TO: Community of Academy Senior Scholars (CASS) Members
FROM: Bob Ford
RE: Report on 2017 Annual Meeting Activities
This report is divided into 4 Ps: Program, Planning, Placement, and Promotion.
PROGRAM: This year the Community of Academy Senior Scholars (CASS) sought out opportunities to more closely work with Careers Division on programs. This evolved from Bob getting elected to Careers' Executive Team for a one year term giving him the opportunity to open dialogue with Careers leadership on how CASS and Careers might better collaborate on issues of mutual interest.
Mentoring: Careers was especially interested in developing mentoring opportunities that could engage CASS members as mentors to junior faculty and in other ways. The initiative led by Bob Ford and Tania Casado sought out participants to mentor from the CASS listserv for this year's Annual Meeting but got a late start and limited response. This prompted us to create and deliver a symposium on the history and nature of AOM mentoring efforts at this year's program (see below for details).
Program: Also, CASS proposed or asked to participate in several other program elements designed to promote interest in senior scholar issues and concerns. These are as follows:
- CASS proposed (with Sherry Sullivan) creating a $1000 cash award for a Careers best paper on CASS related topics as a way to incent new scholarship on senior scholar/late career issues. The proposal was deferred for further discussion. We plan on proposing it again for next year's Annual Meeting Call for Papers in Careers Division.
- CASS participated in a PDW, "Becoming Academics: Boundary Crossing Perspectives"
- CASS developed a jointly sponsored symposium on mentoring (CASS-CAR), The Past Present and Future of AOM Mentoring, that was delivered in time AOM allocates to CASS (see attached program listing). Thus, we created a program that would continue the conversation about mentoring and the possible role CASS members might play.
- CASS sponsored a speaker, Glenn Ruffenach, Senior Editor, retired, Encore, Wall Street Journal to present on retirement planning. CASS sponsored Glenn as AOM member to enhance access to his expertise for CASS members.
- CASS co-sponsored a program with CAR, Energizing Senior Faculty: Career Strategies for the Interface Between Last Promotion and Retirement: Career Tips for Senior Faculty
- CASS participated in ENT sponsored PDW on "What's Next? Exploring Career and Life Options for Senior Scholars (Phd +25) in Entrepreneurship."
PLANNING: For next year, CASS is planning on:
- Continue efforts to develop the mentoring ideas originally suggested by Belle Rose Raggins
- Sponsoring a cash award for best paper on CASS related topics for Careers Program
- Co-sponsor PDW/symposia on topics related to CASS concerns (both with Careers program time and with CASS program time)
- Further develop linkages between CASS and Careers
- Encourage CASS members to join Careers Division to build membership, revenue and to provide reviewers and mentors for Careers
- Continue discussion on how to engage senior focused organizations (e.g., AARP) on how they might collaborate with Careers' scholars on career strategies for seniors.
PLACEMENT: CASS continues to seek ways to expand placement's service to its members. To that end, we are requesting that our members (you) share any ideas or leads you have discovered that fit senior scholars with us. We will in turn pass them along to placement as listings that would fit the needs and capabilities of our members. Thus, if you know of any potential employment paths (full or part time) or volunteer paths that fit please share them. One member noted her enjoyment as a cruise ship presenter and another mentioned on line teaching. There must be others.
PROMOTION: Overall, CASS was well represented at this year's AOM meeting but is looking to expand its presence with your help. In specific we ask you to do any or all of the following:
- Join CAR as one of your division choices to enhance CASS presence in its services and programs.
- If you can think of someone you wish were still attending the AOM meetings or you would like to remain in touch with, email me the name(s) and email address at rford@bus.ucf.edu and I'll add them to the CASS listserv (they can request to opt out if they choose). We now have 160 on our listserv but hope-with your help--- to double that number this year.
- Encourage your colleagues to research and submit PDW and symposia proposals and/or papers for next year's AOM meetings on topics relevant to CASS members.
- Tell us what you'd like CASS to do and even volunteer to lead/organize it.
- Share any thought/ideas of how AOM can better serve its senior scholars.
Thanks for your interest and support.
Bob Ford
Appendix II: Annual Meeting Events Sponsored or Co-sponsored by CASS
- What's Next? Exploring Career and Life Options for Senior Scholars (Phd +25) in Entrepreneurship
What's Next? PhD+25 Years
Session Type: PDW Workshop
Program Session: 106 | Submission: 14436 | Sponsor(s): (ENT)
Scheduled: Friday, Aug 4 2017 12:15PM - 1:45PM at Hilton Atlanta in Room 207
Chair: Jerome Katz, Saint Louis U.
