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Faculty Affairs Newsletter

12 August 2021 | special issue - professional learning opportunities

Here is the first look at a few of the upcoming professional learning opportunities we will offer this year!

- Faculty Affairs and CAFE Teams

Announcements

Fall Semester Questions

With the fall semester launching soon, you may have questions about the implications of the Covid situation in our region. Important updates will be provided next week in an email from the Provost as well as in an updated set of Faculty FAQs on the main Covid webpage. Stay Tuned!

UMKC to be Backbone for National STEM Initiative

UMKC is part of a team of universities who received a 10 million dollar National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. UMKC will work with Auburn and many other universities across the country to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to students with disabilities. UMKC's role in the grant is to host the portal and the website for the project as well as to lead the data collection. Please click below to find out more about the project!

read the NSF Grant UMKC announcement

Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) Launches New Website

One of the initiatives to result from UMKC Forward, the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) has launched its website. Included in the website will be opportunities to sign up for new and continuing professional learning as well as content developed by faculty to enhance teaching, research and outreach throughout the UMKC communities.

visit the CAFE website

Syllabus Generator v. 3.0

We are pleased to share version 3.0 of UMKC's new syllabus generator. While still a work-in-progress, SGv.3 pulls course information from the catalog and Pathway, academic calendar information and the most up-to-date required syllabus components. Create, customize and download a syllabus template for each of your fall semester classes. Sign in with your SSO and spend five minutes answering questions. SGv.3 will produce a Word document that you can download and edit to your preferences and course assignments.

generate your syllabus

Clear Masks are Available for Faculty

UMKC campus facilities has purchased a number of clear masks which are designed to help students see your lips as you are speaking. Here is an example of the mask from the company website: https://www.theclearmask.com/product . These masks may be picked up in the office in the General Services Building, second floor, Suite 101 . Masks may also be ordered with an email to CFMTeam@umkc.edu. Departments may want to coordinate orders for masks via an administrative assistant or a fiscal officer.

Events, Workshops & Opportunities

The Art of Grantsmanship

The eight (8) week asynchronous course focuses on all aspects of grants from locating opportunities to theories of change to writing engaging proposals. Faculty will spend one hour each week reading articles, trying a variety of resources, and watching videos of experienced scholars here at UMKC and nationally.

Three optional one-hour, in-person meetings will be scheduled for faculty to network, process, and apply new insights to practice.

Faculty taking the microcredential will be invited to submit a four (4) page proposal for a spring 2022 course release or small grant to pursue applying for a summer or fall large, competitive grant. Because “large” is relative to the discipline, we are not defining large (i.e. NEA might be $150,000 and NIH might be $2,000,000). Ten, course release/small grants (up to $4,000) will be awarded by November 1.

Apply by Monday, August 30.

application by Monday, August 30

Championing the Public Service Model of Higher Education

At UMKC, faculty produce community-engaged scholarship through reciprocal, mutually beneficial partnerships between the university’s knowledge centers – faculty, students, curriculum, and library – and community organizations, individuals, and resources. Both research and teaching activities fall under the umbrella term of community-engaged scholarship when the activities are grounded in the community and designed with members of the community. Aside from mastering the content area, engaged scholars are also deeply involved in local communities and learn from community partners.

During the fall semester, earn a microcredential and a stipend while you experience professional learning facilitated by UMKC faculty and Kansas City community leaders. Meetings take place every other Thursday from 12:00 – 1:00 pm (9/16; 9/30; 10/7; 10/21; 11/4; 11/18; 12/2).

For more information visit https://www.umkc.edu/cafe/service-and-engagement/professional-learning.html

apply here

Keynote Presentation by Dr. Ebony McGee

link to a keynote address entitled Black, Brown and Bruised by Dr. Ebody McGee

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Now accepting: announcements, events, research, congratulations, scholarship (yours and others), data viz.

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