The Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs continues its Conversation Series to help department chairs more effectively lead and respond to challenges they confront in their departments and/or units. We look forward to another year of robust and engaging conversations about departmental life at UB.
Over this academic year, our office will be sponsoring a series of monthly lunch-time seminars to discuss various issues related to academic leadership. We will address issues related to effective communication, budgets and resources, mentoring and work/life balance, faculty and student diversity, recruitment and hiring, tenure and promotion to name a few.
Department Chair Leadership Program - Conversation Series are:
ALL SESSIONS RUN FROM 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Conversation Series for Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 semester will be held in person at the Jeannette Martin Room (567 Capen Hall).
Questions? Please email BB Bakavoli (bbmahdib@buffalo.edu) or call: 716-645-3594
The first session in our 2023-24 department chair conversation series will bring together experienced chairs from across the university to discuss their victories, challenges, transformations, and impacts on their professional lives. Designed not as a session to identify best practices but instead to provide a space for these chairs to reflect on their experiences so as to offer newer department chairs the opportunity to gain perspective from their experiences.
In this second session in our Fall 2023 – Spring 2024 Department Chair Conversation Series, we will review data as well as the processes involved in preparing dossiers for tenure and promotion. Case studies will be used to explore how chairs evaluate the performance of a faculty member. Topics will include:
This session presented by members of the Division of Finance and Administration will "unpack" the university budget process, untangle the various funding sources and uses as well as discuss higher education finance. An overview of the following will be presented:
Presenters:
Jennifer Pesany Assistant Vice President, Financial Management &
Joseph Lewandowski Director, Resource Planning
At this session, examples of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)-related developments within higher education will be discussed. Designed to be an open conversation about DEI, chairs can share their experiences and what they are seeing within their departments. Newly appointed Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence, Seval Yildirim will also share some of the efforts carried out in the DEI space from her prior experiences at other universities. In addition, recommendations from the Faculty Senate on changes to UB's promotion and tenure guidelines, which follow the recommendations of the President's Advisory Council on Race (PACOR) Implementation Committee, will be presented at the workshop.
Presenters:
Robert Granfield Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Seval Yildirim Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence
The Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs will be offering a workshop for department chairs to review relevant policies and explore the challenges associated with understanding and responding to faculty and student misconduct.
Sharon Nolan-Weiss, Director of the Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and Christopher Putrino, Director of Employee Relations will review some of the common legal and contractual issues as well as UB policies that chairs should be familiar with when responding to conflict and misconduct within their departments. Topics to be covered will include:
Requests for past workshop PowerPoint presentations should be directed to Faculty Affairs (ubvpfacultyaffairs@buffalo.edu)