2023-2024 OVPFA Events

July

• Columbia University Pathways Programs (CUPP) Cookout
• CUPP Symposium and Mini Admissions Fair

September

• New Faculty Meet and Greet
• Faculty Advancement Network (FAN) Chairs Institute Kickoff
• Law and Humanities Workshop - organized by Prof. Julie Peters

October

• ArteSana: Celebrating the Life and Work of Josefina Báez
• Provost Diversity Fellows (PDF) Welcome Panel
• Being Latine at Columbia Panel and Reception
• InkWell Retreat
• Provost’s Postdoctoral Research Scientist and Scholar Lunch

November

• Faculty Development Session: Funding Faculty Research - Meet and Greet with Foundation Funders 
• Equity-based Academic Leadership: Workshops: Search and Hiring

December

• Faculty Development session: Demystifying the Tenure Process
• OVPFA Cookies and Cocoa reception
• Hot Cocoa Social with the Office of Academic Diversity and Inclusion (OADI)

January

• Faculty Development session: Dialogue Across Difference (DxD) - Having Difficult Conversations

February

• Faculty Development session: Dialogue Across Difference (DxD) - Employing Empathetic Objectivity in the Classroom
• CU Asian Faculty Association Gala
• HB/CU Connections: A Columbia and HBCU Alumni Panel and Reception

March

• Faculty Development session: Dialogue Across Difference (DxD) - AI Training for Facilitating Challenging Classroom Conversations

April

• Faculty Development session: Navigating the Path to Tenure
• Administrators & Faculty Dinner and Celebration of the Columbia Barnard Spirit of 1968 Sankofa Prize – in partnership with the Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies
• Office of Work/Life New Faculty Reception
• Trans Disruptions: The Future of Change - in partnership with the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender
• Faculty Development session: Meet and Greet with Foundation Funders for Early Career Scientists

May

• Post-PhD Career Pathways: A Provost Diversity Fellows Alumni Panel and Social
• Provost’s Grants Programs Luncheon