Faculty Affairs provides development and support to help you thrive.
How we can better support students without exhausting ourselves in the effort. “In giving grace to our students and ourselves, we model for them how to adapt to a challenging circumstance and lead with compassion and kindness.” How to Give Our Students the Grace We All Need - Nicole Else-Quest,
Viji Sathy, and Kelly A. Hogan
Faculty Relations Corner: Imposter Syndrome
Dear Faculty Relations: Sometimes I feel like I don't know what I am doing, and it is only a matter of time until I am "found out." What can I do? - Feel like a Fake
Community is built on relationships. Shared Perspectives and Community Engagement, or SPACE,
is organized by Faculty from all different parts of campus and sponsors community-building events
for Faculty throughout the Academic Year. Invite a colleague to come with you.
All Faculty are welcome!
Upcoming Events:
October 6 at 12:30 in Imig Music, co-sponsored by the College of Music November 3 at 12:30 in the CU Museum of National History Bio Lounge
Light snacks and refreshments provided.
Thriving in the Classroom: Handling Challenges Register October 13, 8:30-9:30
Thriving in Community I: Identities on Campus Register November 10, 12-1
Thriving at CU: New Faculty Series
A monthly workshop series for tenure- and instructor-track faculty who are in their first three years at CU Boulder. Meet other new faculty and get your questions answered!
Participation in at least 8 Thriving at CU sessions over your first three years will earn you a faculty development certificate.
Upcoming Thriving at CU events:
Thriving in the Classroom: Handling Challenges – A panel of experts will share tips for instruction around common teaching dilemmas.
Thriving in Community I: Identities on Campus –Support for new faculty's knowledge of and access to community and affinity spaces for BIPOC, international, LGBTQ+, women, and other marginalized and intersectional identities.
Finding Purpose in Academic Service
For teaching- and clinical-track faculty, learn about finding the balance between teaching and service responsibilities, framed in terms of capitalizing on service to enrich one’s teaching career. Our panelists will touch on their own experience balancing teaching with progressively responsible academic service roles, identifying meaningful service opportunities that participants might not be aware of, and will offer concrete (and memorable) suggestions that participants may implement in their own approaches while teaching.
Presenters: Garrett Bredeson, Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies (PHIL), Janet Casagrand, Associate Teaching Professor (IPHY), Janet Donavan, Associate Teaching Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies (PSCI), and Janet Tsai, Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Chair (MCEN)
Supporting Survivors: How to Respond in a Trauma Informed Way to Someone who Discloses a Traumatic Experience
Traumatic experiences happen every day and CU Boulder community members are not exempt. This session focuses on skills that address how to respond to someone after they disclose a traumatic or life-disrupting event. How people respond matters and can impact healing, as well as whether the survivor will seek additional support. This session also includes information for responsible employees on how to comply with campus policy as it relates to their reporting requirements, and how to do this in a trauma-informed way.
Presenter: Jessica Ladd-Webert, LPC, Office of Victim Assistance
Managing Difficult Classroom Dynamics
This session will focus on effective classroom norms and managing challenging student behavior. Participants will discuss scenarios and responses to cultivate a respectful and inclusive classroom climate.
Presenter: Julie Volckens, Director of Assessment and Teresa Wroe, Senior Director of Education & Prevention, Office of Institutional Equity & Compliance (OIEC)
For teaching and clinical track faculty, this workshop focuses on balancing teaching with scholarly research, which most non-tenure-track faculty have no contractual incentive to conduct but improves one's pedagogy and enriches one's teaching career.
Panelists share their experience balancing teaching with staying current in scholarly research, identifying barriers, and offering suggestions that participants may implement in their own approaches to maintaining an active research agenda while teaching full-time.
Apply to be a mentor in the Research & Innovation Office's Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship for Diversity (CPFD) Program. The fellowship aims to enhance faculty diversity of CU Boulder by serving as a pipeline to tenure-track positions for researchers and scholars from a variety of backgrounds, races, ethnicities and historically excluded populations.
Mentors should be tenured or tenure-track faculty at CU Boulder. Apply by November 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.
