Spring Speaker Series
As we prepare to return to a new normal in the fall, the Spring Provost Conference Virtual Luncheon Series invites national experts to campus to think with us about how we as a university want to imagine and enact the post-pandemic university. This series offers time and space for us to think through pressing problems in higher education–faculty workload equity, faculty COVID-19 accommodations, and pandemic impact statements, and evaluating teaching excellence. These issues predate the pandemic and are also exacerbated and changed by the pandemic. In concert with national thought leaders and existing university task forces, committees, and academic leaders, we will consider how DU faculty and staff design intentionally for equity in our practices, processes, and policies. How can we take this opportunity to capture the best from the past, the lessons from the pandemic, and visions to plan for a sustainable and hopefully improved post-pandemic university? We hope you will join us in these conversations.
Featured Speakers

Joya Misra
Joya Misra is a professor of sociology and public policy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Director of the Institute for Social Science Research, and immediate past-Vice President of the American Sociological Association.

Dessie Clark
Dessie Clark holds a Ph.D. in community sustainability and is the research collaboration coordinator for the University of Massachusetts ADVANCE program.

Ethel Mickey
Ethel L. Mickey is a sociologist and postdoctoral research associate at the University of Massachusetts ADVANCE program.