SU ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award
The SU ADVANCE IT grant focused on cultivating the changes necessary to implement a sustainable faculty development path toward advancement that includes recognition and reward of traditionally hidden or under-valued work.
Overview
Our programmatic focus for the six years of our NSF grant (#1629875) was firmly centered on broadening the scope of "what counts" in faculty work and expertise.
Our own products also reflect this broad focus: some are more traditional research products and others demonstrate other types of activities and applied expertise.
All of these products should be useful to people interested in programmatic efforts to further institutional change with an equity perspective, research into faculty lives and workloads, gendered experiences within the academy, and the effects of COVID-19 on faculty workloads.
This current grant, led by Jodi O’Brien, funds the “Reimagining the Professoriate” project, which focuses on evaluating and assigning merit to traditionally undervalued faculty activities and expanding conceptions of the traditional research model to include a more comprehensive consideration of what counts in the categories of scholarship, research and teaching.