coe-staff: The Weekly Vol 2 #28

Wed Nov 3 16:00:59 PDT 2021

Dear Faculty and Staff,

Dr. Ben Clarke appointed Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)

I made the following announcement to the CTL employees and affiliated faculty yesterday. The CTL<https://ctl.uoregon.edu/> has over 20 full time employees in addition to numerous faculty affiliates, and the unit stewards a multimillion dollar research and development portfolio. Practical and well-validated products created and disseminated by the CTL staff and faculty include: KinderTEK, NumberShire, and Progress Monitoring-Spanish-Individual Growth and Development Indicators (PM-S-IGDIs). The CTL has a storied history and unlimited upside potential. I am eagerly looking forward to watching the CTL faculty and staff realize their potential.

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Ben Clarke, Ph.D., Associate Professor, as Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) for a three-year term beginning July 1, 2021. Ben has done an outstanding job of ensuring the continuity and growth of the CTL in a matter of months at the helm as interim director. He has stabilized CTL's fiscal status, retained personnel, and facilitated the development and submission of numerous grant proposals. Most important, Ben has garnered the confidence of all of us in his leadership and reassured all CTL internal and external stakeholders that CTL's future as a premier national education research leader is bright.

Ben is ideally qualified for this appointment. He has more than a decade of experience as a highly successful faculty researcher in CTL, three years of experience as a tenure-line faculty member in the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, and broad and deep experience as a director of federally funded research grant projects.

I have full confidence in Ben's leadership and look forward to watching your collective accomplishments unfold in the years ahead. I have high aspirations for CTL, grounded in my confidence in the CTL staff and affiliated faculty.

Please join me in welcoming Ben into this new role.

2022 Institutional Hiring Plan (IHP)

This year's IHP has been announced and the our participation in the process was discussed by our academic department heads last week. All documents associated with the IHP are attached to this email and available at this public website (https://provost.uoregon.edu/ay2022-23-institutional-hiring-plan). The introductory pdf document provides the following overview of the IHP:

  *   The 2022 Institutional Hiring Plan (IHP) will designate the tenure-track faculty searches that will occur in the 2022-23 academic year. The IHP will be developed through a collaborative process. This process begins with our faculty, involves discussion between the provost and individual deans, and concludes with feedback from advisory groups including the deans and the Provost's Faculty Hiring Advisory Committee*. There will be two types of proposals for this year's IHP: traditional and those tied to the Provost's Strategic Initiative on Environment or the Provost's Strategic Initiative on Sport & Wellness (see Evaluation Criteria section for details). The provost will then finalize and announce the IHP, which will detail all approved tenure-track faculty searches.
  *   All final decisions related to the IHP are the responsibility of the provost.
  *   Diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to the mission of the university, and as such are foundational in all of the work we do. As is reflected in the criteria section below, IHP proposals will again be expected to address diversity, equity, and inclusion, and will be evaluated on that basis.

Our department heads engaged in a robust discussion about our prospects for the upcoming competition. As a reminder, we were approved for only one TTF search in each of the last two years. I am committed to doing better this year, however, there was consensus that, given the low probability of success, submitting large numbers of proposals in the previous two years was not effective, nor respectful of the amount of faculty time devoted to proposal development. Accordingly, I plan to submit a maximum of four TTF IHP proposals to the Provost for university-level consideration.

EMPL Program Review

The process of reviewing EMPL programs and the department is continuing. I have held group meetings with EMPL full-time faculty (N=7), individual meetings with these faculty, one meeting each with academic department heads and COE deans, a meeting with the Faculty Advisory Committee, and two meetings with the Office of the Provost. I wish to express my gratitude to all faculty and stakeholders for engaging in this process and improving my thinking. After all, this process is disquieting because it was launched in response to lagging metrics. My goal is to provide some closure about future directions for the faculty, staff, and academic programs in the coming weeks - prior to new student admission season.

It was a beautiful day in Eugene, our students, faculty, and staff had great fun at the quarterly Doughnuts for Ducks event, and my preview of new drone footage collected by our communications staff portends stunning video for our website (see social media accolade).

