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Provost’s Perspective and IRC Faculty Updates
By Constancio Nakuma, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs
At the August 14 New Faculty Welcome organized by the Center for Faculty Development and Advancement (CFDA), I was reminded of the vital role that IRC faculty play at CU Denver in helping us fulfill our teaching and service mission. Many IRC faculty members serve in leadership roles with shared governance bodies and unit committees to advance our vision of making education work for all.
To ensure that IRC faculty working conditions reflect the importance of their roles on our campus, I released a Provost Roadmap in Fall 2022 in which I committed to acting on outlined concerns by 2025. As I emphasized in that Roadmap: “The quality of teaching and learning at CU Denver significantly hinges on the knowledge, dedication, and engagement of IRC faculty members with students and the broader campus community.”

What has CU Denver done to better serve IRC faculty since this call to action?
I am encouraged that our collective work this past year has improved IRC faculty conditions on many fronts. We worked to streamline a path to Multi-Year Contracts (MYCs) and made strides in standardizing promotion processes for IRC faculty. We worked with CFDA to expand and restructure the UCDALI/IRC faculty professional development program. For Lecturers, we introduced a stipend for cancelled courses, established the Lecturer Teaching Excellence Award, and collaborated with UCDALI to host a New Lecturer Reception.

We’ve made this progress despite a tough budget year—thanks to the collaborative leadership of AVC for Faculty Affairs Turan Kayaoglu, the CFDA leadership team headed by Karen Sobel, the UCDALI leadership team headed by Beth Pugliano, and the hard work and commitment of our CU Denver community.

In the year ahead, we will continue our pursuit of priorities outlined by the IRC Task Force. We will continue to promote the use of MYCs and clarify the process and rights for IRC faculty appeal at CU Denver. We are also committed to implementing title changes outlined in the revised APS 5060, including the introduction of the Senior Lecturer title and the Teaching Professor track. My office is eager to collaborate with UCDALI in guiding the university community on using IRC-inclusive language when we talk about faculty. I acknowledge that some policy changes have impacts that we must continue to work to address such as investigating the retroactive application of post-promotion compensation increases (per the revised CAP 1007), which remains a top priority.

The conditions we are addressing did not develop overnight, and it will take time, effort and collaboration in the coming years to address issues raised. Yet our shared vision and collaborative work with UCDALI give me hope and confidence that we will fulfill this goal in the long run. Our ability to advance CU Denver’s community-led strategic goals of enhancing equity and making this a Best Place to Work depends on the success of ALL faculty and staff, and I am wholeheartedly committed to working with everyone to achieve success.
Go Lynx!
The Faculty Featurette with Brian Lisle with the Department of                                               Philosophy

Your dissertation at Loyola focused on Sartre's phenomenology, ontological naturalism & John McDowell's work in this area. What originally attracted you to these particular relationships?  

... primarily due to the wise direction of my dissertation advisor—Andrew Cutrofello. He and I had been sparring back and forth for some time, and he was determined to talk me out of working on either Kant or Hegel, as the amount of relevant scholarship on both is truly massive...I agreed to take up McDowell’s text titled Mind and World. And then, miraculously, my initial interest in the methodological innovations of Sartre’s work seemed to fit quite neatly into the way Dr. Cutrofello was reading McDowell.
Click here to read the rest of this interview
Events & Announcements

                      CFDA IRC Professional Development Funds


The Center for Faculty Development and Advancement's (CFDA) Professional Development Grant for IRC Faculty provides professional development support to all Instructional, Research and Clinical Teaching Track Faculty (formally referred as non-tenure-track) at the University of Colorado Denver (Denver Campus). This includes LecturersInstructorsSenior Instructors, and Clinical Teaching Track Faculty.

The IRC-PDG is funded by the Office of the Provost and administered by the CFDA in collaboration with UCDALI. The total amount of available funding per academic year is $20,000 without considering department matches. Half of this amount is earmarked for lecturers. The other half is allocated to Instructors, Senior Instructors and CTT Faculty. A detailed description of the grants may be viewed here: IRC PD Funds Description and Funding AY 23-24. For further information please visit our website: 
https://www.ucdenver.edu/centers/cfda/grants/irc-faculty-professional-development-grant
The next application deadline is November 27th.


