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Professional Development Grant Information
The CU Denver Provost’s office has provided funds to continue grants for the professional development of IRC faculty (IRC faculty—Lecturers, Instructor Track & Clinical Teaching Track Faculty) within CU Denver CLAS and Non-CLAS. In recognition of the importance for all faculty members to stay current in their fields through professional development, these grants will enhance the recipients’ contributions to the university’s mission as appropriate to their positions.
The fund will award grants of up to $1,000.00 each to the most worthy proposals for professional development by IRC faculty. Application deadline for 2021 grants is 5:00 pm Monday, March 29th, 2021.
For eligibility, procedures, contact information, and application, please click here.
“Failing at the Help Desk: Performing Online Teacher.”
By Aubrey A. Huber, (2020). Communication Education, Vol. 69 Issue 4, pgs. 464-479. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2020.1803379
“Drawing from critical autoethnographic accounts, I utilize performance as a method to examine individual and structural failures in the online classroom from my perspective as a contingent faculty member. I contend that online education structurally compels teachers into "help desk" positions. Drawing from staged conspicuous aesthetic performance, I examine how these positions perpetuate systemic inequity and foreclose opportunities to engage in critical communication pedagogy.”
“Faculty Members Are Suffering Burnout. These Strategies Could Help.” By Emma Pettit.
In The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 25, 2021.
"Faculty members are anxious and burned out. Juggling work and disrupted personal lives in the midst of a pandemic, they need help if they are going to remain — and flourish — in academe. The Chronicle recently released a special report, Burned Out and Overburdened, that explores how colleges can provide support. Here is a condensed excerpt from the report."
