Category: Faculty ADVANCEment

Interested in improving your writing productivity?  Sign up to meet with other faculty in the Clemson Faculty Book Club over Zoom this spring.  This group will be reading a chapter from The Black Academic’s Guide to Winning Tenure- Without Losing Your Soul by Kerry Anne Rockquemore and Tracy Lazzloffy.  Chapter 6 ‘Healthy Pathways to Publication’ […]

Higher education climate surveys have been used for much of the last few decades in the US to collect information about the perception of campus inclusion, collegiality, workload, trust, and current initiatives. With a healthy campus climate, individuals and groups generally feel welcomed, respected, and valued by their colleagues. Besides professional and personal benefits, research […]

  Why you need to develop your own professional brand As noted by Columbia University, many professors consider the concept of branding to be fake, demeaning, like product marketing. On the contrary, a faculty’s brand can provide a public window into your background, your current interests, your team, and your vision for the future of […]

The Office of Faculty ADVANCEment (OFA) hosted its inaugural Faculty Grow Workshop on April 9 th, 2024. With approximately 50 faculty participants, and through the lens of a “charette-style” workshop, we began to create a shared vision of the future of faculty success at Clemson. With speakers, a faculty panel, and active engagement and conversation, […]

Dr. David Knox earned his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia (2004), where he then served as Director of Technological Academic Initiatives for the University of Georgia Graduate School. Dr. Knox joined Clemson in 2004 where he is now the Director of the University Testing and Education Center (UTEC) and the Founding Director of the Clemson Thinks2 (CT2) […]

Tom Kealy, Ph.D., has been named Clemson’s first director for faculty awards and honorifics. In this role, Kealy reports to Senior Associate Provost Amy Lawton-Rauh to direct and manage workflows and networks supporting internal and external awards recognizing faculty excellence in teaching, service, scholarly pursuits, and leadership across the University. How does your previous experience […]

This month, we are featuring Dr. Leslie Warlick, a lecturer in the Department of Performing Arts. She holds performance degrees from the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Florida State University. Dr. Warlick has had the pleasure of studying violin with Elaine Richey, David Updegraff, Donald Weilerstein, and Gary Kosloski. […]

The Office of Faculty ADVANCEment (OFA) hosted its inaugural Faculty Grow Workshop on April 9 th, 2024. With approximately 50 faculty participants, and through the lens of a “charette-style” workshop, we began to create a shared vision of the future of faculty success at Clemson. With speakers, a faculty panel, and active engagement and conversation, […]

In 2017, with support from the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE program, Clemson University’s Advance grant team and Dr. Patrick Rosopa, the team’s Social Science Research Lead, developed and distributed a faculty survey to better understand Clemson’s institutional culture and climate for all faculty. Post COVID-19 and with the 2023 launch of Clemson’s Office of Faculty […]