Academic Affairs Newsletter - Message #19

IUPUI is full of places to go, things to do, and people to meet. In other words, IUPUI is a bustling campus with busy streets. To help reinforce safety at IUPUI, the campus recently launched Busy Campus Busy Streets–an awareness campaign designed to encourage drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, and scooter riders to be more aware of each other and learn how to responsibly share the road.

There are important measures we should all take every day to stay safe while traveling to and through campus:

• Slow down and obey all traffic and crosswalk signals.
• Use caution while traveling through parking lots and garages.
• Maintain a sense of situational awareness.
• Keep your eyes up and your phones down.
• Make eye contact with drivers, walkers, cyclists, and scooter riders. Just because you can see them, it doesn’t mean they can see you.
    

Please visit the new website and take the safety pledge on the Pledge Wall to do your part to help make IUPUI a safer community for all–busystreets.iupui.edu.

IUPUI is nationally recognized for its commitment to civic engagement and was recently recognized by Washington Monthly magazine as one of the 58 Best Colleges for Student Voting.

However, there is still much more work to do–and we need your help.

Civic Engagement, under the Division of Student Affairs, has launched a multi-pronged approach to increasing student registration and turnout rates. This includes:

• Regular voter registration tabling on campus.
• An event series focused on increasing voter literacy, including the IUPUI Mock Election, debate watch parties, a March to the Polls event with the Multicultural Center, and an Election Day HQ.
• A presentation series available on topics such as voter literacy, voter registration, civil discourse, and more.
• A new “Student Committee on Political Engagement,” which hopes to engage students in planning voter literacy programs and voter registration each year.
    

This is a student-centered effort by Civic Engagement Assistants (CEAs), who plan programs and provide presentations. If you are interested in requesting a presentation or collaboration for your students, please complete this form. Questions can be emailed to ude[dot]iupui[at]aecescc.

And don’t forget, the Indiana Voter Registration deadline is October 9!

Campus Awards recognize outstanding achievements of IUPUI faculty, staff, and students across all areas of IUPUI’s mission: excellence in teaching and learning; excellence in research, scholarship, and creative activity; excellence in civic engagement; and excellence in diversity, collaboration, and best practices.

Please carefully consider nominating a colleague for one of the many wonderful awards. IUPUI has remarkable faculty members who deserve to be recognized for their work. See our previous recipients to give you an idea of appropriate nominees. Contact the Office of Academic Affairs at ude[dot]iupui[at]aao if you have any questions regarding our nomination process.

The nomination process will open October 15 on the Academic Affairs website, where more information and details about each award can also be found.

On Friday, September 28, our Academic Affairs staff put down their pens and picked up some hammers and nails! Like many other offices on campus, the OAA team assisted in building a Habitat for Humanity home in the Indianapolis area. They worked alongside the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy installing windows and framing walls. While everyone worked up quite a sweat, there was no shortage of smiles and high-fives to go around. Great work to all who were involved!

The IUPUI Forum Fellows are excited to announce they are now accepting submissions for the new Virtual Forum Repository. The repository is a peer-reviewed online database of teaching materials that will serve as a point of reference of best practices for items like:

• Sample syllabi
• Assessment tools
• Technological innovations
• Classroom activities
    

The repository will also showcase other innovative curricular products created by teacher-scholars of all ranks and appointments from IUPUI, IUPUC, and IU Fort Wayne.

You may think you know John Watson, president of the IFC and professor of biology–but there’s so much more! Learn some fun facts about John Watson in the video below!

The IFC has a new way of being!

This academic year marks a major reorganization of the IUPUI Faculty Council (IFC). The council sought to increase the number of elected representatives, especially among the non-tenure track-faculty (NTT). However, we could not violate IU policy ACA-18, which states “voting participation must be structured in a way that reserves at least 60 percent of voting weight to tenure track faculty.”

After several iterations, we devised a plan that achieves these goals. The proposal passed unanimously this past March followed by the Constitution and Bylaws changes in April (passing with an 87 percent to 13 percent margin). The recent council elections resulted in NTT faculty being elected to represent their home units for the first time.

Hopefully, your school has already discussed whether to have NTT faculty serve as your elected representatives on the council. If not, I strongly encourage you to have that conversation. After all, we have a new way of being.

Contact IFC Leadership!

