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UMKC's Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence

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The Diane Filion Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) leads a range of professional development efforts as a key initiative of UMKC's Provost. These efforts focus on supporting innovative teaching, research, and service, while fostering an inclusive and collaborative academic community...

2026 CAFE Annual Conference

News: December 05, 2025

From the Page to the People, from the Classroom to the Community: How UMKC Scholarship Generates Real-world Results This year's theme focuses on how UMKC faculty apply their expertise to create change across communities, disciplines, and professions. Some call this practice translational knowledge...

We put the Fun in Faculty Functions!

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We held our first faculty mixer in October with the fantabulous Conservatory and had so much fun we built a playbook so we could host more! Alexis shared a great report of our November faculty mixer with the splendid School of Humanities and Social Sciences and we have our next one scheduled for...

News & Events

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22 April 2026: We hosted the final OpenScholar workshop of the 2025-2026 year! See you in the Fall. :) 11 December 2025: We're looking forward to wrapping up 2025 with Faculty Learning Communities like Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Faculty Experience Project, as well as hosting our final...

Lorie Holt

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Leading initiatives for the Faculty Life and Leadership pillar, Lorie develops and coordinates programming and resources for faculty at all stages of their academic career. FL&L programs include New Faculty Orientation, Get Launched, the Leadership Development Program, the Chairs' Forum, and other...

I deleted/moved a widget! Where can I find it?

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If someone deleted or moved widgets and the front page feels “broken,” those widgets can often be restored. In OpenScholar, go to Create (on the relevant page) and look for Deleted widgets (often under More). From there, you can select widgets to restore and place them where you want. The general...

How do I log in to OpenScholar when I already have a site?

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For an unpublished website, use https://research.umkc.edu/user/login For a published website, you have two options: Sites List (https://research.umkc.edu/websites) UMKC's OpenScholar launch page (https://research.umkc.edu/get-started) and scroll to the bottom of the page until you find the Sites...

I have an image in a custom text html widget - how can I add alt text?

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When you are in the edit widget mode, you can double click it and you'll have the option to add alt text (and more!).

How can I improve my OpenScholar site's discoverability in searches?

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OpenScholar has a helpful guide on improving your site’s search engine optimization (SEO). One simple way to boost your SEO is by adding a meta description to each page on your site. To add one: Go to Edit mode on a page In the sidebar panel, open the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) dropdown Paste...

Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence

faculty excellence, research and creativity, teaching and learning, community-engaged learning, service and engagement, digital instruction and design, faculty life and learning, learning instruction, instructional design