Health Sciences Campus Welcome
September 16th 2008
Time: 9:30am-2:00pm
Location: Edmondson Faculty Center

Effective Academic Leadership: Conversations with Deans, Chairs, and Directors

Leading university departments and centers requires multiple skill sets and great advice from others. This seminar will address the roles, responsibilities of Deans, Department Chairs, and Directors and afford the opportunity to network with other administrative colleagues and share successes and learn from failures. Discussion includes: encouraging quality in teaching, research, and service; being an academic manager of both faculty and staff; faculty recruitment, retention, mentoring and promotion; diplomacy and managerial skills; communication to and relations with School, University and the outside world; resource acquisition and allocation (budgeting, etc.); and overall leadership and vision. Enjoy dialoguing with your colleagues over cheese and wine.

Leading Staff and Teams

Leading others can be a daunting task without the right skill sets and tools for effective leadership. In addition to leading in general, leading in academia can be complicated with unclear roles and responsibilities for team members. This session will address team building tactics, such as accountability, building trust and rapport with others, setting expectations, and coaching colleagues. Learn from professional development consultants and experienced faculty.

Managing Multiple Roles as Faculty

Faculty wear many hats - researcher, teacher, mentor, advisor, facilitator, manager, explorer – just to name a few. Juggling these roles can be challenging and time consuming. Learn from other experienced faculty ways to manage your multiple roles efficiently.

Balancing Home and Work

Finding effective ways to manage time, stress and energy are essential to maintaining high levels of productivity as well as a balanced personal and professional life. There are effective methods that can be incorporated into your daily routine that will help you to balance your time spent enhancing your career with your home life regiments.

Career and Success for Non-Tenure Track Faculty: Each Department Has Different Criteria, What Are Yours?

Navigating your career can be a challenge, but knowing the key steps and resources available to you, as well as hearing from experienced faculty, will ease the process. This program is designed to give non-tenure track faculty an overview of the resources available to them to develop successful careers. We have gathered experts to help you navigate the promotion system, develop or enhance your research portfolio, strengthen your teaching skills and help you create effective mentored relationships. We will talk about how to maximize your opportunities at USC, both for your personal and career development. This will be an open session that welcomes interaction and questions.

Navigating the Tenure Process for 1st – 3rd Year Faculty

Navigating your career in most professions can be challenging. However, tenure-track faculty have unique experiences and requirements that govern the promotion process. This session will emphasize the responsibilities of the junior faculty member, the role of his or her department chair, the development of the dossier, and the expectations and standards associated with promotion. Participants are encouraged to bring their own questions and concerns, for interaction with the panelists and fellow participants in an open forum.

Mentoring Throughout Your Career

Navigating your academic career can be challenging in every phase. New responsibilities bring new challenges. Mentoring from others can help smooth the process and facilitate success and career satisfaction. At the same time you are the beneficiary of mentoring, you are in turn mentoring others – peers, learners, and other faculty members. This session will emphasize the skills and capabilities needed to be a more successful mentor and a more successful protégé or mentee. Members from the University’s Mentoring Forum will be available to discuss the mentoring process, as well as the University’s mentoring initiative. Speakers will include Amy Murphy and Bruce Zucherman, Co-Chairs of the Mentoring Forum and other USC faculty. Participants are encouraged to bring their own questions and concerns, for interaction with the panelists and fellow participants in an open forum.

Sometimes a Great Notion...Turning Clinical Experience into Scholarship

Scholarship, presenting and writing up your clinical experiences, so they can inform, warn, and get others thinking, is something that can be part of any career. Whether you officially devote time and money to research or simply are always thinking as you care for patients and try to solve clinical or basic science problems, learning to write down your thoughts is important. This session is designed to get you thinking and writing, thinking about the questions that are generated by your patients and colleagues, and questions you ask yourself. Writing these thoughts down and asking a question you can answer is important to your scholarship and can be fun and gratifying.

Mid-Career Advancement: Strategies for Promotion from Associate Professor to Full Professor

Faculty who have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure have just completed one of the most arduous experiences of their lives! The next step however is also challenging and it is helpful to know how to direct your career for the next level of advancement. Topics for discussion include positioning yourself in your field to have an impact on its direction, increasing your professional stature, how to use a sabbatical effectively, what is expected at the school and university level.

Navigating the Tenure Process for 4th - 5th Year Faculty

This session will explain the roles in the development of the tenure dossier of the junior faculty member, his or her department chair, the Departmental and School Promotion Committee, and the Department administrative coordinator. It will clarify the expectations and standards associated with promotion. Current and past members of the University Committee on Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure (UCAPT) will be available to discuss the guidelines on promotion and tenure. Participants are encouraged to bring their own questions and concerns for interaction with the panelists and fellow participants in an open forum.

Discovering Emotional Intelligence

In order to better understand how to deal with other faculty, staff, and students, it is beneficial to better understand yourself and your own emotional intelligence. This program will help faculty with their managerial and people skills. All faculty are encouraged to attend and bring a colleague to learn more about this subject