The University of Denver’s newly approved faculty-development policy includes providing a way for professors to talk about professional challenges in peer-to-peer conversations.
To initiate a conversation, individual faculty members identify a question or problem they’re dealing with and invite a small group of experienced professors and staff members to discuss it. The two-hour talks are confidential. The committee that created the framework for the talks thinks it best if faculty members initiate a peer-to-peer conversation at least every three years and at these benchmarks: within three years after being hired, within three years after promotion to associate professor, and within three years after becoming a full professor.
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