Continuing the efforts of the annual summer retreat, these invitation-only, 90-minute workshops give attendees the opportunity to do a deep dive into specific topics. Available exclusively to each year's cohort of retreat participants, the workshops occur four times throughout the academic year.
These lunch events will be held on a Tuesday or Thursday, noon-1:30 p.m. Food will be served.
Eligible faculty members will receive invitations to attend each session.
Keep an eye on this page for more information as it becomes available.
Upcoming Sessions
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- Spring 2024 Session
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Tuesday, February 27 - Focus on CV Review
Curating your CV(s)
Noon-1:30 p.m.
817 CL Conference RoomCVs have multiple uses: tenure and promotion, inclusion in sponsored project proposals, nomination packages for honorific awards, advertising your expertise to potential collaborators or people searching for experts. Since CVs have multiple uses, they have multiple audiences. This workshop will discuss techniques for building CVs accessible to those multiple audiences outside your immediate disciplinary circle.
Facilitators:
Shelome Gooden, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research in the Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Related Fields, and Professor, Department of Linguistics, Dietrich School fo Arts and Sciences
Mike Holland, Vice Chancellor for Science Policy and Research Strategies
- Fall 2023 Sessions
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Tuesday, October 10 - Focus on Innovation
From Ideas to Impact: Nurturing Academic Innovation in Higher Education
This workshop was designed to equip faculty members, across all disciplines, with knowledge, tools, and frameworks to transform their nascent ideas into viable projects, patents, new startups, industry partnerships, and other opportunities to transform research into meaningful societal and economic impact.
Facilitator:
Cecelia Yates, Associate Professor, Health Promotion & Development, School of Nursing
Thursday, December 7 - Focus on Teaching
Making the Invisible, Visible: Black Instructors and Labor in and Beyond the Classroom
Black instructors do essential work foundational to their student's sense of belonging and success; this work often goes unrecognized and undervalued. This labor manifests in emotional labor, DEI work and leadership, mentoring, and advising, among many other forms. This session explored how Black instructors carry invisible labor and offers strategies to navigate and document this invisible labor.Facilitators:
Aliya Durham, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, and Director of Community Engagement, Center on Race and Social Problems Faculty Affiliate
Sera Mathew, Director for Equitable and Inclusive Teaching, University Center for Teaching and Learning