Presenter: Frank Hoy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Presenter: Ariane Froidevaux, U. of Florida
Presenter: Robert C. Ford, UCF & Roy E. Crummer School of Business, Rollins College
Presenter: Kimberly A. Eddleston, Northeastern U.
In 2016, several former chairs of the Entrepreneurship Division asked about a new PDW for senior scholars (i.e. PhD + 25 years). This resulting 2017 panel has presentations from experts about AOM resources and life-planning approaches for senior scholars, as well as personal stories from and examples of senior scholars making a difference, who together will share knowledge of immediate value to PhDs+25 and beyond from the Entrepreneurship Division and other Divisions and groups within the Academy. This PDW fits with the Entrepreneurship Division's longstanding idea of career- stage workshops starting with doctoral student consortia from its Interest Group days, the Division added junior faculty consortia, and mid-career consortia over the decades. With the aging of the baby-boomers, there are now an unprecedented number of later-career members in the Division, and this PDW will continue this tradition of service, helping members explore the opportunities and resources of later career stages. So this PDW will engage a group of panelists with background in late-career issues to talk about the challenges, opportunities and resources for those in their late-career, and to explicitly start a conversation with late-career Division members about the value in developing an ongoing late-career program for future PDWs. Our hope is that our PDW will act to inspire late-career division members around the many career opportunities that this stage in their career presents, thus demonstrating their important value to the entrepreneurship field while also helping them to navigate the challenges that the late-career stage presents.
- Becoming Academics: Boundary-Crossing Perspectives
PDW Workshop
Program Session: 219 | Submission: 11154 | Sponsor(s): (CAR, ITC)
Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 5 2017 8:00AM - 9:30AM at Hilton Atlanta in Crystal Ballroom B,E
Chair: Ariane Berthoin Antal, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Chair: Ruth Bernstein, U. of Washington, Tacoma
Chair: Linda L. Putnam, U. of California, Santa Barbara
Presenter: Danna Greenberg, Babson College
Presenter: Jan-Christoph Rogge, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Presenter: Anna Svirina, Kazan National Research Technical U.
Presenter: Elza Fátima Rosa Veloso, Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas
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This PDW opens a space to learn about handling the challenges of becoming academics from three kinds of boundary-crossing perspectives: across the world, across professions and across generations. In many countries, the "rules of the game" for becoming an academic are changing, strongly influenced by Anglo-Saxon publication practices as well as other factors in national economic and political contexts. Furthermore, becoming a management scholar entails particular challenges for people entering the field at mid-career from other professional contexts, whether it be from different disciplines or from business practice. Short inputs that combine research findings and personal accounts from Germany, the Newly Independent States (former USSR), Brazil, and North America will provide the basis for several rounds of small group discussions that will be actively facilitated to maximize participation and learning. For early career faculty, this PDW will provide insights into the diversity of paths that academics can take as they craft their careers. For senior scholars who are exploring diverse late stage career models and are propelled by a desire to keep on learning after crossing the boundary into retirement, this PDW is designed to explore these topics and build conversations between generations that could lead to mentoring and potentially co- authoring relationships.
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This workshop is designed attract participants from many countries and from all stages in their academic careers. The goals of this session are to 1) explore international and intergenerational perspectives on academic careers in different kinds of institutions. (2) To facilitate networking, collaboration, mentoring across the world and (3)To sow seeds for research projects to understand similarities and differences between the changes occurring across national contexts, varied academic settings, and career stages.
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- Energizing Senior Faculty: Career Strategies for the Interface Between Last Promotion and Retirement
Career Tips for Senior Faculty
Session Type: PDW Workshop
Program Session: 393 | Submission: 14227 | Sponsor(s): (CAR, OB)
Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 5 2017 2:00PM - 3:30PM at Hilton Atlanta in Galleria 6
Organizer: Misty L. Loughry, Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College
Presenter: Gregory G Dess, The U. of Texas at Dallas
Presenter: Robert C. Ford, UCF & Roy E. Crummer School of Business, Rollins College
Presenter: Gary P. Latham, U. of Toronto
Presenter: Roy James Lewicki, The Ohio State U.
