coe-staff: COE Weekly Vol 1 #2

Wed Oct 14 08:26:38 PDT 2020

Dear Faculty and Staff,

The first and second bullets of the Weekly provides faculty resources for helping students, and all of us, navigate the current societal challenges and the upcoming election season. The October 22nd forum and the Teaching in Turbulent Times Toolkit are especially relevant aides for conducting our classes, supporting our students, and one another.

Updates and Upcoming:

  *   Join the Provost’s Teaching Academy to discuss strategies for teaching through a charged, divisive election season in this faculty forum, Thursday, October 22nd, 4:00-5:00pm. Participants’ insights will be captured as part of a teaching resource that will be circulated to all faculty and graduate student instructors. Register here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/t.e2ma.net/click/4wnjtd/wir20g/g6mqtu__;!!C5qS4YX3!VAuVRpliX0XZ0EO6be9cwb9F_MrBZf16YeYPEY1A8cmUaGxf59C9rdGjCc3MoSQv$> for the forum. TEP offers guidance on supporting student learning within our current social and political context, especially considering remote and online modalities, in its Teaching in Turbulent Times Toolkit<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/t.e2ma.net/click/4wnjtd/wir20g/wynqtu__;!!C5qS4YX3!VAuVRpliX0XZ0EO6be9cwb9F_MrBZf16YeYPEY1A8cmUaGxf59C9rdGjCVISjivF$>. The toolkit offers this directly about the election: “Think about how the election might influence the ways students will engage with your class content in the weeks or days leading up to Nov. 3, and afterwards. If related, it might be useful to connect class content or goals explicitly with the election and the issues at stake. Even if your course has no apparent relation to the election, it may be helpful to have a contingency plan in place for the first few days after Nov. 3. For instance, at the beginning of the first class after election day, it might be appropriate to provide students with a short moment of reflection, perhaps using a set of guided prompts<https://blogs.uoregon.edu/keepteaching/files/2020/05/Turbulent-Moment-Reflection-Prompts.pdf>, before you move forward in the usual way; or, you might consider building on a moment of student reflection by facilitating a deeper discussion that connects the work of the class with the election.  At the very least, a simple acknowledgement of the election and its stakes—and being prepared to be flexible concerning due dates and your schedule—can be helpful. “
  *   In addition to the Provost’s Teaching Academy and the TEP Toolkit, the University Counseling Services is offering a few programs for student support during the election. Namely, there are three things that they’re offering: our discussion groups, special Let’s (Tele)Talk hours, and two workshops.<webextlink://Namely,%20there%20are%20three%20things%20that%20they’re%20offering:%20our%20discussion%20groups,%20special%20Let’s%20(Tele)Talk%20hours,%20and%20two%20workshops.>
     *   The five student discussion spaces they’re offering this year are support groups for some of our marginalized student communities (i.e., LatinX/Undocumented, International students, ADPI students, Black students, and gender expansive students). They’re weekly drop-in groups, so they imagine that week will be focused on how students are affected by the election.
     *   Also, you might have received information about the Let’s (Tele)Talk drop-in consultation program; they’ll be adding more hours that week where the UCS staff will be available for students to talk individually to UCS staff members to get support around the election.
     *   Last but not least, they offer weekly Wellness Workshops on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 2PM. That particular week the Wednesday Stress and Anxiety Management workshop will have a focus on election stress along with their rotating Thursday workshop - Post-Election Recovery.
  *   Following faculty discussion, the COE has finalized its list of essential department services and submitted the list to the Office of the Provost. Department committees on equity and inclusion were retained, college-level committee service was considered in terms of critical content, and content that required faculty input was prioritized. Departmental services that have been defined as essential for AY20-21: COE curriculum committee, Faculty personnel committees (TTF and Career Track), Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee and related activities, Dean’s Student Advisory board, Department Head Council, and Consortium for the Improvement of Professional Education. Services that have been deemed by the faculty as non-essential for this academic year include the following: Scholarship committee (can be replaced by internal review), Faculty and staff awards committee (can be replaced by internal review), Doctoral research awards committee (can be replaced by internal review), Research and Outreach Committee (Fall hiatus), Faculty Advisory Committee (All year), Policy review committee (Fall hiatus), Faculty annual reviews not required by the CBA, Peer teaching evaluations, unless needed for upcoming promotion or major reviews (peer teaching evaluations are optional this year per OtP), Some external service to the profession as faculty deem appropriate (e.g., convention program committees, professional society service committees, etc.). In addition, the Scholarship committee, faculty and staff awards committee, and doctoral research awards committee will be reevaluated following the present crisis to determine the best approach moving forward.

