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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
COACHE Update
In late July, the COACHE executive committee will be sharing unit level results with deans and any of their leadership teams/faculty who you would like to include. We look...
Symposium Update
In May 2020, Interim Provost Corinne Lengsfeld and Incoming Provost Mary Clark, received mid-year presentations from all the symposium committees. Some of these initiatives have...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...