Invitation to April 16, 2021 Faculty Forum: “Community-Based Instruction”
Dear Faculty Colleagues,
Please join us for our April Faculty Forum, taking place this Friday, April 16 at noon. This month we are discussing Community-Based Instruction. If you participated in our last DOLCE, in which we learned more about the UC Davis Aggie Square initiative, you will see how this coming Friday's event returns to the topic of community-situated instruction, even when presented remotely.
This coming Friday’s event will be a conversation featuring many speakers, including, we hope, you. We will also hear from some “plants” in the Zoom room, including Dr. Milmon Harrison, an Associate Professor in the Department of African American and African Studies. A dynamic speaker and favorite professor to many UC Davis students, Dr. Harrison will tell us about some of his public engagement and community outreach initiatives. Dr. Harrison has recently been named one of four inaugural recipients of the Chancellor’s Fellowships for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
We will also be joined Friday by Catherine Brinkley, VMD, PhD, MS, Associate Professor from the Community & Regional Development program in the Human Ecology Department. Dr. Brinkley will discuss how her undergraduate level course Community Governance (CRD 158) and graduate level Health and Place (CRD 200) courses are partnering with local governments and nonprofits in two important areas. 1) to frame a Health Impact Assessment of Yolo County's new Universal Basic Income program and 2) to revise and update the Sacramento Region Food System Action Plan. Such important projects!
Our faculty forums are driven by participating faculty and our featured topics rather than by agendas. The conversations are always enriched by the participation of new faculty with innovative ideas. With that in mind, please forward this invitation to colleagues who might benefit from participating in (or even overhearing) the conversation. We meet this coming Friday, April 16 at noon via Zoom. We hope to see you then!
Best,
Andy Jones
Academic Associate Director of Academic Technology Services
University of California, Davis
P.S. If you or members of your department would benefit from a tailored workshop or question-and-answer session with our instructional designers, please email us at instructionaldesign@ucdavis.edu to set that up. With a long presentation or a quick Q+A during an already scheduled meeting, we will gladly adapt our remarks to meet your faculty team’s needs. We would love to share with you and members of your program or department how ATS services and other technology tools could benefit you and your students. See you Friday.
Faculty Forum: Community Based Instruction
Friday, April 16th
12 Noon