ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE AND LEADERSHIP:

- Vice-Provost for Faculty Programs and Academic Quality 2002-2003
- Assistant Provost, Academic Affairs, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2000-May 2002

Vice-Provost for Faculty Programs and Academic Quality 2002-2003
This position is one of 3 major leadership positions in the Provost’s Office. This Vice-Provost works closely with the Provost and other Vice Provosts to ensure the institutional commitment to life-long learning and the recognition that student learning outcomes are integral to every activity of the Office of the Provost. This individual functions as the institutional CKO (Chief Knowledge Officer).

Significant Civic/Collegiate Leadership Roles

•  Faculty Advocate for Project Alianzas (enhance the ability of Missouri communities to collaborate with the growing Latino population through a Latino, university, and community partnership). 2003-04.

•  Artistic Advisor/Liaison for Kansas City Stravinsky Festival (Kansas City Symphony, Kansas City Ballet, Kansas City Opera and UMKC Conservatory of Music). 1999-2001.

•  Co-Chair (with the CEO of the Metropolitan Arts Council of Kansas City) Arts and Culture Sub-Group of the UMKC Urban Mission Task Force (leading to the establishment of UMKC's Center for the City). 1999-2000.

•  Founding Member, UMKC Charter School Committee (one of two at-large faculty), to review the first applications and establish Charter Schools in Kansas City , sponsored by UMKC. 1997-98.

Campus Initiatives and Administration:

•  Convocation/Day of Learning 2002 original concept, logistics, facilitation, assessment, and coordination--changed the format of Convocation , initiated the first community reading , and sponsored the first campus-wide Day of Learning;

•  New Faculty Interactive Orientation ;

•  Academic Hiring —signing all academic Personnel Action Forms (PAF's) and extra compensation forms;

•  Academic Course changes and approvals —final signing authority for course changes and additions;

•  Transformation in Higher Education Workshop (May—sponsored this for 3 years in a row, partnering with UMKC's Center for the City, 2002 and 2003);

•   Introduced UMKC's first Professional Development sessions for Department Chairs;

 

• Organized, assessed, and managed the entire UMKC Promotion and Tenure Process;

 

• General Education facilitator with Deans and contact for UM System and CBHE/COTA (Coordinating Board for Higher Education and the Council of Transfer and Articulation) 42-hour Gen. Ed. matrix ;

•  Supported and facilitated Faculty Roles and Rewards Committee;

•  New Faculty Breakfast/Development session (November);

•  Hosted, assessed and sponsored 2-campus wide Promotion and Tenure informational sessions for tenure-track faculty;

•  Faculty Development —host/planner/facilitator for 22 events throughout the year to support best practices in learning and teaching;

•  Academic Affairs Liaison with Student Affairs; Registrars Office; Strategic Enrollment Management Task Force; Summer New Student Orientation; NSSE --National Survey of Student Engagement; Diversity in Action;

•  Introduction and application of an “Early Feedback” mid-semester assessment for UMKC professors in conjunction with the Project for Excellence in Teaching at UM-Columbia ;

•  Developed the first Provost's web site and kept academic policy information up to date;

•  Coordinator/facilitator of Lumina Grant from AAHE to send a team to the DEEP/NSSE Conference at the AAHE 2003 Summer Workshop;

•  Established UMKC's first developmental Faculty Resource Room (for learning, teaching and faculty roles and rewards) in the Miller Nichols Library, Rm. 207;

•  Institutional Grievance Officer .

Civic/Community partnerships/linkages:

•  COMBAT Poetry Contest —UMKC host in conjunction with the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office of Drug Prevention (host/sponsor for 3 years in a row);

•  Academic Affairs liaison with Center for the City;

•  Board of Directors— Kansas City Professional Development Council (KCPDC) ;

•  Search Committee, Music Director of the Kansas City Symphony

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UM System   leadership and facilitation:

•  Program Director UM   New Faculty Teaching Scholars —3 off-campus retreats and 9 on-campus events for system-wide faculty development;

•  Coordinator of recruiting for UMKC's participation in UM President's Academic Leadership Institute;

•  UM System Reporting Strategies Task Force (authored the Academic Reporting document for the final report to the UM System VPs);

•  Program Viability Audit (drafted and designed UMKC approach/response to this initiative); Updated the UMKC Academic Planning document;

National representation:

•  Institutional academic representative, for AAHE/Carnegie Core/Cluster project CLASSiFY (assessing the effectiveness of the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching in the first-year student experience) led by Portland State and Univ. of Akron;

•  Campus contact and representative for Campus Compact ;

•  Great Cities Universities institutional liaison, from 2001-April, 2003;

Fiscal Responsibility: Faculty Development; Convocation/Day of Learning; Final signing authority for extra compensation, and all academic staff Personnel Action Forms (s&w).

Duties of the Vice-Provost for Faculty Programs and Academic Quality:

• Create a high performance team to directly support the leadership and vision that is projected and articulated by the Provost.
•Actively support UMKC’s mission and core values,
•Provide the grounding to fully develop high levels of scholarly activity, intellectual capital, and cultural assets of UMKC’s campus without borders—all within the framework of academic excellence.

