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  • Funding Opportunities

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    Funder: William T. Grant Foundation Title: Institutional Challenge Grant Important Dates: Opens 5/15/2025, Closes 9/15/2025 Award Amount:  $650,000 over 3 years Summary: The Institutional Challenge Grant supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Funder: Spencer Foundation…

  • Provost Memo on Optional External Impact Statement for Faculty Evaluations (Annual, Reappointment, Tenure, Promotion, Post-tenure Evaluation)

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    Attached memo outlines the option for faculty to include an External Impact Statement in their review materials for annual, reappointment, tenure, promotion, and post-tenure evaluations. This optional statement allows faculty to contextualize their professional activities in light of external challenges, such as disruptions to research, teaching, service, or student support. Including these statements supports fair and comprehensive…

  • Nancy Leech Published in Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice

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    Differences between EdD and PhD Programs: A Mixed Methods Study “The goal of this concurrent, equal status mixed methods study was to investigate the potential differences between EdD and PhD programs in the United States with the following overarching research question: Are there differences in EdD and PhD programs in schools that have both programs?…

  • Watch on Demand: Research: Creative Grant Seeking in a Challenging Landscape Webinar

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    “In today’s funding environment, many grant seekers cannot afford to invest all their effort towards one or two federal programs. Using examples based in real experience, this webinar illustrates how a combination of creative design and resourceful grant seeking — such as exploring foundations or clearly articulating impact — can give PIs promising pathways to…

  • Research Grants on Reducing Inequality

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    Funding opportunity by the William T Grant Foundation Deadline: May 7, August 6 (for Major Research Grants) and August 6 (Officer’s Research Grants) Focus: This program supports research to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the United States.

  • Save the Date! 2025 Future Teacher Expo

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    U Denver’s 23rd annual Future Teacher Expo will be held on Friday, October 3rd. If you’d like to participate, reach out to Will Whitworrth at william.whitworth@ucdenver.edu. Click here to learn more

  • Elena Sandoval-Lucero CoCEAL Keynote Speaker

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    Elena Sandoval-Lucero was the keynote speaker for the Colorado Coalition for the Educational Advancement of Latinxs (CoCEAL) quarterly meeting on April 11. Her presentation was titled Leading HSI Work in Uncertain Times. The meeting was held virtually as the original campus host was concerned about hosting DEI-focused events due to the current political climate. CoCEAL is a coalition…

  • Brad Hinson Invited to Quantum Teacher Externship

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    Brad Hinson has been invited to participate in a Teacher Externship Grant from the Colorado Department of Labor & Employment (CDLE). As an extension of a state investment in Quantum Computing and the recent launch of the K-12 Quantum Education Blueprint, the CDLE is sponsoring teacher professional development during Summer 2025. Brad will join Colorado…

  • HR Tip- Faculty summer contracts for 2025 are coming soon

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    Dear faculty: Summer contracts will be coming out soon (around mid-May).   Just a reminder of the faculty summer pay policies from the SEHD Pattern of Administration, copied below. Here is the link to the full Pattern of Administration:  https://wiki.cu.studio/handbooks/pattern_of_administration#faculty_summer_pay   Faculty Summer Pay Employees who are appointed for 12 months (Deans, 12 month research…

  • Robert (Bud) Talbot Published in Physical Review Physics Education Research

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    Is the Force Concept Inventory biased across the intersections of gender and race? “Research-based assessments (RBAs) allow researchers and practitioners to compare student performance across different contexts and institutions. In recent years, research attention has focused on the student populations these RBAs were initially developed with because much of that research was done with “samples…