 

                       SP  24 Teaching Innovation Grant


The Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL) and the Teaching Innovation and Program Strategy (TIPS) Division are excited to share this call for proposals for the Spring 2024 cycle of Teaching Innovation Grants (formerly called Teaching Enhancement Grants). This call is open to faculty from all academic disciplines, ranks, and appointments, including IRC faculty; we welcome all faculty to submit a grant proposal and hope to have diverse representation from across our campus in this exciting opportunity.

CU Denver has a rich history of innovative teaching by expert faculty with a wide range of experiences, perspectives, and ideas. Your ideas have the power to transform our students’ learning—and we are excited to support you as you explore innovations in teaching and technology at CU Denver.

The purpose of the Teaching Innovation Grants is to support faculty exploration, implementation, and evaluation of new and emerging pedagogies, practices, and technologies, with attention to specific trends and research that are of critical importance to students, faculty, and staff at CU Denver. We are now opening our second funding cycle for AY 23-24:

  • Spring 2024 Cycle: Apply by October 23rd, 2023; funding available Jan 15th to June 30th, 2024.

This grant cycle, there will be around $20,000 available for dispersal in individual awards of up to $1000, distributed through professional development accounts.  Please note that faculty cannot use these grants to fund personnel such as Teaching Assistants (TAs) or Research Assistants (RAs). For further information please visit our website:
https://www.ucdenver.edu/tips/teaching-innovations/teaching-innovation-grant
Application deadline is October 23rd. 

UCDALI & Other Upcoming Events


UCDALI - Executive Committee Meetings are open to all campus faculty & occur the first Friday of each month from 11am-1pm.  Contact UCDALI for a Zoom link.

CFDA STEM is hosting its first STEM Sweet Swap, in honor of National STEM Day on November 8th, 2023. The CFDA will offer some sweets and encourages attendees to bring a fun sweet to swap with others.  This event offers a great opportunity to discuss STEM techniques with other faculty, receive service credit, and enjoy a tasty treat. All are welcome! This event will be held in the faculty hub on the third floor of the Learning Commons building from 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, and will follow an open house model (you do not need to stay for the whole time). For more information please visit: CU Denver Faculty Training and Events — STEM Sweet Swap (corsizio.com) 

                             Campus Resources and Info


Looking for more information on the faculty fellows and teaching enhancement grants that are now open through TIPS?  Take a tip & check here:
https://www.ucdenver.edu/tips/teaching-innovations

You know the old saying--"Follow the money."  Keep up with CU Denver Phase II Budget planning at:
https://www.ucdenver.edu/achieving2030/phase-2

Join UCDALI
UCDALI endeavors to support the working conditions, professional development, recognition and community connections of all Lecturers, Instructors, Research and Clinical faculty at CU Denver. We work in parallel with the Faculty Assembly, and shared governance in the school and colleges, to identify and address IRC faculty concerns, questions and challenges. We would love to hear from you! You can reach us at
elizabeth.pugliano@ucdenver.edu or ucdali@ucdenver.edu.

Spinrad, M. L., & Relles, S. R. 2022. “Losing Our Faculties: Contingent Faculty in the Corporate Academy.” Innovative Higher Education 47 (5): 837–854.


“Public universities have assumed business-minded practices and norms that more closely align with goals and values of corporations than social institutions charged with creating and disseminating knowledge.... This case study explores the experiences of part-time and full-time non-tenure track faculty from undergraduate colleges across a striving, public, four-year research institution midway through its ten-year plan to attain Tier I Carnegie classification status and rebrand itself as a "very high" research institution.”  Read more at…
 

“ChatGPT is a Plagiarism Machine: So Why Do Administrators Have Their Heads in the Sand?”  By Joseph M. Keegin.  In The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 23, 2023.


“…one of the most important recent developments in higher education, the November 2022 launch of AI chatbot text-generation technology, better known under the trademark ChatGPT. Its already-widespread use among undergraduates is presenting enormous challenges to faculty across the country.  We had students in our upper-level courses turn in essays written entirely by AI … but from what I’ve heard, even more of them will prompt the AI and then modify the answer themselves — I think that is already very widely used.”  Read more at…
 
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