Faculty Affairs Newsletter
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CAFE Fellows Mid-Year Report
For Faculty, By Faculty
December marked the first six months of the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE), including a team of ten Faculty Fellows. Each of our Fellows came to their position with a strong sense of purpose and enthusiasm. We are pleased to present a mid-year report that is full of progress and plans for additional outcomes this spring.
Click below to access an electronic version of the report.
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Clio: Inspire Students to Research and Write
Asking students to conduct research for a real purpose, write for public audiences and share their findings may motivate them to do their best work in our classes. Now, Clio makes this work feasible for students and instructors.
Hundreds of universities have chronicled their communities in Clio, a website and mobile application that connects thousands of people to nearby history and culture each day. Clio is a non-profit organization based in Kansas City that offers a variety of free programs and tools to help university faculty and students chart individual landmarks, build walking tours and create virtual tours of museums and sites. To date, Clio has more than 39,000 articles and 1,300 trails and walking tours that users can access with their mobile devices.
Instructors in diverse disciplines can adapt Clio to serve the content of their classes. For example, a biology professor could ask students to map local sites for wildlife observation, a civil engineering professor could assign students to plot bridges and an art historian could require students to catalog public art. For more information, read a report about a Boston University professor’s use of Clio.
To learn how to incorporate Clio into your curriculum, join Dr. David J. Trowbridge on Friday, March 11, 2022 from 1-2 p.m.via Zoom. Register for this event below. Dr. Trowbridge is the developer of Clio and an associate research professor of digital and public humanities in the Department of History at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Click to access a detailed overview of Clio.
This event is open to all instructors at UMKC and area institutions and is sponsored by the UMKC Center for Faculty Excellence (CAFE). For more information, contact Henrietta Rix Wood, the CAFE Faculty Fellow for Teaching Writing, at woodhr@umkc.edu.
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Art of Grantsmanship: Insights Speaker Series
CAFE Research and Creativity Pillar is offering a speaker series focused on the fundamental aspects of grantsmanship and scholarship. Attend one or all, as fits your needs and interest. Each session will last no longer than one hour and will be offered on Zoom.
- UMKC's Research Enterprise: A Dialogue with Vice Chancellor Chris Liu (March 8 at 3:00PM): read more and register;
- Managing Grant Budgets with Cody Hogan (March 8 at 11:00AM): read more and register;
- Promising Practices for Collaborating with Community Partners on Grants with Alexis Petri (March 15 at 1:00PM): read more and register;
- Life Cycle of Human Subjects Research Projects: An Overview of the IRB with Chris Winders (March 29 at 1:00PM): read more and register; and
- Writing Compelling Grant Proposal Narratives with Alexis Petri (April 7 and 1:00PM): read more and register.
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Summer Faculty Success Program
UMKC has an institutional membership to the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD). This summer, the NCFDD will host a virtual bootcamp for faculty in which faculty work directly with a coach and a small group of other faculty to implement skills and strategies to maximize their success. The program is for tenure-track and tenured faculty looking for coaching and peer support to propel both research productivity and work-life balance to new levels.
UMKC will provide three scholarships to cover the cost of the program. This year, priority consideration will be given to mid-career faculty.
Information about NCFDD and how to register for this organization can be found on the UM System page for NCFDD.
UMKC will provide three scholarships to cover the cost of the program. This year priority consideration will be given to mid-career faculty. For application information, please visit the NCFDD Faculty Success Program page on the Provost’s website.
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Upcoming Award Opportunities for UMKC Faculty
Call for Nominations for the spring 2022 campus faculty awards!
Due to Covid, the campus faculty award winners for career contributions, teaching, and engagement from 2021 have not yet been announced because we've been holding for an in-person celebration. An exciting faculty awards event is being planned for this May and the date will be announced soon. The call for new nominations is now open. Both last year's and this year's faculty award winners will be announced at this upcoming event. For a complete list of award opportunities and accompanying links, visit the CAFE website awards’ calendar.
April
Early Career Faculty Award
The Early Career Faculty Award program is funded by the Emeritus College endowment. Awards of $1000 are granted to faculty early in their careers, typically but not exclusively tenure-track assistant professors.
June
N.T. Veatch Award for Distinguished Research and Creativity
The N.T. Veatch Award recognizes distinguished research and other scholarly or creative activity accomplished by UMKC faculty. All full-time, regular faculty members who have been at UMKC for at least three years are eligible to be nominated.
UMKC Trustees’ Faculty Fellowship Awards
The UMKC Trustees' Faculty Fellowship recognizes faculty who have distinguished themselves through scholarship and creativity. Recipients are expected to serve as role models, mentor and encourage other faculty members and students in pursuit of academic excellence.
