Faculty Affairs Newsletter
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CAFE Faculty Awards Calendar
We have added a new CAFE Faculty Awards Calendar to our website which outlines awards, fellowships and grant opportunities by the month.
Please let us know if you would like to add an opportunity or have updated information for any of the awards. New opportunities will be added as they become available. Email: MeadMo@umkc.edu.
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Roos Rock!
Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our talented faculty
University AwardsRecipients of campus faculty awards announced so far in 2021-2022 are listed below. Announcement of the 2021-2022 recipients of the Provost’s and Chancellor’s Awards is coming soon. Please visit our Faculty Awards page to view the entire list.
- Dr. Lance Carter
- Dr. Crystal Doss
- Dr. Alison Graettinger
- Dr. Jennifer Huberman
- Dr. Jeff Johnson
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- Dr. Allen Rostron
- Dr. Simon MacNeill
- Dr. Larson Powell
- Dr. Anthony Shiu
- Dr. Gary Sutkin
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External Grants and Awards
Congratulations to the following faculty, researchers and staff who were awarded grants in August 2021, totaling over $10,200,000 in grant funding combined. Please visit our Faculty Awards page to view the entire list.
- Kelli Barton
- Dr. Mark Brodwin
- Dr. Anthony Caruso
- Dr. Karin Chang
- Dr. Timothy Chilton Cox
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- Dr. George Gotto
- Dr. Daniel McIntosh
- Maria E. Meyers
- Sara Morris
- Dr. Alexis Petri
- Dr. Michelle Reynolds
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National Workshop
Dr. Antonio Byrd (English) joins faculty from San Francisco State University and Texas A&M University, San Antonio, in facilitating a three-part workshop series, Cultivating Antiracist Assessment Practices. UMKC faculty who teach writing-intensive courses were invited to participate. The workshop series engages and challenges participants to interrogate their biases associated with assessment in efforts to develop and implement antiracist classroom assessment practices.
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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Graduate Writing Initiative
Marcus Meade
"I wish something like this was around when I was a grad student."
I’ve heard this sentiment many times in reference to the services the Graduate Writing Initiative (GWI) offers UMKC graduate students. And, it’s one I share.
The GWI is a program designed to help graduate students learn from and find success in the new contexts they meet as graduate writers. Making the transition into graduate study is difficult; part of that difficulty lies in the demand to write in new and complicated genres like dissertations, theses, grant proposals, and teaching philosophies. The GWI is here to help make that transition as smooth and productive as possible. The GWI offers a range of programming options -- online resources, workshops, and writing groups -- designed to help graduate students develop the knowledge, skills and habits necessary for writing success.
To learn more about the GWI, you can email the Graduate Writing Specialist, Marcus Meade, at marcusmeade@umkc.edu or visit the GWI website.
We rely heavily on faculty to spread the word about our services and encourage students to use them.
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A new column where we talk about disability and share our thoughts on what we need access to as professors, researchers and colleagues. If you have an idea or topic that you would like us to talk about, please send an email to edwardsmatt@umkc.edu.
Accessibility
Matthew Edwards
I am an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. I teach courses that primarily focus on Latin American literature and culture, as well as Spanish language classes in our introductory sequence. I am a non-native speaker, and I like to begin the first day of classes talking about how and why I am here—or there—in front of them, as their professor. I always talk about the importance of Study Abroad, of learning how to feel different and why that is important, of wanting something else, and of Latin America being exactly that—something else: at least for me. I talk about the family I have today: the significance, for me, of living in a biracial, bilingual home and of how my now intentional, intimate ties with those countries that lie south of our borders have made me a staunch ally to all immigrants, and to struggles for social justice across the board. I had always felt that my story needed to connect me to what I do—both in the classroom and beyond its doors. And my experiences in Latin America and my familial ties to the region are often considered, I think, as a rite of passage that allows me to connect with my colleagues and students in unique ways through a shared nostalgia and longing for something that is hard to put my finger on.
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CAFE Faculty Fellow Highlight
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Interview with Matthew Edwards
Why did you want to be a CAFÉ fellow for Accessibility? What are you excited about?
I am a disabled person. I have low vision and identify as blind. It took me a long time to unlearn habits that I used to hide my disability, to make it look like I could see. A major part of me being able to accept that being blind informs all that I do has been what I have learnt from the research I do on decolonial activism and resistance in Latin America, and what I have learnt as an immigrant living in the United States about the urgent need for racial, economic, gender and sexual equality.
As a CAFE fellow, I am excited to create learning experiences for faculty that are informed by equity and collective action, and to use disability to shed light on how we can incorporate different ways of knowing and being into our campus, classrooms and community engagement.
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Reading
The Service-Learning Librarian blog is packed with excellent resources for community-engaged learning for faculty and for librarians.
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