Background: Every year a number of Iran’s faculty members in Medical science universities got promoted to a higher scientific rank with respect to their history of administrative and scientific services and research and educational activities. One of the faculty promotion criteria is assessing the quality of their educational activities which encompass four areas (training, professional and soc...

Higher education has recently faced new challenges and responsibilities such as higher expectations to contribute to national and regional developments; considerable cuts in public funds, and the highly competitive educational markets. Previous research has suggested a positive association between development of human capitals in higher education institutions and their capacity to deal with the...

Making Your Candidate Statement March 31, 3:30-5 p.m., Swede Johnson Building, Room 205, RSVP here[1] Candidates will work in small groups with senior faculty in related fields to discuss sample candidate statements. Candidate statements [2] are vital to outlining the impact of candidates' service, teaching and research. They play an especially important role in documenting the sorts of communi...

This web page provides resources on faculty mentoring for those new to this topic as well as those already involved in a mentoring program. MSU resources and general resources covering a range of issues are followed by mentoring resources for specific academic areas and faculty members. Links are given for extensive bibliographies and mentoring programs at higher education institutions in the U...

This web page provides resources on faculty mentoring for those new to this topic as well as those already involved in a mentoring program. MSU resources and general resources covering a range of issues are followed by mentoring resources for specific academic areas and faculty members. Links are given for extensive bibliographies and mentoring programs at higher education institutions in the U...