Call for Letters of Interest: Teaching Leaders CAIT

TEP and the Office of the Provost invite brief letters of interest from faculty teaching leaders willing to support their colleagues as we teach through the impacts of the COVID pandemic. In an effort to provide additional support, we will form a Teaching Leaders CAIT (Community Accelerating the Impact of Teaching) representing each school and college, as well as the three divisions of the College of Arts and Sciences. Fellows in this Teaching Leaders CAIT will build UO’s teaching support capacity by acting as bridges between central resources and their units, which will help to ensure the goals and concerns of their colleagues are met, understood, and reflected in TEP and UO Online offerings.  

Specifically, fellows would  

1. Help TEP and UO Online monitor a Q&A discussion forum for faculty in their area or host a weekly office hour in Zoom;  
2. Offer a Course Tour in which they share some of their own remote teaching choices in a 30-minute Zoom interview hosted by TEP;  
3. Allow colleagues to observe a Zoom session or selected parts of their Canvas course; 
4. Attend ~six meetings as a fellows group during the academic year and 30-minute All Hands meetings every other week. (The Provost’s office convenes this All Hands group of faculty, administrators, teaching support staff, and IT experts to more tightly connect around the policy, planning, pedagogy, and technology undergirding our teaching during the COVID pandemic). 

Alternatives to these ideas could be own developed in conversation with TEP.  

We value a broad definition of “leadership in teaching” and welcome letters from all faculty committed to teaching excellence, as well as faculty who value connecting colleagues with additional resources and relationships. We know many of you are already doing some version of this work, and we are excited to partner with you.  

Fellows will receive $2K stipends for this leadership work. Interested faculty should write 1-2-page letters of interest due Wednesday, September 16 (extended) and note one teaching support need they feel or observe in their teaching context and one idea for how that need might be met. Please also mention formal and informal teaching leadership work you’ve already done (workshops attended, mentoring around teaching, membership in other CAIT groups or the Provost’s Teaching Academy, etc).

Letters and questions may be sent to tep@uoregon.edu.