Faculty Engagement and Development
Faculty Café
The Faculty Café is a great space to meet colleagues and collaborate or sip coffee and write or grade in collegial company.
FED Services
The FED offers services to promote, support, and foster a culture of excellence through comprehensive development of UH faculty.
FED Resources
The FED facilitates faculty connections to resources across campus useful to their teaching, research, and service mission.
FED Featured Events
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Sep 20 12:30 pm
Mastering the Craft of Teaching
The UH FED Mastering the Craft of Teaching series returns with new hosts Rebecca Forrest and Lisa Farmer on Monday, September 20th (12:30PM-2PM) with a discussion on Operationalizing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Classroom featuring teaching award winners: Donna Stokes (Physics), Leah McAlister Shields (Math), and Melanie Salome (English). The series will continue on the 3rd Monday of October and November with discussions on obtaining meaningful student feedback and sharing what helps our teaching thrive in the new, new normal.
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Sep 21 9:00 am
Faculty Write In Teams: Faculty Academic-writing Community and Training (FACT)
Meet with colleagues and spend time writing in the UH Virtual Faculty Cafe (Join code: q3g3hl8) “Write-in-teams” Channel. Write for 30 minutes take a 10-minute break and do it again. You can join the meet-up for 1 hour or 3 hours. Use your Cougarnet ID and log-in to access MS Teams online (through UH Access) or via your own device’s copy.
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Sep 22 11:00 am
Identifying Grant Opportunities Using PIVOT and GrantForward
Session 1: Identifying Grant Opportunities Using PIVOT and GrantForward
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
During this session, we will demonstrate the creation of profiles and custom grant opportunity searches in two funding databases, PIVOT and GrantForward. A short introduction into searching federal grant opportunities in grants.gov will also be given.
This 50-in-5 session is part of the Division of Research’s University Research Explained Series, developed to support faculty in a variety of research and innovation efforts. It is held in partnership with the Faculty Engagement and Development office.
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Sep 23 9:00 am
FED Virtual Open Faculty Development Office Hour
Pop in and ask a question or share a lesson learned about teaching, research, service, or faculty life in general. Faculty and the UHFED are here in the UH Virtual Faculty Cafe in MS Teams to support each other. -
Sep 23 12:00 pm
New Faculty Welcome to UH Research
The Division of Research invites you to our 2021 virtual event for new faculty. This welcome session will introduce incoming faculty to the UH research and innovation enterprise. The Division of Research can help you:
- Discover Funding Opportunities
- Prepare a Proposal
- Manage Your Grants and Contracts
- Comply with Federal Regulations
- File a Patent or Copyright
- License your Technology
- Launch a Startup
Virtual Event
Thursday, September 23
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Zoom Webinar
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Sep 28 9:00 am
Faculty Write In Teams: Faculty Academic-writing Community and Training (FACT)
Meet with colleagues and spend time writing in the UH Virtual Faculty Cafe (Join code: q3g3hl8) “Write-in-teams” Channel. Write for 30 minutes take a 10-minute break and do it again. You can join the meet-up for 1 hour or 3 hours. Use your Cougarnet ID and log-in to access MS Teams online (through UH Access) or via your own device’s copy.
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Sep 29 12:00 pm
UH Measurement and Evaluations Center Services Overview
What is MEC? The mission of the Measurement & Evaluation Center (MEC) is to improve the quality of education and programs on campus through comprehensive evaluation and assessment services to the UH community and local public and private organizations. MEC provides faculty/course evaluations, and scoring of departmental and course examinations. Additional assessment activities include institutional research, such as administration of staff needs assessment, student satisfaction, and student needs assessment.
MEC offers consultation and design of evaluation questionnaires. Learn more about these services and how to leverage them as a faculty member with the Director, Nia Soeharto.
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Sep 30 9:00 am
FED Virtual Open Faculty Development Office Hour
Pop in and ask a question or share a lesson learned about teaching, research, service, or faculty life in general. Faculty and the UHFED are here in the UH Virtual Faculty Cafe in MS Teams to support each other. -
Sep 30 11:00 am
Session 2: Identifying Grant Opportunities Using PIVOT and GrantForward
Session 2: Identifying Grant Opportunities Using PIVOT and GrantForward
Thursday, September 30, 2021
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
During this session, we will demonstrate the creation of profiles and custom grant opportunity searches in two funding databases, PIVOT and GrantForward. A short introduction into searching federal grant opportunities in grants.gov will also be given.
This 50-in-5 session is part of the Division of Research’s University Research Explained Series, developed to support faculty in a variety of research and innovation efforts. It is held in partnership with the Faculty Engagement and Development office.
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Oct 05 9:00 am
Faculty Write In Teams: Faculty Academic-writing Community and Training (FACT)
Meet with colleagues and spend time writing in the UH Virtual Faculty Cafe (Join code: q3g3hl8) “Write-in-teams” Channel. Write for 30 minutes take a 10-minute break and do it again. You can join the meet-up for 1 hour or 3 hours. Use your Cougarnet ID and log-in to access MS Teams online (through UH Access) or via your own device’s copy.