Faculty Affairs Newsletter
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SAVE the DATE for the CAFE Virtual Conference!
May 18th, 2022
The Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) will host a virtual conference from 8:30-noon on May 18th. Details and registration will be coming soon.
Another celebratory series of events will be held later that day which will include a ceremony for the presentation of faculty awards from 2021 and 2022 and a keynote address. Immediately following that, the Provost will host a reception. We hope you will be able to join us for all of these events!
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ORS Reporting Dashboard
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research - Office of Research Services (ORS) supports the scientific, scholarly, and creative endeavors of the faculty and staff at UMKC. Each month, ORS prepares a monthly report of external awards. Check out the February report. As of 28 February, UMKC submitted 302 proposals (July-June academic year) and brought in $62,214,046 existing awards and $25,486,334 in new awards.
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Revising Writing:How to Do It and How to Teach It
Revising is key to producing effective writing, but it’s hard to do and hard to teach. In fact, more than half of the UMKC instructors who responded to a recent survey by the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) indicated encouraging revision is the most challenging aspect of teaching writing.
If you need advice about how to revise your own writing and/or help students revise theirs, please join Dr. Marcus Meade for an interactive workshop from 4-5 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, in Zoom. Marcus is the Graduate Writing Specialist and director of the Graduate Writing Initiative at UMKC. For more information, visit the Graduate Writing Initiative website.
This event is open to all UMKC instructors and graduate students and is sponsored by CAFE and the University Writing and Reading Board (UWRB).
For more information, contact Henrietta Rix Wood, the CAFE Faculty Fellow for Teaching Writing, at woodhr@umkc.edu.
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Art of Grantsmanship: Insights Speaker Series
Invest one hour and learn something new about research. Two online workshops remaining.
CAFE Research and Creativity Pillar is offering a speaker series focused on the fundamental aspects of grantsmanship and scholarship. Attend one or all, as fits your needs and interest. Each session will last no longer than one hour and will be offered on Zoom.
- Life Cycle of Human Subjects Research Projects: An Overview of the IRB with Chris Winders (March 29 at 1:00PM): read more and register; and
- Writing Compelling Grant Proposal Narratives with Alexis Petri (April 7 and 1:00PM): read more and register.
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A Dialogue on Ensuring Success for Students of Color in College and After Graduation
Faciltiated byMichele Smith, Ph.D., Dean of Students, Vice Provost of Student Affairs
Davlon Miller, M.Ed., Director of Career Services
Mako Miller, M.A.Ed., Director of Professional Mobility Escalators
April 7th, 2022 12:00pm
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Upcoming Award Opportunities for UMKC Faculty
Call for Nominations for the spring 2022 campus faculty awards!
Due to Covid, the campus faculty award winners for career contributions, teaching, and engagement from 2021 have not yet been announced because we've been holding for an in-person celebration. An exciting faculty awards event is being planned for this May and the date will be announced soon. The call for new nominations is now open. Both last year's and this year's faculty award winners will be announced at this upcoming event. For a complete list of award opportunities and accompanying links, visit the CAFE website awards’ calendar.
April
Early Career Faculty Award
The Early Career Faculty Award program is funded by the Emeritus College endowment. Awards of $1000 are granted to faculty early in their careers, typically but not exclusively tenure-track assistant professors.
N.T. Veatch Award for Distinguished Research and Creativity
The N.T. Veatch Award recognizes distinguished research and other scholarly or creative activity accomplished by UMKC faculty. All full-time, regular faculty members who have been at UMKC for at least three years are eligible to be nominated.
UMKC Trustees’ Faculty Fellowship Awards
The UMKC Trustees' Faculty Fellowship recognizes faculty who have distinguished themselves through scholarship and creativity. Recipients are expected to serve as role models, mentor and encourage other faculty members and students in pursuit of academic excellence.
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
UMKC’s highest honor for excellence in teaching will recognize and celebrate UMKC faculty who are consistently superior teachers at the graduate, undergraduate or professional level over an extended period of time.
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring
This award will recognize UMKC graduate faculty advisors with a long-established career at the University who have made significant contributions to higher education through exceptional mentoring.
Chancellor’s Early Career Award for Excellence in Teaching
This award recognizes and celebrates UMKC assistant professors who have achieved excellence in teaching early in their professional careers.
Norman Royall Distinguished Research Award (CAS) and Norman Royall Teaching Award for Non-Tenure Track faculty (CAS)
As one of the highest forms of recognition in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Royall awards will reward faculty committed to research excellence, creativity, instruction and interdisciplinarity.
Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching
This award recognizes and celebrates teaching excellence among UMKC clinical and teaching faculty.
