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MOMENTUM
A Web Letter from the Office of the Provost - January 2021

By Mary Jane Chew

Focus on Faculty

Butler Center offers video panels, tools for best practices and spring semester events

The Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence has announced its spring semester programming for faculty and staff. All events continue to be held virtually and remain free to attend.  The full schedule of events is here.

Last fall, the Butler Center and the American Council for Education Women’s Network of Indiana (ACE-Women’s Network of Indiana) co-sponsored a virtual live town hall series focused on the many challenges faced by higher education institutions because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The panel session, “Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Research Productivity During COVID-19," was held on Oct. 28 and featured: Shalini Low-Nam, assistant professor, chemistry, Purdue University; Ella Ingram, associate dean for professional development, professor, biology & biomedical engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Tiffany Lyle, assistant professor, veterinary anatomic pathology director, Histology Research Laboratory, Purdue University.

The session is available here.

The final panel session of the series, “COVID and Self-Care: Individual and Collective Care,” was held on Nov. 4 and featured: Kristin Champa, vice president for advancement, Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis; Sharon Bowman, chair and professor, department of counseling psychology, social psychology, and counseling, Ball State University: Marie S. Morris, provost, Anderson University.

The session is available here.

The Butler Center also hosted a panel session, “Inclusionary Practices: Addressing Structural Racism in Higher Education,” on Nov. 13 that featured: Natasha Warikoo, professor of sociology, Tufts University; OiYan Poon, program officer, The Spencer Foundation.

The session is available here.

Finally, the COVID-19 pandemic and the protests for racial justice have affected people’s daily lives in profound ways. These effects will continue to have long-term impacts within academia. It is therefore essential to maintain a record – that is, to document the impacts faculty are experiencing in the three main areas of Discovery, Teaching, Learning, and Engagement. The Butler Center has developed some Best Practices Tools ( link below) which are intended as a guide for all tenure track/tenured faculty. Note these are guidelines offered by the Butler Center and not policy. A revised version of this tool will be created for nontenure track faculty. The Best Practices Tool #1 was emailed to all tenure-track/tenured faculty on Oct. 26, 2020 and Tool #3 was emailed to Clinical Faculty on Dec. 3, 2020.

Best Practices Tools #1 and #3: Documenting the Impact of COVID-19 on Faculty (tenure-track/tenured and clinical faculty).

The tools and Butler Center Director Professor Mangala Subramaniam are featured in a Chronicle of Higher Education article (12/10/20), “Teaching: How to Make Breakout Rooms Work Better,” by Beth McMurtrie. Chronicle of Higher Ed article (12/10/20). (Clicking on link may require login using Purdue Career Account).





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