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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

The processes of promotion, reappointment, and tenure are consistent drivers of faculty stress, consternation, and insecurity. While faculty accomplishments accrue over years and often emerge through an organic process of growth and scholarly interest, the professional statement provides a strategic opportunity to guide your review committee in their analysis of your work. The statement should […]

Speakers: Kelsey Kates, Global Head of Learning Experiences and Faculty Enablement at Google and Katie Greenman, M.A., CEO Learn more about the speakers Not all of us were jumping up and down in excitement about going virtual but no we are not alone in this. So, we’re bringing in some stimulus from the corporate world […]

Co-Hosted By Dr. Jenn Bellamy, Associate Dean & Professor Graduate School of Social Work Appetizer:  "Gender and Racialized Perceptions of Faculty Workloads" by Joya Misra, Alexandra Kuvaeva, KerryAnn O’Meara, Dawn Kiyoe Culpepper, & Audrey Jaeger from Gender & Society Suggested Pairing:  Old Fashioned Still hungry?: Check out the UMass ADVANCE website to learn more about Joya Misra and […]

Co-Hosted by Dr. Deb Ortega, Professor Graduate School of Social Work; and Director, Latinx Center for Community Engagement and Scholarship Appetizer: Reading: “Keeping Covid from Sidelining Equity” by Joya Misra, Dessie Clark & Ethel L. Mickey from Inside Higher Ed; DU Covid Accommodations Motions Suggested Pairing: Americano from Kaladi Still Hungry?: “Reflections on Institutional Equity for Faculty in Response […]

Drawing on her own experience publishing numerous academic articles and book chapters, as well as her experience as a reviewer and editor of several special issues and edited volumes and as incoming Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Positive Sexuality, Dr. Simula shares strategies for preparing academic manuscripts, identifying potential manuscript homes, communicating with editors, and […]

Co-Hosted by Dr. Jared Del Rosso, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology Appetizer: "A Department-Level Cultural Change Project: Transforming the Evaluation of Teaching" by Noah Finkelstein, Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, Gabriela Weaver, & Ann E. Austin from CU Boulder White Paper on the “Teaching Quality Framework” Suggested Pairing: Denver Beer Co’s Crimson Goals Red Ale Still Hungry?: ‘Valid’ Student […]