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Terry Favero

Work Life Integration—Designing a Meaningful Career for Faculty and Staff

The Center for Teaching and Learning and the Faculty Welfare Committee invite all faculty and staff to participate in an interactive workshop on work-life integration on Wednesday, January 11, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in Franz 120. Faculty and staff are the most prized and creative assets of any higher education institution. Yet over the past three years public health, enrollment challenges, and faculty and staff transitions  have increased the strain on faculty and staff, impacting morale and job satisfaction. In this multi-part, interactive workshop faculty will discuss several case studies, conduct a personal and professional inventory, and outline steps to take to achieve short-and long-term goals towards planning for a more intentional and meaningful career.  

Seats are still available so please RSVP to Terry Favero (favero@up.edu) to save a space.

Work Life Integration—Designing a Meaningful Career

The Center for Teaching and Learning and the Faculty Welfare Committee invite all faculty and staff to participate in an interactive workshop on work-life integration on Wednesday, January 11, from 10:00 p.m. to 12:00 p.m. in Franz 120. Faculty and staff are the most prized and creative assets of any higher education institution. Yet over the past three years public health, enrollment challenges, and a transition of faculty demographics have increased the strain on faculty and staff, impacting morale and job satisfaction. In this multipart, interactive workshop, faculty will discuss several case studies, conduct a personal and professional inventory, and outline steps to take to achieve short- and long-term goals towards planning for a more intentional and meaningful career.  

Seats are limited so please RSVP to Terry Favero (favero@up.edu) by December 20 to reserve a space. 

Difficult Conversations in an Inclusive Classroom Lunch Discussion (Nov. 9) 

All faculty are invited to attend a discussion, with lunch included, about challenging classroom discussions on Wednesday, November 9, from 12:20 p.m.–1:30 p.m. in the Teske Room of Bauccio Commons. With a student body diversifying at a pace much faster than faculty demographics, along with students wanting to connect classroom experiences and content to present day phenomena, we are likely to encounter socially challenging or politically charged topics in classroom discussions. How we manage those discussions, however, can impact how useful the conversations are to our instructional goals. In the first lunch workshop we will hear from Molly Hiro, Ross Hanig, and Isabelle Soule as they share stories from their own experiences. In addition, we will discuss frameworks for how to prepare, manage, and follow up on those discussions to support more effective learning.  

Seats are limited so please RSVP to Terry Favero (favero@up.edu) by November 3 to reserve a space.

Center for Teaching and Learning Invites Applications for the Inclusive Teaching Scholars Program (Due Oct. 28)

All full-time faculty members are invited to apply for the Inclusive Teaching Scholars Program. This program seeks to identify and support at least one person from each academic unit for a total of 5 or 6 scholars who would function as a cohort. Individually, Scholars will undertake or enhance an inclusive pedagogical project in areas that may include: inclusive classroom strategies, assignments/activities/assessments that support diverse student perspectives and/or the development of or utilization of learning materials from underrepresented scholars. Collectively, they will support each other, our campus enterprise, and serve as the conduit between the CTL and each academic unit for all things under the inclusive teaching umbrella. Scholars will be compensated $1,000 for participation in the year long program. Applications are available here and are due October 28. Email favero@up.edu with questions or call Terry Favero, at x7373.

Need Promotion Help? Ask SOPHIA

As part of the SOPHIA mission to support senior faculty development, a new program is being implemented to match faculty who are seeking promotion to professor or submitting files for post tenure review with faculty who have successfully gone through the promotion process and are willing to read and respond to promotion files, according to Terry Favero, biology. Faculty who are seeking promotion and would like to receive feedback on any aspect of the promotion dossier are asked to contact Favero at x7373 or favero@up.edu by October 23. please let us know. Senior faculty who are willing to volunteer and assist in this process are asked to contact Favero as well.

SOPHIA is a faculty engagement program, charged by the provost to explore and provide faculty development opportunities for senior-level faculty.

