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Brie Gertler is Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Commonwealth Professor in the Corcoran Department 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.
UVA has been awarded a three-year, $5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to build equity-minded, anti-racist, place-based educational and post-doctoral programs. One component will be a series of one-credit COLA/SARC Sem classes for incoming undergraduate students.
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. The inaugural RPE first year advising seminars included:
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 will introduce first-year students at UVA to local, place-based histories and legacies that have shaped the University and Central Virginia. Grant funding will also support production of a series of educational videos on aspects of UVA’s historical racial legacy and current cultural landscape.
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 an open Tenure-Track position in Indigenous Studies, and open 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,
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Captions/transcripts can be provided for both live and recorded events. The information below will focus on the provision of these resources for recorded audio/visual materials.
Often thought of only as a disability-related accommodation, captions and transcripts provide an enhanced means for engagement for many. Participants can gain from these resources by taking advantage of one or more of the following captioning benefits:
The benefits of captions are many. They include, but are not limited to, the following:
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