The School of Medicine Office of Faculty Affairs has a broad range of responsibilities including:
- Providing assistance for preparing and processing all faculty actions, including new appointments, promotions, tenure awards, and sabbatical requests.
- Assisting faculty members, department chairs and administrators in the interpretation of University and School of Medicine rules.
- Maintaining a Faculty Development Seminar website and publishing the Faculty Success Newsletter to promote faculty development.
- Leading several faculty development programs that are aimed especially at junior faculty members who are beginning, or building, their careers as clinician-educators, scientists or scholars.
- Coordinating several school-wide projects addressing faculty professionalism, diversity, conflicts-of-interest and other topics.
Faculty Affairs Resources
- Governance: Faculty governance structure within the School of Medicine, which includes the Executive Committee, the Faculty Senate, and the Dean of the School of Medicine.
- Faculty Appointments and Promotions: Policies and procedures for School of Medicine faculty appointments and promotions.
- Faculty Development: The Faculty Development Seminar Web site, as well as other helpful faculty development resources.
- Clinical (Volunteer) Faculty: Appointment and promotion information and benefits available to volunteer clinical faculty members.
- Faculty Professionalism: School of Medicine’s professionalism standards, the annual Faculty Professionalism Award, as well as various professionalism resources.
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Women in Medicine
- Rules and Policies: University and school rules and policies, including the School of Medicine Rules.
- Special Reports: A listing of reports that faculty may find interesting and helpful.
- Mission Statement