Based on climate data from 2016 (COACHE), our office provides ongoing efforts to improve the onboarding experience for new faculty. These efforts include communications and promotions of onboarding events, providing content, and suggesting improvements to programming.

In an effort to improve our services, our office has increased assessments of events. Feedback is requested for office-related events as well as events we help sponsor. Data from this feedback has resulted in changes in topic offerings, program, and event details.

In collaboration with Human Resources, our office provides workshops on best practices in faculty searches and hiring to guide academic units in conducting an effective and efficient search. Launched in fall 2018, these workshops are offered each semester and share national best practices, tools, and resources. For the 2019-2020 academic year, we partnered with three faculty from the theatre department to redesign the workshops to include a live skit and discussion.

Piloted as a course in spring 2019, The Dialogues, offered tools and activities to use in group settings to improve unit agency. In fall 2019, the most effective exercises and activities from the spring course were shared in campus workshops.

Based on data from 2016 (COACHE), our office continues to promote activities that improve work-life integration. From providing content to programs to recommending changes to current policies and procedures, our office understands the importance of and encourages a life-friendly work environment.

For 2019-2020, our office focused more attention to addressing the needs of part-time instructors, lecturers, faculty-in-residence, and research faculty.

We have created tools and guides to support departments in developing clear and transparent tenure and/or promotion standards/guidelines for tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty. Our office will continue to work with departments and colleges to create fair processes for advancement.

In addition to offering professional development programming, the UNLV Faculty Center serves as a space for faculty affinity groups to network, meet, and host events.

The curriculum of the Leadership Development Academy and chair training workshops have been improved to include more content related to faculty diversity topics.

During 2019-2020, our office held networking events to build community for non-tenure track faculty, and we also coordinated campus forums to understand faculty’s work experiences.

Coordinated through the Faculty Center, the mentoring group meets monthly to provide guidance and discussion on academic and personnel matters.

A Google group titled Non-TT Faculty was created for our office to communicate directly with all lecturers, faculty-in-residence, and research faculty. All new faculty are automatically added to the listserv upon hire. Please add NonTTfaculty@unlv.edu to your email safe-list. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Established in spring 2019, a call was sent inviting non-tenure track faculty having different appointment types to serve on the board to recommend improvements to non-tenure track promotion processes. Nineteen faculty across twelve different colleges and schools served on the board. In spring 2020, a new invitation to serve will be sent to all non-tenure track faculty. The focus for spring 2020 is onboarding processes.

A new webpage devoted to all matters regarding Non-Tenure Track Faculty was developed in fall 2019.

This guide will outline a promotion process specifically for lecturers, research faculty, and faculty-in-residence. This process was informed by non-tenure track faculty representing colleges and schools across campus.

For units seeking to develop promotion standards, resources are available. These resources have also been shared directly with department chairs, supervisors, and associate deans of units that do not have promotion standards or guidelines.