The Center for Faculty Development
Upcoming Events
REQUIREMENT FOR NEW FACULTY!
New Feculty Orientation - August 10th, 2009 *Registration Now Open*
Registration is now open for New Faculty Orientation which is required for all newly hired tenure track faculty, instructors and lecturers. New Faculty Orientation will be held Monday August 10th, 2009, with additional programs and presentation held throughout the week of August 10th. Click HERE to download the schedule for the week on New Faculty Orientation or click HERE to register online or by calling the CFD office at 303-556-6075.
DIVERSIFY YOUR SYLLABI
Thursday, August 13th 9am-11am
Just in time for Fall Semester, an opportunity you can’t resist. A workshop to help faculty redesign one course in order to incorporate more diversity into the content will be held Thursday, August 13 from 9am - 11am in the Jackson Enhanced Learning Center of the Auraria Library. To participate, please fill out the application form and submit it along with one course syllabus to Ethnic Studies, Campus Box 134. The first 10 participants will receive a restaurant give-away and all participants will receive the book "Teaching Diversity" For more information, please contact Resa Cooper Morning at 303-315-3613 or via e-mail at resa.cooper-morning@ucdenver.edu.
Notices
Important Emergency Preparedness Updates
Program your cell phone with the Auraria Police Dept phone # which is #303-556-5000, as dialing 911 from a cell phone will go to Denver Police and cause a delay in response. 9-1-1 calls dialed from office phones are routed directly to Auraria Police Dispatch. When dialing 9-1-1 from office phones at the Anschutz Medical Campus, calls are directed to the University of Colorado Denver Police Department dispatch.
There is a FREE, emergency cell phone/email/text alert system on both the Auraria and Anschutz Campuses. To sign up, please go to:https://www.getrave.com/login/DenverAlerts to register.
Please take a moment to view the Campus Safety Video at the following link: http://www.ahec.edu/emergency/CampusSafetyVideo.htm as well as the Emergency Preparedness Fact Sheet and Guide at the following link: http://www.ahec.edu/emergency.htm
Faculty Grant: Research & Scholarship Completion Fund
Receive funds for unanticipated research and scholarship needs. View Description and Application
Syllabus Policy
Get on track for your next course by reading the syllabus policy and viewing a syllabus template.
Publications
Fall 2008 Latitude
Inside Higher Education: "New Form of Adjunct Abuse" and other adjunct-faculty articles
7 Tips to End Email Addiction
Read these tips and respond in a blog in Tomorrow's Professor.
Welcome Faculty!
Ellen Stevens, Center Director
Take advantage of our services and events and visit the site to help advance your career and improve learning in your courses. We are eager to assist you, so don't hesitate to call.
Faculty Blog Topics
CFD Online Tutorials
Link directly to our online tutorials for classroom assessment and learning contracts.
Faculty Spotlight
Congratulations to the 2009/2010 Faculty Development Grant Awardees
There was tremendous response to the 09/10 Faculty Development Grant Call for Proposals. 53 proposals were submitted in three categories requesting a total of $273,290. 2 proposals were awarded in Category A ($10,000); 3 in Category B (($5,000); and 10 in Category C ($2,000). For a complete list of awardees, click HERE.
The Tenure Track Mentoring Program hosts "A Day With Brad Johnson"
On May 1st, The Tenure Track Mentoring Program hosted Brad Johnson, renowned author and mentoring expert, in a workshop that examined the purposes, complexities, rewards and importance of mentorship in higher education. Approximately 30 people braved the dense fog to attend the workshop at the Pines at Genessee.
Spring 2009 Latitude Highlights Faculty Mentoring
This issue celebrates the culmination of the third year of the Tenure Track Faculty Mentoring Program. This year, 60% of eligible downtown faculty participated in the program compared to just 20% in 2006. 37 mentors, several of whom had more than one mentee, guided 52 mentees this year. In this edition of Latitude, several of these mentor-mentee relationships are highlighted, including the cross disciplinary collaboration between Greg Cronin and Jason Ren, the friendship developed between Ron Rorrer and Storm Gloor, and the perspective shared between Rod Muth and Omar Swartz. Click HERE for a link to the online version of Latitude.
Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Carl Wieman presents at UCD
On March 6 the Center for Faculty Development and the Denver Transfer Initiative welcomed Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Carl Wieman for his science education presentation, Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the Tools of Science to Teach Science.lick HERE to watch Dr. Wieman's presentation.