The Vice-Provost for Faculty Programs and Academic Quality:

• provides leadership for the Promotion and Tenure process,
• articulate a vision and facilitation of faculty development and a superior
roles and rewards structure,
• supports excellence in undergraduate education,
• demonstrates a commitment for a dynamic and active program of continual student learning outcomes assessment

Functions and Responsibilities

The Vice-Provost for Faculty Programs and Academic Quality reports to the Provost and has major responsibilities related to the academic mission of UMKC. These will include:

•providing leadership in the realization of student learning outcomes,
•interacting with major employers to insure that UMKC students set new standards for superior preparation,
•creating the infrastructure necessary for successful collaborations.
•being a spokesperson for the Chancellor and Provost locally, within the state, and nationally.

Specific elements of the Vice-Provost for Faculty Programs and Academic Quality portfolio include:

1) Catalyzing the action that will transform higher education at UMKC while engaging Kansas City
2) Working with and inspiring faculty to embrace and imbue best practices in producing superior student leaning outcomes;
3) Demonstrating the understanding and ability to provide leadership and direction in the meaningful assessment and evaluation of the institution, it’s faculty effectiveness, and student success;
4) Participating as a transformational leader in strategic planning for UMKC and in building a high performance Office of the Provost;
5) Working with the UM System office in the realization of mutually beneficial linkages with other campuses;
6) Assuring that UMKC is a central participant and catalyst in the network of conversations in higher education;
7) Expanding UMKC’s efforts to weave diversity into the fabric of everyday life in the institution, while assuring that multiculturalism is central to the student learning experience;
8) Inspiring and supporting faculty, students, and administrators to use the world and community as their classroom;
9) Working closely with the director of the Center for the City and Missouri office of the Campus 10) Compact for the city to stand for innovative possibilities;
11) Building interdisciplinary opportunities within UMKC and between UMKC and other institutions.
12) Confronting directly and transforming any limiting factors into enabling mechanisms for scholarly/creative achievement and student success.

Assistant Provost, Academic Affairs, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2000-May 2002

Assistant Provost duties, 2000-01:

1) Theme leader for the Blueprint  project (transforming and reinventing higher education at UMKC) : A Community of Learners
2) Member of the PRIDE (faculty/staff roles and rewards) Blueprint Breakthrough Group
3) Member of the IVPAC (visual and performing arts) Blueprint Breakthrough Group
4) Member of Model Campus Living (creation of innovative residential living situations) Blueprint Breakthrough Group
5) Represent the Provost at meetings and functions upon request
6) Undergraduate curriculum and programs/general education
7) Co-Chair: MCC Transfer and Articulation Task Force with Mel Tyler
8) Co-founder University of Missouri New Faculty Teaching Scholars (New Faculty Teaching Initiatives—UM System , Paula Short)
9) Establishing Learning Communities at Twin Oaks
10) Liaison with Registrar
11) Liaison with Financial Aid,
12) Liaison with Admissions
13) Liaison with Student Life/Student Affairs
14) Champion--TLT Roundtable
15) Facilitator for Assessment/COPE reviews
16) Faculty Development
17) International Academic Programs
18) Liaison with Commencement
19) Liaison with University catalog
20) Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at UMKC
21) Founded and publish newsletter of the transition from Faculty teaching to student learning--Teyolcuitiani
22) Founded and publish monthly newsletter on Faculty Roles and Rewards—Scholars for a New Century
23) Lead faculty to site visits and conferences, germane to the national dialogue in higher education
24) Teach applied percussion (graduate level) in the Conservatory of Music
25) Maintain a reduced international/national performance schedule
26) Pre-Med Undergraduate Screening for A and S/SBS
27) Liaison to ITAC
28) Facilitator/Coordinator of new CBHE Transfer and Articulation Procedures
29) UMKC Representative to KCMSD HEP (Higher Education Partnership)
30) Staff member/coordinator of Conservatory Dean’s Search
31) Member of search committee for Director of Academic Development
32) Lecturer, World Music Course (CON 154). Two presentations on Mexican folkloric/traditional musical genres.
33) UMKC Representative for hosting the 3rd Annual COMBAT Poetry Contest, May 5, 2001 in White Recital Hall.
34) Chancellor Gilliland’s ‘point person” for the Stephen Ambrose Lecture, April 18, 2001. LK also inked the Community of Learners with Ambrose’s presentation.
35) Facilitator for A Community of Learners: Transformation in Higher Education Conference. Leader of process to identify and select 40 Meriwether Lewis Fellows and 20 Corps of Discovery members.
36) Production and sponsorship of new faculty breakfasts (Hospital Hill and Volker), and focus group at UMKC in the Fall of 2000.
37) Lead the organization of two convocation days during the academic year 2001-2002. Attract national level speakers/facilitators for audiences of UMKC Stakeholders.
38) Administrative liaison of EUROPA project (interdisciplinary initiative from the College of Arts and Sciences, and pending NEH proposal).