FACULTY AFFAIRS
The Office for Faculty Affairs welcomes and orients new faculty to DU; coordinates faculty development programs across campus; serves as a central resource for information about faculty and faculty policies; supports deans and department leaders with searches, hiring, retention, and advancement; assists faculty with grievances; offers programs to orient new academic leaders; supports programs to improve teaching; and works with departments, colleges, and other offices to enhance faculty experiences. We work with academic leaders across campus to enhance DU’s efforts to support faculty

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Faculty affairs News and Updates
Faculty Workload Equity & Teaching Excellence Taskforce Update
Photo by Felipe Furtado on Unsplash Faculty Workload The Faculty Workload Equity Taskforce has convened its first meeting of 2021 and has set things in motion to address...
COVID Accommodations Senate Task Force Update
By Chip Reichardt, Professor, Psychology, Committee Co-Chair The COVID Accommodations Senate Task Force (also referred to as the Committee on Changes to the APT for the Effects...
Faculty Leadership Development: Higher Education Resource Services (HERS)
Photo by Dani Hart from Pexels Higher Education Resource Services (HERS) has been working to support diverse women leaders in Academia for over fifty years. DU faculty, including...
Symposium Implementation: Institutionalizing Mentoring & Introducing Mentoring Faculty Fellow
The VPFA’s office welcomes Dr. Heather Martin as the new Faculty Fellow for Mentoring Initiatives (FFMI). The FFMI position extends the vital work of the Mentoring and Onboarding...
Supporting Teaching and Professional Faculty: An Institutional Priority: Update
On Friday, February 5th, over fifty faculty and staff attended this panel tracing the history of advocacy for Teaching and Professional Faculty at DU. This advocacy led to the...
Celebrating Faculty Work Through Activity Insight
Image: Visualization of Professor Kim Bender’s co-authored publications, used with permission. Created by Jenelys Cox, University Libraries By Jack Maness, Associate Dean,...