  *   In preparation for the forum mentioned in the last Weekly, “Academic Freedom and Vulnerability in the Era of Remote Teaching and the New Hong Kong Security Law”  via zoom: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/94010825940?pwd=eXk2RXZpWHovcGtCR3MvZXBKbGhKUT09<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/uoregon.zoom.us/j/94010825940?pwd=eXk2RXZpWHovcGtCR3MvZXBKbGhKUT09__;!!C5qS4YX3!Uxl3zUn4t_0n59FbpTvlJkcqEcBxvtPfeZ0MmqKOgJxL9LOkEIIJ_JDGlbWMregzw60JbA$> ) on Friday, October 16th at 3 PM, I would like to call to your attention to an article I found very timely: Karen Fisher, Instruction Under Surveillance (Chinese Students), Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 September 2020 https://www.chronicle.com/article/instruction-under-surveillance. Please feel free to circulate the forum details to any interested faculty and graduate students that may have an interest in attending the forum.
  *   Please consider joining the Office of the President and Division of Equity and Inclusion for the African American Workshop and Lecture Series. The first speaker is Honorable Eric Holder who will be presenting on Defending Democracy on October 20th from 12pm-1:15pm. Eric Holder<https://www.justice.gov/ag/bio/attorney-general-eric-h-holder-jr> is an internationally recognized leader on a broad range of legal issues and a staunch advocate for civil rights. He served in the Obama Administration as the 82nd Attorney General of the United States from February 2009 to April 2015, the third longest serving Attorney General in U.S. history and the first African American to hold that office. You can find more information on the series, speakers, and the registration link here. <https://inclusion.uoregon.edu/2020-2021-african-american-workshop-and-lecture-series>
  *   The Division of Global Engagement is offering four new First-Year Engagement Programs<https://international.uoregon.edu/first-year> to give students an academic connection to the university, with an emphasis on academic skills, career, and professional development.  We would be grateful if you could please share this information with students. These include:
     *   Corona Corps Join UO in leading the charge to contain the spread of COVID-19 in our community.  Join the Corona Corps.<mailto:Join%20the%20Corona%20Corps.>
     *   Success in Online Learning Learn all of the skills necessary for online learning in one flexible asynchronous platform. First year and transfer students are automatically enrolled in the learning modules. Students can login here.<https://community.uoregon.edu/courses/17754>  For more information contact ellyvan at uoregon.edu<mailto:ellyvan at uoregon.edu>
     *   Seminar Series: Local Perspectives on Global Issues Engage in small groups with UO faculty, graduate students, and experts from around the world to discuss key issues facing our global and local communities. Register here.<https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/21b3052879f24876a951a9598f943e46> For more information contact williamj at uoregon.edu<mailto:williamj at uoregon.edu>
     *   Get Ready for Your (Global) Career Be strides ahead of your peers as you build foundational skills for career competitiveness in a global context.  Register here.<https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/741f3b5d4ee641b0a941384eb1f15b54>  For more information contact yzhang1 at uoregon.edu<mailto:yzhang1 at uoregon.edu>

Reminders:

  *   A reminder of the SDS Network Invited Colloquium on Friday, October 16th from 1:30pm-3pm will feature Dr. Elizabeth Shriberg. Her topic will be “Deep Learning for Predicting Depression and Anxiety from Spoken Language. Please RSVP. <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bx4862NYcmcnNg9__;!!C5qS4YX3!Uxl3zUn4t_0n59FbpTvlJkcqEcBxvtPfeZ0MmqKOgJxL9LOkEIIJ_JDGlbWMrehxqzkeRg$>
  *   Please submit any final nominations for the college DEI committee by today, Wednesday, October 14th. Please nominate (self or other), using the following link: COE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee Nomination<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aY7KXQ1kODHQ4xT__;!!C5qS4YX3!WU3UI53JPSvxlvbqUYHU5Hhw5wMEUCgcUfBi8hKTFgaa5GcHx0a7RNdznP2W7qGfQA$>. If you are nominating someone other than yourself, in addition to submitting their name via the survey, please also let your nominee know that you are submitting their name so that they can submit this survey on their own behalf.

Accolades:

  *   Kudos, props, and generous praise to all in our college for their perseverance and mutual understanding. Thank you!

Randy

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