Faculty Forum Blog welcome page
A new blog has been created for the Faculty Forum at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) in order to facilitate increased conversation and collaboration amongst faculty. The blog, which went live this morning, is intended to be a new avenue for faculty to communicate with each other and their Faculty Forum Representatives.
According to its Bylaws, the Faculty Forum “provides a venue for discussion of issues of concern among the faculty, and to establish and maintain a formal system of two-way communication with the Administration.” The new blog will enable Faculty Forum Representatives to communicate in an open and collaborative way with the faculty, and will provide faculty members an open forum to respond or post their own comments. The blog will also provide another way for Representatives to communicate information to the faculty about what is happening on an administrative level. The blog is not meant to replace the quarterly meetings of the Faculty Forum, but instead is intended as a way to bolster conversation.
The blog is a secure site that is only accessible by faculty members who do not sit on the Executive Committee, and is only accessible by entering your Kerberos user name and password. This protective measure has been added to ensure that the blog is only viewed and utilized by its intended audience: faculty.
Faculty Forum Representatives serve two-year terms and take turns sitting as a voting member on the GSDM Executive Committee. The newest batch of Representatives was elected in December 2014 and their term will conclude in December 2016. They are: Clinical Assistant Professor and Group Practice Leader in the Department of General Dentistry Dr. Charilaos Asikis (Pre-doctoral Representative), Clinical Assistant Professor and Clinical Director in the Department of Periodontology Dr. Gail McCausland (Post-doctoral Representative), Clinical Instructor and Group Practice Leader in the Department of General Dentistry Dr. Michael Slesnick (Pre-doctoral Alternate), and Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology Dr. Philip Trackman (Research Representative).
Communications Manager Molly Washburn will be giving a demonstration of how to use the blog at the next Faculty Forum meeting, on Wednesday, March 25, 2015, at 11:30 a.m. in room G-701. Additional instructions for using the blog can be found on the GSDM website.
Faculty Forum Representatives can be reached by email at facforum@bu.edu.