| Faculty Affairs Newsletter
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Circulating pathways to access
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The Faculty Affairs Newsletter is your go-to source for the latest updates, resources, and opportunities tailored to UMKC's academic community.
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Access—whether to knowledge, resources, or opportunities—shapes our experiences. In this issue, we focus on Access, considering how we can ensure that UMKC is a place where faculty, staff, and students encounter fewer barriers and greater opportunities, creating in inclusive environment for all.
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"Access is a prerequisite for engagement, and engagement is a prerequisite for equity. Without the ability to enter spaces of knowledge, economic opportunity, and social participation, true equality remains elusive." – Tara McPherson, digital media scholar
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It's Disability Week @ UMKC
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Disability Week kicks off from October 14th through the 17th, bringing together community partners and regional organizations to UMKC for a celebration of the creativity, knowledge, and innovations that stem from shared experiences. This dynamic week will feature a standing art exhibit, performances, panels, and workshops designed to spark conversations, build community, and amplify voices.
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Accessible Teaching Learning |
Facilitated by Matthew Edwards, join us for a series of engaging small group sessions focused on enhancing accessibility in teaching and learning. Participants will explore equitable community strategies, develop personal narratives to foster inclusive classroom cultures, and examine the historical barriers to education.
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October 18 @ 1:00 PM: Equitable Community Formation
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| October 31 @ 1:00 PM: Deep Dive on Disability and Education
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| November 7 @ 1:00 PM: Accessible Research Methods
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Access Innovation in Teaching: SoTL Kickoff Event & Lunch |
Elevate your teaching and scholarship through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), which offers a powerful path to publishing peer-reviewed journal articles, advancing your career, and enriching student success.
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Join us on October 23rd from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM at CAFE for an exciting kickoff event with Marsha Huber to learn more about SoTL and the SoTL FLC.
Whether you have experience with SoTL or it's new to you, the lunch promises to have something of value for you. Lunch from Bay Boys provided.
Space is limited. Register today!
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Engaging presentation on SoTL and its potential to revolutionize your research and teaching.
- Networking lunch with like-minded colleagues.
- Details on the upcoming learning community, mentorship, and opportunities for conference submissions and publications.
- Book giveaway of Boyer’s Scholarship Reconsidered to inspire your next great idea.
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Designing Writing Assignments for Maximum Learning
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Join Marcus Meade at CAFE and online on October 23rd from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM for a hybrid workshop on creating effective writing assignments!
Writing projects are not just opportunities for students to perform competence. They're also sites of learning that allow students to practice skills and habits of mind associated with course outcomes. This workshop will focus on developing writing assignments as sites of learning and center principles of good writing pedagogy to help make assignment design more effective and efficient for faculty.
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Today, onboard the Europa Clipper, a poem begins a journey through space to Jupiter.
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Access Communities Off-Campus |
A collaboration between CAFE and External Relations and Constituent Engagement
Interested in community-based research? Learn more about community organizations hoping to partner with UMKC on research and community-engaged learning. CAFE and ERCE are partnering on Faculty Field Trips to nonprofits along the Troost Cooridor.
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Welcome Back From Temuco, Chile |
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Deans Tamara Falicov and Kevin Truman; Faculty members Molly Davies, Alison Graettinger, Sirisha Naidu, and Fengpeng Sun, traveled to Temuco, Chile with students as part of exchange to learn about climate change and sustainability.
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| Diane Filion Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence |
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5123 Holmes Street | Kansas City, MO 64110
816.235.5362 | www.umkc.edu/cafe
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