April 2021
Virtual Provost Luncheon: The Post-Pandemic Professoriate: Equity-Minded Faculty Workloads by Design
Many faculty experience dissatisfaction with their workloads and perceive an increased workload and challenges in work-life integration. Colleagues lack information about how work is divided and the workloads of their peers. Departments rarely engage in a transparent process for assigning workload commitments and this can be amplified across faculty rank and series. The unequal distribution of faculty workload is one of the most important, yet least talked about, inequities that shape the experiences of faculty members within colleges and universities.…
Find out more »Spring Provost Conference Virtual Luncheon Series: The Post-Pandemic University
As we prepare to return to a new normal this fall, the Spring Provost Conference Virtual Luncheon Series invites national experts like KerryAnn O’Meara and Joya Misra to campus to think together about how we as a university want to imagine and enact the post-pandemic university. This series offers time and space for us to think through pressing problems in higher education -- faculty workload equity, faculty COVID-19 accommodations, and pandemic impact statements, and evaluating teaching excellence. These issues predate…
Find out more »University of Denver’s 2021 Internationalization Summit
The Internationalization Summit is intended to be a forum for scholars, students, and members of the academic community to engage in meaningful conversation, connect, share practices, and present emerging research relating to the internationalization of higher education. Learn More and Register to Attend
Find out more »Scenario-Based Virtual Training: Creating Inclusive Campus Climates for Chairs and Directors
Join current and former DU chairs and directors for a faculty-developed, scenario-based workshop designed to support an inclusive campus climate. The workshop’s developers, as well as subject experts from relevant departments like the Office of Teaching and Learning, Title IX/Equal Opportunity (EEO), Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI), will facilitate small group discussions, followed by large-group share-out designed to cultivate a community of practice so that participants not only learn how and when to intervene in specific circumstances but…
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