Early Career: First Six Years
Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP)
The CSU AGEP Alliance for Diversity & Strengths of STEM Faculty is a collaborative project of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Cal Poly Pomona, CSU Dominguez Hills and Fresno State. We work collaboratively to develop, implement, study, evaluating, disseminating and scaling an Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Alliance Model. Our goal is to improve faculty retention and promotion and tenure for early-career STEM faculty at CSU campuses.
Faculty Success Program
Tenure-Track Faculty Success Program (summer course design, orientation, and affinity groups)
New tenure-track faculty success begins with the remote summer Course Design experience. This program provides faculty with connection to other new faculty and initiates and fosters discussions on scholarship of effective teaching and learning at the university level. This program supports new faculty to create courses informed by knowledge of Cal Poly Pomona’s students, mission, and values. A three-day in-person orientation is provided for new tenure-track faculty the week before their first semester begins.
New tenure track faculty affinity groups provide a caring and experienced faculty mentor to small groups of the newest tenure track faculty members for their first and second years at CPP. Group members and mentors support each other and provide respectful camaraderie as they begin their faculty career at CPP.
Provost Fellows for New Faculty Success, Erica Morales (Associate Professor, Sociology) and Amy Dao (Assistant Professor, Geography & Anthropology) currently lead these efforts.
Lecturer Orientation
Our New Lecturer Faculty Orientation is a time to learn about the university and meet new colleagues. A small stipend is available for completion of the orientation.
Outcomes
- Form relationships with other lecturers that lead to productive collaborations and enjoyable friendships
- Collect a variety of information about Cal Poly Pomona’s priorities, resources, policies, procedures, and opportunities in an easy-to-retrieve format
- Feel valued and welcomed
The orientation covers logistics such as contract issues, California faculty union information, payroll, and evaluation.
The orientation includes best practices on creating an inclusive and equitable classroom to promote student success including syllabus examples and CPP’s learning management system, canvas.
Leave knowing more about the many resources available to enhance yours and your students’ experience at Cal Poly Pomona.
Parenting Faculty Support Group
Faculty created a Parenting Faculty Support Group to provide the following:
- Holistic support (professional and personal) to enhance productivity and satisfaction
- Connection with other parenting faculty
- Advocacy and support with campus administrators
- Parenting faculty workshops and meetings on topics of interest such as time management, work-life balance, professional growth, etc.
Over 50 faculty have joined the Parenting Faculty group on Microsoft Teams. If you would like to join, here’s the team code: yw752pf. If you have any difficulty joining, please email Julie Shen at jshen@cpp.edu for assistance.
Cal Poly Pomona currently offers resources and services for parenting faculty in various campus outlets. Such resources include:
Stay tuned as this effort expands. If you would like to join or have ideas, please share with the Parenting Faculty Support Team through Teams.
NCFDD
Cal Poly Pomona faculty have access to professional development resources focused on enhancing scholarly productivity and successfully navigating life in academia. These resources are available online through an institutional membership in the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD), courtesy of the Provost's Office. The offerings include self-paced resources for individuals and scheduled collaborative-style workshops and events for groups of participants. Below are previews of the range of resources offered along with easy access links to account activation.