August 24 - Orientation for New Department Heads

8:00 to 12:00 Noon Carrington 209 Conference Room (Lunch will be provided)

A. Basic paperwork, policies and procedures which heads must know to function

B. Management of student issues, including mental illness, difficult students and emergency plans

E. Contact lists of individuals in offices around campus that department heads need to work with:

August 24 – Training for all Deans and Department Heads

1:30 to 3:00 p.m., Karls 101

B. Roles of Associate and Assistant Provosts (organizational overview)

C. Overview of New Ad templates and Recruitment (including minority recruitment)

E. Annual Review and Tenure and Promotion Process and New Forms

G. Up-Date on Compensation Committee and Focus for Departmental work

September 5 - Preparing the Sabbatical Application, Panel of successful faculty and Dr. Einhellig (two sessions) Faculty only, 11:30 to 1:00 p.m., PSU 313

September 17 – Diversity Initiatives for Professional Education: Data Collection for NCATE and beyond, Session 1. Faculty and Department Heads, 12:45-2:45 p.m., Hill 208, (two sessions)

The Professional Education Committee (PEC), in collaboration with the Provost Committee on Diversity Out-Reach are providing two sessions to prepare Department Heads and faculty who lead education programs for the data collection requirements of the NCATE accreditation process. Participants will work at computer stations and will be shown the forms for documenting diversity efforts in the areas of recruiting diverse faculty and students, curriculum, and field experiences. This is a critical first step in preparing for the

NCATE visit in 2010 which will be a comprehensive review of three years of data. The session will be lead by members of the PEC Diversity committee, which includes community leaders such as Dr. Nate Quinn, Diversity Coordinator for the Springfield R-12 Schools.

The first session will be held on Monday, September 17th in Hill Hall 208 from 12:45 to

2:45. The second session will be held on Tuesday, September 25 in Strong 408 These are identical sessions and Department heads and faculty should only sign up for one session.

September 17 - AAA Meeting, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. PSU 400 – Flexibility in FERPA for Health Safety Issues. Personnel Updates. All Deans and Department Heads

September 25 - Diversity Initiatives for Professional Education: Data Collection for NCATE and beyond. Session 2, 10:00-12:00 p.m. Strong 408

October 1- Putting together the portfolio for Tenure and Promotion: for Faculty,

11:30-1:00 p.m., PSU 300 BR East

October 4 - Putting together the portfolio for Tenure and Promotion for Faculty

Faculty only, 12:30 to 2:00 p.m., CARR 209

October 15 - AAA meeting, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. PSU 400 – Deans and Heads Tenure and Promotion All Deans and Department Heads

A. How to provide appropriate feedback in annual reports

C. Meeting with faculty to go over key faculty HB components and the criteria in place at

November 1 – Meeting Milestones Leading to Tenure and Promotion. 2:00-3:30 p.m., PSU 308

This session will provide participants with the insights of key administrators on the tenure and promotion process in a number of academic disciplines. The sessions are intended for any and all faculty interested in how the process works at Missouri State and learn of ways in which to balance workloads in a way which will facilitate the meeting of milestones leading to tenure and promotion.

November 7 – CANCELLED -The Tenacity of Scholarship: Resubmitting Grants and Manuscripts for Publication.

3:00- 4:30, Location TBA.

This session focuses on the process of sustaining a program of research or grant writing overtime. The session will provide examples of funded projects and scholarship which went through a revision and re-submit process. The dialogue will focus on how to incorporate feedback from peer reviews and how to strengthen a grant application or article after the initial submission does not meeting criteria for approval or acceptance for publication.

November 19 - AAA meeting, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. PSU 400 – Compensation Plan

All Deans and Department Heads

Panel of Heads identified based on Tom Kane’s information

January 28 - Strategic Planning and Benchmarking, AAA Meeting

All Deans and Department Heads, 3:00 to 5:00, PSU 300 BR East