coe-staff: The Weekly Vol. 4 #16

Wed May 3 17:40:03 PDT 2023

Dear COE community,

Happy mid-term/Week 5! I hope you are able to take a moment to acknowledge how far we've come this year and all we've accomplished together. The past few weeks have been especially busy for the COE Dean's Office as we're now able to plan for "longer term" priorities, projects, and initiatives. Earlier this week we learned the good news that our College of Education has been allotted three new tenure track faculty lines through the Institutional Hiring Plan (IHP)<https://provost.uoregon.edu/institutional-hiring-plan>. Soon we will begin the work of forming committees, working with our HR partners, and fully engaging in active recruitment of colleagues whose disciplinary expertise and backgrounds meet the needs of the COE. Searching for new faculty colleagues is a critical part of our growth plans and diversity goals for our community and requires thoughtful and coordinated efforts. I am thrilled that we have a chance to hire new faculty as well as continue searches that were not filled this year.

As we begin our longer-term planning, I'm pleased to share that all three department heads have agreed to continue their service in these roles. Thanks to Ben Clarke, Joanna Good, and Leslie Leve for their leadership to the COE! This year has been a year of change, and I look forward to continuity of leadership as well as ongoing and continuous improvement in our work. A goal of mine is to foster a climate that is supportive of growth and ongoing improvement. With a growth mindset we don't expect perfection nor do we shy away from supportive and caring feedback. This growth mindset represents a cultural shift in our college and represents an important step for inclusion, support, and care toward all members of our community. An openness to feedback and professional growth (without the feeling of "high stakes" evaluations) is critical to our efforts.

Thank you all for your contributions to our college, your commitment to our students, and your willingness to partner with me and each other as we pursue our goals - in the classroom, with our research, and with our community partnerships.

Warmly,
Laura Lee

Updates and Upcoming:

  *   Climate Survey College Discussions: Thank you to each of you who participated in the Climate Survey discussions that were held across employee groups last month. The next phase of these discussions will occur in individual departments and units and will center around the shared themes that emerged from the employee-group discussions. We appreciated your earnest and authentic discussions during those recent sessions and encourage you to engage wholeheartedly within your departments and units as we move into the next stages of refining these findings into actionable steps for our college.

Reminders:

  *   Doughnuts for Ducks: Please join your friends and colleagues at the College of Education's Doughnuts for Ducks this Thursday, May 4, from 11:00 am - Noon (or when the doughnuts run out!)  Stop by, grab a Voodoo doughnut and a cup of coffee, and say hi!  We'll be serving donuts out in the HEDCO Courtyard.

  *   Nominations for Associate Dean for Faculty Development: The Associate Dean for Faculty Development coordinates all faculty promotion and tenure processes and offers professional development activities that foster faculty success. Please nominate or self-nominate eligible faculty members for consideration. Please email your nominations to Dianna Carrizales-Engelmann (dcarriza at uoregon.edu<mailto:dcarriza at uoregon.edu>) by Monday May 8th. Eligible faculty for the Associate Dean for Faculty Development are tenured faculty with preference given to full professors.

  *   Welcome Dean McIntyre Social: Please join us in celebrating Dean McIntyre's appointment as permanent Dean with an ice cream social on Wednesday, May 10th from 1-2pm in the HEDCO lobby/Kendall Plaza.

  *   End of Year Faculty and Staff Meeting and Picnic: Please save the date for Friday, June 9th from 1:30-3pm in HEDCO 220 and zoom (link below) for the end of the year faculty and staff meeting. An agenda will be shared in advance of the meeting. In addition, following the meeting we will be holding an end of the year picnic from 3:30-5:30pm. More details will be shared closer to the date.
     *   Join Zoom Meeting

https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/94034150976?pwd=dnk3aFhTM3p3bWhYMlRoRkJRd2dSZz09
Meeting ID: 940 3415 0976

Passcode: 047504

Accolades:

  *   Our latest Faculty Spotlight is Stephanie DeAnda, Assistant Professor of Communication Disorders and Sciences. Read more about Stephanie and follow the series to learn something new about our COE faculty: https://education.uoregon.edu/our-faculty-and-staff#meet-steph

  *   Send me your staff/faculty accolades for inclusion in future Weeklys. Nothing is too small to celebrate!

Job Postings:

  *   Human Resource Generalist<https://careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/531721/human-resource-generalist>: Early Childhood CARES is seeking a detail oriented Human Resource Generalist to perform a variety of HR functions including recruitment, onboarding/offboarding, and training support. This position coordinates HR processes, manages transactions through the UO MyTrack talent system and performs various administrative duties in support of a growing Early Childhood Special Education program.

  *   Lecturer and Practicum Coordinator<https://careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/531678/lecturer-and-practicum-coordinator>: The Lecturer and Practicum Coordinator will provide instruction and academic support to graduate-level students in the College of Education, primarily in the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences (SPECS). Course content areas will focus on Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education Methods and clinical supervision.

Laura Lee McIntyre | Dean & Castle-McIntosh-Knight Professor (she/her)
University of Oregon | College of Education
230 Hedco Education Building | Eugene, OR 97403-1215
llmcinty at uoregon.edu<mailto:email at uoregon.edu> |  https://education.uoregon.edu<https://education.uoregon.edu/>
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