coe-staff: COE Weekly Vol 1 #3

[Randy Kamphaus]

Dear Faculty and Staff,



You may want to tune in to the panel discussion, Football, Race, & Leadership in the Time of COVID-19, October 25th 5pm-6:30pm for a conversation with UO Football student athletes Jordon Scott, Cam McCormick, Verone McKinley III, Cyrus Habibi Likio, and Tyler Shough With special guests: Robert Johnson, Head Coach of the UO Track and Field Program, and Joey Harrington, UO Hall of Fame quarterback. This event is moderated by our own Rhonda Nese, Assistant Professor of Special Education and Clinical Sciences. Check out the attached event flyer and tune in via Livestream: https://youtu.be/klOC6jDr2Yc.



Updates and Upcoming:

  *   Please take a look at the new COE statement against hate speech, found on our Governance Page<https://coedocs.uoregon.edu/display/governance/Student+and+Staff+Diversity+Resources>. Thanks to Dianna Carrizales-Engelmann for creating this rich collection of resources for faculty, staff, and students.
  *   The Center for Diversity and Community has scheduled fall 2020 implicit bias workshops and invite you to register and/or share with others. Here is the registration link to the Understanding Implicit Bias Workshops: https://uomytrack.pageuppeople.com/learning/addtodevelopmentplan/1933. The workshops will be held: Friday 10/23/2020 1-3pm and Friday 11/13/2020 1-3pm.
  *   As you likely know, a new Black Studies program was launched by the College of Arts and Sciences this year and is offering a minor in Black Studies. Interested faculty are invited to attend an open forum about this new program on Friday, October 30 from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. to hear more about the program, ask questions, and share suggestions.  Engagement in the program is welcome from any and all interested faculty members across the university and nominees will be sought for an advisory committee that will be formed for the program after this forum. One task of this advisory committee over the coming year will be to help determine the next Director of the program.



Reminders:

  *   I wanted to make sure you'd seen TEP's Teaching in Turbulent Times Toolkit<https://blogs.uoregon.edu/keepteaching/teaching-in-turbulent-times-toolkit/>, which includes practices that faculty and GEs can do now to lay groundwork that may serve classes well in the weeks ahead (developing expectations for class discussion, creating regular channels for reflection and emotional response, breaking down how disciplines approach problems to a shared set of questions). 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.” They're working on a new resource specific to the election now that will be the focal document for this event: Faculty Forum: Addressing the Election, Thursday, October 22, 4:00-5:00 p.m. Register here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/t.e2ma.net/click/4wnjtd/0l8k6rk/g6mqtu__;!!C5qS4YX3!VkCvUeyW9DVRq9HcjBQIPwYYQNVCRVAQ90eeV_Ia6Sc5r75FF6f99-mq9r16b5qM904$> . Join the Provost’s Teaching Academy to discuss strategies for teaching through a charged, divisive election season. Participants’ insights will be captured as part of a teaching resource that will be circulated to all faculty and graduate student instructors.
  *   The University Counseling Services is offering new student supports during this election season. Namely, there are offering three services: discussion groups, special Let’s (Tele)Talk hours, and two workshops.

  *   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 that week will likely be focused on how students are affected by the election.
  *   Also, you might have received information about their Let’s (Tele)Talk drop-in consultation program; they’ll be adding more hours that week where 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 Wednesday and Thursdays at 2PM. That particular week the Wednesday Stress and Anxiety Management workshop will have a focus on election stress along with our rotating Thursday workshop is called Post-Election Recovery.
  *   See the links below.

https://counseling.uoregon.edu/groups

https://counseling.uoregon.edu/letstalk

https://counseling.uoregon.edu/workshop<https://counseling.uoregon.edu/workshops>



Accolades:

  *   The Secondary Special Education and Transition Research Unit (SSET) was awarded the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition for Students and Youth with Disabilities (CFDA 84.326E) in collaboration with University North Carolina-Charlotte (prime), George Washington University, University of Kansas, University of Maryland, and Portland State University. It is a five-year technical assistance center co-funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs and the Rehabilitation Services Administration to support state special education and vocational rehabilitation offices to improve transition services for students and youth with disabilities through the use of evidence-based practices with an award of $20.5 million (UO – $3.1 million). SSET faculty serve in center wide leadership roles. Caroline MaGee serves as the entire Center project coordinator across all sites, Charlotte Alverson, leads the internal evaluation team, and Deanne Unruh, Co-Director, will co-facilitate leading the Intensive Technical Assistance activities. Congratulations to SSET!
  *   The Dean’s Student Advisory Board (DSAB) met this past Friday (thanks to Lisa Fortin and Dianna for hosting and arrangements). As usual, our students provided insightful suggestions, identified important challenges and gave me thoughtful feedback about all aspects of their student experience - from undergraduate to advanced doctoral students. We will begin sharing this information with department heads this afternoon and evaluating next steps. Thank you for suggesting students for this committee and much appreciation to our students for engaging fully in this voluntary service role. This year’s student members are: Eric Graboyes, Aaron Rothbart, Laurel King, Melissa Harman, Dylan St. Louis, Qi Wei, Jill Torres, Anna Cahn, Samantha Martinez, Yailedme Solano Guevara, Jazmine Ike-Lopez, Bobbie Bermúdez, Lorna Porter, Meliss Teter, and Ella Sembach.

Wishing everyone well,

Randy
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