Chancellor’s Award for Career Contributions to the University
One of UMKC’s highest honors to a University employee (faculty or staff) who has made significant contributions to higher education at UMKC over the course of his or her career and has significantly enhanced the mission of the University.
Chancellor’s Award for Embracing Diversity
This award recognizes and celebrates UMKC faculty, staff and registered student organizations engaging in UMKC’s Strategic Plan Pillar 4: Foster an Environment of Invigorating Multiculturalism, Globalism, Diversity and Inclusion.
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Community Engagement
This award recognizes and celebrates faculty, staff, units and campus organizations that have made engagement with the community a central aspect of their approach to student learning and scholarship.
Elmer F. Pierson Good Teaching Award
Awarded annually to outstanding teachers in the Bloch School and Schools of Dentistry, Law and Medicine.
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Roos Rock!
Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our talented faculty
NEW! We will continue to share faculty accomplishments in a new Roos Rock! online collection that allows for search functionality and many other features. Please visit Roos Rock! at its online home.
GrantsUMKC faculty, researchers and staff were awarded $900,000 in grants in January 2022, for a total of more than $62 million in total grants since July 2021. Visit the Grants and Awards page. Faculty with awards are listed below.
PublicationsUMKC faculty have published 2,670 books, articles, and chapters in the last 3 years. Visit the Publications page. Below are the faculty who listed publications.
Honors and Awards
UMKC faculty have won numerous national and international honors and awards.
Performances, Media Appearances and Presentations
UMKC faculty had their musical compositions performed at the Pulitzer Foundation, have created documentary films, and appeared on TV.
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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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AccessRoo
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.
Disabled and On-Campus
In Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education (2017), Jay Timothy Dolmage discusses the difficulties associated with bringing disability to campus. Dolmage explains that the University, as an institution, was developed alongside other institutions and in tandem with intentional efforts that support the stratification of our society. Like the hospital, the insane asylum and the prison, the university was designed to house certain types of individuals. Dolmage observes that while the prison housed delinquency and hospital the sick and feeble, the university was unique in its role as providing sanctuary for the intelligent, for those able to push the (physical and mental) boundaries of their disciplines of study. Dolmage reminds us, however, that although the inception of the University was without a doubt discriminatory, we have come a long way.
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Interview with Dr. Antonio Byrd, Assistant Professor of English
1) Thinking back on the last few years as a faculty member at UMKC, what accomplishments are you most proud of?
I'm most proud of connecting with community partners around Kansas City so they can meet with UMKC students. I've met some wonderful people and they have been generous with their time, visiting students and showing them how writing supports coalition-building and justice work. They illustrate how students’ talents and expertise from UMKC can go directly into the community.
I'm also proud of contributing to the culture of writing for other faculty at UMKC. I co-facilitate the Faculty Writing Initiative (FWI) with Dr. Jane Greer. FWI provides structured writing time for faculty of all ranks and across all disciplines so they can make substantial progress on their writing. I also co-lead the UWRB's Faculty Learning Community in Threshold Concepts. I'm happy to use my expertise in teaching writing to collaborate with other writing-intensive faculty to help our students become better writers.
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Interview with Dr. Brenda Bethman, Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Race, Ethnic and Gender Studies; Director of the UMKC Women's Center; Director of the Bachelor of Liberal Arts Program; and Co-Director of the Gender, Health and Development in Senegal Study Abroad Program.
1) Thinking back on the last few years as a faculty member at UMKC, what accomplishments are you most proud of?
The accomplishment I’m most proud of is the establishment of the Department of Race, Ethnic and Gender Studies, which combines three programs. In addition, we have just completed three successful hires, and our new colleagues will be joining us this Fall. Also in the Fall, we will begin offering a new minor, including some of the first LGBTQ Studies courses at UMKC.
One other accomplishment that I’m proud of is the development of the Gender, Health and Development in Senegal Study Abroad program. This is an interdisciplinary program that draws students from a variety of fields. It’s also the first and only program to West Africa in the UM System.
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Faculty Interest Poll
We are curious about your interest in The Conversation. Please take our poll: 1 question + 1 follow-up question.
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Higher education related news: Systems and models for student completion
The Lumina Foundation News shares articles from a variety of national sources pertinent to higher education completion. We thought these articles might be interesting for faculty.
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Free Webinar
Lumina Foundation is offering a free webinar, Our Nation’s Enrollment Plunge – 12:00 noon, Tuesday April 5. Presenters from U.S. Department of Education, Lumina Foundation, National Student Clearinghouse, Gallup, National College Attainment Network, Hechinger Report, and Boston.com.
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