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Faculty Affairs Newsletter

23 October 2020 | volume 2 issue 4 | The Sustainability Issue

We hope you will take a break and enjoy this issue of F.A.N.

-The Faculty Affairs Team

Video Message from Provost Lundgren

Mid-semester Check-in Resources

It's not too late to check in with your students about how your classes are going for them. Faculty Affairs put this toolkit together to help you with having these important conversations about faculty teaching and student learning.

Check out the resource

Announcing Fall Professional Learning

PROFFcourses is back for the month of November (reinvented as professional, relevant opportunities for fabulous faculty) and offering four sessions. Sign up today!

Series: Free Expression and Academic Freedom in the Classroom

As a follow-up to the popular PROFFcourse last August, Sybil Wyatt returns to explore free expression, academic freedom, bias reporting, and how to manage disruptions and in-class conflicts. The three-week series will total 2 hours in length plus time spent reading and considering a brief scenario before each 30-minute discussion session. There will be two discussions on each of two scenarios, 30 minutes in length - attend one or for a slightly different take attend both. Each scenario session will be offered during one week and a panel presentation will wrap up the three-week learning series.

Free expression/academic freedom and bias reporting - Monday 2 November or Thursday 5 November, 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Managing disruptions and in-class conflicts - Monday 9 November or Thursday 12 November, 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Concluding panel - Monday 16 November, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Facilitated by Sybil Wyatt, KC Atchison, and Keishea Boyd

Sustainable Community Engagement - the Center for Neighborhoods Approach

UMKC Center for Neighborhoods: Best Practices in University + Community Engagement

The UMKC Center for Neighborhoods is a research and outreach unit in AUPD. CFN’s mission is to build the capacity of Kansas City’s neighborhood and community organizations through an asset-based community development process. The Center has worked with faculty and students from a variety of programs – including Economics, Law, Social Work, and the Bloch School’s Public Affairs program. This presentation will provide an overview of the CFN approach for greater awareness about the programs offered and how the Center serves the UMKC Urban Mission.

Facilitated by the Center for Neighborhoods Team: Jacob Wagner, Dina Newman, Erica Royals, and LaMonica Upton

Paricipate in Best Practices in University + Community Engagement

Wrap Up Veteran's Week - What Faculty Need to Know About Student Veterans

Veteran Support Services and Student Veterans Discuss

Join Eric Gormly and student veterans to learn more about teaching student veterans. There are several factors to consider when teaching student veterans and building a supportive learning environment. Eric will share information about how the COVID-19 pandemic may affect student veterans and ways you can support student veterans in your classes.

Facilitated by Eric Gormly, Assistant Director for Veteran Student Support Services, who will be joined by a colleague and student veterans.

Paricipate in the workshop

According to the Research

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommend increasing interdisciplinary, postsecondary sustainability programs that examine global crises as interdependent environmental, economic, and societal challenges. The report also emphasizes the need for the inclusion of faculty and students who collectively span diversity across the social spectrum.

Read the report

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Strengthening Sustainability Programs and Curricula at the Undergraduate and Graduate Levels. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25821.

UMKC Engagement Inventory

Please take this 5-minute UMKC Inventory Survey by 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30. Taking this survey is crucial so that we can take stock of all the programs, services, and research that we have in place to aid and support our diverse communities, and identify where more help is needed.

Complete the inventory survey

Save the Date

Integrating STEM + KC will convene a "Think Tank” (conference plus networked improvement community) of top researchers, practitioners, and professionals to collaboratively design and implement STEM education improvements to prepare a diverse STEM workforce. Different than a virtual "sit and get" conference, Integrating STEM + KC hopes to develop a general ecosystem model focused on the unique academic, social, and cultural factors influencing STEM education research in our region.

Save the date: Thursday, November 19, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - Integrating STEM + KC Launch.

Sign-up for the pre-conference

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