Transitions and Traditions: Halloween, Changing Leaves, and Looking Ahead

As October draws to a close, we’re embracing a season of change with colorful fall foliage and moving our clocks back an hour this Saturday night. This week brings Halloween and Pool One submissions for the Fund for Excellence. Looking forward to November, we’ll be honoring our first-generation students and faculty during the First Gen Celebration and underscoring the power of civic engagement on Election Day. Here’s to navigating these transitions with focus and purpose.

Proposals Due this Week

Funding for Excellence (Pool 1)
Due 31 October

FFE Information

FFE Submission

CAFE Conference Presentation Proposals
Due 1 November

CAFE Conference Information

Presentation Proposal Submission

Professional Learning

"Innovative Teaching:
Applying Dee Fink’s Framework to SoTL"

Are you ready to transform your teaching and create more engaging learning experiences? In this interactive session, we’ll explore Dee Fink’s Paradigm for Significant Learning and how it can be applied within the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Learn practical ways to design innovative, impactful courses and discover how to incorporate these concepts into your own research and classroom practices.

Don’t miss this opportunity to spark creativity and drive meaningful change! Join the SoTL movement at UMKC! Wednesday, 6 November 2024, 12:00-1:30 in the CAFE Conference Room - Newcomb Hall.

Bring a syllabus you’d like to enhance, and together we’ll unlock new potential in your teaching!

Faculty Field Trip to Pawsperity

Community-Engaged Learning and Public-Facing Research Opportunities

A collaboration between CAFE and External Relations and Constituent Engagement

Flyer for a Faculty Field Trip to Pawsperity on November 4, 2024, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The flyer includes a QR code for more information. It highlights that Pawsperity offers dog grooming education as a pathway to support individuals and families experiencing poverty.

Pawsperity - Pet Care That Unleashes Human Potential

Monday, November 4, 2024 at 11:30am - 1:00pm

Pawsperity is already a practicum site for UMKC Social Work, and they hope to expand their partnership! This opportunity is potentially relevant to criminal justice and criminology, economics, education, political science, public affairs, social work, and sociology.

The field trip includes transportation, a tour of Pawsperity, a meet-and-greet with leadership, and a networking lunch. We will leave UMKC at 11:15am and arrive back by 1:30pm.

National First Gen Celebration Week Begins Nov 4

A message from First Gen Roo:

This image is a simple blue and gray visual featuring two pie charts that describe data about first generation students at UMKC. It reads, ''First Gen Facts: 52% of all UMKC undergraduates and 57% of all UMKC first-time college students are first generation!''

Did you know? Over 57% of UMKC’s first-time college students and 52% of all undergraduates are first-generation. This milestone reflects our commitment to supporting students whose parents or guardians did not earn a U.S. bachelor’s degree. 🎓

Join us for National First Gen Celebration Week, November 4-8! We invite first-gen faculty, staff, and allies to celebrate the achievements of our first-gen community. Your participation shows students they’re not alone on this journey.

For event details, visit the First Gen Celebration Faculty and Staff Website. Please also consider sharing this flyer with your students to spread the word about the 13 student-centered events happening throughout the week.

Thank you for your support, and we look forward to celebrating together!

Faculty Fellow for Nationally Competitive Awards

This image includes a fun and brightly-colored infographic that draws attention to the main text reading: ''Application alert! Are you committed to student engagement? Apply to be a Competitive Awards Faculty Fellow today!''. A separate text box towards the bottom left reads, ''More information about this great opportunity is below!''

Faculty at the associate or full professor levels are invited to apply for the position of Faculty Fellow for the Nationally Competitive Awards Program.

Goals for the Competitive Awards Faculty Fellow:

Promoting and educating students about fellowship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students across all disciplines.
Fostering faculty participation in both fellowships review processes and identification of student candidates for fellowships.
Developing a vision for the Nationally Competitive Awards program that expands its reach throughout the faculty and student populations at UMKC.

More Info & Invitation to Apply

Educator Tools and Resources

AI Cookbook cover with person in a lab coat standing in a laboratory-like kitchen

The AI Cookbook: Recipes and More from the University of Missouri is a toolkit for educators that offers practical, accessible, and collaborative AI strategies, aka "recipes", for tasks, including crafting learning objectives, generating graphics, and developing rubrics.

Published on August 19, 2024

Read the AI Cookbook

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