I hope that each of you find some moments to enjoy the evening.

Randy

Updates and Upcoming:

  *   Save the Date for the Faculty and Staff Meeting: Please save the date for the faculty and staff meeting on Friday, December 3rd from 1:30-3:00pm. More details are forthcoming.

  *   UO COVID Vaccination Requirement Updated Process: On October 27th the University announced that due to additional federal vaccination reporting requirements, UO employees are required to take additional steps to verify their vaccination or exemption status. UO employees must complete the updated process by December 6, 2021, to ensure UO compliance. More information is available at: https://coronavirus.uoregon.edu/uo-covid-19-vaccination-requirement-employee-process. Please make sure you complete this process by the December 6th deadline.

Reminders:

  *   COE Equity and Inclusion Committee Newsletter: We hope that you were able to scroll through the COE Equity and Inclusion Committee Newsletter<https://conta.cc/3GHm1NJ> as it is full of relevant and inspiring information. A special thank you to Dianna Carrizales-Engelmann for her leadership of this committee.

  *   PD Recommendations: Thank you to each of you for taking the time to respond to the Professional Development model survey last month. As the committee works now to describe the implementation model of our professional development, we'd love to hear from you about any equity and inclusion professional development opportunities you may have experienced recently that you'd like to recommend for the college's extended menu of options. Please submit any PD recommendations here: COE PD Recommendation Survey<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5oNyTsxPTFtIygu__;!!C5qS4YX3!V2CEh9AhkmQcvTkir7PCISXf3T0KzZkF8sRJ5Cou0lJoRhXFZTAblqRTRdlQ_VSjqw$>

  *   Emerson Sykes recording now available: The African American Lecture Series recording from Emerson Sykes' October 26th session on "The Case for Free Speech and Racial Justice: Supporting Black activism on campus" is now available here https://inclusion.uoregon.edu/speaker-videos If you didn't get a chance to attend, the content is timely, comprehensive, and compelling with relevance across multiple audiences in the COE. We hope you get an opportunity to watch it.

  *   COE Equity Challenge reminder: We hope you are able to participate in all or part of  the COE Equity Challenge<https://blogs.uoregon.edu/coediversityequityinclusion/college-of-education-equity-challenge/>. The challenge will run from November 8th to December 9th, 2021.  The challenge is comprised of brief pre-curated readings, videos, and other engagement opportunities that allow participants to come together over shared topics in the area of equity and inclusion and to jointly process the material and what it raises for us using an intentional system of engagement.  Indicate your interest!<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2u8RM8kkhmTKpWC__;!!C5qS4YX3!V2CEh9AhkmQcvTkir7PCISXf3T0KzZkF8sRJ5Cou0lJoRhXFZTAblqRTRdl_D3y5eg$>

  *   Native American Heritage Month: In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, the University has shared some resources, reminders, and events that are occurring across campus. More information on opportunities for engagement can be found at https://inclusion.uoregon.edu/native-american-heritage-month

Accolades:

  *   The 2022 SIGCSE Test of Time Award<https://sigcse.org/programs/awards/> has been awarded to Connecting K-16 Curriculum & Policy: Making Computer Science Engaging, Accessible, and Hospitable for Underrepresented Students, authored by Joanna Goode. This award recognizes an outstanding paper published in the SIGCSE community that has had meaningful impact on computing education practice and research. Congratulations Joanna.

Joanna Goode. 2010. Connecting K-16 Curriculum & Policy: Making Computer Science Engaging, Accessible, and Hospitable for Underrepresented Students. In Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE '10). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 22-26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1734263.1734272

  *   Since the introduction of videos on Instagram (Reels) in August 2020 our COE Reels are trending towards an average of over 13,000+ views. Reels is the best way to target new students who are not following us. In the last 90 days, our overall Instagram content has reached a total of 1,123 followers and 15.6K non-followers (see below graphic).  A big thank you to our communications team, Juls Davis and Emily Barker, for their tireless work ethic.

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