Chairs and Directors Session: Faculty and Staff Evaluation and Merit Process
Leaders: Carla Freeman and Laura Papotto
Tuesday, March 31, 2020, 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
(Outlook invite with Zoom link will be provided)
Faculty Evaluation and Merit Process
We are proceeding with replacing the Online Faculty Activity Report (OFARs) with Faculty 180 activity reporting as part of the faculty review and evaluation process. You will have access to the new program by the end of the month.
Faculty 180 is a system that allows faculty to enter all professional activities in one system that can then be used to generate CVs, reporting, biosketches, etc.
This platform will provide Emory-wide uniformity for university reporting that supports faculty, administrative, and accreditation needs. This easy-to-use system will streamline data collection for your use as well as for reporting purposes in Emory College, and Emory University. Faculty 180 is a powerful tool to capture the totality of faculty activity. For this year, our goal is to capture only the past year’s activity for the purposes of annual review.
This Year’s Faculty Activity Report for Performance Review: This spring all tenure-track and lecturer-track faculty will enter their activity information encompassing the past year (May 2019 – May 2020) in Faculty 180 instead of through OFARs. Activity information will need to be entered and complete by all regular faculty by Friday, May 15, 2020.
Faculty 180 Training Sessions: Your department chair may have already arranged for a department specific session but there are also general training sessions available through Zoom. They are scheduled:
- 2 – 4 p.m., Wednesday, April 1
- 8:30 – 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, April 14
- 2 – 4 p.m., Monday, April 20
These sessions will be posted on the Dean of Faculty Outlook calendar so faculty can go there to claim the session link(s). You may also RSVP to the Dean_of_Faculty@emory.edu email and we will send you a calendar invite with the Zoom link information.
Heilbrun Distinguished Emeritus Fellows Program
This marks the 20th year of competition for the Heilbrun Distinguished Emeritus Fellowship. The program will support two fellowships in the amount of $10,000 each for the 2020-2021 academic year. Any faculty who have not previously received this award and have achieved emeritus status on or before September 1, 2020, are eligible to apply.
The criteria for selection will include:
- The relationship of the proposed project to the candidate's previous research.
- The feasibility of completing the project within the term of the Fellowship.
- The overall value of the research to the applicant's field or discipline.
Fellowship recipients will be asked to agree to the following conditions:
- Submission of a written report to the Committee upon completion of the Fellowship.
- Formal acknowledgment of Fellowship support in any published work that results
- Attendance at receptions and social gatherings sponsored by the Committee.
Application details:
- Detailed description of the planned research project to be undertaken during the term of the fellowship
- Budget detail of the research expenses
- Curriculum vita that includes activities undertaken since gaining emeritus status
Applications should be sent to the email account Dean_of_Faculty@emory.edu with “Heilbrun Fellowship” in the subject line and be received by Friday, May 1. (Deadline was April 1)
Named Chair Nominations
It is the time of the year that you consider nominating your colleagues for a named chair. We are not certain how many such chairs we will be able to consider for the upcoming year, but your nominations play a crucial role in helping identify faculty deserving of further recommendation.
Three Winship Distinguished Research Awards are awarded every year. All nominations are kept on file for three years. In particular, nominations for the Dobbs and White chairs may be considered over several years, and new materials may be added to the file after the initial nomination. Generally speaking, nominees should not already be holders of named chairs.
Descriptions of Named Chairs and the Winship Award:
- Samuel Candler Dobbs: Full professors who have shown extraordinary accomplishment and considerable future promise in research and teaching.
- Goodrich C. White: Full professors who have distinguished themselves by extraordinary service to the university and by strong accomplishment in research and teaching.
- Winship Distinguished Research Award: Tenured faculty who demonstrate singular accomplishments in research. Such recognition should honor achievement and further scholarly research and research-based teaching. Awarded for a three-year term.
To nominate a member of your faculty, submit a brief letter of nomination (no more than one page) and a copy of their detailed CV to the email address: Dean_of_Faculty@emory.edu by Friday, May 15. We encourage nominations that include letters of support (no more than one page) from more than one faculty, although all nominations will be considered carefully.
Hightower Speaker Funds: Fall 2020 Applications Now Open
Each year Emory College receives funds from the Hightower endowment, which memorializes the late Robert E. Hightower Sr. This endowment provides funds to bring outstanding visiting lecturers to Emory.
The College has typically committed funds of $75,000-$100,000 annually. These include small allocations for partial funding of a single speaker to large amounts to support conferences with several speakers. Applications for Fall 2020 events are currently being accepted. The deadline to submit the application is May 15.
More information about the application process can be found on the Office of Faculty website along with the Hightower Fund application. |
