Chairs’ Resources
These resources support chairs’ work as the primary leaders of their departments: daily administration, budget oversight, faculty mentorship, curriculum planning, and efforts to support student achievement.
Institutional Data for Faculty Leaders
Access OFE student and faculty surveys and university data reports to understand the teaching and learning experiences at Montclair.
Faculty Hiring Best Practices
A mini-course that supports faculty involved in recruitment and search processes by providing a distillation of best practices in faculty recruiting.
Montclair Syllabus
Montclair Syllabus is a centralized, template-driven platform that enables instructors to quickly personalize and publish interactive class syllabi.
Higher Education Academic Leadership (HEAL) Fellowship
The HEAL Fellowship provides opportunities for faculty to study an important challenge facing higher education and propose an intervention supporting the success of students, faculty, staff, or the university.
OFE Faculty Leads
OFE Faculty Leads are Montclair faculty members who develop and execute a campus-wide community of practice or similar initiative for an academic year.
Past Workshops for Faculty Leadership
Inclusive Teaching: Supporting Undergraduate, Graduate, and Professional Students in Classrooms, Research Labs, and Practical Training Settings
Special workshop by Khadijah Mitchell, the endowed Peter C.S. d’Aubermont, M.D. Scholar of Health and Life Sciences and Assistant Professor of Biology at Lafayette College, based on the best-selling book, What Inclusive Instructors Do.
Managers DEIB reading and discussion group
Hybrid reading and discussion group meeting regularly. Primary reading: From equity talk to equity walk: expanding practitioner knowledge for racial justice in higher education (McNair, Bensimon, and Malcom-Piqueux).
Chairs Dashboard on Tableau: A Tool to Measure Student Performance
Regular small-capacity sessions. Attendees learned the ins and outs of the chairs dashboard as a tool for deeper understanding of student course performance, differences in performance across populations, faculty grading behaviors, and more.
Walking the talk in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging
Gregory King’s workshop raising questions as to what gets excluded when faculty from historically marginalized communities seek promotion and focusing on ways for white-identified faculty to support BIPOC faculty and staff in thriving in predominantly white academic spaces.
Leadership development for chairs: Delegation and administration
Hands-on workshop focused on best practices for effective task delegation, administration, and project management.
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