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Navigating Academia: Meeting Strategies for New Faculty Members

This guide provides essential strategies for new faculty members navigating various academic meetings. From research seminars to lunches with administrators, it emphasizes preparation, engagement, and effective dialogue. Key insights include the importance of understanding stakeholders, connecting with students, and articulating your research interests and goals. The document also highlights the value of personal interactions, such as sharing hobbies during meals and engaging in meaningful conversations to build rapport. Elevate your academic presence by mastering these meeting dynamics.

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Navigating Academia: Meeting Strategies for New Faculty Members

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  1. Sweating the Small Stuff: Michael Gunderson, Assistant Professor

  2. Getting the Agenda • Phone call search/department chair • You are likely to see some mix of: • Research/Teaching/Extension Seminar • Meetings with individual faculty or groups of faculty • Meetings with students • Meetings with stakeholders • Meetings with administrators • Breakfast, lunch, and dinner • Meetings with human resource representatives • Meetings with realtors

  3. Seminars • Be brief • Research seminars • Current research • Something with results • Future applications • Teaching seminars • Prepare something relatively simple and well-known • Engage the students in a dialogue • Be confident

  4. Faculty Meetings • Prepare for the meetings • Department webpage • Google Scholar • Be determined to let them do most of the talking • Prepare questions about their research • Be ready to indicate how your areas of interest might fit

  5. Meetings with Students • Graduate students are a good source • You are likely to be able to easily relate to them • Ask about why they chose that school • Questions about their frustrations • Undergraduate students

  6. Meetings with Stakeholders • Stakeholders outside the university • Learn about the state and its industries • Give some strategies for dealing with current issues • Stakeholders inside the university • Learn about other departments and their strengths • Prepare some options for cross-campus collaboration

  7. Meeting with Administrators • Administrators are interested in your long-term success • What are your goals in five years? Post-tenure? • What are your passions? • What do you offer the college? • Challenge administrators • What resources will they give you? • What support is there for Research? Teaching? Grant Writing? • What is the long-term strategy for the department?

  8. Eating Meals • Relax • Change to comfortable clothes for dinner • Ask questions about the community and family life • Ask about hobbies and other interests • Let others order first

  9. Other Meetings • Human Resources • Retirement • Health Insurance • Most information is on the internet • Realtors • Generally a less valuable use of time • Typically can house hunt once you decide on a job

  10. Questions?

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