 

Congratulations to 2017 Faculty Award Winners

The University’s Faculty Awards were presented on Tuesday, May 9, at the Faculty Awards Dinner, with the following results:

  • The James Culligan Award, established in 1953 in memory of a dedicated servant of the University and presented annually to a faculty member in recognition of distinguished service, was presented to Terry Favero, biology (pictured). Winners of the Culligan Award wear the medal with their academic regalia, as a sign of the University’s highest faculty honor.
  • The Deans’ Award for Faculty Leadership, presented annually to a tenured faculty member who exemplifies, in an extraordinary way, the qualities of teaching and scholarship described in the University’s Articles of Administration for appointment, advancement in rank, and tenure, was presented to Tisha Morrell, education.
  • The Outstanding Teaching Award, presented annually by the University’s Committee on Teaching and Scholarship to a faculty member who is a particular exemplar of the University’s commitment to superb teaching, was presented to Molly Hiro, English.
  • The Outstanding Scholarship Award, presented annually by the University’s Committee on Teaching and Scholarship to a faculty member who presents unusually significant and meritorious achievement in professional scholarship during the past two academic years, and whose work substantively enhances the effectiveness of his or her classroom teaching, was presented to Maximilian Schlosshauer, physics.
  • The inaugural Faculty Award for Outstanding Service, presented annually by the Committee on Committees to a faculty member “who engages in creative service work that transforms not only local communities but also those afar and acknowledges distinguished contributions that express the University’s commitment to responding to the needs of the world,” was presented to Alice Gates, sociology and social work.

For more information contact the provost’s office at 7105 or provost@up.edu.

Need Help with Promotion Dossier? Ask SOPHIA

favero-copyAs part of the SOPHIA mission to support senior faculty development, a new program is being implemented to match faculty who are seeking promotion to professor with faculty who have successfully gone through the promotion process and are willing to read and respond to promotion files, according to Terry Favero, biology. Faculty who are seeking promotion and would like to receive feedback on any aspect of the promotion dossier are asked to contact Favero at x7373 or favero@up.edu by October 14. please let us know. Senior faculty who are willing to volunteer and assist in this process are asked to contact Favero as well.

SOPHIA is a faculty engagement program, charged by the provost to explore and provide faculty development opportunities for senior-level faculty.

 

Laura McLary Named Oregon Professor of the Year

mclary150Laura McLary, international languages and cultures, was named Oregon Professor of the Year by the national Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the international Council for the Advancement and Support of Education on Thursday, November 19.

The award committee cited McLary’s innovation and dedication to teaching international languages, highlighting her leadership in growth of the University’s German language program. Most of McLary’s students participate in the University’s study-abroad program in Salzburg, Austria, where she studied as an undergraduate student.

McLary has taught German at UP since 1999 and served as chair of the international languages and cultures department from 2004-07. Prior to coming to UP, she was a professor of German at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss., for three years. She earned both a Ph.D. and master’s degree in German language and literature from University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned a bachelor’s degree in German and international studies from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

Previous UP professors who have been recognized by the national organization include Kate Regan, who was named National Professor of the Year; Becky Houck, Terry Favero and Karen Eifler, who were all named Oregon Professor of the Year.

For more information contact marketing and communications at x7202 or mktg@up.edu.

Graves Award in the Humanities for Alexandra Hill

hill copyAlexandra Hill, international languages and cultures, has been awarded an Arnold L. and Lois S. Graves Award in the Humanities. This competitive award, offered biennially, is “intended to encourage and to reward outstanding accomplishment in actual teaching in the humanities by younger faculty members.” The Graves Awards are administered by Pomona College under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. The award recognizes excellence in teaching, and the funding that accompanies it is designed to help with research-related expenses. This award will help Hill begin a new project investigating the museumification of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the months leading up to the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an experience that will support her course GRM 353, Remembering Divided Germany.

For more information contact Terry Favero, associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, at 7373 or favero@up.edu.