Tera Jordan has served as the Assistant Provost for Faculty Success at Iowa State University since January 2020. She oversees a broad portfolio of programming across the faculty career cycle and collaborates with department, college, and university stakeholders to ensure the success and effectiveness of faculty development initiatives. Her portfolio includes new faculty orientation; workshops and mentoring for early-, mid-, and late career faculty; and programs for current and aspirating academic leaders. Dr. Jordan also leads the ISU ADVANCE Program, chairs the Faculty Work-Life Advisory Committee, and synthesizes faculty data to improve faculty success and well-being. By collaborating with key stakeholders across the campus community, she strives to provide opportunities for faculty at all stages of their careers.
Dr. Jordan is also a professor of Human Development and Family Studies. She has made contributions to the scholarship of discovery (e.g., marriage, Type 2 diabetes, qualitative and mixed methods), scholarship of integration (e.g., mixed methods), and scholarship of engagement (e.g., Child Welfare Research and Training Project, Extension and Outreach, Broadening Participation initiatives).
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