PTK Promotion Bootcamp Pt 2: Promotion Dossier Deep Dive
Mar 7, 2:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
This session is the second part of the PTK Promotion Bootcamp, focused on preparing PTK faculty for going up for promotion - participants are encouraged to attend both sessions. This hands-on session will include small-group discussions of specific components of the promotion dossier and reviews of sample personal statements.
Presenters
Dawn Culpepper (she/her) is the Director of the ADVANCE Program for Inclusive Excellence. Dawn's research broadly examines equity, diversity, and inclusion in the academic workplace, with an emphasis on identifying strategies and disrupting practices that limit full participation for women and scholars from racially minoritized groups. She has examined faculty hiring, workload, tenure and promotion, postdoctoral training programs, work-life integration, graduate education, and faculty-related COVID-19 policies. Her work has been published in top education and diversity-related journals, and she has led or served on numerous projects funded by the National Science Foundation, including as the social science research team lead for the NSF INCLUDES RISE-UPP Alliance.
Ursula Gorham is the Associate Director for Faculty Initiatives in the Office of Faculty Affairs, overseeing policy and procedural matters governing PTK and other non-tenure-track faculty. Prior to joining the Office of Faculty Affairs, she was a Senior Lecturer in the College of Information Studies, serving as the director of the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program from 2018-2023. She is a proud alumna of UMD, having earned a PhD and MLIS from the iSchool, a law degree from the School of Law, University of Maryland, Baltimore, and a Master of Public Management from the School of Public Policy.