Faculty Affairs Newsletter
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Faculty Residential Life Open House
Please mark your calendars for the Faculty Residential Life Open Houses at the times and locations below. This is a wonderful opportunity for faculty to get a glimpse of our students’ residential life experience and to check out the convenient (for you and students) spaces available for departments to use for events/programs to engage with students. You will also have the chance to meet the staff who work with students outside the classroom to support their success.
• Thursday, September 30, 3 – 5 p.m. – Hospital Hill Apartments
• Friday, October 1, 3 – 5 p.m. – Johnson and Oak Street Residence Halls
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CAFE Announces 21-22 Faculty Fellows
The CAFE team is delighted to announce this year's faculty fellows. More information about plans, programs and activities will be coming to the CAFE website soon. Stay tuned!
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Faculty Life & Leadership
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Faculty Life & Leadership
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Faculty Affairs Newsletter (FAN)
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Internationalization activities and awards
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Supporting our Academic Researchers (SOAR)
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Office of Research Services (ORS)
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Digital Accessibility Policy Survey
The UM System is developing a system-level policy to ensure digital accessibility, with input from all campuses. Toward that end, we ask that you provide input, along with information about resources needed on your campus to implement digital accessibility.
Digital Accessibility is the ability of a website, mobile application, or electronic document to be easily navigated and understood by a wide range of users, including those users who have visual, auditory, motor, or cognitive disabilities.
UM System is currently in the early stages of developing the strategy for implementing digital accessibility. Your feedback on this Qualtrics survey will assist them in understanding what issues should be prioritized in developing the policy and the implementation guidance.
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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.
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Events, Workshops & Opportunities
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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.
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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 $500 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). Please note, meetings will be held synchronously on Zoom and the group will evaluate later in the semester if we want to meet in-person.
For more information visit https://www.umkc.edu/cafe/service-and-engagement/professional-learning.html
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Keynote Presentation by Dr. Ebony McGee
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Get Launched! New Faculty Development Series
Get Launched! will provide an overview of UMKC resources, policies and tools that support the learning environment, as well as development opportunities that fuel continual improvement in faculty experiences. Get Launched is just one of the many ways the UMKC invests in faculty success at UMKC.
This program is open only to full-time faculty in their first or second year at UMKC. Get Launched sessions will be monthly on the third Friday of each month from noon-2pm beginning September 17th.
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Apply to Participate in the Faculty Writing Initiative
Looking for dedicated time and space to write this semester? The Provost’s Office is pleased to announce that applications are being accepted for the Faculty Writing Initiative, which is designed to support faculty in achieving your academic and creative goals through work on writing projects of any kind—such as grant applications, book chapters, articles, essays, creative work, conference presentations.
Faculty across all ranks, including non-tenure track, are encouraged to apply, and applicants can apply to participate in either a Friday morning (10:00 am to Noon) or Friday afternoon (1:00 pm to 3:00 pm) writing session via Zoom to work on academic writing projects. The first meeting will be September 24, and participants will be expected to attend these weekly writing sessions throughout the semester.
If you’re interested in participating in the UMKC Faculty Writing Initiative, you can complete an online application here by September 10, 2021. Applicants will be selected to ensure that the Faculty Writing Initiative serves writers from all disciplines and across all ranks in university.
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Student Loan Discharge
Many college students with disabilities with student loads will have their loans automatically discharged. The U.S. Department of Education anticipates more than 323,000 borrows will benefit from the student debt relief.
Identification of student loan borrows will happen through data batching with the Social Security Administration, but there will not be additional paperwork.
“This process is going to be a smooth process for our borrowers, where they’re not going to get bogged down with paperwork,” Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona told reporters.
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Heat Islands Research
Kansas City was one of more than a dozen metropolitan areas in 11 states that have participated in the heat-mapping campaign this year. On Aug. 6, a team of 50 volunteers, led by Fengpeng Sun, a climate scientist at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, attached sensors to their vehicles and drove designated routes through 10 areas of the city at three different times of day early morning, mid-afternoon and early evening.
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Have something to share in the Faculty Affairs Newsletter? Email Molly Mead with your brief text and an (optional) photo.
Now accepting: announcements, events, research, congratulations, scholarship (yours and others), data viz.
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