Award

Outstanding Teaching by Part-Time Instructor (PTI) Award

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award

3/26/2019 Conflict of Interest/Compensated Outside Services Disclosure

Upcoming Deadlines

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The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD)

NCFDD provides professional development and advice for career advancement in higher ed through its

online website: www.facultydiversity.org. UNLV has purchased an institutional membership granting

free access to all graduate students, post docs, administrative faculty and academic faculty. To see a full

list of NCFDD resources as well as instructions to access the site, click here.

Strategic Initiatives for Faculty Success

F A C U L T Y A F F A I R S

Best Practices in Faculty Recruitment & Hiring

Five workshops to assist faculty and units con-ducting academic or administrative searches are scheduled from February through April. The workshops will discuss preparing the job an-nouncement, recruiting a diverse pool of appli-cants, minimizing bias in the search process, evaluating candidates, requesting campus inter-views, asking appropriate interview questions, employing confidentiality, utilizing Consensus and Workday, and documenting the search pro-cess. To reserve a seat, please click here.

12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Monday, Mar. 4th in the Student Union, room 224

10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, Mar. 28th in the Student Union, room 205

9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Friday, April 12th in the Student Union, room 222

Developing Promotion Standards for Non-Tenure Track Academic Faculty

Two workshops were held earlier this semes-ter to assist academic and administrative units with developing promotion standards for non-tenure track academic faculty. Five guiding prin-ciples were presented and a panel of experts offered advice on developing standards. Panelists

included: Barbara St. Pierre Schneider of the School of Nursing, Emily Shreve of the Academic Success Center, Nathan Slife of the College of Education, Paul Schulte of the School of Life Sci-ences, Jacob Thompson of the College of Urban Affairs, and John Tuman of the College of Liberal Arts. The workshop presentation as well as a repository of promotion standards collected from across campus are available on the Faculty Affairs website.

Campus Talk

On Feb. 1st., Dr. Kelly Mack of the Association of American Colleges & Universities gave a talk ti-tled "That None Shall Perish: Cultivating a Culture of Inclusive Excellence." The event was attended by over 90 faculty and staff who came together to learn how to be better allies for one an-other to facilitate cam-pus change. (I'm meeting with Barbee Oakes on Wednesday and will know then whether I can include the next steps from this event in this news-letter.)

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The UNLV Faculty Center

F A C U L T Y A F F A I R S

The spring semester began with the campus thank-ing Mary-Ann Winkelmes for her tenure as the Director of the Faculty Development, as she de-parted for a new position at Brandies University. The Office of Faculty Affairs welcomed two new interim co-directors, Melissa Bowles-Terry - Head of Educational Initiatives, University Libraries, and Sebern Coleman - Graduate Recruitment and CRM Specialist, UNLV Graduate College. Melissa and Sebern are excited to help shape the structure of the new Faculty Center while the Office of Faculty Affairs conducts a national search for a new direc-tor.

This Faculty Center has hosted two events since the start of the Spring semester. On January 29,

2019, the Center hosted its Best Teaching Practices Expo and provided a platform for UNLV faculty to showcase successful teaching tactics that they have implemented in the classroom. The Faculty Center was proud to have

over 200 participants and 34 poster presenters this year, with a wide variety of Colleges represented and an amazing mix of both academic and admin-

istrative faculty. If you missed the event, you can visit Digital Scholarship to view the posters that were presented.

A workshop entitled “Student Motivation, Engage-ment & Peer Learning” was held on February 8, 2019. This event, hosted by Jarrett Keene and Gabe Judkins, provided participants with expert advice on how to engage students in the class-room.

We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming events this semester. Our next event will be an online seminar on “Effective Assessment for Large Classes” on February 20th in the Student Union, Room 205. To RSVP for this event, please click here. For a list of upcoming events, please visit us at https://www.unlv.edu/provost/idr/events), or

contact us at facdev@unlv.edu.

We’re Moving! (Eventually)

Beam Hall is currently under construction for the new Faculty Center. This space will house confer-ence space, work space, workshop and training space, and a common space. We are excited that these plans are underway and look forward to wel-coming you when it is ready (expected by Fall 2019).

Other Happenings 2019 UNLV Great Colleges to Work For Survey

Between March 11th

and April 5th the Great

Colleges to Work For

program will be adminis-

tering a faculty/staff

survey. All full-time em-

ployees are eligible to participate and will be ran-

domly invited to complete the survey. If you are

contacted by Great Colleges, we would greatly

appreciate your honest feedback. The results of

this study will help identify areas for opportunities,

growth, and improvement and inform our Top Tier

goal of being recognized as a great place to work

by 2025.

UNLV Folio

Launching in March, UNLV Folio is the university's

new information management system for adminis-

trative reviews. Within a secure and convenient

web-based environment, UNLV Folio provides a

database and reporting tool for faculty members

to document their scholarly achievements along

with a workflow module for university administra-

tors to manage a variety of review processes, in-

cluding annual evaluations and promotion and

tenure reviews. Once new accounts are ready for

use, faculty members and administrative staff in

academic units will receive login information by

email. Live and web-based training will be widely

available to help users learn the system.

Upcoming Events

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Contact Us Office of Faculty Affairs

University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Box 451014

Las Vegas, NV 89154-1014 FDH 521 Mailstop: 1014 Phone: 702-895-3496 Fax: 702-895-3455 Email: facultyaffairs@unlv.edu

March 2019

1 How to Write and Effective Letter of Recommendation

Workshop: Mendeley 101: Citation Management

5 Workshop: ResearchGate, Authors’ Rights, and You

6 Workshop: Managing Your Research Data-An Introduction

Strategies for Research: Special Collections & Archives

7 Workshop: Writing for Scientific Publication

8 Teach Online: Promoting Academic Integrity

Workshop: RefWorks 101: Citation Management

11 Workshop: Identifying External Funding

2019 UNLV Great Colleges to Work For Survey begins (open through 4/5)

12 Workshop: Lightning Presentations

Training: All Things Lab Safety

14 Webinar: How to Develop a Daily Writing Practice

Workshop: Running SPSS at the Intermediate Level

15 Workshop: RefWorks Advanced-Working with Your References

Workshop: Mendeley Advanced: Collaborate

19 Webinar: How to Craft & Submit a Winning Book Proposal in 4 Weeks (Week 1)

27 Workshop: Cleaning Data with OpenRefine

29 Workshop: Mendeley Advanced: Network with Peers

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