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Faculty Affairs Newsletter

20 August 2020 | volume 2 issue 1

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

The news is filled with triple-digit cases of COVID-19 on large campuses such as MU and KU. Here at UMKC, the latest numbers for fall total 6 on-campus cases as of midnight August 28. We are all doing our part to keep every Roo safe, whether that means teaching face-to-face with social distancing while streaming live on Zoom, teaching hybrid, or teaching asynchronously online. Labor Day weekend is almost here. We hope you have an opportunity to take time off and relax.

-The Faculty Affairs Team

CREDIT: “Miners with their children at the Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado,” 1940. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Reproduction Number LC-USF33-012909-M1.

Video Message

from Provost Lundgren

UMKC Bookstore

Alexis recently interviewed with Pete Eisentrager, store manager, for new faculty orientation. The UMKC Bookstore is a campus gem. Catch up on their latest projects.

Watch the video

Service-Learning Reboot

Service-learning returned to the Provost Office for the first time since Students in the City (2006). Welcome back! Alexis Petri is directing service-learning on an interim basis and is working with two AmeriCorps VISTA members, Arya Shekarandaz and Joyce Morales, both recent UMKC graduates. Supporting faculty and students in community-based learning is one of the ways VISTA members accomplish their work because they are helping students with real-world learning while also helping nonprofits address local challenges. Thank you, Arya and Joyce, for entering into national service and helping students with community engagement and service-learning.

Visit the Service-Learning website

15-minute Mentor

Do you have 15 minutes? Could you find 15 minutes a month to reach out to a student if you knew it meant the difference between them staying or leaving UMKC?

Learn more about being a mentor

Resources

Roos Advocate for Community Change: Working to ensure that UMKC is a welcoming place where all can thrive

Visit the website to learn more about the action items and how you can contribute. For example, you might tune in to a critical conversation, contribute to the virtual resource center, or complete the UMKC inventory of programs, initiatives and research that aid and support diverse communities.

Visit Roos Advocate for Community Change

UMKC coronavirus website

The button below goes to the website. If you are looking for something specific, these links might be helpful. Communications archives the major communication emails and, if you scroll down, lists the numbers of cases by month. The faculty page provides specific information about health and safety, including links to resources, CRRs, and protocols.

Visit the UMKC website, Keep Every Roo Safe

There's an app for that

Campus Screen is a new (and free) mobile app UMKC administration recommends for students, faculty, and staff to self-monitor for COVID. App users answer a series of questions and get a "Campus Pass" if all is well or a recommendation to follow up with a visit to a health professional, depending on symptoms.

Know a great professor?

The Baylor University Cherry Award program is designed to honor great teachers, to stimulate discussion in the academy about the value of teaching, and to encourage departments and institutions to value their own great teachers. The award recipient will receive $250,000 and will teach in residence at Baylor University during the 2022 fall or 2023 spring semester. The award recipient’s home department will receive $25,000. Nominations are due November 1, 2020.

More information

The Latest Issue

UMKC Instructional Design & Technology, part of UM System Office of eLearning, publishes a newsletter. Each issue offers a variety of tips for teaching online. Check out their latest issue and subscribe if you find it helpful.

Read the latest issue

Roo Connection

The Student Affairs newsletter features information students can use to be successful at UMKC. Here is a link to the latest issue.

Check out Roo Connection

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