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Provost's Message
The Rules of Engagement: Conversations on Community Engaged Scholarship

The Rules of Engagement Faculty Development Sessions


UMKC Faculty are invited to gather for casual conversations over lunch to discuss issues related to the best practices of Community Engaged Scholarship. These gatherings are cosponsored by CAFE and UMKC's Division of External Relations and Constituent Engagement. 


Have a conversation you'd like to host or a best practice with a community partner that you'd like to highlight? Contact Julie Sutton and Nate Addington. 

Mark your calendars now for:
Community Partnerships: How to Find Them, Start Them, and Keep Them
April 28 | 12:00-1:00
Featuring: Dina Newman, Director, UMKC Center for Neighborhoods and Jake Wagner, Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Design and Faculty Founder of the Center for Neighborhoods 
Register Now!


Upcoming Topics Include:
The Ins and Outs of Partnering with Local Governmental Offices and Officials  
Date/Time TBD
Register for the April 28th Session
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Make Your Voice Heard:  COACHE 

Survey is Still Open!

Over the years UMKC has participated in the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey. Our most recent participation was in 2017. Much has changed at UMKC since that time, and it only seems appropriate that we gather information about faculty perceptions regarding faculty workplace experiences to help inform us about programs and practices that support faculty at UMKC.
The final two email reminders from the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education will be coming to your inbox during the week of March 21st and the week of April 4th inviting all full time tenured, tenure track and ranked non-tenure track faculty to participate in the survey .  Please take a few minutes to complete the survey to ensure that your voice is heard!
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Summer Faculty Writing Initiative
Boot Camp
Back by popular demand!  Space limited - apply today
Apply by Friday, March 24 to take part in the second Summer Faculty Writing Initiative Bootcamp.
The Summer Faculty Writing Initiative Bootcamp will be held May 23-25, from 9:30 am – 3:00 pm at Diastole Scholars' Center.

The summer writing bootcamp is a special extension of the highly successful Faculty Writing Initiative, which has just completed its fifth semester. Following the same philosophy of FWI, over the course of three days the bootcamp will offer 20 faculty from across all ranks and disciplines structured writing time to make progress on writing projects. Each day begins with goal setting and ends with progress check-ins. Discussions about writing strategies bring structure and a sense of community to the solitary work of writing. 

Co-facilitators will invite guests with expertise in topics of interest to participants to lead lunch-and-learn workshops. Applicants are asked to indicate what topics they would like to learn more about when they register!

Engage colleagues in ways that provide support and caring for writing anxiety or jitters and also spark creativity and a sense of playfulness. Gain a sense of camaraderie by writing in a group environment. The Summer FWI Bootcamp helps faculty build writing time consistently into their schedules.  The Summer FWI Bootcamp encourages each other in building a writing practice, instead of reading and responding to writing. The 

Interested? Complete an online application by Friday, March 24, 2023. The FWI will select faculty to ensure that the initiative serves writers from all disciplines and across all ranks in the university.

If you have any questions, please email Dr. Byrd (antoniobyrd@umkc.edu) or Dr. Greer (greerj@umkc.edu).
Apply by March 24th!
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Dr. Holly Hagle, April 20th, 2023, 3-4pm
Join us each Third Thursday of the Month at 3:00 P.M. for our Research Speakers Series. Our guest speakers are from the UMKC Collaborative to Advance Health Services (ColCAHS) leadership team will share the work on the Collaborative. More than twenty staff and a cadre of specialists and consultants make up the project teams across a portfolio of grants and contracts. Most of the grants have, as a common theme, increasing the adoption and implementation of evidence-based practices in the health, behavioral health and allied health fields. More on CAHS here . This event is hosted by the Office of Research Development and CAFE Research & Creativity Pillar. 

To get on our list of guest researchers, email Shannon Wheeler
Register Now!
Faculty Recognition Event

Join us as we celebrate our campus faculty award winners and other faculty accomplishments!

When:  Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Where:  At the James C. Olson Performing Arts Center

Time:  4:30 p.m. – Doors open
5 p.m. – Program – White Recital Hall

Reception to follow in the James C. Olson Performing Arts Center Lobby
Register for the Faculty Recognition Event
Early Career Faculty Award Program

This program offers annual grant support to UMKC faculty early in their careers
$1000 grants offer support for collaborations, meetings, travel and networking. The deadline for this annual program, sponsored by the UMKC Emeritus College, is April 15, 2023. Funds are available by Summer 2023 for supported proposals through 2024.

Detailed information is available at the UMKC Emeritus College website.

Application for funds is fully on-line from the same website. Early applications are encouraged.
Apply to ECFA
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