Legal Lunch and Learn for Faculty

Session Information:
Tuesday, February 11, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Garden Room (Chambers Center, Colorado Women's College)

Are you a department chair or academic leader who wants to learn how to navigate management concerns? Are you a faculty member who wants to understand liability and the university’s protection in litigious times? Do you need to know when to pick up the phone for legal advice to navigate a complex university situation?

Come learn who to call, about what, and what resources are available.

Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Kate Willink invites you to a Legal Lunch and Learn for Faculty featuring Paul Chan, Vice Chancellor, Legal Affairs and General Counsel.
   
Please bring your own brown bag lunch. Dessert will be served.
Rethinking Mentoring: How to Build Communities of Inclusion, Support, and Accountability

Session Information:
Friday, February 14, 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Maglione Hall (Sie Complex, Room 5025)

  • Does your department, college or university effectively mentor pre-tenure faculty?
  • How can you work towards providing faculty at different stages of career development meaningful mentoring relationships and experiences?
  • How does mentoring differ for pre-tenure and post-tenure faculty?
  • How can institutions provide effective mentoring for under-represented faculty?

This workshop describes the common problems that pre-tenure and post-tenure faculty members experience and why traditional mentoring programs fail to meet those needs. We propose an alternative framework for mentoring that focuses on needs assessment and shifts the idea of mentoring from a relationship between two faculty members towards building a broad network of support, community, and accountability. The workshop concludes with a presentation of best practices in mentoring pre-tenure, under-represented and mid-career faculty.

A National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity Event
How to Write an Article for a Peer-Reviewed Publication

Session dates:
Tuesday, February 18
Thursday, April 23

If you are new to academic publishing or have an article that needs to be completed, please join us for this session. The same session will be repeated twice.

Dr. Karen Weller Swanson, Director of Faculty Learning Groups & Scholarship of the Office of Teaching and Learning, was the editor for a research journal and will walk you through how to design and write an article for a peer-reviewed publication, how to respond to editor's feedback, and keep the momentum of bringing an article to fruition.
   
Both sessions meet in the OTL Conference Room (AAC 345) from 12:00-2:00 p.m. To register for the session you would like to attend, use the corresponding button below.  
Friday Morning Writing Group

Session dates:
Fridays: February 28, March 20, April 24, May 29

If you crave a social connection to support your academic writing then this is the group for you.

The environment will be quiet (silent, really) to provide a setting that is friendly, a small portion of accountability, and writing support from OTL staff if you need some. We’ll put on a pot of coffee, you bring your computer and project!

All sessions meet in the OTL Conference Room (AAC 345) from 8:00-10:00 a.m. Please register for the sessions you would like to attend using the buttons below.
NCFDD Online 14-Day Writing Challenge Starts March 23!

Join us for the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) 14-Day Writing Challenge! This challenge is online and an opportunity for you to experiment with daily writing, online community, and supportive accountability. It's very simple:

  1. You commit to write every day for at least 30 minutes.
  2. At the beginning of your writing time, you login to our online community, start the timer, complete your writing, and post your progress at the end.
  3. You take 5 minutes to support other writers in your group by commenting on their progress.
 
If you're up for the challenge, you can signup at the NCFDD website .
How to Write a Winning Book Proposal

Session information:
Friday, April 10, 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Garden Room (Chambers Center, Colorado Women's College)

For many academics, a book manuscript is key to earning tenure and establishing a scholarly identity. However, the path to academic book publishing can often be confusing, nebulous, and filled with scary myths and misperceptions. This workshop focuses on helping you to take the first steps toward getting your project into print. In this workshop, you will learn:

  • When should I start writing the proposal?
  • What is the best way for me to contact an editor?
  • How do I pick the best press for my project?
  • What does a “winning” book proposal look like?

Facilitated by: Badia Ahad, PhD, Associate Professor, Loyola University

A National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity Event
Seeking Participants for Spring 2020 Student-Faculty Partnership Program!

Do you want to better understand your students and how they experience your class? In the Student-Faculty Partnership Program, students and faculty members learn and work together as partners in addressing the question of how we can create more engaging and inclusive learning environments. Participating faculty members are paired with a student consultant for the Spring 2020 quarter. Every week throughout the quarter, students visit and observe their faculty partner's class, and they and their faculty partners meet to discuss their respective observations, insights, and wonderings. Backed by 20 years of research, this program is premised on the idea that students and faculty members can learn much from each other regarding the experience of teaching and learning, and that it is through dialogue and sharing of different perspectives that this learning can occur.    

