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Faculty Affairs Newsletter

Volume 8 Issue 3

Faculty Leadership Opportunities

Best Practices for Faculty Searches

CAFE is seeking applications to fill 3 to 4 CAFE Faculty Fellow positions that will be focused on designing and delivering a new faculty-led program to supports the campus-wide faculty hiring process. This program is a collaboration between the office of the Provost/Faculty Affairs, the Division of Diversity and Inclusion, and academic Human Resources. Working with leaders from these divisions, the selected team of CAFE Fellows will design and deliver workshops for faculty search committees in order to support and strengthen all aspects of the faculty hiring process, from creating and posting position descriptions to the onboarding and integration of our new colleagues. If you are passionate about helping UMKC attract and retain a stellar, diverse, and vibrant faculty, please apply to join this team!

To apply, please send a current CV along with a letter of application explaining your interest in the role and describing any experiences you’ve had with the faculty hiring process, to Vice Provost Diane Filion at filiond@umkc.edu

Apply via email

Event Opportunities

Public Facing Scholarship

Public-facing scholarship makes research accessible and fosters public understanding of important issues. Clancy Martin, University of Missouri Curator's Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, is focusing his CAFE Faculty Fellow work on supporting public-facing scholarship. He will be meeting with faculty individually or in small groups to support and help them navigate this form of research.

More information, please visit the Research and Creativity Pillar pages on the CAFE website.:

Book your 25-minute consultation with Clancy Martin: https://redcap.link/publicscholar

The University of Missouri- Kansas City and the Kansas City Symphony are excited to announce that UMKC Day at the Kansas City Symphony- a Signature Event for UMKC Engagement Month- will return on October 29, 2023. The Kansas City Symphony has graciously offered all UMKC students, faculty, and staff a discounted price of $12.00. You can view all of the engagement month programming HERE.

Click to access discounted Symphony tickets

Teaching and Learning Opportunities

Send us Your Teaching Challenges and Strategies

The Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) has a new Faculty Learning Community (FLC) entitled “Evidence-Based Practices in Teaching and Learning”. This faculty-led group has been charged with identifying and displaying the best evidence-based teaching practices that can be used as a reference by our faculty. As a starting point, we thought it would be useful to hear from all of you. We would like you to identify for us:

Any teaching challenges/struggles you are currently dealing with.
Any teaching strategies you use to improve student engagement and learning in the classroom

Below is a list of the faculty members participating in this FLC. Please email your responses to one of these members.

We are very excited about this work. I hope you will consider providing some of your input into this project. Please submit your responses by Friday, October 20. That will give us time to organize the information before our next meeting. Thank you in advance for your input!

Mid Semester Student Feedback Survey

A mid-semester feedback survey is an option for all faculty. The mid-semester survey will be launched on October 16 and close on October 23. Results will be available to faculty immediately after survey closes in the Mid-Semester Feedback dashboard. If you would like to opt-in to the mid-semester survey, simply fill out the form in the link below.

Application for the mid-semester survey will close on Oct 12 at 11:59pm.

Apply for Mid-Semester Student Feedback Survey

Apply to Have Your Course Observed through the CAFE Peer Observation Program

The Peer Observation Program is in its second year at UMKC and will be conducted in both fall 23 and spring 24 semesters. This program is designed to promote teaching development through creation of a collaborative partnership between the faculty member being observed (the Observee) and a trained Observer. Observees can choose to identify a specific area of focus for their observation or ask for a more generalized observation.

Learn more about the Peer Observation Program.

Apply by October 12, 2023!

Professional Learning Opportunities

CAFE invites all UMKC faculty to submit ideas for Brown Bag sessions throughout the remainder of the academic year. CAFE will host the sessions in the new space in Newcomb Hall. Please let us know if there are any topics you are intested in attending and/or would be willing to facilitate.

Submit Your Brown Bag Topic Ideas

First Gen Roo Presents: Book Tour with Alejandra Campoverdi

First gen students, faculty and staff are invited to spend the afternoon with Alejandra Campoverdi, author of First Gen: A Memoir. Along with making two national best-seller lists, Publishers Weekly and USA TODAY's Best-selling Booklist, Campoverdi is also a nationally-recognized women's health advocate and former White House aide to President Obama.

During the event, attendees will have the opportunity to ask Campoverdi questions about her experience being a first-gen student, as well as time to meet fellow first-gen attendees and enjoy refreshments. The event will be held from 3-5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24 in the Student Union Theatre.

RSVP - Click Here!

Opportunities to Share with Your Students

Laptop Loaner Program

Introducing the Laptop Loaner Program facilitated by Career Services!

This initiative aims to ensure every student can access essential technology for academic success. Through this program, students may borrow a laptop for an entire semester, including Fall, Spring, and Summer terms. Laptop Check-Out appointments can be scheduled on Handshake.

For more information, visit the Career Services website or email careerservices@umkc.edu.

SI Tutors/Supplemental Instruction Leaders Recruitment

Now hiring SI Leaders and Tutors!

Our application is now open for Supplemental Instruction Leaders and Tutors for the Spring 2024 Semester. We would love your assistance in sharing the application out to students in your respective areas.

In addition, if you have specific student recommendations, you can add them to this referral form and we will reach out to them. We have included a few flyers you could share with your students.

On Campus Internship Program

For the 2023-2024 academic year, UMKC's Career Services has launched a pilot On-Campus Internship Program to provide paid on-campus internships for students during the fall and spring semesters.

All campus departments are invited to request a funded internship position through this program. To be considered, an Internship Job Description form must be submitted. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. After a position is approved, the internship will be posted in Handshake for students to view and apply.

Interested in learning more? Visit our website or email careerservices@umkc.edu.

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