Common Time on Oct. 2 will examine the faculty peer mentoring process

The Peer Mentoring Advisory Committee (PMAC) is hosting Common Time on Monday, October 2, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Main Building Conference Center.

Tenure-track faculty members and their mentors are encouraged to join the session to gain information and ask questions; however, the event is open to all interested College employees.

The session will feature a panel discussion on “Peer Mentoring and the Tenure Process.” Panel members include:

• Provost Robbin Hoopes
• Bob Nields (Tenure Committee member)
• Tomie Gartland (Recently-tenured faculty member)
• Ryan Schmidt (Recently-tenured faculty member)
• Abbey Yee (Cincinnati State AAUP President)
• Greg Klein (Cincinnati State AAUP Contract Compliance Officer)

The panel members will answer questions that were submitted in advance from tenure-track faculty and mentors.

This Common Time will be an in-person only event.

If you are a tenured faculty member with interest in serving as a mentor to a tenure-track colleague, or as the facilitator for a group of tenure-track faculty, please reach out to the PMAC co-chairs, Meredith Effler and Ann Fallon.

The tenure process and the criteria for achieving tenure are described in the AAUP Collective Bargaining Agreement. Faculty members who are tenure-track must complete five years of full-time service before applying for tenure in Fall of their sixth year of service.

Tenure status is awarded by the Board of Trustees after considering recommendations from the Faculty Tenure Committee, the faculty member’s academic Dean, the Provost, and the President.