We are currently seeking faculty participants who teach undergraduate classes.  The application deadline is Tuesday, February 18, 2020 . To learn more about this program and to apply, please visit our Student-Faculty Partnership Program web page . We are also seeking student participants for this program, particularly students from groups that are under-represented in shaping higher education, so if you know of any undergraduate students whom you would like to recommend, please contact  Virginia Pitts .
Faculty Learning Community: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Session dates:
Friday, March 13, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Friday, April 24, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Friday, May 22, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Please join us in exploring how to incorporate the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning into the balance of your work at DU. Blending your teaching and research agendas is a great way to invigorate your course design through a systematic approach. This community will engage in discussion around systematically studying our teaching and student learning. Whether you are new to this topic or have been involved in SOTL for years, please join us!

All sessions meet in the OTL Conference Room (AAC 345). Please register for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Faculty Learning Community dates you would like to attend using the buttons below.
Faculty Learning Community: White Fragility and our Teaching

Session dates:
Wednesdays: April 1, 8, 22; May 6, 20; June 3

This Faculty Learning Community is centered around Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility book. DiAngelo brings "language to the emotional structures that make true discussions about racial attitudes difficult [and] in doing so, [she] moves our national discussion forward with new rules of engagement."

We will explore how the phenomenon of white fragility impacts how we show up in the classroom, and how we make space for all our students to grow and thrive. Our goal is to unpack "how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively" to increase our intrapersonal and interpersonal awareness and enact Inclusive Excellence.

Co-facilitated by OTL Directors Dr. Valentina LaGrave and Dr. Karen Swanson, this is a collaborative Faculty Learning Community structured around book chapters. Participants will take turns leading the discussion, and will receive a copy of DiAngelo's book once registration is closed.

All sessions meet in the OTL Conference Room (AAC 345) from 12:00-1:30 p.m. Please feel free to bring your lunch and anything else to be comfortable in the community.
New Rolling Deadline for Program Assessment Reports

As long as you work in higher education, there are two things in life that will always be there for you: laundry and assessment. While we cannot help with laundry, the OTL can definitely help with program assessment.
 
The new deadline for program assessment reports rolls between June 1 and June 22. We recognize that June is filled with commencement, finals, and grades, so please plan accordingly. And most importantly, please attend the Assessment Meetups series. Why do assessment alone when you can work in community with DU friends and snacks?    
 
As you move forward with program assessment, visit DU Assessment to review feedback from the Director of Academic Assessment and the following cadre of Assessment Fellows––Sarah Catanzarite (INTZ), John Hill (UCOL), Tia Quinlan-Wilder (DCB), Randy Wagner (LAW), and Annette Stott (CAHSS)––to prepare for the next round of program assessments.
 
In the spirit of learning from each other, engaging in reflective practices, and creating transparency, program assessment reports are available for the DU community to  review on DU Portfolio .
 
If you have any questions or concerns about program assessment, please contact Christina Paguyo at christina.paguyo@du.edu or 1-6012.
Welcome Professor Tia Quinlan-Wilder as the Inaugural Faculty Scholar of Assessment

The OTL is excited to announce that  Professor Tia Quinlan-Wilder has accepted the inaugural Faculty Scholar of Assessment role. Her background and expertise in assessment and accreditation––combined with her enthusiasm and successful track record for facilitating a strong culture of assessment in Marketing––makes her a wonderful addition to the assessment team.
 
In the Daniels College of Business, Tia teaches marketing courses while providing consultations for faculty to engage in robust program assessment practices and meet Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation guidelines. To round out her repertoire of marketing, assessment, and accreditation, Tia previously worked as an engineer in industry. This unique combination of strengths is sure to benefit DU for successful reaffirmation of HLC accreditation and beyond. Please join the OTL in congratulating Tia!
Parenting and Productivity

Session Information:
Tuesdays, February 25, 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
OTL Conference Room (AAC 345)

Does the idea of “work-life” balance make you want to laugh – or cry – as you juggle raising children and your academic workload? You are not alone!

The Parenting and Productivity group will foster a supportive, non-judgmental atmosphere to tackle the specific challenges facing academics who are parenting children (or anyone else who provides time-intensive and physically demanding dependent care). Join Dr. Karen Swanson from the OTL and Dr. Erin Willer from the Communication Studies Department for donuts as we watch and discuss NCFDD’s series on Parenting and Productivity.  
Heart of Higher Education Conversations

Session dates:
Thursdays: March 12, April 9, May 14

The Heart of Higher Education is an opportunity to gather as a DU community to share the challenges and opportunities of transcending the institutional, professional, and personal choices that tend to separate core identity/integrity from day to day actions. These conversations create a positive and constructive space where staff and faculty can explore ways of re-connecting their calling with their professional responsibilities.

All sessions meet in the OTL Conference Room (AAC 345) from 12:00-1:00 p.m. Please register for the Heart of Higher Education dates you would like to attend using the buttons below.
As always, please visit our OTL Events Calendar to view all upcoming OTL events.