OFA Events Calendar

APT Workshop: Promotion to Full

This workshop focuses on tenured faculty seeking promotion to full professor, emphasizing considerations for the promotion process, expectations of APT committees, and what the University committee looks for in an APT package.

APT Workshop: APT Overview for New Staff

Learn more about the APT process including:

• General considerations;
• Expectations of APT Committees; and
• What the University committee looks for in an APT package.

Any/all APT questions are welcome from any level - APT faculty committee members, upper level administrators, staff, promotion candidates, etc.

Faculty Forum: Don't Cross the Streams — Keeping your Professional and Personal Digital Information Separate

This forum will focus on the importance of maintaining separate professional and personal digital accounts. The forum speaker, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth (Vice President and Chief Information Officer), will address common practices in which personal and professional accounts are co-mingled and explain how individuals can untangle their digital lives in a relatively straightforward and manageable way. Drawing on lessons from his own experience as a faculty member who used a University of Maryland email account for both personal and professional purposes for approximately 25 years, he will reflect on the long-term implications of these choices.

The session will also cover planning for one’s digital legacy, including steps to ensure that digital assets can be accessed by a designated individual in the event of incapacity. In addition, the presentation will offer practical guidance for those responsible for managing the digital affairs of a parent or other family member who has passed away.

The Road to Tenure: Working with Graduate Students

Mentoring graduate students is an important part of an academic career and crucial for success in many disciplines. At this session, you will learn some best practices for establishing productive relationships with graduate students, with attention to how faculty members can support graduate students across differences in background and experience.

Attendees will also learn about key resources offered by the Graduate School for professional job placement of graduate students, particularly beyond the limited academic opportunities currently available.

Silver Terp Seminars | How climate change is affecting mountain wildflower and pollinator communities

Mountain environments are experiencing some of the most rapid and visible effects of climate change. In this talk, Dr. David Inouye will explore how shifting mountain climates are affecting wildflowers, pollinators, and other mountain residents. He will draw on 55 years of research in mountain environments, including work at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado and during a sabbatical in Australia’s Snowy Mountains, among other locations.

Building on this long-term research, Dr. Inouye also brings extensive experience in the broader ecological community. He is the founder and moderator of the Ecological Society of America’s ECOLOG-L listserv and serves on the Board of the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign. He is a Past President of the Ecological Society of America and served as a Lead Author on the report on pollinators produced by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.

Faculty Forum - How the University Works: Shared Governance & Policymaking

Have you ever wondered how policy is created at UMD, who takes part in the decision-making process, and how shared governance works? If so, please join us for a discussion of the various ways of creating policy that shapes our daily work on campus.

The session will be presented by Veronica Marin, Director and Executive Secretary, University Senate, and moderated by Laura Rosenthal, Director for Faculty Leadership.

DST Lecture: Rethinking the Game: The Zero-Sum Trap in Workplace Behaviors

Rellie Rozin, Robert H. Smith School of Business

This event is the final Distinguished Scholar-Teacher (DST) Lecture scheduled for the 2025-2026 academic year. 

RSVP for the event at this link. 

For more information about the DST Lecture Series, visit here.