Faculty Affairs provides development and support to help you thrive.
Tips on how to grade student essays efficiently and with integrity. “You can’t avoid it anymore: students have submitted their papers, and now you have to read, comment on and grade them. How can you give good feedback yet,
at the same time, avoid overworking yourself?"
- Daniel Cole,Tackling the Stack
Faculty Relations Corner: Amorous Relationships
Dear Faculty Relations: There has been headline news about the reckoning of office romances. Is it okay to date someone in my unit? – Interested in a relationship
Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue
Learn how to hold difficult conversations. Based on the national best-selling book Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when the Stakes are High, the Crucial Conversations course teaches participants to speak persuasively, not abrasively; foster teamwork and better decision making; build acceptance rather than resistance, and resolve individual and group disagreements. RegisterJune 7, 9, 14 & 16, 9-1 each day
Allyship: Advancing Diversity and Inclusion
In this session, participants will learn how to define and leverage their allyship and walk away with a template to help guide their learning and steps for action. After attending this event, the learner will be able to define allyship, explain the importance of allyship, identify and apply effective ally behaviors, and reflect on the impacts of their allyship. There is no cost for this training. RegisterJune 14, 10-11:30
Crucial Conversations for Accountability
Building on the skills taught in Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue, Crucial Conversations for Accountability teaches a step-by-step process for identifying and resolving performance gaps, strengthening accountability, eliminating inconsistency, and reducing resentment. Completion of "Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue" is required prior to taking Crucial Conversations for Accountability. RegisterAugust 2, 3 & 4, 9-11:30 each day
ASSETT Course Design Three Day Workshop Whether you are looking at teaching a new course or wanting to update an existing course, we are offering a three-day workshop in May to cover course design foundations of pedagogy, technical tools/skills, and research-informed practices. RegisterMay 17, 18, & 19, 1-3 each day
RIO Travel Grants: Open Deadline
The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) Travel Grant program provides travel funding for faculty to meet with extramural sponsors. The goal is to facilitate relationships between CU faculty and sponsors to increase the research, creative work, and scholarly enterprise of CU Boulder. Award amount: Up to $1,500
Faculty & Staff Assistance Program
The “Shifting Phenomenon": Impact Among Black Women and Other Women of Color
Helping black women and other women of color manage the shifting phenomenon will increase the awareness that shifting can be used as a tool to acknowledge their authentic selves, and the complexity of intersecting identities, ultimately producing mental wellness. RegisterMay 12, 12-1
Faculty Relations offers individualized, confidential consultations free of charge to ALL faculty.
We can consult on specific aspects of your workplace, including but not limited to managing professional relationships and conflict resolution. We can coach you and work with you
to help you enact positive, productive strategies for addressing work-related problems.
When needed, we can also quickly connect you to appropriate campus support and resources.