Presenter: Greg R. Oldham, Tulane U.
Presenter: Jone L. Pearce, U. of California, Irvine
Presenter: Carrie Hurst, Tennessee State U.
Presenter: Kimberly Smith Jentsch, Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College
The transition to Full Professor marks the last promotion for most faculty, yet many still have 25 or more years until retirement. Career plateaus such as this are often accompanied by frustration and decreased commitment, yet some faculty continue to be excited about their careers long after their last promotion. In this PDW, six distinguished faculty who have sustained vitality in their careers in different ways share their stories and strategies for staying engaged and excited as senior professors. These include changing institutions, consulting, mentoring other faculty, writing textbooks, and even semi-retiring. Panelists will speak for the first half of the session. Carrie Hurst will highlight the literature on career plateauing, which can leave people frustrated and dissatisfied. Kim Jentsch will speak about the benefits to mentors and protégées of late-stage career mentoring and explain how full professors can benefit from both roles. Then, Professors Greg Dess, Robert Ford, Gary Latham, Roy Lewicki, Greg Oldham, and Jone Pearce will discuss their journeys from satisfied senior professors to wanting, and finding, new strategies to keep their careers exciting. There will be a question and answer time afterwards. The remainder of the session is a time for the panelists to meet individually or in small groups with PDW participants to provide personalized mentoring on participants' career goals (this portion of the PDW is limited to Full Professors). Participants should leave the session with new strategies for re-energizing their careers and a stronger network of senior colleagues in the Academy.
- Community of Academy Senior Scholars (CASS): Welcome, Mentoring & AOM, and Encore Careers
Session Type: Meeting
Program Session: 815 | Submission: 18050 | Sponsor(s): (MBR)
Scheduled: Monday, Aug 7 2017 7:30AM - 11:00AM at Hyatt Regency Atlanta in Hanover Hall D
Organizer: Robert C. Ford, UCF & Roy E. Crummer School of Business, Rollins College
7:30 -8:00 Continental Breakfast and Greetings
8:00 – 9:55 The Past Present and Future of AOM Mentoring: This symposium brings together those who have been involved with the efforts to AOM and its Divisions to promote and recognize mentoring. Their presentations will provide a framework of what the AOM has done in the past to encourage its members to become mentors and, in the subsequent discussion, assess the things that have been successful to lay a foundation for future mentoring activities, especially as they relate to CASS and its membership. Audience contributions, ideas and suggestions will be encouraged.
Introduction to Topic and Panel – Robert C. Ford - UCF & Crummer School of Business, Rollins College Panel Moderator – Misty Loughry – Crummer School of Business, Rollins College Entrepreneurship Mentoring Award Program – Shaker Zahra, University of Minnesota Thomas A. Mahoney Mentoring Award – Micki Kacmar, Texas State University Non Academy Mentoring Programs – Tania Casado, Universidade de São Paulo Discussant and Summarizing Comments – Sherry Sullivan, Bowling Green State University Open Discussion – Misty Loughry – Crummer School of Business, Rollins College
10:00 – 11:00 Lessons Learned from "Encore" at the Wall Street Journal – Mr. Glenn Ruffenach, Editor (retired) Encore, Wall Street Journal: Mr. Ruffenach will present a comprehensive review of the options new retirees should consider as they reach that threshold. Based on his many years as editor of the Encore section of the WSJ, he has learned much about how organizations and individuals deal with retirement and can speak to the many options available today to continue an active, fun, and interesting life that expands retirees' opportunities to use their professional skills in new ways.
- Then & Now: Beyond Turnover
Session Type: Symposium
Program Session: 1328 | Submission: 10197 | Sponsor(s): (MH, HR, OB)
Scheduled: Monday, Aug 7 2017 3:00PM - 4:30PM at Hyatt Regency Atlanta in Inman
Chair: Craig D. Crossley, U. of Central Florida
Chair: Robert C. Ford, UCF & Roy E. Crummer School of Business, Rollins College
Facilitator: Julia Teahen, Baker College
Presenter: Thomas W. Lee, U. of Washington
Presenter: Maria Kraimer, U. of Oregon
Presenter: Beni Halvorsen, RMIT U.
Over the years, the management field has had many important contributors to its theoretical development and practical application of major concepts. As a relatively young academic discipline, we have the good fortune to have access to many of those pioneers who are responsible for its foundation, hist
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Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green OH
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