Provost
ACC Academic Leaders Network Meeting
October 6th-8th at UVA. The ACC Academic Leaders Network (ALN) is designed to facilitate cross-institutional networking and collaboration among academic leaders at ACC Universities.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Provost Office Faculty Development Annual Report
Provost Office Faculty Development at UVA focused largely on leadership development and diversity, equity, and inclusion during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Brie Gertler
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Brie Gertler is Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy. The vice provost for academic affairs serves as a second-in-command for the provost and provides leadership and oversight of the core academic functions of the University.
Call for Proposals
Race, Place, and Equity COLA courses, fall 2023
DUE DATE: JANUARY 18, 2023
Course enrichment grants
In an effort to encourage long-term reciprocal partnerships between UVA faculty, students, and community partners, the RPE program is offering $2,000 grants to support courses that include a strong element of community engagement. Faculty members are encouraged to apply for funding to support courses that deploy place-based and community-based learning.
Call for Proposals
Faculty and staff from any school, department, or unit of UVA are invited to apply for a grant from the Office of the Provost to support a project aimed at improving institutional climate, equity, and diversity for faculty at UVA.
Development grants for community-engaged courses
Note: the application cycle will open again in spring 2023. In the meantime, the CFP for spring 2022 is below.
Call for Proposals for RPE First Year Advising Seminars
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Race, Place, and Equity SARC SEM Courses. Due date April 18, 2022
First Year Advising Seminars
The initial round of first-year advising seminars funded by the Mellon Race, Place, and Equity program took place in Fall 2021. Eight professors in various disciplines in Arts and Sciences, and three in the School of Architecture, worked alongside approximately 35 community members to teach 200 first year students.
Community Partners and Resources
Community Advisers
A foundational premise of the grant is that university faculty, staff, and students work with community partners in a reciprocal manner to further the equity-based missions of community groups, and provide UVA students with a variety of perspectives, expertise, and lived experiences.
We are grateful to our community partners for generously and actively helping us develop the programming of the Mellon Race, Place, and Equity grant. Read more about them and their work here:
Curriculum in race, place, and equity
The Mellon RPE program supports curriculum development that fosters nuanced understanding of the intersections of race, place, and equity. A series of Advising Seminars in the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Architecture introduce first-year students at UVA to local, place-based histories and legacies that have shaped the University and Central Virginia. Three-credit courses featuring community partnerships and place-based, community-engaged teaching help build an outward looking, public-service university.
RPE Faculty
The Mellon RPE program is providing start-up funding for three tenured or tenure track positions to contribute to the broader race, justice, and equity hiring initiatives at UVA. Two positions have been filled (see below); the third will address North American Indigenous Studies.
RPE Postdoctoral Fellows
Over the five-year grant period, UVA will hire 30 Race, Place, and Equity Postdoctoral Fellows/Research Associates across a variety of schools and disciplines to advance research, creative practice, and teaching related to race, justice, and equity. Fellows will carry out transformative, cross-disciplinary research; contribute to the understanding of the legacy of racial inequity using place-based methodologies for research or artistic expression; and strengthen existing initiatives that address issues of race, justice, and equity, particularly in North America.
Position openings
Our Postdoctoral Fellows will be hired over four application cycles, with the first cohort arriving in fall 2021.
Our application cycle for our third cohort of Fellows is underway. Check below for more information as these positions get listed.
You can read about the program and about cohorts one and two here.
Research and Teaching
The Race, Place, and Equity program will hire a total of 30 Postdoctoral Fellows and provide seed funding for three faculty hires over the course of five years. These commitments will foster groundbreaking research, publishing, and teaching from a new generation of equity-minded scholars, and will enrich the fabric of UVA’s faculty, research, and course offerings.
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