Until last fall, the tenure and promotion application process was binder-centric — as in, it depended on physical binders that housed documents related to the applicant's teaching, research and service. For the fall 2023 cycle, applicants had a new option: submitting via an all-digital system, Faculty Success by Watermark. Faculty Success Dr. Letitia White Minnis, … [Read more...] about Update on Faculty Success
Your inbox may be filling up with communications about Missouri State's transition to the Brightspace learning management system. Given that we're currently cruising through the busiest time of the academic year, it's possible that you haven't had a chance to give those emails much attention. Never fear: We sat down with Nancy Gordon, director of the Faculty Center for … [Read more...] about Q&A: Brightspace Transition
Years ago, when Dr. Tyrone Bledsoe was a 29-year-old administrator at Georgia Southwestern State University, he disaggregated some data related to the GPAs of students who were members of fraternities and sororities. One result stunned him. "With 200 Black, male undergraduates, the cumulative GPA was 1.75," he says. Bledsoe called a "state of emergency" and committed to … [Read more...] about Five Key Things About SAAB