Revision of APT Language

The proposed amendments to the APT, in response to COVID-19, were approved by the Board of Trustees at their April meeting and are now in effect allowing certain faculty to request a one-year extension to their tenure clock or employment contract. The full amendment...

Sabbaticals

The Provost’s Office is taking requests for changes due to COVID. Those will go to the September 23rd FEAC meetings for approval, so we would need no later than two weeks prior to the meeting in order for the provost to approve and then place them on the board...

Faculty Workload Task Force

In partnership with the Faculty Senate and the Provost’s Office, Sarah Pessin, Faculty Senate President, and Kate Willink, VPFA will co-chair a task force to look at evaluating  faculty workload equity across campus in general, and in relation to COVID. Invitations...

Teaching Evaluation Task Force

In partnership with the Faculty Senate, the VPFA plans to improve the University of Denver’s course evaluation and teaching review methods through a newly-approved Faculty Senate Teaching Evaluation Task Force motion. The task force will focus on and create structures...
R1 Survey Report

R1 Survey Report

Back in the days when dinosaurs roamed and we were not all responding to COVID crises, the Faculty Senate and VPFA collaborated to do an R1 faculty survey. Here is a summary of the R1 survey results. We look forward to further discussion.