LFS Today May 19, 2022

 News  

Teaching Theory Thursday – Chat Moderation

Having a chat moderator in a hybrid class can reduce your cognitive load by giving you one less thing to worry about while you are teaching. If you do not have the TA hours for this task, try deputizing a student to moderate for you.

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Toward More Equitable Faculty Service: Recommendations towards Recognizing, Valuing, and Making Service Visible at UBC

In this report, supported by UBC’s Equity Enhancement Fund, we examined how faculty service is understood, recognized, and rewarded in tenure and promotion (T&P) and merit/PSA at UBC, with a particular focus on the Faculties of Arts and Education. This study was undertaken as a response to concerns voiced by faculty members—especially those who are Indigenous, racialized, women, and otherwise equity-deserving—regarding a perceived lack of fairness, recognition, support, and clarity in how the service work they do relates to decisions regarding T&P and merit/PSA allocations.

Read here: https://mcusercontent.com/ba69b44b9be6b8f1ebcb607aa/files/e86e7e37-1351-3400-8ae9-7780af0dbbfe/Final_exec_summary_April12022.pdf

LFS Town Hall – Presentations are Available

The presentations from yesterday’s Town hall are now available for download.

• Larry Carson, Associate Director, Information Security Management at UBC: Presentation on Online security – Phishing and Multi Factor Authentication
• Karen Lee and Pia Lim, LFS Communications: Presentation on new LFS Branding and Templates available for faculty and staff
  • New PowerPoint templates and custom icons are now available on the intranet: https://my.landfood.ubc.ca/communications/brand-resources/

To access the presentations, click here (note that CWL is required):
https://my.landfood.ubc.ca/communications/lfs-community-meeting/

 Events  

June 8, 15, 29, July 6 – Anti-Racism in Teaching and Leadership STEM Faculty Cohort Workshops

Workshops are delivered in partnership with the Faculty of Applied Science, CTLT and the Equity and Inclusion Office.

Session 1: June 8, 2022 | 10:00am – 12:00pm PST  
Community Building & Grounding 

Session 2: June 15, 2022 | 10:00am – 12:00pm PST  
Power, Privilege, and Identity

Session 3: June 29, 2022 | 10:00am – 12:00pm PST  
Anti-Racism and Solidarity in Teaching &Leadership Contexts

Session 4: July 6, 2022 | 10:00am – 12:00pm PST  
Cohort Meeting

More information and registration here: https://apsc.ubc.ca/anti-racist-stem-faculty-cohort

June 14 – Future of Health

Canadian health care has major challenges as well as major opportunities—from ehealth and the recruitment and retention of workers, to funding constraints, data sharing and community-based care. Luckily, Canada’s tech community is made up of thousands of founders with solutions

On June 14, CityAge and Communitech will bring together leading health care organizations with healthtech and medtech innovators to discuss what problems we need to solve, and how to do it.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-future-of-health-tickets-334726625347

 Deadlines  

June 1 – Job Posting: Student Transition & Engagement Advisor Position

The Student Transition and Engagement Advisor is responsible for providing and assessing academic advising services, and supporting the development and implementation of programs that contribute to the academic success, personal development and retention of undergraduate students in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems (LFS). This role collaborates with the LFS Student Services team and students to design, maintain, and manage the online Canvas content and programming for LFS ROOTSS (Reach Out, Orientation, Transition and Study Skills), an online program that supports new students in their transition to and in their first-year in the Faculty.  To be successful in this role, an applicant must be interested in enhancing the student experience.  The closing date for this job posting (https://ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcstaffjobs/job/UBC-Vancouver-Campus/Student-Transition—Engagement-Advisor_JR7870) is 11:59pm on Wednesday, June 1.  We encourage all qualified candidates to apply.