Across fall, spring, and summer semesters, I also have been previously employed as a faculty coach for the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) where I was trained to provide effective coaching on matters such as strategic planning, research and writing productivity, professional development, and work-life balance for faculty.

Additionally, as a part of the Tenure Council for my institution’s School of Arts and Sciences that serves 1100 faculty members, I have been selected to serve on ad hoc committees at the college/school level for the promotion and tenure of assistant professors. Hence, I have evaluated professors’ dossiers that include various items such as department chairs’ detailed cover letters, departmental committee reports, annual evaluations, third year review letters, external letters, and all of the professors’ research, teaching, service, and miscellaneous materials. My service on the promotion committee for a senior lecturer/teaching professor, which involves different promotion criteria from tenure track faculty, led to the promotion of another faculty member as well.

Together, these experiences have provided me with further insight on the internal mentoring practices of different departments and disciplines. For the past few years, moreover, I have been a part of several faculty job searches within and outside of my department, and the searches have been positions for tenure-track assistant professors, tenured professors, visiting assistant professors, and visiting lecturers.

My participation in national leadership training programs with organizations, such as HERS (Higher Education Resource Services), Academic Impressions, and the Modern Language Association MAPS Leadership Institute, has also helped enhance my skills in matters of advising/mentoring, programming development, strategic planning, and related resource provisions.

Collectively, my employment in higher education spans different geographic locales—the Southeast, Northeast, Midwest, and West Coast regions—and encompasses different types of institutions, extending from top-ranked research universities to private liberal arts universities and HBCUs. I have consistently expanded my networking and knowledge of other fields and disciplines via service in organizations at every level (from the university to the professional and to the community) and via conference participation, as I have organized panels at national and international conferences across the past 10 years.