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UVA has been awarded a three-year, $5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to build equity-minded, place-based educational and post-doctoral programs. In an effort to support these goals, the Office of Academic Outreach is making funds available to support community-engaged courses. Faculty members are encouraged to apply for funding to support courses that deploy place-based and community-based learning.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Race, Place, and Equity SARC SEM Courses. Due date April 18, 2022
The initial round of first year seminars funded by the Mellon Race, Place, and Equity grant 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.
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:
The Mellon Race, Place, and Equity grant supports development of undergraduate curriculum to foster 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 will 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 will help build an outward looking, public-service university.
The Mellon grant 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 (already filled) focus on Black studies, and the third on Indigenous studies. See the Call for Applications for the open position in Indigenous Studies.
Over the first three years of the grant, UVA will hire 30 Race, Place, and Equity Postdoctoral Fellows/Research Associates across a variety of schools and disciplines. Participating schools at UVA include the College of Arts and Sciences (Rising Scholars program), School of Education and Human Development, McIntire School of Commerce, School of Architecture, School of Law, School of Data Science, and the Frank Batten School for Leadership and Public Policy.
Announcing a tenure-track position in Indigenous Studies, and Postdoctoral Fellow positions in Race, Place, and Equity to begin academic year 2022-2023.
The Mellon Race, Place, and Equity grant will support hire of a total of 30 Postdoctoral Fellows and three tenured/tenure-track faculty members over the course of three years. These hires 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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In December 2020, the Andrew W.
The following UVA accessibility professionals support and encourage the addition/installation of hearing loop (induction loop) technology as the recommended assistive listening system (ALS) for large venues, auditoriums, classrooms, reception areas, ticket counters,
The project's goal is to provide accurate captions for as much recorded academic content as possible. To achieve this 99%+ accuracy, professional services need to be used. So what should be captioned?
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