John Watson 
President of the Faculty
School of Science
Science (SL) 380A
Phone: 317-278-1366
Email: ude[dot]iupui[at]ostawcj

Jeff Watt
Vice President of the Faculty
School of Science
Science (LD) 270N
Phone: 317-274-4070
Email: ude[dot]iupui[at]ttawj

Have your voice heard!
Next IFC meeting: Tuesday, November 6, from 3 p.m.—4 p.m. // Hine Hall Auditorium. Stay for the State of the Campus address at 4 p.m. in the same location.

The IUPUI Mentoring Academy invites Letters of Intent for its next round of funding. Letters are due by October 15. Those submitting a Letter of Intent will be invited to a proposal workshop where Mentoring Academy Advisory Board members will advise on the development of full proposals.

Letters of Intent should provide an overview of the proposed project, including purpose, goals, and needs to be addressed; indicate the intended proposal track (see below); and should be no more than three pages in length.

Proposal Tracks

Track 1: Program

Schools may submit the following types of proposals with requests for funding up to $10,000.

1. Proposals from individual schools that have not yet received funding.
2. Proposals from previously-funded schools* for mentoring collaborations with at least one other school.
3. Proposals from previously-funded schools* to pursue a different group within the school (e.g., underrepresented faculty, non-tenure-track faculty, faculty of a different rank).

*Previously-funded school(s) will need to demonstrate significant progress and/or outcomes from their initial proposal(s) to qualify. Schools collaborating on a proposal must demonstrate mutual benefit from the partnership, address shared resources and activities, and provide a detailed budget.

Track 2: Recharge

Previously-funded schools may also submit “recharge” proposals for funding up to $5,000. “Recharge” grants may be used to fund:

1. Mentoring events/programming
2. Faculty professional development opportunities
3. Program assessment

  
Further information about full proposal requirements is available here.
If you have questions, please contact Tina Baich, director of faculty mentoring, at ude[dot]iupui[at]hciabc.

Held to honor and celebrate the successes of the 2017 Curriculum Enhancement Grant (CEG) awardees, the 2018 CEG Symposium will feature a keynote address titled Scholarly Teaching, SoTL, and Campus Conversations that Matter  by Nancy Chick, director, Endeavor Foundation Center for Faculty Development, Rollins College, and co-editor, Teaching & Learning Inquiry, Journal of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

The purpose of the CEG initiative is to provide faculty with support, time, and resources to implement projects designed to improve student learning and success as well as to enhance the conversation about scholarly teaching on campus and increase the practice of the scholarship of teaching and learning. The 2019 CEG Request for Proposals will be available at the symposium. For more information on the CEG initiative, go to http://ctl.iupui.edu/programs/CEG.

Attending the CEG symposium is especially recommended to faculty who may be interested in submitting proposals for CEG funding in the future, but all faculty are encouraged to attend. This event will take place on October 11, 2018. For more info and to register, visit the Center for Teaching and Learning website.

Need some funding for your research? The Woodrow Wilson Foundation and Course Hero are offering fellowships for both tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty members in the following fields:

• Humanities
• Social Sciences
• Math
• Physical Sciences
• Business
     

Four fellowships of $30,000 will be awarded to tenure-track faculty. This award includes $20,000 for a GA/TA and $10,000 for research and travel expenses. An additional four fellowships of $20,000 will be awarded to non-tenure-track faculty to advance their teaching. Applications for this fellowship are due November 9.

You can read about this fellowship further on the Woodrow Wilson Foundation website, or check out their handy flyer!

• Friday, October 5: Last Lecture by Eugene R. Tempel, Ph.D.
  
• Tuesday, October 9: Excellence in Research
• Saturday, October 27: 9th Annual Harvey Milk Celebration Dinner
• Monday, October 29: Dossier Prep
• Tuesday, November 27: Mentoring Academy Symposium

  

Bookmark our Academic Affairs Events Listing to view and register for all upcoming workshops, trainings, and important events that pertain to YOU!

• Chancellor Paydar will deliver the 2018 State of the Campus address on November 6. Don’t miss the chancellor sharing major milestones from our first 50 years as a campus and ground-breaking achievements we’ve accomplished in this past year! The address will take place at 4 p.m. in the Hine Hall Auditorium. 

• Need to contact the Office of Academic Affairs with faculty affairs questions? Use our new email address (ude[dot]iupui[at]rhdaca). We’re always happy to help you!