Bailey Faculty Members

Like student scholars, faculty scholars are expected to be intentional about their learning in the Bailey Scholars Program. Similar to Learning Vision Statements, Faculty Envisionments are written by faculty to develop a plan for their learning. In the Envisionments, faculty describe their role and contributions to the program, and are held accountable to that Envisionment by the Senior Director. For example, many faculty scholars learn more about the scholarship of teaching and learning, delve into new areas of personal interest, and engage with the learning community as a whole. Along with what they hope to learn as a Bailey Scholar, they must also explain how they plan to contribute to the overall program operation and learning community. In the summer, faculty members will undergo annual Bailey Scholars Program Faculty Evaluations.

The Bailey Scholars Program does not have a traditional faculty with promotion and tenure. However, faculty members, staff members, student affairs professionals, and adjunct faculty members engage in the work of the program on a temporary basis. Faculty members utilize this as a place to explore their own professional development, and explore possibilities for their future. For example, the Office of Campus Sustainability and the Student Organic Farm both began from conversations enabled by the Bailey Scholars Program.

Faculty members rotate in and out of the program on a per person basis. Their work with our innovative scholarship provides them the opportunity to take it back and integrate it into their work in their home departments. It is the belief of the Bailey Scholars Program that in order to spread our innovative paradigms on a wider basis, we must provide the opportunity to for faculty members to spread this work on their own terms and in their own personal ways.

If you would like to serve as a faculty member in the Bailey Scholars Program, please contact our Senior Director, Glenn Sterner, at sternerg@msu.edu.