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
UMKC’s highest honor for excellence in teaching will recognize and celebrate UMKC faculty who are consistently superior teachers at the graduate, undergraduate or professional level over an extended period of time.
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring
This award will recognize UMKC graduate faculty advisors with a long-established career at the University who have made significant contributions to higher education through exceptional mentoring.
Chancellor’s Early Career Award for Excellence in Teaching
This award recognizes and celebrates UMKC assistant professors who have achieved excellence in teaching early in their professional careers.
Norman Royall Distinguished Research Award (CAS) and Norman Royall Teaching Award for Non-Tenure Track faculty (CAS)
As one of the highest forms of recognition in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Royall awards will reward faculty committed to research excellence, creativity, instruction and interdisciplinarity.
Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
This award recognizes and celebrates teaching excellence among UMKC clinical and teaching faculty.
Chancellor’s Award for Career Contributions to the University
One of UMKC’s highest honors to a University employee (faculty or staff) who has made significant contributions to higher education at UMKC over the course of his or her career and has significantly enhanced the mission of the University.
Chancellor’s Award for Embracing Diversity
This award recognizes and celebrates UMKC faculty, staff and registered student organizations engaging in UMKC’s Strategic Plan Pillar 4: Foster an Environment of Invigorating Multiculturalism, Globalism, Diversity and Inclusion.
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Community Engagement
This award recognizes and celebrates faculty, staff, units and campus organizations that have made engagement with the community a central aspect of their approach to student learning and scholarship.
Elmer F. Pierson Good Teaching Award
Awarded annually to outstanding teachers in the Bloch School and Schools of Dentistry, Law and Medicine.
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Free Public Reading:
Cockefair Writer-in-Residence
Patricia Smith
T hursday, March 10
5:30 PM reception, 6:00 PM reading
Kansas City Public Library Plaza Branch
4801 Main Street
Kansas City, MO 64112
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Roos Rock!
Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our talented faculty
NEW! We will continue to share faculty accomplishments in a new Roos Rock! online collection that allows for search functionality and many other features. Please visit Roos Rock! at its new online home.
Grants and AwardsIn January 2022, UMKC faculty, researchers and staff were awarded more than $1 million in grants. That’s more than $52.5 million in grants since July 2021! Visit the Grants and Awards page. Faculty with awards are listed below.
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Danielle Feng-Chen Chiang
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PublicationsUMKC faculty, researchers and staff have recently published award-winning books, articles and creative works; appeared in an HBO Max film; won major awards such as the Music Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and more! Visit the Publications page. Below are the faculty who listed publications.
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Professor Michael Pritchett
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Media Interviews, Features and Appearances
Congratulations to the following faculty.
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Faculty, do you have more good news to share? Your FAN Team wants to know! Email news of your recent (since August 2021) awards, grants, major publications, and promotions to: meadmo@umkc.edu.
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Interview with CAFE Fellow Dr. Arif Ahmed
1) Why did you want to be a CAFE fellow? What are you excited about?
I was intrigued by the concept of CAFE when it was first announced and the idea that faculty could design and lead programs that would then support other faculty at UMKC. I believe that my project, Department Chair Development, can enhance faculty excellence. I am excited to use my expertise in leadership development and my experience as a department chair to develop a program that will fill a major void: providing a forum for UMKC department chairs to hone their skills while forming a community of peers.
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Interview with CAFE Fellow Dr. Hadara Bar-Nadav
1) Why did you want to be a CAFÉ fellow? What are you excited about?
I looked forward to joining a cohort of faculty who were committed to working together to support faculty excellence across the University. My overarching goal is to promote faculty and staff research in the Faculty Affairs Newsletter and on the CAFE website. Our faculty and staff have published books with major presses; published articles and creative works in the top journals in their fields; won grants worth more than $52 million dollars since July 2021; received international awards; and excelled in every area. I want to share these accomplishments within the UMKC community and beyond.
2) What do you hope to accomplish this year? Are there any particular goals? What do you think the legacy of your work will be?
This year, I created an Awards Calendar, which is posted on the CAFE website. This calendar includes listings of University award opportunities available to our faculty at the department, unit, Dean, Provost, Trustee, and System level. This has helped inform our faculty of the many awards available and has increased applications to these awards. In addition, I have succeeded through FAN and CAFE website to promote faculty and staff research and share that information broadly.
3) How does your research or role as faculty member inform your interest and work as a Café fellow?
I’m a creative writer, and write poetry and non-fiction, as well as scholarly work. I could easily argue that creative writing is a celebration of language, sensation, and lived experience. My work for CAFE allows me to turn this celebratory literary gaze on our faculty and staff who are truly doing amazing things.
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Have something to share in the Faculty Affairs Newsletter? Email Molly Mead with your brief text and an (optional) photo.
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