Overview
The Faculty Senate has formed a committee to explore and make recommendations about accommodations to take account of the effects of COVID-19, especially with regard to faculty advancement, tenure, promotion, reappointment, and annual evaluation. The committee has been charged with taking a broad view of ways DU could address these issues. Recent research has abundantly demonstrated the effect the pandemic is having on faculty research and teaching, particularly of BIPOC and women faculty.
Governance
Committee members
Deb Ortega, Professor and Director, Graduate School of Social Work, Co-Chair
Chip Reichardt, Professor, Psychology, Co-Chair
Derigan Silver, Associate Professor, Media, Film and Journalism Studies, Co-Chair
Apryl Alexander, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Professional Psychology
Norma Hafenstein, Daniel L. Ritchie Endowed Chair in Gifted Education, Morgridge College of Education
Barbekka Hurtt, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Mike Keables, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Viva Moffat, Professor, Sturm College of Law
Committee Reports and recommendations
Report of the Committee on Changes to the APT for the Effects of COVID-19 (April 9, 2021) (pdf)
Further Recommendations (docx)
Faculty Senate Motions
Faculty Senate Motions related to Covid-19 include:
Amendments to the “Policies and Procedures Relations to Faculty Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure” including a one-year COVID-extension.
(Approved by the Faculty Senate 6/26/2020; Approved by the faculty 7/8/20)
FS Resolution on DU’s Covid-19 Decision-Making Values 5/22/20 (pdf)
Motions (pdf)
Additional Covid-19 related policies
WRITING A COVID IMPACT STATEMENT
Understanding and Creating a COVID-19 Impact Statement offers a broad overview of COVID-19 Impact Statements, the rationale, and some framing questions for faculty to consider as they write or interpret these statements. (PDF)
How to Write a COVID-19 Impact Statement in One Hour is a practical guidance tool that faculty could use to actually write such a statement, and provides a table of the sorts of impacts they might choose to document. While faculty are encouraged to block off a concrete amount of time for this statement to avoid overwork, an hour is likely shorter than some (and longer than others) will need for this documentation work. (PDF)
WORKSHOP: “PREPARING FOR REVIEWS IN LIGHT OF COVID-19 IMPACTS FACULTY WORKSHOP: OCTOBER 22ND 9:00 TO 10:30 AM
This workshop will include prompts and support for both Covid-19 Impact Statements and Teaching Reflection Statements. This is a working session, with plenty of time to draft or create an outline of one or both statements. Participants can choose to work on one or both statements, and will have breakout rooms with faculty facilitators dedicated to different ranks, series or writing tasks. Register here for zoom link: https://udenver.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_42bpC9HFuAXezIy
DEMONSTRATING TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS
Documenting Teaching Effectiveness in a Reflection on Teaching , Leslie Cramblet Alvarez & Jared Del Rosso, co-chairs of the Teaching Excellence Task Force offer frameworks, literature, and other ideas for reflecting on teaching to supplement or replace student evaluations of teaching (CTEs) (PDF)